A judge this week sentenced two Wyoming residents to one year of supervised probation and ordered them to pay $28,330 in restitution for their roles in illegally dumping oilfield waste on federal land in Carbon County.

Darwin Crawford and Mark Orchard, both of Baggs, pleaded guilty earlier this year to “willful injury and depredation of government property,” according to the U.S. Department of Justice. U.S. District Court Judge Alan B. Johnson handed down their sentences Monday.

The oilfield supervisors allegedly instructed “crew members” to dump about 10 barrels of waste “generated from oil-water separators and maintenance operations performed on produced water storage tanks” at the East Echo Springs Saltwater disposal facility in the spring of 2018, court documents state. The facility

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