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Judge: Pineview mobile home park owner in contempt of court

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UPDATE @ 4:13 p.m. (May 12):

Judge Mary Wiseman found Pineview Estates mobile home park owner Timothy Dearwester in contempt of court orders to fix the site’s troubled water system. Judge Wiseman set a deadline of June 9 to comply with court orders or Pineview will go into receivership. Judge Mary Wiseman’s ruling comes after the state Attorney General’s office filed suit against Pineview and Dearwester following his failure to comply with EPA orders.

Pineview has repeated water system problems in the past 18 months and has violations dating back to 2009.

UPDATE @ 10:28 a.m. (May 12):

A Miami Twp. mobile home owner facing contempt charges involving the site's water system cited for multiple EPA violations is set to be in court this afternoon.

Pineview Estates owner Timothy Dearwester also is scheduled to address a temporary restraining order against him and Pineview in the case where the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency is overseeing the water system at the 200-unit site on Farmersville-West Carrollton Road.

Dearwester faces possible jail time.

He has been ordered to appear by Montgomery County Common Pleas Court Judge Mary Wiseman. Wiseman granted the restraining order last week after the Ohio Attorney General's Office filed the contempt charges in a case the Ohio EPA director said has reached "extraordinary" levels.

UPDATE @ 11:20 a.m. (May 6):

The state’s involvement with a Miami Twp. mobile home park’s water system has reached “very rare” levels, according to the Ohio EPA director.

“It is extraordinary,” Craig Butler told this news organization about the actions to fix Pineview Estates’ water system, the subject of a state lawsuit.

“And frankly,” he added, “I don’t recall ever having to go into court at that level asking for these types of actions particularly for access to a water system where we’ve had to then secure an outside independent contractor to do the repairs because the owner of the property or the water system just failed multiple times to do what is required.”

UPDATE @ 4:21 p.m. (May 5):

Dina Pierce, spokeswoman with the Ohio EPA, said that water service has been restored to Pineview Estates residents following an overnight issue with the backup well.

Pineview Estates remains on a boil advisory, she said.

Pierce said that a restart of the system Thursday morning caused chlorine to enter the distribution system, leading to high chlorine levels. Residents should flush their lines before using the water.

A contractor will be on site Friday to finish assessing the system and start repairs, Pierce said.

UPDATE @ 9:22 a.m. (May 5):

The Ohio EPA said residents at Pineview Estates are without water again after the mobile home park lost water pressure around 2 a.m. this morning, hours after repairs were made to the backup well at the property.

A spokesperson said there are crews out at the mobile home park now working to make repairs to the water system, but it’s not clear when water service will be restored.

UPDATE @ 1:19 p.m. (May 4):

Repairs have been made to a mobile home park’s water system after a judge’s order allowed officials access.

Pineview Estates remains on a boil advisory today after the latest malfunction in a series of water system breakdowns. The park has a history of conflict with Ohio Environmental Protection Agency violations, and the attorney general has sought to have the park’s owner jailed.

Montgomery County Common Pleas Judge Mary Wiseman late Tuesday gave the Ohio EPA access to repair Pineview’s water system after state officials were unsuccessful in contacting owner Timothy Dearwester.

The leak was fixed Tuesday night by engineers supervised by the OEPA at the 5730 Farmersville-West Carrollton Road site that has nearly 270 residents, said agency Spokeswoman Dina Pierce.

UPDATE @ 10:49 a.m.

A judge has issued an order allowing state officials access to a Miami Twp. mobile home park to make repairs to its water system.

The water system at Pineview Estates has been malfunctioning — the latest in a series of breakdowns that is the focus of the Ohio Attorney General's lawsuit against the park's owner. The suit stems from a history of Environmental Protection Agency violations.

Late Tuesday, Montgomery County Common Pleas Judge Mary Wiseman granted a temporary restraining order.

The AG's office wants Pineview owner Timothy Dearwester to spend months behind bars for operating a water system which "created risks to the health" of residents, according to contempt of court charges in documents filed Monday.

INITIAL REPORT (5/3)

Documents filed this week seek contempt of court charges against the owner of a Miami Twp. mobile home park that has a history of EPA violations.

The Ohio Attorney General’s Office is seeking five contempt charges against Pineview Estates owner Timothy Dearwester, according to documents filed Monday in Montgomery County Common Pleas Court.

Earlier this year, the state AG's office sued Dearwester at the request of the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency.

The OEPA asked for state law enforcement’s involvement after Dearwester repeatedly violated the environmental agency’s orders to fix the water system at the mobile home park at 5730 Farmersville-West Carrollton Road.

In February, a judge ordered Dearwester to comply with OEPA orders.

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