The former owners of the Sutherland Ethanol plant have been ordered to pay money for dumping ethanol by-products into waterways.

The Department of Environmental Quality said the company that owned the plant, the Delta-T Corporation, pumped ethanol by-products into irrigation canals.

Delta T- founder and CEO R. L. Bigg Swain was ordered to pay $100,000 to the Boys and Girls Club of Nebraska.

Officials say the company violated orders by disposing of thin stillage waste from the Sutherland plant onto surrounding farmland. The was was considered an environmental risk.

The Delta-T company did not have to admit any wrong-doing.

In 2003, Swain was ordered to pay the state $780,000 for dumping pollutants near its plants.