Puget Soundkeeper: Community Enforcement to Protect Muck Creek
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Katelyn Kinn presentation to NRC, 10/20/17
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Puget Soundkeeper: Community Enforcement to Protect Muck Creek
- 1. Puget Soundkeeper: Community Enforcement to Protect Muck Creek Katelyn Kinn Puget Soundkeeper 206-297-7002 katelyn@pugetsoundkeeper.org
- 2. WHO IS PUGET SOUNDKEEPER? http://www.pugetsoundkeeper.org/ • grass roots, member based 501(c)3 non- profit • founding member of Waterkeeper Alliance • Puget Sound & tributaries • water quality focused
- 3. • Monitoring and Enforcement • Policy and Civic Engagement • Education and Stewardship WHO IS PUGET SOUNDKEEPER? http://www.pugetsoundkeeper.org/
- 4. Clean Water Act • framework • swim, fish, drink • National Pollution Discharge Elimination (NPDES) • unlawful to discharge any pollutant from a point source without a permit
- 5. National Pollution Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) • EPA • WA Dept of Ecology • Industrial Stormwater • Construction Stormwater
- 6. COMMUNITY ENFORCEMENT • primary authority: federal and state government agencies • citizens: “any citizen may commence a civil action on his own behalf” 33 U.S.C. §1365 o injunctive relief o civil penalties o recovery of litigation costs
- 7. d/b/a/ LRI and Waste Connections of Washington, Inc. 30919 Meridian Street East, Graham, WA 98338 Pierce County Recycling, Composting and Disposal, LLC
- 9. Muck Creek – South Creek • coastal cutthroat trout • steelhead trout • coho salmon
- 10. Agency Documented Violations • Patterns documented over period of years (2012, 2014, 2016, 2017) • Effluent limit violations • Repeated discharges of leachate into storm system • Repeated “intentional and knowing” failure to report violations • Monitoring point concerns
- 13. • PCBs • Aroclor 1242 • Aroclor 1254 • Cu 5,100 • Zn 37,000 • Lead • Selenium • Chromium • Arsenic
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- Some (not all) of the agency documented violations
- Photo taken in October 2016 by Ecology inspectors of the “massive blowout” of leachate into storm system
- Photo taken in October 2016 by Ecology inspectors of highly contaminated “contact” stormwater from working face of landfill (prohibited discharge) gushing into stormwater system
- WA Dept of Ecology again inspected and documented leachate commingling with stormwater; staff sampled it, and found high levels of pollutants flowing into the storm system
- June 16, 2017: County Health Dept documented a leachate seep coming from the north side of the landfill above the final closure area on the base of the landfill into the facility’s storm drainage system (which ultimately discharges into Muck Creek)
- Location where facility’s stormwater flows from site into wetland and into creek