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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - Aug. 12, 1999
99-159
To: News editors and reporters
From: Sheryl Hutchison, Director , Office of Communication & Education
Phone: 360-407-7004
Subject: Quarterly Enforcement Summary
The Department of Ecology has a policy of notifying reporters about all penalties we issue that total $1,000 or more. For significant penalties of $10,000 or more, you are notified right away via news release. Smaller penalties have been brought to your attention by phone or letter through your nearest regional Ecology office. Unfortunately, the notification process for these smaller penalties has not worked as well as we'd like, so we are going to try something different.
We will continue to issue news releases immediately about penalties that total $10,000 or more. We also will send news releases when we issue smaller penalties if the violation received public and/or media attention at the time it occurred. (Essentially, this will help you "close the loop" on those stories.) Then, every three months, we will issue a roundup of all penalties greater than $1,000.
The summary below includes all penalties of $1,000 or more by Ecology during the second quarter of this year (April - June). We hope you find this useful and we welcome your inquiries to localize these stories. To follow up, please call the public information officer who covers the county in which the violation occurred.
Ron Langley, Northwest Region, phone: 425-649-7009
(Island, King, Kitsap, San Juan, Skagit, Snohomish and Whatcom counties)
Sandy Howard, Southwest Region, phone: 360-407-6239
(Clallam, Clark, Cowlitz, Grays Harbor, Jefferson, Lewis, Mason, Pacific,
Pierce, Skamania, Thurston and Wahkiakum counties.)
Jani Gilbert, Eastern Region, phone: 509-456-4464
(Adams, Asotin, Columbia, Ferry, Franklin, Garfield, Grant, Lincoln, Pend
Oreille, Spokane, Stevens, Walla Walla and Whitman counties.)
Joye Redfield-Wilder, Central Region, phone: 509-575-2610
(Benton, Chelan, Douglas, Kittitas, Klickitat, Okanogan and Yakima counties.)
Second-Quarter Penalties
April-June 1999
#99-159
| Issue Date |
Organization / Individual |
City of Violation |
County of Violation | Description of Violation |
Amount Assessed |
| 12-Apr-99 | DeAtley Company | --------------- | Asotin, Klickitat, Lincoln | Dust violations at rock crusher sites | $11,000 |
| 28-Jun-99 | Strutzel Frazier | Monitor | Chelan | Dust violation at a construction site | $5,000 |
| 18-May-99 | John Madden | Strait Of Juan De Fuca | Clallam | Diesel oil spill in Strait of Juan de Fuca | $2,000 |
| 20-Apr-99 | Gramor Oregon Inc. | Battleground | Clark | Stormwater-discharge violations at a construction site | $13,000 |
| 11-May-99 | Longview Fibre | Longview | Cowlitz | Air pollution violation | $9,000 |
| 4-June-99 | Ft. James Camas, LLC | Camas | Clark | Air pollution violation | $1,000 |
| 14-May-99 | Quality Construction | Rock Island | Douglas | Burning of prohibited materials | $4,000 |
| 28-June-99 | Michael Segaline | East Wenatchee | Douglas | Dust violation at a construction site | $8,000 |
| 29-Apr-99 | Washington State Dept. of Corrections | Aberdeen | Grays Harbor | Stormwater-discharge violations at Stafford Cr. Corrections Center | $44,000 |
| 21-May-99 | Weyerhaeuser Co. –Cosmopolis | Cosmopolis | Grays Harbor | Wastewater-discharge violation | $7,000 |
| 25-May-99 | Weyerhaeuser Co. – Cosmopolis | Cosmopolis | Grays Harbor | Wastewater-discharge violation | $6,000 |
| 9-Apr-99 | Rempel Brothers Concrete Greenbank, Inc. | Greenbank | Island | Violated water-quality permit by allowing concrete-bearing storm water to run off-site threatening local ground water | $14,000 |
| 21-Apr-99 | Pitcher Drilling | Seattle | King | Drilled wells without state license or state-licensed driller supervising the work | $5,000 |
| 21-Apr-99 | Pitcher Drilling | Seattle | King | Drilled wells without state license or state-licensed driller supervising the work | $5,000 |
| 23-Apr-99 | Professional Marine Co. | Seattle | King | Violated boatyard general permit; failed to report stormwater-monitoring results | $2,000 |
