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Posted: Wednesday, January 2nd, 2013 12:21 PM HST
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Court upholds Kauai runoff penalty
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HONOLULU (AP) — An appeals court has upheld a multi-million dollar penalty against a retired car dealer charged in the deaths of seven people when an earthen dam broke on his Kauia property in 2006.
According to the Honolulu Star-Advertiser, the Intermediate Court of Appeals upheld a $4 million penalty last month against 86-year-old James Pflueger. The state Board of Land and Natural Resources levied the penalty for runoff from his property that damaged a beach and a pristine coral reef on Kauai's north shore in 2001.
Pflueger is expected to go on trial in October for the 2006 dam break. He is accused of altering his property in a way that caused the dam to give way. He has pleaded not guilty to manslaughter.
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