EPA Enforcement Ensures that Solar Company Follows Stormwater Discharge Requirements at Warren, Mass. Facility

BOSTON – November 10, 2015 – (RealEstateRama) — A settlement signed recently by a company that builds solar power facilities in Massachusetts will remind construction companies that the US Environmental Protection Agency continues to protect the environment from illegal discharges of stormwater.

EPA alleged that Borrego violated requirements of its 2012 Construction General Permit by failing to install and maintain erosion controls and to carry out required “best management” practices for controlling storm water. The requirements were conditions of the Clean Water Act National Pollution Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) General Permit for Stormwater Discharges from Construction.

Specifically, EPA alleged that the company failed to: construct adequate stormwater detention basins before construction; construct stormwater detention basins in accordance with good engineering practices; install and maintain silt fencing and other perimeter controls; ensure that discharges to surface waters were treated by an area of undisturbed natural buffer or additional erosion and sediment controls equivalent to a 50-foot natural buffer.

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