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Department of Ecology News Release - November 27, 2012
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The Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology) issued $491,628 in penalties of $1,000 or more in the third quarter (July, August, September) of 2012. A table describing the violations and resulting penalties is available below.
Ecology issues individual news releases for penalties of $10,000 or greater. Links to the news release are included in the table. A particular penalty may be fully satisfied at this time or in the process of an appeal or settlement discussions.
Communities, families and businesses depend on clean air, land and water, and on reliable water supplies. Complying with our state’s and our nation’s laws helps assure this. See Ecology’s “Protecting Washington's Quality of Life” website portal for more information.
Ecology works with thousands of businesses and individuals to help them comply with these laws. Penalties are issued in cases where non-compliance continues after Ecology has provided technical assistance or warnings, or for particularly serious violations.
The money owed from penalties may be reduced from the issued amount due to a ruling by the Pollution Control Hearings Board or a negotiated settlement. Ecology doesn’t benefit from penalty payments. The final penalty amount owed and collected is deposited in special accounts that pay for:
|
County of violation |
City
of violation |
Date
issued |
Recipient |
Violation Description |
Penalty amount |
Media contact |
|
Adams |
Odessa
|
8/6/2012 | Jon Fink |
Mr Fink burned outside the designated burn hours on May 31, 2012. Burning was allowed in Adams County that day only between 2 p.m. and
5 p.m. He was burning at 1:15 p.m.
|
$2,000 |
Jani Gilbert, |
|
Benton |
(Hanford) | 7/19/2012 |
U.S. Dept of Energy (DOE) Hanford Facility 200 Area
Scott A. Samuelson, Manager, US DOE Office of River Protection
|
The U.S. DOE missed a deadline
to negotiate schedules for designing and building facilities to treat
secondary waste that will result from the treatment of waste stored in
Hanford’s underground tanks. |
$5,000 |
Dieter Bohrmann, |
|
Clallam
|
Neah Bay | 9/6/2012 | Fishing Vessel Karanna, Edith Johnston |
On May 9, 2012 the fishing vessel Karanna went aground at Chibahdehl Rocks near the Strait of Juan de Fuca. The vessel broke up in rough water, spilling less than 50 gallons of diesel fuel and one five-gallon bucket of lube oil.
|
$1,500 |
Linda Kent, |
|
Clark |
Ridgefield | 9/24/2012 | Clark County Excavating |
Clark County Excavating operated on the
Packard Creek Ranch construction site without the required construction
stormwater general permit. Stormwater discharges from this site go into
Packard Creek. |
$1,500 |
Linda Kent, |
|
Cowlitz |
Columbia River at Longview | 3/1/12 | Liberty Maritime Corp. |
Oil was discharged from the generator on the vessel Liberty Sun, which was moored at the Port of Longview. |
$750 penalty and state response cost reimbursement of $3,446 |
Linda Kent, |
|
Grant |
Moses Lake
|
9/20/2012 |
JR Simplot Co. |
Failed to operate air pollution control equipment in 2011 as permit requires. Did not perform yearly equipment testing in 2009. |
$3,000 |
Jani Gilbert, |
|
Klickitat
|
White Salmon | 7/9/2012 | Lester Tubbs |
Burned prohibited materials in an outdoor fire without landowner permission. Also burned without a permit and caused nuisance smoke. |
$8,520 |
Joye Redfield-Wilder, |
|
King |
Seattle
|
7/10/2012 |
Top Hat Service Station |
Failed to comply with multiple underground storage tank leak prevention and detection requirements. |
$1,500 |
Larry Altose, |
|
King
|
Renton |
7/11/2012 |
Johansen Excavating, Inc. |
Repeatedly failed to install
controls - required under the Construction Stormwater General Permit -
to prevent sediment discharges into the city storm drain during work on
the City of Renton Rainier Ave. S. Improvements Project. |
$1,000 |
Larry Altose, |
| King | Seattle | 7/18/2012 | Waterfront Construction, Inc. | A former military landing craft sank off West Seattle and released about 320 gallons of diesel and motor oil to Puget Sound. See news release. | $18,000 |
Larry Altose, (425) 649-7009 |
|
King |
Seattle
|
7/20/2012 |
King County Facilities management Division |
Repeatedly failed to install controls – required under the Construction Stormwater General Permit -- to prevent sediment discharges into the city storm drain during work on the Issaquah segment of the East Lake Sammamish Master Plan Trail. |
$1,500 |
Larry Altose, |
|
King |
Seattle |
7/24/2012 |
Independent Metals |
Allowed polluted runoff to flow to the Duwamish Waterway from two locations. See news release. |
$14,000 |
Larry Altose, |
|
King
|
Seattle | 8/13/2012 | AMC Apartment Management Consultants, LLC |
Between 40 and 70 gallons of
diesel fuel leaked from an underground storage tank at 9th
Ave. and Madison St. to the city storm water system, which flowed to
Lake Union on Nov. 23, 2011.
