KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A project manager has been sentenced in federal court for misleading federal authorities about lead contamination in a Granby, Mo., city park after he was hired to conduct remediation at the site.Sixty-five-year-old Lynn Eich of Dewitt, Iowa, was sentenced by U.S. Chief District Judge Beth Phillips on Thursday, June 1, to five years of probation and ordered to pay a $40,000 fine.
Eich’s employer, Environmental Quality Management, has paid more than $2 million in restitution in two federal civil settlements. Environmental Quality Management paid $1,708,748 in a federal civil settlement agreement related to violations of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, and $338,119 in a federal civil settlement agreement related to violations of the False Claims Act. These settlement agreements, executed on April 24, 2023, fully compensates the government for its costs to remove lead contamination from the Granby park.
Eich was employed by Environmental Quality Management as the project manager for a soil remediation project in Newton County, Mo. The remediation company was awarded a contract from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Environmental Protection Agency, which ultimately totaled nearly $12 million, to perform mine waste remediation at the Newton County Mine Waste Remediation Superfund Site in and around Granby. This area had been previously contaminated with lead in the surface soil deposited through historical...
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