Source: ASHEVILLE CITIZEN-TIMES, 6/2/17

An owner of a local cattle farm was sentenced to serve six months of house arrest Thursday after he pleaded guilty to one count of criminal violation of the Clean Water Act in November. Michael Crowell, 65, who owns Crowell Farms, Inc., admitted in a November federal court hearing that he installed bypasses at his farm, which discharged liquid animal waste, such as cow feces, into a tributary of the French Broad River.

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