Penalty Summary

Fourth-Quarter Penalties
October-December 1999

News Release #00-015

Date of Issue County of Violation City of Violation Company/
Individual
Description of Violation Amount Assessed
29-Oct-99 Adams Lind Raymond Jenkins Unauthorized irrigation. $67,200
28-Dec-99 Clark Camas Fort James Camas L.L.C. Violated permit limit for odorous gas from chemical recovery boiler. $3,500
2-Dec-99 Clark Vancouver CYR Transport and Marine Services, Phillippines Spilled 100-300 gallons of diesel in Columbia River near Vancouver. Spill was negligent and preventable. $2,000
5-Oct-99 Cowlitz Longview Longview Fibre Co – Longview Air pollution violations at a recovery furnace on three days in February 1999 and two days in May 1999. $7,500
1-Nov-99 Cowlitz Longview Longview Fibre Co – Longview Violated fecal coliform and chlorine limits in the sanitary stream effluent; violated the pH limit in the mill discharge during system modification. $6,500
8-Oct-99 King Seattle Fiorillo NW Inc. Muddy water from pressure washing operation discharged to Mercer Island storm drain system and Lake Washington. $2,000
15-Oct-99 King Seattle Alaskan Command Co. Diesel fuel spill. $1,500
17-Nov-99 King Bothell Circuits Engineering Inc. Copper-sulfate solution spill. $30,000
30-Nov-99 King Renton Olympic Pipe Line Company Negligence related to oil spill; failed to properly notify response agencies; failed to follow spill contingency plan; lack of maintenance plan. $120,000
9-Dec-99 King Woodinville Port-O-Let services Discharged sewage from portable toilets into storm drains that lead to Commencement Bay. $16,000
2-Oct-99 Kitsap Poulsbo Poulsbo Boat Works Cleaning multiple boat hulls on Liberty Bay with no environmental protections. $21,000
23-Dec-99 Kittitas Ellensburg Devere and Sons Distributing Delivered to underground storage tank w/o a permit. $1,000
6-Oct-99 Lewis Pe Ell Pe Ell Failed to provide monitoring reports from city's wastewater treatment plant, as required by permit. $1,500
19-Nov-99 Lewis Centralia Symons Frozen Foods Inc. Failed to submit complete state Waste-Discharge Permit renewal application. $3,000
27-Oct-99 Lincoln Davenport Don Schultz Agricultural burning without a permit. $4,080
27-Oct-99 Lincoln Wilbur Larry Martin Agricultural burning on a "no-burn day." $2,000
22-Oct-99 Okanogan   Okanogan Co. Violated air quality permit at landfill; resulted in landfill gas emissions and illness to two workers. $ 40,000
13-Dec-99 Okanogan   Okanogan Co. Open burning of prohibited materials $2,000
4-Oct-99 Pierce Tacoma Ernst Jacob GmbH and Co., Flensburg, Germany Carried bulk oil as cargo into state waters, violating terms of the ship's waiver. $40,000
12-Oct-99 Pierce Wilkeson Wilkeson Failed to provide a certified operator for city's wastewater treatment plant, as required by permit. $1,000
27-Oct-99 Pierce Tacoma Sound Refining Co. Violated state dangerous-waste regulations; failed to properly contain, inspect and store dangerous waste; violated conditions of its stormwater permit. $14,000
26-Oct-99 Snohomish Arlington Nelson Petroleum Delivered to an underground storage tank that had no permit and did not meet environmental protection requirements. $1,000
14-Oct-99 Spokane Spokane Spokane Raw sewage discharged at combined sewer overflow. $15,000
8-Oct-99 Whatcom Deming Marr Mink Farm Manure run-off; inadequate system for managing wastes containing oil, grease, solids and other contaminants. $24,000