Be sure to read the whole article as well. It explains much of the concern shown in the comments. Such as under staffing, falsified documents and fact that this is not just coming to light. Only the charges are new.
Fields said the inspector in charge of taking samples at the Green Lane facility inspects 80 facilities a year. She said there are over 1,000 plants in the five-county region covered by the Southeast office and only four inspectors to check on all of them.
Larger plants, which process more than one million gallons a day, must be inspected at least once a year. Smaller plants, like the Green Lane facility — which has a stated capacity of 200,000 gallons per day — do not incur that requirement.
She said the DEP, which was not notified that Corbett's office would be issuing a press release Thursday, does not yet know how much untreated or partially treated sewage has been discharged into Perkiomen Creek.
"That's the problem with falsified data," she said.