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EPA, Leavenworth, Reach Water Violation Settlement

By Brian Hagen

02/24/2016

(KAIR)--A $46,000 fine and a plan to eliminate the problem.

Those penalties come as part of an administrative settlement reached between EPA Region 7 and the City of Leavenworth, stemming from the city's violations of the Clean Water Act.

In a news release, the EPA states the city must, along with paying the fine, develop a plan to eliminate unlawful sewer overflows and to resolve municipal stormwater violation. The city must also implement a Supplemental Environmental Project, which the EPA says will be done through the implementation of water quality upgrades as an expansion of Leavenworth's storm sewer project. That will include a design that reduces erosion and pollutants, while capturing and filtering runoff from adjacent roadways prior to discharge into the stream. The price tag for the city to make that happen is estimated at nearly $39,000.

Leavenworth, in resolving the violations, will also develop and implement a stormwater management program plan to reduce pollution into urban stormwater by December. The city will also have to prevent and eliminate unlawful sewer overflows by December 2020.

The violations were discovered during an EPA investigation in November and December of 2013, when unauthorized sewer overflows to local waterways were discovered. The investigation also revealed what the EPA says is a failure by the city to effectively implement a required comprehensive stormwater management program plan.

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