Defendant failed to comply with release detection monitoring, upgrading, recordkeeping and other requirements for underground storage tanks at forty-five facilities the Defendant owns or operates throughout the county. In addition, the Defendant failed to make a hazardous waste determination for a waste stream that it generated.
The proposed settlement requires the Defendant to (i) pay a civil penalty (ii) undertake various compliance steps, and (iii) undertake a Supplemental Environmental Project. The SEP requires the Defendant to implement a Land Acquisition and Environmental Restoration Project for the purpose of helping to protect groundwater in the County?s Sole Source Aquifer from discharges of pollutants. The Defendant is required to spend $1,500,000 for either the purchase of uncontaminated land and/or the restoration of land through the removal of contaminated materials which are sources of releases of contamination to the environment. The Defendant is required to manage such land and any associated ecological resources into perpetuity to protect or enhance groundwater.