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Tito’s Vodka Pays Fine in Connection with Water Pollution

5th April, 2010 - Posted by katherine - No Comments

According to the Statesman: “Prosecutors charged Fifth Generation (maker of Tito’s Handmade Vodka) with two counts of unlawful discharge in September, saying that the distillery near Austin-Bergstrom International Airport ’caused or threatened to cause water pollution’ in an unnamed tributary of Dry Creek and violated state laws and rules set by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.”

The article also states that “As part of a plea agreement, Travis County Court-at-Law Judge David Crain ordered the business to pay a $50,000 fine, make $11,728 in restitution to a neighboring landowner for damage to his property and pay $1,120 to the state for a sampling analysis.”