Stormwater /Clean Water Act Enforcement: Mississippi Commission on Environmental Quality and Excavation Company Enter into Agreed Order
November 07, 2018
By:
Walter G. Wright
Category:
Arkansas Environmental, Energy, and Water Law
Arkansas Environmental, Energy, and Water Law
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The Mississippi Commission on Environmental Quality (“MCEQ”) and M and N Excavators, Inc. (“M and N”) entered into a September 4th Agreed Order (“AO”) addressing alleged violations of certain stormwater pollution prevention requirements. See Order No. 6887 18.
The AO provides that MCEQ undertook a Compliance Evaluation Inspection (“CEI”) on February 5, 2018, at the Lafayette County Board of Supervisors, Sisk Avenue Extended project site.
The alleged M and N violations are stated to include:
- Violation of ACT6 Condition S-1 (1): Failure to implement the Storm Water Pollution Prevention Plan
- Violation of ACT6 Condition S-2 (9): Failure to install additional erosion controls when existing controls prove to be ineffective
- Violation of ACT6 Condition S-3 (11): Failure to maintain erosion and sediment controls
M and N is stated to have provided responses to MCEQ dated March 8th and July 27th stating it had taken corrective action by:
- Implementing the Storm Water Pollution Prevention Plan
- Installing and maintaining the erosion and sediment controls
The AO assesses a civil penalty of $15,250.
A copy of the AO can be found here.
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