EPA Fines Companies for Filling Wetlands

Three companies will pay out $137,500 to settle claims.

Published December 28, 2004

 

Three Taunton, Mass., construction companies have been ordered to pay a total of $137,500 to settle claims by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that they filled nine acres of Taunton wetlands without obtaining permits, according to a report in the Boston Business Journal.

 

Taunton Development Corp., Condyne LLC, and G. Lopes Construction Inc., have been fined for reported violations that occurred two years ago while the companies were preparing the 244-acre site for a 1 million-square-foot warehouse, according to the Boston Business Journal.

 

The EPA tells the Journal that the parties reportedly discharged fill material into nearby waterways without a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers wetlands permit and discharged pollutants without a storm water National Pollutant Discharge and Elimination System permit.
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