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David K. Smith of Paducah, Kentucky, owned River Marine Enterprises LLC and Western River Assets LLC. His towboat, the Gate City, sank while docked in the Big Sandy River in January 2018, discharging oil and other substances. The city of Kenova, West Virginia, closed its municipal drinking water intake for three days while regulatory agencies responded to the spill, according to court records.
The owner of a towboat that sank and spilled oil into a river along the West Virginia-Kentucky border has been sentenced to 18 months probation on a federal pollution charge,
The owner of a towboat that sank and spilled oil into a river along the West Virginia-Kentucky border has been sentenced to 18 months probation on a federal pollution charge,
The owner of a towboat that sank and spilled oil into a river along the West Virginia-Kentucky border has pleaded guilty to a federal pollution charge. David K. Smith, of
David K. Smith, 55, of Paducah, Kentucky, entered the plea in federal court in Huntington to discharge of refuse into navigable waters.