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![](images/ColorLogo2.GIF) More
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CSPA
serves notice of intent to sue Lake County landfill
February 13, 2009 -- CSPA has delivered a notice of intent to sue the
Lake County Eastlake Sanitary Landfill for numerous violations of the
federal Clean Water Act and the state’s General Industrial Stormwater
Permit. The facility is located in Clearlake California and discharges to
Molesworth Creek, thence Clear Lake and to an unnamed tributary of Cache
Creek, thence to the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.
The 80-acre
landfill has violated both substantive and procedural permit requirements
including: 1) discharge of pollutants exceeding standards for pH, total
suspended solids, specific conductance, iron, magnesium and nitrate; 2)
failure to implement an adequate monitoring and reporting plan (both
frequency and required parameters); 3) failure to implement BAT/BCT (best
available technology economically achievable and best conventional
pollutant control technology), 4) failure to implement an adequate
Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan; 5) failure to address discharges
contributing to exceedances of water quality standards, and 6) failure to
file timely, true and correct reports.
The facility has ignored
repeated admonishments, orders and notices of violations by Regional Water
Board staff following site inspections. The Regional Board has failed to
pursue effective enforcement on this site; consequently, CSPA is
initiating an enforcement action, pursuant to the citizen-suit provisions
of the Clean Water Act. CSPA has offered to meet with the discharger to
seek remedies in the absence of litigation but intends to file a complaint
at the end of the 60-day notice period.
CSPA Notice of
Intent
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