This is an adaptation of the complete WaDOE Quarterly Enforcement Summary, by the Chehalis River Council, and lists only events in the three major watersheds of the Chehalis. (Select the following to go to:) the complete Quarterly Enforcement Summary
As stated in the news release:
News Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - Aug. 12, 1999
99-159
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.
Sandy Howard, Southwest Region, phone: 360-407-6239
(Clallam, Clark, Cowlitz, Grays Harbor, Jefferson, Lewis, Mason, Pacific, Pierce, Skamania, Thurston and Wahkiakum counties.)
Second-Quarter Penalties
April-June 1999
#99-159
|
Issue |
Organization / |
City of |
County of Violation |
Description |
Amount Assessed |
|
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 |
|
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 |
|
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 |
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Thurston, Pierce |
Failed to follow permit conditions for applying copper to control algae in Elbow and Louise lakes |
$4,068 |
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