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Water Enforcement Accomplishments, Fiscal Year 2004
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EPA reaches settlement with KB Home over Clean Water Act violations
KB Home agreed to spend $193,000 on wetlands restoration projects to resolve Clean Water Act violations at its Huntington subdivision in southwestern Las Vegas. The homebuilding company illegally filled tributaries leading to the Las Vegas Wash and Lake Mead and graded a section of the Huntington construction site without the required federal permit from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and The settlement came two weeks after EPA ordered the company to stop work at the construction site. The wetlands restoration will be at the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area, which is managed by the Bureau of Land Management.
EPA fines Guam Waterworks Authority $11,000 for failure to comply with stipulated order
EPA fined the Guam Waterworks Authority $11,000 for not completing requirements under a stipulated order to improve three of the utilities' public water systems. GWA was required by a June 2003 order to develop a comprehensive public health plan and an interim disinfection program for the water systems. EPA required a comprehensive, well-conceived plan be put in place to protect public health in the interim period.
EPA settles Guam Clean Water Act case: environmental project to manage household hazardous waste
EPA settled the Ordot Dump Clean Water Act lawsuit against the government of Guam in an agreement that includes deadlines for opening a new landfill and following an Ordot closure plan. Guam will also complete a $1 million supplemental environment project to develop a household hazardous waste diversion and management program. In addition, Guam will pay $200,000 to resolve the lawsuit. The 2002 lawsuit sought to address the health and environmental issues associated with the over-capacity dump which failed to comply with federal rules.
EPA requires monitoring and reporting by large public water systems to ensure safe drinking water
EPA issued 148 orders under the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) to large water systems throughout the Pacific Southwest Region between March and June 2004 to accelerate the compliance with the unregulated contaminant monitoring rule. Unlike most federal drinking water rules, the Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule (UCMR) is directly implemented by EPA and not by the state agencies with primary enforcement responsibility for the SDWA. The SDWA requires monitoring and reporting by large public water systems that serve more than 10,000 people to determine the extent and health risk posed by 12 currently unregulated contaminants such as perchlorate and MTBE. By the end of FY2004 samples were taken and compliance with all orders was occurring.
EPA issues orders to bring Arizona water systems into compliance
In 2004, EPA issued 11 orders to public water systems in Arizona as part of an ongoing effort to bring Arizona water systems into compliance with the lead and copper monitoring and reporting requirements of the Safe Drinking Water Act. Three of the public water systems that began sampling as a result of EPA’s enforcement actions found that water they served to their customers exceeded the action level for lead. EPA is closely tracking these systems to ensure they respond with federal rules, including corrosion control treatment, source water monitoring, and public education.
Settlement for unauthorized dredging in the San Francisco Bay reached
EPA reached a $70,000 settlement with J.E. McAmis, a dredging company, for Clean Water Act violations. The violations involved the unauthorized disposal and misdumping of material from the Larkspur Ferry Channel into the San Francisco Bay. Nearly 62,000 cubic yards of dredged material were discharged outside the designated disposal area near Alcatraz Island. McAmis also discharged 86,216 cubic yards of uncharacterized material into the Bay without authorization.