County |
City |
Date Issued |
Recipients |
Description |
Amount |
Media contact |
Clallam |
Port Angeles |
2/10/16 |
Nippon Paper Industries USA CO |
Violated water quality discharge limits for total suspended solids on Nov. 30 & Dec. 2, 2015. Penalty paid. |
$1,000 |
Andy Wineke,
360-407-6149 |
Clark |
Vancouver |
3/16/16 |
Cascade Bridge LLC |
Discharged muddy stormwater into a tributary to Burnt Bridge Creek on Dec. 4, 7, & 8, 2015 during construction on the Wash. Dept. of Transportation I-205 Mill Plain to NE 18th St. project. Under appeal. News release. |
$33,000 |
Sandy Howard,
360-407-6408 |
Clark |
Vancouver |
1/14/16 |
Shanska General Contractor |
Failed to implement and maintain practices required under Construction Stormwater General Permit on Jan. 12, 2016 at the Clark College STEM Building project site. Under appeal. |
$2,500 |
Dave Bennett,
360-407-6239 |
Grant |
Moses Lake |
11/2/15 |
Rick Raymond |
Illegally disposed construction debris and lumber by burning and burned during a Grant County burn ban. Penalty paid. |
$1,000 |
Brook Beeler,
509-329-3478 |
Grant |
Warden |
3/22/16 |
Steve Estrada |
Illegally disposing of trash by burning in two metal containers. Penalty paid. |
$2,000 |
Brook Beeler,
509-329-3478 |
Grant |
Othello |
1/5/16 |
Teresas Orchard Apple King |
Burning orchard debris piles without a permit and using a burn barrel to illegally dispose of trash. Penalty paid. . |
$2,500 |
Brook Beeler,
509-329-3478 |
Grays Harbor |
Ocean Shores |
3/30/16 |
Captain Russel Eager, Renton |
Spilled 562 gal. of diesel fuel when the fishing vessel Tamara went aground in the surf on Aug. 11, 2015. Also assessed $5,353.27 for state response costs and $26,238.04 for damage to public natural resources. Penalty appealed. |
$4,500 |
Lisa Copeland,
360-407-6990 |
King |
Enumclaw |
2/17/16 |
Liberty Meadows Plant |
Failed to employ or maintain practices required under construction stormwater general permit, resulting in muddy stormwater discharges from 10-acre construction site into city stormwater system, which empties to Boise Creek, a salmon-bearing stream. Under appeal. |
$5,000 |
Larry Altose,
425-649-7009 |
King |
Seattle |
2/19/16 |
Randy D. Corn, Camano Island |
Recreational vessel Invincible released 15 gal. of gasoline into Lake Washington at Spinnaker Bay Marina during salvage operations after sinking on Oct. 17, 2015. |
$1,000 |
Larry Altose,
425-649-7009 |
King |
Seattle |
3/3/16 |
JCM Northlink LLC |
Discharged approx. 1,000 gal of construction site wastewater from Sound Transit Northlink project at Northgate tunnel portal into Thornton Creek stream system. Penalty paid. |
$2,000 |
Larry Altose,
425-649-7009 |
Kittitas |
Hyak |
2/2/16 |
Guy F. Atkinson Construction, LLC |
Discharge of high pH stormwater at I-90 construction site on Snoqualmie Pass. News Release. Under appeal. |
$18,000 |
Joye Redfield-Wilder,
509-575-2610 |
Skagit |
Cockreham Island, near Lyman |
1/4/16 |
U.S. Golden Eagle Farms LP |
Irrigated 200 acres in the spring & summer of 2015 without water rights authorization, in violation of a 2012 cease and desist order. Under appeal. News release. |
$16,000 |
Larry Altose,
425-649-7009 |
Whatcom |
Ferndale |
3/25/16 |
Intalco Aluminum Corp. |
Exceeded water quality permit limts for total suspended solids discharged on Nov. 16, 2015. Penalty paid. |
$1,000 |
Krista Kenner,
360-715-5205 |
Yakima |
Sunnyside |
3/10/16 |
Park N Pak |
Failure to comply with underground storage tank release detection requirements at fueling station. |
$1,000 |
Joye Redfield-Wilder,
509-575-2610 |