Oregon
The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality issued 18 penalties totaling $232,095 in February for various environmental violations
Eugene, OR – According to the state officials, fines ranged from $1,200 to $89,512.
Alleged violations included a transfer station failing to substantially implement a stormwater pollution control plan, a log storage yard conducting unpermitted burning of creosote-treated timbers, and a transportation company failing to immediately clean up a diesel fuel spill and reporting it to the Oregon Emergency Response System.
DEQ issued civil penalties to the following organizations and individuals:
- Ace Car Reconditioning LLC, Tigard, $1,200, air quality
- Atkore Plastic Pipe Corporation, Eugene, $5,600, stormwater
- Bob Thomas Auto Body, Inc., Portland, $1,200, air quality
- Columbia Helicopters, Aurora, $6,800, water quality
- Ed Staub & Sons Petroleum Inc., Klamath Falls, $89,512, clean fuels
- Gilbert Gramson, Warrenton, $24,054, stormwater
- Justin Gauvain, Lakeside, $5,367, land quality
- Knutson Towboat Company, Coos Bay, $33,554, air quality
- Martha Willis, Winston, $4,903, land quality
- Miscoe Properties LLC, Portland, $28,752, water quality
- Northwest Cascade, Inc., Portland, $4,800, stormwater
- Parker-Northwest Paving Company dba Canby Landscape Supply, $15,775, stormwater
- PPM Technologies Holdings LLC, Newberg, $8,800, stormwater
- Sandhar Warriors, Inc., Troutdale, $22,835, emergency response
- Tillamook County Public Works Department, Tillamook, $55,451, stormwater
- TM Companies LLC, Portland, $1,500, air quality
- Wireless Structures Consulting, Inc. dba Western Utility Telecom, Inc., Salem, $16,400, hazardous waste
- YiFang USA, Inc., West Covina, CA, $1,650, e-cycles
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