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The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) issued a May twenty first information launch stating that it has entered right into a settlement with Navisun, LLC (“Navisun”).
Navisun is described as a photo voltaic vitality firm based mostly in Hingham, Massachusetts.
Navisun is accused of committing violations of the Cleanwater Act Stormwater Construction General Permit (“Permit”) associated to stormwater discharges from development actions.
The EPA alleges that the corporate violated allow phrases for stormwater discharges from development actions at its photo voltaic farm improvement web site in Acushnet, Massachusetts (“Site”). The information launch states that the Site’s stormwater basin failed leading to:
. . . sediment-laden water discharges from two separate storms; sediment from these spills affected a neighbor’s pond and effectively.
Navisun mentioned it improved controls on the web site after the failure and there have been no important points when the EPA inspected the location. However, an inspection by the town of Acushnet’s Conservation Commission is claimed to have uncovered a failure to stabilize a number of areas of the Site. The firm is claimed to have subsequently strengthened the remainder of the Site.
Navisun is described as a photo voltaic vitality firm that develops, owns, and operates small utility-scale business and industrial photo voltaic farms.
A civil penalty of $25,000 is claimed to have been assessed.
A replica of the press launch will be downloaded right here.