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NOTE TO NEWS EDITORS AND DIRECTORS: The Washington 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. Then, every three months, we issue a roundup of all penalties greater than $1,000. The following is a summary of those penalties for the third quarter -- July, August and September -- of 2000.
Date of Issue |
Company/Individual |
City of Violation |
County of Violation |
Description of violation |
Penalty Amount |
05-July-00 |
Members Club at Aldarra |
Issaquah |
King |
Violated terms of wastewater discharge permit. |
$7,000 |
13-July-00 |
Weyerhaeuser Co. |
Cosmopolis |
Grays Harbor |
Exceeded limits for discharging fecal-coliform-laden waste water. |
$20,000 |
13-July-00 |
Sonoco Products Co. |
Sumner |
Pierce |
Exceeded wastewater discharge limit for ammonia. |
$7,000 |
14-July-00 |
Doelman James Road Dairy |
Rochester |
Thurston |
Failed to manage dairy waste as prescribed under permit. |
$4,000 |
14-July-00 |
Doelman Rainier Dairy |
Rainier |
Thurston |
Failed to fully implement animal-waste management plan. |
$3,000 |
14-July-00 |
Doelman Jersey Farm |
Rochester |
Thurston |
Failed to implement long-term waste storage plan required by permit; failed to develop and implement animal-waste management plan. |
$3,000 |
24-July-00 |
Pettit Oil Co. |
Port Townsend |
Jefferson |
Delivered petroleum product to unpermitted, untagged underground storage tank. |
$1,500 |
21-July-00 |
Weyerhaeuser Paper Co. |
Longview |
Cowlitz |
Discharged untreated domestic sewage. |
$8,000 |
26-July-00 |
Oeser Co. |
Bellingham |
Whatcom |
Violated terms of wastewater-discharge permit. |
$15,000 |
26-July-00 |
Stahl Hutterian Brethren |
Ritzville |
Adams |
Irrigated without a water right. |
$27,000 |
26-July-00 |
Gordon Gering |
Ritzville |
Adams |
Irrigated without a water right. (Leased land to Stahl Hutterian Brethren.) |
$13,200 |
01-Aug-00 |
Pacific Northwest Sugar Co. |
Moses Lake |
Grant |
Exceeded air-emission limits set for pulp-dryer operation. |
$4,000 |
08-Aug-00 |
Reiger Poultry Farm |
Rochester |
Thurston |
Spilled oil to a tributary of Lincoln Creek. |
$5,000 |
10-Aug-00 |
Pathfinder USA Inc. |
Seattle |
King |
Spilled 15 gallons of diesel fuel into Lake Union. |
$1,000 |
17-Aug-00 |
Highland Holding Co. LLC |
Moses Lake |
Grant |
Burned prohibited materials, including cardboard, plastic, solvent containers and tires. |
$4,000 |
21-Aug-00 |
G. S. Long Co. |
Yakima |
Yakima |
Spilled agricultural pesticide on freeway. |
$23,000 |
25-Aug-00 |
Highway 3 Auto Wrecking |
Shelton |
Mason |
Failed to develop and implement a stormwater pollution-prevention plan. |
$5,000 |
06-Sept-00 |
Olympic Wood Products |
Shelton |
Mason |
Failed to develop and implement a stormwater pollution-prevention plan. |
$5,000 |
07-Sept-00 |
Kaiser Mead Works |
Mead |
Spokane |
Bypassed air-pollution-control equipment. |
$1,500 |
11-Sept-00 |
College Pro Painters (US) Ltd. |
Seattle |
King |
Discharged paint-wash water into storm drain. |
$2,000 |
15-Sept-00 |
Longview Fibre Co. |
Longview |
Cowlitz |
Eight counts of exceeding wastewater-permit limits. |
$9,500 |
15-Sept-00 |
Weyerhaeuser Co. |
Cosmopolis |
Grays Harbor |
Exceeded wastewater-permit limits for discharging fecal-coliform-laden waste water. |
$6,000 |
15-Sept-00 |
Daishowa America Company, LTD |
Port Angeles |
Clallam |
Exceeded wastewater-permit limits for total suspended solids. |
$4,500 |
15-Sept-00 |
Pettit Oil Co. |
Hoquiam |
Grays Harbor |
Spilled 1,700 gallons of gasoline along a Pacific County estuary. |
$6,000 |
20-Sept-00 |
Kaiser Mead Works |
Mead |
Spokane |
Poor operations and maintenance caused excess fluoride emissions to air. |
$388,000 |
21-Sept-00 |
Fort James Camas L.L.C. |
Camas |
Clark |
Failed to provide written records required by air-operating permit |
$4,500 |
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