# MAIETTA CONSTRUCTION INC
> **Judicial** · FY2018 · — · —
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `3601380980`
- **Case Number:** 01-2018-2007
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** —
- **Penalty assessed:** —
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## Defendants
- M7 Land Company LLC (complaint) (settlement)
- Maietta Construction Inc (complaint) (settlement)
- Maietta Enterprises Inc (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

08/19/21 - On July 29, 2021, the United States District Court, District of Maine, entered a Consent Decree resolving violations of Section 404 of the Clean Water Act (CWA) alleged to have been committed by Maietta Construction, Inc., Maietta Enterprises, Inc. and M7 Land Company, LLC at a site located in Scarborough, Maine. Maietta Construction, Inc. is an earth moving company, and Maietta Enterprises, Inc. and M7 Land Company, LLC are the former and current owners of the site, respectively. Starting in the 1960s, Maietta Construction, Inc. continuously used the site as material staging and reprocessing area for its earthwork operations. Maietta Construction filled approximately 10 wetland acres falling under the jurisdiction of the CWA on the site.  Prior to disturbance, these wetlands were mainly forested freshwater wetlands with a mixture of coniferous and hardwood trees and were adjacent to an unnamed tributary to the Spurwink River, a navigable waterway that runs through the Rachael Carson National Wildlife Refuge.

The Consent Decree requires the payment of a $25,000 penalty and the restoration of the site.  The restoration, estimated to cost $850,000, will involve removing fill and restoring about five acres of previously forested wetlands, creating a plant buffer between areas of remaining fill and restored areas, restoring and enhancing 1.2 wetland acres by performing invasive species management and removing fill, mitigating some 7.7 adjacent acres of forested wetl

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