Stormwater Violations Costly for Massachusetts Developer
BOSTON, Massachusetts, December 11, 2008 (ENS) – A Massachusetts construction company building a public high school on 35 acres next to the Aberjona River will pay a $135,000 penalty for discharging polluted stormwater from its Reading, Massachusetts construction site and four other sites in Massachusetts. The federal agency could have penalized the developer up to [...]
Read More »Portland Malls, Hotels Now Need Permits for Stormwater Discharge
PORTLAND, Maine, December 8, 2008 (ENS) – Properties with more than one acre of impervious area, such as parking lots and large roofs, must from now on apply for a Clean Water Act permit for stormwater discharges to Long Creek, which drains a watershed in the Portland metropolitan area. Long Creek does not meet required [...]
Read More »$12,000 Fine Flows From Muddy Runoff to Puget Sound
BELLEVUE, Washington, March 31, 2008 (ENS) – The Washington state Department of Ecology has fined developers of a Lynnwood residential construction site $12,000 for failing to prevent polluted runoff into Swamp Creek. Pacific Ridge Homes LLC of Bothell, Washington are the developers of the eight-acre project, Blackstone Residential Community at 15730 Manor Way. In announcing [...]
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