river pollution News
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Devil’s slide quarry owners to pay $50,000 for unpermitted discharges to the weber river (utah)
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Holcim (US), Inc. have entered into a consent agreement in which Holcim will pay a $50,000 penalty for unpermitted discharges to the Weber River at the Devil’s Slide Quarry in Morgan, Utah. “Stormwater permits are designed to prevent contaminated runoff from damaging rivers and streams,” said Mike Gaydosh, EPA’s ...
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Charles River pollution control district pays penalty for clean water violations
In March, EPA’s New England office filed a complaint against the Charles River Pollution Control District, which operates a wastewater treatment facility in Medway, Mass., alleging violations of the federal Clean Water Act for discharging phosphorus and suspended solids into the Charles River at levels above those allowed by its federal permit. In a compliance order issued along with the ...
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Shropshire farmer fined over River Teme pollution incident
On 14 August 2013, Shropshire farmer Stephen David Small, pleaded guilty at Telford Magistrates’ Court to causing the discharge of polluting matter, namely cattle slurry, into the River Teme at Steventon, near Ludlow, without an environmental permit. The 45 year old from Steventon Manor Farm, Ludlow was fined £2,000 and ordered to pay £1,250 in costs. The charge was brought by ...
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Severn Trent Water fined £30,000 for breaching environmental permit
On Friday 27 September 2013, Severn Trent Water Ltd pleaded guilty at Telford Magistrates’ Court to one charge relating to a breach of their environmental permit conditions. The company was fined £30,000 and ordered to pay £2,046.66 in costs. The charge was brought by the Environment Agency under Section 38(2) and Regulation 12 (1)(b) of the Environmental Permitting ...
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Cheese manufacturer Sorrento Lactalis to pay U.S. $315,000 for exceeding discharge levels into Idaho’s Mason Creek
Cheese manufacturer Sorrento Lactalis Inc. will pay the United States a $315,000 penalty for excess discharges in violation of its wastewater permit levels, according to an agreement between the company, the Justice Department and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The company discharged the excess pollutants into Mason Creek from its factory operations in Nampa, Idaho, in violation of ...
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Farmer to pay £12,000 for pollution
Ammonia polluted 6.5km of stream at Shipdham when slurry leaked from a farm lagoon, King’s Lynn Magistrates’ Court heard today (Thurs). Farmer Kenneth William Proctor pleaded guilty to the pollution and was fined £8,000 and ordered to pay £4,000 costs for causing the pollution in June last year that killed fish and damaged invertebrate species. Environment Agency ...
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Putting a price on water quality
One way to clean-up water pollution is to award 'credits' to facilities that reduce their emissions. These credits can then be traded with other facilities to compensate for pollution outputs. This controls overall pollutions levels, while creating an economic incentive to reduce emissions. Research using models that simulate water quality has been used to establish the value of these credits and ...
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E.I. DuPont de nemours and company ordered to pay $59,000 penalty for mercury discharges at Kinston, N.C., facility (NC)
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently settled with E.I. DuPont de Nemours and Company (DuPont) for the discharge of pollutants in violation of the Clean Water Act at its polymer fiber manufacturing facility in Kinston, N.C. Under the terms of the Consent Agreement and Final Order, DuPont paid a civil penalty of $59,000. The company discharged levels of mercury in excess of the ...
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PD Hook (Hatcheries) Ltd fined for polluting local waterway
On 4 September 2013, P D Hook (Hatcheries) Ltd was sentenced at Scunthorpe Magistrates’ Court to causing a discharge of polluted water to a watercourse near their site. The company pleaded guilty at an earlier court hearing. Based at Station Road, Gunness, Scunthorpe, P D Hook (Hatcheries) Ltd was fined 20,000GBP, and ordered to pay 3,746.72GBP in costs, along with a 120GBP victim ...
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Recommendations Announced That Will Improve UK’s Water Future
Over the last few years, more and more people have become aware there is a global water crisis, and the UK needs to do more to protect its water health for future generations. According to the World Wildlife Fund, 1.1 billion people around the world do not have access to water. Even more frighteningly, 2.7 billion struggle to find water for at least one month a year. It is not just a problem ...
