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The PA DEP took three separate actions against a York County real estate developer for continued violations of the Pennsylvania Clean Streams Law and the state’s erosion and sedimentation control regulations. The department ordered Timothy F. Pasch to pay $50,000 in civil penalties and to correct erosion and sedimentation violations at seven active construction sites in York County. The York County Conservation District and DEP identified more than 250 violations since 2001 at Pasch’s construction sites in several York County townships. Violations have included failure to install proper erosion and sedimentation controls, causing sediment pollution to local waterways, and failure to revise and submit accurate control plans to the conservation district. Pasch must obtain individual permits from DEP for any additional sites he seeks to develop in the future. Pasch has already paid $10,000 in civil penalties as a result of four prior DEP enforcement actions for erosion and sedimentation and wetland encroachment violations. http://www.ahs.dep.state.pa.us/newsreleases/default.asp?ID=3786 The federal Stormwater Phase II
regulations that went into effect in 2003 require that an Erosion
and Sedimentation Control Plan and an NPDES permit be prepared for
any earth disturbance greater than one acre in size. For more
information on Erosion and Sedimentation Control and stormwater
permitting, please contact F. X. Browne, Inc. at info@fxbrowne.com.
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