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J.H. Baxter, a wood treatment plant in west Eugene with a history of environmental problems, was fined $223,440 by the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) citing environmental and health violations.
In a notice sent to Baxter on March 3, DEQ alleges the company misused its wood treating chambers, called retorts, in treating over 1.7 million gallons of hazardous waste from 2015-2019.
In a separate violation, DEQ claims Baxter allowed untreated stormwater to flow into Amazon Creek.
“Those emissions are uncontrolled and may have contained harmful pollutants that pose a risk to human health and the environment,” DEQ Spokesperson Dylan Darling says in a phone call with
DEQ fines Eugene wood treatment facility $223K over violations
Updated Mar 04, 2021;
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EUGENE The state has fined a Eugene wood treatment plant more than $200,000 for hazardous waste and water quality violations that regulators say occurred over the last five years.
The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality issued J.H. Baxter & Co. $223,440 in fines Wednesday for violations that included the illegal treatment of 1.7 million gallons of hazardous waste between 2015-19 and two unpermitted discharges of untreated storm water in 2019, The Register-Guard reported.
DEQ fines Eugene wood treatment facility $223K over violations also is ordering the company to create plans for investigating and sampling to better understand and mitigate the environmental impacts of the violations.
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