Pennsylvania DEP Fines Construction Company for Water Quality Violations

The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection fined DOLI Construction Corp. $23,886 for failing to prevent erosion and sedimentation pollution to Furnace Creek while building the West Manheim Township sanitary sewer project in York County.

“DOLI failed repeatedly to prevent this pollution because they did not implement and maintain best management practices consistent with the terms of the permit that was issued for the project,” says DEP South-central Regional Director Rachel Diamond in a release from the agency. “Sedimentation can cloud streams, and negatively impact aquatic life and the habitat. It is essential that terms of such permits are not ignored in order to protect the health of our waterways.”

The York County Conservation District documented seven pollution events during site inspections between January 2009 and February 2010. The pollution events resulted from failing to install erosion and sedimentation control devices properly, digging open trenches from manholes to the stream, and failing to install stream and wetland crossings in accordance with the approved permit.

The steam and wetland encroachment violations have been corrected.