North Bend resident Dennis Beetham and his company, D.B. Western, will go to trial next year on charges of improper hazardous waste disposal, said federal officials.

U.S. attorneys contend the company shipped industrial waste to Cinder Lakes Ranch in Central Oregon and dumped it without a permit. The Crook County District Attorney also has filed charges, said Dwight Holton, assistant U.S. attorney. The federal case is scheduled to go to trial next September.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has ordered the company to clean up hazardous waste at the ranch. Beetham has agreed to do so, with work slated to begin Dec. 7. Previous cleanups have removed 265 tons of hazardous waste, 241 tons of industrial waste and 3,000 tons of solid waste, an EPA press release said.

Beetham declined to comment Friday, other than to say the evidence at trial will vindicate him.

“We are looking forward to our day in court to get the facts correct,” he said.

D.B. Western designs and fabricates formaldehyde and resin production plants, according to its Web site. The indictment says D.B. Western also operates production plants around the world.

Oregon Department of Environmental Quality inspectors found various forms of formaldehyde at the Powell Butte horse ranch in summer 2007. They also gathered information suggesting Beetham and D.B. Western transported hazardous waste to the ranch and dumped, buried or burned it, a press release said.

Some of the evidence gathered against Beetham was taken during a raid of the company’s facility on Coos Bay’s North Spit in March 2008, said Mike Boykin, the EPA’s project manager for the cleanup.

EPA officials seized truck logs, paperwork, employee rosters, computer files and other items, according to a search warrant receipt. Holton declined to discuss the significance of evidence taken from the North Spit property.

“I can’t comment about the evidence we are or aren’t using,” he said.

The facility, which is on property leased from the Oregon International Port of Coos Bay, manufactures parts for chemical plants.

Boykin said the Central Oregon cleanup should take about a week or two.

“It’s investigation and cleanup work,” he said. “We know there are other areas that need to be explored. They will be tasked with cleaning them out.”

The property used to be owned by both Beetham and his former wife, Kathy Woeck. When they  divorced in May, Woeck took sole ownership of the property, said Beetham’s attorney, Zach Wright of Tonkon Torp LLP in Portland.