January 2005 Edition
Jail sentence follows Walkerton saga
Victims of the Walkerton drinking water tragedy
moved a stage closer to closure five days before
Christmas when Stan Koebel, 51, formerly the
town’s utility manager, was sentenced to one year
in prison. While responsible for the water treatment system,
he had lied and falsified records. An outbreak of E. coli
O157:H7 killed seven people and sickened some 2,500 people,
many of them children. His younger brother Frank, 46,
judged less culpable than his older brother, was sentenced
to nine months house arrest.
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