According to the agency’s legal counsel, Kathryn B. Fuller, there were 219 notices of violations and administrative orders excluding oral warnings or notices, stop work orders, tickets for littering or deficiency notices regarding permit applications.
There were 215 notices of violations last fiscal year: 133 for drinking water; earthmoving, 20; wastewater, 21; solid waste, 13; pesticides, two; and used oil, 26.
Of the administrative orders issued during same period, DEQ said two were for solid waste and one for pesticide and used oil violations.
Fuller said there are 128 separate notices of violations sent out by DEQ’s safe drinking water branch during FY 2008, in addition to five notices of violations that were not included in the quarterly reports earlier provided to Variety.
She said the “133 violations [for drinking water] do not include any of the written warnings that public water supply systems receive after a sanitary survey.”
According to Fuller, public water supply systems are given 30 days in which to correct violations before DEQ issues a notice of violation.
Thirty-eight notices of violations from the DEQ earthmoving and erosion control and wastewater branch, as well as three additional wastewater notices of violations were also not included.
The total number of violations for earthmoving was 41.
Fuller said the four administrative orders in FY 2008 did not include one administrative order and 26 compliance orders and compliance notices from the former storage tank, oil and pesticide branch regarding used oil violations and one administrative order and two notices of violations regarding illegal pesticides.
There were also two administrative orders and 13 notices of violations regarding solid waste disposal issues, including a joint notice from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and DEQ regarding violations at the landfill.