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EPA, City officials expect new treatment plant permits to boost Boise River water quality
The amount of phosphorus pollution entering the Boise River during summer months from the City of Boise’s two wastewater treatment plants will be reduced by 98 percent under two updated discharge permits issued today. The EPA permits also contain new requirements to limit mercury and ammonia discharges and call for cooler water entering the River from the treatment plants. The City of ...
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EPA expects to revise rules for wastewater discharges from power plants
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency plans to revise the existing standards for water discharges from coal-fired power plants to reduce pollution and better protect America’s water. Wastewater discharged from coal ash ponds, air pollution control equipment, and other equipment at power plants can contaminate drinking water sources, cause fish and other wildlife to die and create other ...
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EPA orders buffalo sewer authority to reduce water pollution in Niagara River; four billion gallons of sewage and wastewater pollutes Niagara River and tributaries every year
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has ordered the Buffalo Sewer Authority in Buffalo, New York to comply with federal Clean Water Act requirements for combined sewer systems to protect people’s health and water quality. Combined sewer systems carry domestic sewage, stormwater runoff and industrial wastewater in the same pipes. During periods of heavy rain, they can overflow and send ...
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Massachusetts power station faces fines for clean water violations (MA)
A power station located in Holyoke, Mass. faces up to $177,500 in Clean Water Act (CWA) fines for allegedly discharging muddy storm water and other pollutants into the Connecticut River. According to EPA, the Mt. Tom Generating Company, LLC violated it’s federally issued permit by exceeding permit discharge limits over a five month period of time. The company was performing construction ...
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Bruneau Cattle Company Agrees to Pay $40,000 to Resolve Clean Water Act Violations
(Bruneau, Idaho – Oct. 29, 2007) Bruneau Cattle Co. (Bruneau) has agreed to pay a $40,000 penalty to settle alleged Clean Water Act violations. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the violations occurred at the Bruneau Cattle Company’s feedlot, located on Jack’s Creek Road in Owyhee County, near the town of Bruneau, Idaho. The settlement resolves alleged Clean Water Act ...
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Agreement Reached with the Unified Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kansas to Improve Sewer and Stormwater Systems
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Department of Justice announced that the Unified Government of Wyandotte Co. and Kansas City, Kan., has agreed to a settlement to address unauthorized overflows of untreated raw sewage and to reduce pollution levels in urban stormwater. The settlement, lodged in federal court in Kansas City, Kan. requires the Unified Government to ...
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EPA files Complaint, Seeks Penalties against Black Diamond Engineering for Federal Clean Water Act violations
(Sandpoint, Idaho – Sept. 17, 2007) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has filed an administrative complaint against Black Diamond Engineering. The complaint alleges violations of EPA’s Construction Storm Water General Permit (CGP) and proposes a penalty of $5,000. The alleged violations occurred at the Cedars at Sandcreek construction site (Site), located at 400 Schweitzer Cutoff ...
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EPA, DNREC reach settlement with DuPont Corp. for water quality violations
The Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control, the US Environmental Protection Agency, and state and federal Departments of Justice have entered into a consent decree with the DuPont Corp. in which the company has agreed to pay a penalty of $500,000 for numerous violations of the DuPont Edge Moor plant site’s National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) ...
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EPA orders Albuquerque racetrack to stop discharges to protect Rio Grande
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued an order to halt discharges of animal waste, industrial run-off and other pollutants into the Rio Grande. The action was taken against the Downs at Albuquerque Inc. and EXPO New Mexico, a 93-acre race track and casino in Albuquerque, New Mexico, that accommodates almost 1,400 horses during racing season. “Companies must operate in a way ...
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Settlement Ensures that Lawrence Addresses Wastewater and Stormwater Discharges
Under the terms of a Consent Decree lodged today in federal court to address violations of the Clean Water Act, the City of Lawrence will focus efforts on conditions that result in sewer overflows and contaminated stormwater. The Consent Decree is the result of a federal enforcement action brought by the U.S. Department of Justice, on behalf of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The ...
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