A Carbon County based firm has been charged with allegedly contaminating soil, storing hazardous waste, and discharging antifreeze into a sewage system in the county.

On Friday the state attorney general's office filed a complaint in three counties Carbon, Schuylkill and Montgomery against Hazleton Oil and Environmental Inc.The affidavit of probable cause filed by Special Agent Robert E. Kelly, said the acts allegedly committed fall under the state crimes code. The investigation began by the AG after receiving a complaint from the state Department of Environmental Protection (DEP).Kelly writes in the affidavit that the violations listed in the lengthy filing alleged violations of the state environmental laws and the crimes code.One of the many allegations in the filing states, in part, "The referral alleged that Hazleton Oil & Environmental, Inc. (Hazleton Oil), dumped contaminated soil, stores hazardous waste and discharged antifreeze into sewer drains at their Hazleton, Pennsylvania, facility without a permit issued by DEP."Hazleton Oil operates a facility at 300 Tamaqua St., in Banks Township, Carbon County. It is in the business of hauling waste oil, as well as media contaminated by waste oil. Hazleton Oil also listed an office at 620 Quarry Rd., in Harleysville, under the corporate name of Broadus Bordeaux Enterprises. It later changed to Hazleton Oil, according to the filings.The AG alleges violations of the Solid Waste Management Act and unlawful conduct by the firm and its owners.The allegations contained in the complaint state that the probe began in earnest on March 14 when Jennifer Jackson, a special agent for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), interviewed James Zeigler, who was identified as an employee of Hazleton Oil as a tank truck driver from June 2010 until December 2010 and then again from July 2011 to December 2011.Zeigler told Jackson that Hazleton Oil blends off-spec waste oil with on-spec waste oil and creates false analytical reports for the blended oil.Based on the interview with Zeigler, and other employees, as well as the information supplied by DEP the AG office began its investigation.The investigation included three search warrants being served on properties owned by the firm. The warrants were served at the 300 Tamaqua St. address along with the one in Harleysville and the third at 14 Fairview St., in Barnesville, Schuylkill County.During the searches agents seized 85 boxes of materials which included work orders, price lists, invoices, environmental records, hazardous materials files, recycled oil receipts, transfer files, state DEP documents, halogen testing analysis, permits, customer files, annual operation reports and truck driver records.Among the other allegations made in the complaint is that Hazleton Oil stored hazardous waste oil for periods longer than allowed and mixed waste oil with reprocessed oil then sold it as reprocessed oil.In the search made in Banks Township, a warehouse, storage building, storage tanks and lots were checked. In Barnesville a tank farm operated by the firm was searched.The AG also alleges that computer systems owned by the firm to keep records were altered by officers of the firm. Those identified as having access to the computers were Rose Kelly, Scott Clemens, Sloane Six, and Dan Clemens.Six is listed as CEO of the firm; Scott Clemens as vice president; and Danny Clemens, as operations manager, according to the firm's website, the filing noted.The investigation is ongoing. It is expected that the three filings would be consolidated and heard in one county, probably Carbon.