| 23-Apr-99 | Frank Coluccio Construction Co. | Duvall | King | Failed to report diesel spill at a construction staging area near Duvall | $4,500 |
| 30-Apr-99 | Yarrow Bay Yacht Sales & Service | Kirkland | King | Violated boatyard general permit by not reporting stormwater sampling results | $2,000 |
| 5-May-99 | Internat'l. Commodity Mgmt. Inc | --------------- | King | Vessel pollution-prevention and navigational safety violations | $9,000 |
| 25-Jun-99 | Opus Northwest LLC | Issaquah | King | Failed to obtain construction stormwater permit for project in Issaquah | $4,000 |
| 4-Jun-99 | Ace Paving Co. | Bremerton | Kitsap | Violated numerous water-quality permit requirements; discharged muddy water to Union River | $18,000 |
| 18-Jun-99 | Ace Paving Co. | Bremerton | Kitsap | Violated numerous water-quality permit requirements; discharged muddy water to a tributary creek of Kitsap Lake | $44,000 |
| 25-Jun-99 | Henrietta B. Lewis Trust, Inc. | Seabeck | Kitsap | Violated sand-and-gravel permit | $3,000 |
| 26-Apr-99 | Michael Alberg | Kittitas | Kittitas | Burned tires in an outdoor fire | $12,200 |
| 14-Jun-99 | Cresto and Lanphere, Inc. | Easton | Kittitas | Failed to develop & implement a stormwater pollution-prevention plan | $5,000 |
| 1-Apr-99 | Askin Land Co. (Toledo Sand & Ready Mix, Inc.) |
Toledo | Lewis | Failed to submit stormwater and process-wastewater monitoring reports, as required by permit | $2,000 |
| 26-Apr-99 | Edgar L. Riner | Onalaska | Lewis | Underground-storage-tank violation | $1,000 |
| 10-Jun-99 | Misty Morning Dairy | Onalaska | Lewis | Discharged dairy waste to Blue Creek | $6,000 |
| 22-Jun-99 | Cisco Dairy | Morton | Lewis | Discharged dairy waste to a tributary of Highland Cr.; allowed leachate to enter a wetland | $6,000 |
| 17-May-99 | Lone Fir Orchards, Inc. | Malott | Okanogan | Failed to submit yearly reports as required by water quality permit | $4,000 |
| 12-May-99 | Pioneer Chlor Alkali Co., Inc. | Tacoma | Pierce | Wastewater-discharge violation | $9,000 |
| 30-Jun-99 | Atlas Foundry and Machine Co. | Tacoma | Pierce | Wastewater-discharge violation | $66,075 |
| 8-Apr-99 | Two Bobs Dairy | Burlington | Skagit | Dairy waste discharged into Bob Smith Creek, a tributary of the Samish River | $12,000 |
| 16-Jun-99 | Heutink Pumping Co. | Mount Vernon | Skagit | Dairy waste discharged into a tributary of the south fork of the Skagit River | $9,000 |
| 30-Apr-99 | AAA Monroe Rock Corp. | Monroe | Snohomish | Operated rock quarry without a required water-quality permit; plus, stormwater-runoff violations | $44,750 |
| 30-Apr-99 | Jim's L and M Marine Inc. | Everett | Snohomish | Violated boatyard general permit by not reporting stormwater sampling results | $2,000 |
| 7-May-99 | Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Corp.–Mead | Mead | Spokane | Air pollution violation | $37,200 |
| 13-May-99 | Palouse River and Coulee City Railroad | Cheney | Spokane | Allowed diesel odors from idling locomotives | $9,000 |
| 4-Jun-99 | Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Corp. – Mead | Mead | Spokane | Air pollution violation | $18,400 |
| 17-May-99 | Aladdin Hearth Products | Colville | Stevens | Emitted excessive amounts of toluene from stove paints | $6,000 |
| 21-May-99 | Seung Joo Lim | Olympia | Thurston | Underground-storage-tank violation | $4,500 |
| 22-Jun-99 | Thomsen Enterprises, Inc | Olympia | Thurston | Allowed chicken waste to enter ground adjacent to well fields in Olympia | $6,000 |
| 30-Jun-99 | Black River Ranch | Littlerock | Thurston | Allowed dairy waste to enter the ground, threatening ground water and Mima Creek, a tributary of the Black River | $60,000 |
| 28-Apr-99 | Allied Aquatics | ----------------- | Thurston, Pierce | Failed to follow permit conditions for applying copper to control algae in Elbow and Louise lakes | $4,068 |
| 22-Jun-99 | Cathlamet Farms | Cathlamet | Wahkiakum | Allowed dairy waste to discharge to surface water, threatening water quality of Columbia River | $4,000 |
| 17-May-99 | SLI Dairy | Sunnyside | Yakima | Allowed dairy waste to enter Sulphur Creek | $8,000 |
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