The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) has issued a $5,180 penalty to K.F. Jacobsen & Co. Inc., which operates an asphalt manufacturing facility in north Portland, Ore., for failing to collect and analyze required stormwater discharge monitoring data over a two-year period. K.F. Jacobsen & Co. Inc. is a subsidiary of the R.B. Pamplin Corp., Portland.
The facility discharges its stormwater into the Willamette River. According to the DEQ, the company failed to collect and analyze samples of its discharge and failed to visually monitor its monthly discharges from July 1, 2008, through June 30, 2010, as its permit requires.
In issuing the penalty, the DEQ says the state requires permittees to sample and monitor their stormwater discharge four times per year to ensure the discharges meet water quality benchmarks. Failure to meet the benchmarks may indicate the presence of harmful levels of industrial pollutants that could enter public waterways.
The company also failed to submit its discharge monitoring reports for the 2008-09 and 2009-10 monitoring periods to the DEQ, as the permit required. The DEQ did not issue a penalty for this violation.
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