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Following is a summary of all penalties of $1,000 or more issued by the
Department of Ecology
during the second quarter (April, May, and June) of
2002. All together, Ecology
issued $16,299,700 in penalties this year.
| Date Issued | County of Violation | City of Violation | Penalty Recipient | Description of Violation | Amount Assessed | Media Contact |
| May 2 | Benton | Horseheaven Hills | Sumas Transport Inc. | Improperly managing biosolids | $28,000 | Joye
Redfield-Wilder, 509-575-2610 |
| May 23 | Clallam | Forks | Portac Inc. | Failed to use best management practices to control storm water, as required by permit. | $ 4,000 | Sandy Howard, 360-407-6239 |
| May 28 | Clark | Ridgefield | City of Ridgefield | Knowingly falsified wastewater treatment monitoring records. | $30,000 | Sandy Howard, 360-407-6239 |
| June 20 | Clark | Battleground | Columbia Rim Construction & Paving | Repeatedly allowed muddy storm water to drain into wetlands and a stream. | $40,000 | Sandy Howard, 360-407-6239 |
| June 20 | Grays Harbor | Hoquiam | City of Hoquiam | Failed to accurately report a sewage spill. | $ 2,500 | Sandy Howard, 360-407-6239 |
| May 17 | King | Woodinville | Futurity Farms | Illegally discharged manure into a tributary of Daniel Creek. | $ 6,000 | Larry Altose, 425-649-7009 |
| May 22 | King | Seattle | Todd Pacific Shipyards Corp. | Violated discharge limits for turbidity, total suspended solids and oil/grease, and failed to submit required reports. | $10,000 | Larry Altose, 425-649-7009 |
| May 20 | King | Bothell | State Dept. of Transportation | Illegally discharged drilling waste water into Sammamish River. | $ 2,000 | Larry Altose, 425-649-7009 |
| June 28 | King | Seattle | Marco Seattle Inc. | Failed meet permit compliance schedules and violated discharge limits for oil/grease. | $13,000 | Larry Altose, 425-649-7009 |
| April 9 | Kitsap | Bainbridge Island | Caicos Corporation | Spilled 50 gallons of diesel into Eagle Harbor. | $ 2,000 | Larry Altose, 425-649-7009 |
| April 9 | Kitsap | Bainbridge Island | P/C High Seas | Spilled 100 gallons of diesel into Port Madison. | $ 2,000 | Larry Altose, 425-649-7009 |
| April 1 | Lewis | Centralia | Trans Alta Centralia Mining, LLC | Failed to properly control and treat stormwater runoff into Hanaford Creek. | $24,000 | Sandy Howard, 360-407-6239 |
| May 23 | Pacific | Raymond | Weyerhaeuser Co. | Discharged polluted waste water into Willapa River in violation of permit. | $ 2,000 | Sandy Howard, 360-407-6239 |
| May 3 | Snohomish | Everett | National Food Corp. | Violated discharge limits and other permit requirements. | $109,000 | Larry Altose, 425-649-7009 |
| June 26 | Snohomish | Everett | Kimberley Clark Corp. | Violated discharge limit for suspended solids. | $ 1,000 | Larry Altose, 425-649-7009 |
| May 31 | Whatcom | Ferndale | Chemco | Violated discharge limits for pH, chromium and copper. | $ 1,700 | Larry Altose, 425-649-7009 |
| June 5 | Whatcom | Bellingham | Shell Pipeline Co. | Negligence in causing the 1999 Bellingham pipeline rupture & spill. | $ 7,860,000 | Sheryl Hutchison 360-407-7004 |
| June 5 | Whatcom | Bellingham | Olympic Pipeline Co. | Negligence in causing the 1999 Bellingham pipeline rupture & spill. | $ 7,860,000 | Sheryl Hutchison 360-407-7004 |
| June 3 | Whatcom | Sumas | Todd Van Middendorp Dairy | Illegally discharged 1.2 million gallons of manure into Arnold Slough, a tributary of Sumas River. | $ 8,000 | Joan Pelley 360-738-6247 |
| TOTAL | $16,006,200 | |||||
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