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EPA Requests comments on survey for stormwater rule
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is proposing a survey to help strengthen stormwater regulations and reduce stormwater discharges from newly developed and redeveloped sites. Stormwater discharges can harm water quality through increases in stormwater volume and pollutant loadings into nearby waterways. Generally, as sites are developed, less ground area is available for ...
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EPA Action Ensures that Runoff Doesn’t Harm Nearby Streams at North Reading, Mass. Construction Site
An EPA enforcement action resulted in reduced amounts of sediment and contaminated run off impacting streams and waterways near a construction site in North Reading, Mass. The recent settlement between EPA and Gilbane Building Co. resolved EPA allegations that the company violated a Clean Water Act General Construction Permit at the work site. An EPA complaint detailed the Agency’s ...
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Billerica, Mass. manufacturer to pay fine to settle clean water violations (MA)
A company in Billerica that makes X-ray detection and related equipment has agreed to pay $40,000 to settle EPA claims that it violated the federal Clean Water Act. According to EPA’s New England office, American Science & Engineering violated the Clean Water Act by discharging without authorization stormwater associated with industrial activity. The stormwater was discharged into ...
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Hovnanian Enterprises and PulteGroup, Inc. Settle Clean Water Act Violations in Virginia and Maryland
Hovnanian Enterprises, Inc. and PulteGroup, Inc. have agreed to pay civil penalties of $130,000 and $56,000 respectively in separate settlements with EPA resolving alleged Clean Water Act violations at construction sites in Maryland and Virginia. EPA alleged that the companies failed to take actions to prevent discharging sediment to nearby surface waters as required by law. Installing proper ...
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Texas egg producer to pay $1.9 million penalty to resolve clean water act violations
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) today announced that Mahard Egg Farm, Inc., a Texas corporation, will pay a $1.9 million penalty to resolve claims that the company violated the Clean Water Act (CWA) at its egg production facilities in Texas and Oklahoma. The civil penalty is the largest amount to be paid in a federal enforcement action ...
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EPA Reaches Settlement with the Iowa Fertilizer Company and Orascom E and C USA for Clean Water Act Violations
The Iowa Fertilizer Company and Orascom E&C USA have agreed to pay a $80,689 civil penalty to settle alleged violations of the Clean Water Act associated with the construction of a new fertilizer plant in Wever, Iowa, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 7 announced today. Orascom is Iowa Fertilizer's construction contractor for the site and is jointly responsible for compliance ...
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Glass Recycler Faces Fine for Clean Water Violations at Franklin, Mass. Facility
Strategic Materials, Inc. of Houston, Texas faces a fine for allowing polluted stormwater from its glass recycling facility in Franklin, Mass. to flow into nearby waters, in violation of the Clean Water Act. The company faces a maximum penalty of up to $177,500 for the alleged violations. According to allegations in the complaint, Strategic Materials initially failed to obtain permit coverage ...
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EPA focusing on industrial stormwater compliance, targeting a serious threat to Puget Sound water quality
As part of ongoing federal and state efforts to restore Puget Sound, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is announcing enforcement actions against four Seattle-area companies for discharging industrial stormwater to Puget Sound waterways in violation of the Clean Water Act. “By focusing our efforts on industrial stormwater compliance, EPA and the Washington Department of Ecology are ...
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Home Builders settle stormwater violations for US$4.3m
Four of the US's largest home builders have agreed to pay civil penalties totaling US$4.3 million to resolve alleged violations of the Clean Water Act, the Justice Department and US Environmental Protection Agency announced today. The four separate settlements resolve alleged violations of stormwater runoff regulations at construction sites in 34 states and the District of Columbia. The companies ...
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Massachusetts tool maker will pay $227,500 for clean water act violations
According to EPA, Mayhew discharged wastewater to the Shelburne Falls sewer system containing more zinc and with a higher acidity than allowed by federal standards. EPA also alleged that Mayhew failed to meet its reporting requirements for discharges to a public sewer system, failed to obtain a permit for stormwater discharges to the Deerfield River, and failed to develop a plan intended to ...
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Massachusetts Developers to Pay a Fine for Clean Water Act Violations in Uxbridge
EPA and Albee Realty Trust have resolved a penalty action for discharges of silt-laden storm water associated with development of a seven lot residential subdivision in Uxbridge, Mass., in violation of the federal Clean Water Act. Albee discharged stormwater from the construction site without a permit for several years. Albee also failed to install and maintain controls sufficient to minimize ...
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Home development company agrees to settle federal lawsuit for Clean Water Act violations at construction sites
Cooper Land Development, Inc., a luxury home development company headquartered in Rogers, Ark., has agreed to pay a civil penalty and implement a storm water compliance program at its construction sites to settle allegations that it violated the Clean Water Act, the Justice Department and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today. According to a consent decree filed today in U.S. ...
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Homebuilder Toll Brothers Inc. to pay $741,000 clean water act penalty and implement company-wide stormwater controls
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Department of Justice announced that Toll Brothers Inc., one of the nation’s largest homebuilders, will pay a civil penalty of $741,000 to resolve alleged Clean Water Act violations at its construction sites, including sites located in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. Toll Brothers will also invest in a company-wide stormwater ...
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Californian waste company liable for over 100 stormwater violations
One of the largest providers of waste management services in the Bay area is facing penalties from the US Environmental Protection Agency, after being been found liable for numerous violations of the Clean Water Act. The company, California Waste Solutions, provides waste management services for large portions of Oakland and San Jose. US Environmental Protection Agency inspectors found evidence ...
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Urban Waters Federal Partnership Launches Projects in the Middle Rio Grande
Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and Bernalillo County co-led a kick-off celebration at the Albuquerque Balloon Museum’s Fiesta on the Green in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The event launched the Urban Waters Middle Rio Grande conservation ...
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Homebuilder Ryland Group Inc., to pay $625,000 penalty and implement company-wide stormwater controls
The Ryland Group Inc., one of the nation’s largest homebuilders, will pay a civil penalty of $625,000 to resolve alleged Clean Water Act violations at its construction sites, including sites located in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed, the Department of Justice and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today. Ryland will also invest in compliance programs to improve employee ...
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EPA to hold public listening sessions on potential stormwater rule
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will hold five listening sessions to provide information to the public about a potential rule to strengthen stormwater regulations and to establish a comprehensive program to reduce stormwater from new development and redevelopment. These potential regulations would help to reduce stormwater discharges that can harm water quality into nearby ...
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Home Depot fined $1.3m for stormwater violations
Home Depot has agreed to pay a $1.3 million penalty and implement a nationwide compliance program to resolve alleged violations of the Clean Water Act, the Justice Department and Environmental Protection Agency announced today. The settlement resolves alleged violations that were discovered at more than 30 construction sites in 28 states where new Home Depot stores were being built. The ...
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Rhode Island concrete manufacturing plant faces fine for clean water violations (RI)
EPA has proposed that a concrete manufacturing plant in Pawtucket, RI, pay a penalty of up to $177,500 for illegally discharging stormwater and process water in violation of the federal Clean Water Act. According to EPA’s New England office, PRM Concrete Corporation violated the Clean Water Act by discharging stormwater and process water to municipal catch basins and to the Seekonk River ...
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EPA Approves Maryland’s New Limits on Trash in Lower Patapsco Waterways, Including Baltimore Harbor
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the state of Maryland today announced a new set of pollution limits for trash for portions of the Patapsco River. These limits, also known as a Total Maximum Daily Load or TMDL, require the control of trash entering the tidal shoreline of the Middle Branch and Northwest Branch of the Patapsco River, including Baltimore Harbor and the upstream ...
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