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Home Builders Clean Water Settlement
WASHINGTON—Four of the nation’s largest home builders have agreed to pay civil penalties totaling $4.3 million to resolve alleged violations of the Clean Water Act, the Justice Department and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today. The companies also have agreed to implement company-wide compliance programs that go beyond current regulatory requirements and put controls in place that will keep 1.2 billion pounds of sediment from polluting our nation’s waterways each year.
“EPA requires that construction sites obtain permits and take simple, basic steps to prevent pollutants from contaminating storm water and harming our nation’s waterways,” said Granta Y. Nakayama, assistant administrator for EPA’s Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance. “Today’s settlement sets a new bar for the home building industry."
- Press Release (06/11/08)
- Centex Homes (PDF) (154 pp, 2M, About pdf)
- KB Home (PDF) (143 pp, 2M, About pdf)
- Richmond American Homes (PDF) (162 pp, 2M, About pdf)
- Pulte Homes (PDF) (120 pp, 3M, About pdf)
- Pulte Homes Complaint (PDF) (36 pp, 2M, About pdf)
For more information:
The following provides a list of locations of past and current construction sites covered by the settlements. (PDF) (45 pp, 3MB, About PDF)
The following provides a breakdown of the total number of sites per State covered by the Settlement (PDF) (1 pg, 61K, About PDF)
The following provides photographs
illustrating proper and improper installation and implementation
of some common construction site Best Management Practices (BMPs).
The improperly installed BMPs shown are examples of the types of problems identified by EPA inspectors at the builders' construction sites.
For additional information, contact:
Everett Volk
U.S. EPA
1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW (2243A)
Washington, DC 20460
(202) 564-2828
volk.everett@epa.gov