KY oil well operator fined, sentenced for water pollution

By: Bill Estep

Outlets: Kentucky Lantern

Published: November 9, 2026

Words: 425

Last Updated: 13 hours, 3 minutes ago

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A Kentucky oil well operator has been fined $20,000 after admitting he illegally discharged polluted water into a creek in northeast Kentucky.

The judge also sentenced Joshua Ferguson, of Martha, to serve 12 months on home detention.

The Kentucky Department of Environmental Protection received a tip last fall about brine water from an oil-well site being dumped into a creek known as Left Fork Blaine Creek, which is Lawrence County and ultimately …

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