|
$1,100 |
Larry Altose, |
|
King |
Seattle | 8/13/2012 | Vigor Shipyards |
Released about 20 gallons of
lubricating oil on Feb. 16, 2012 when a crane at the Harbor Island
shipyard fell into the water along the West Waterway. |
$1,100 |
Larry Altose, |
|
King
|
Seattle | 8/15/2012 | Schultz Performance Lubricants & Services |
Did not complete testing
required every three years on 11 steel underground fuel lines at King
County Airport. |
$2,000 |
Larry Altose, |
|
King |
Seattle | 8/17/2012 | Gas N Wash | Failed to comply with multiple underground storage tank leak prevention and detection requirements. |
$1,700 |
Larry Altose, |
|
King |
Seattle | 8/20/2012 | Rainier Commons, LLC |
Failure to dispose of 1,925
gallons of hazardous wastes containing lead and mercury within the
required time limit and failure to store these liquid hazardous wastes
within secondary containment. |
$6,700 |
Larry Altose, |
|
Jefferson |
Port Townsend | 8/23/2012 | Port Townsend Paper |
Violated air operating permit for recovery furnace particulate levels on March 26, 2012, and violated smoke density limits from the package boiler on March 12 and 14. |
$4,000 |
Linda Kent, |
|
Okanongan
|
Chewsaw |
7/17/2012 | Crown Resources, Buckhorn Mountain |
Crown failed to maintain its
capture zone for 94 days, discharged water causing a landslide and
discharged water at an unauthorized discharge point at the Buckhorn
Mountain gold mine.
News Release |
$395,000 |
Joye Redfield-Wilder, |
|
Pierce
|
Tacoma |
7/11/2012 | Simpson, Tacoma |
Exceeded daily maximum “biological oxygen demand” (BOD) limit of 18,780 pounds on April 15, 2012, reaching 28,100 pounds. BOD is a measure of a pollutant’s negative impact on oxygen levels in water. |
$6,000 |
Linda Kent, |
|
Pierce
|
Tacoma |
7/6/2012 | Totem Ocean Trailer Express |
Some 1,130 gallons of lube oil spilled to the deck of the vessel Midnight Sun deck and about 35 gallons escaped from the vessel into the Blair Waterway. This occurred after a semi-trailer containing the lube oil backed into a tank truck, causing the trailer to be punctured. |
$500 penalty and state response cost reimbursement of $1,812 |
Linda Kent, |
|
San Juan
|
Decatur Island | 9/7/2012 | Nancey Wilbur, La Conner |
The fishing vessel TW Legacy sank northeast of Decatur Island on Aug. 27, 2011, with 50 gallons of diesel fuel on board. The vessel spilled diesel fuel to Thatcher Pass. |
$2,500 |
Larry Altose, |
|
San Juan |
Shaw Island | 9/7/2012 | Patrick Tucker, Phoenix, AZ |
On Dec. 27, 2011, the pleasure boat St. Mary sank off Shaw Island spilling 20 gallons diesel fuel into Blind Bay. See
Web page. |
$1,500 |
Larry Altose, |
|
Snohomish |
Everett | 8/30/2012 | City of Everett |
A break in a pressurized sewer main caused the discharge of about one million gallons of raw sewage into North Creek on April 12, 2012. The penalty is part of an agreed order with Everett on projects and programs to prevent sewage system spills. See news release. |
$4,000 |
Larry Altose, |
|
Yakima
|
Yakima | 9/4/2012 | Herke Rock and Construction |
Herke failed to submit discharge monitoring reports as required as a condition of the Sand and Gravel General Permit. |
$2,000 |
Joye Redfield-Wilder, |
|
Total |
$491,628.00 |
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