I-Team: Aurubis Buffalo factory fined $240,000 for violating federal pollution law
Harbour Place Marine Sales also cited
The federal government has classified two Buffalo businesses as âsignificantâ violators of laws enforced by the Environmental Protection Agency, according to hundreds of pages of government records reviewed by the I-Team.
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BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) â To Margaux Valenti, the 1970s were the âbad old daysâ on Buffaloâs waterfront.
âWe had a Buffalo River that was on fire,â said Valenti, legal and program adviser for Buffalo Niagara Waterkeeper. âWe had a Lake Erie that was pronounced dead. And we had a failing economy that was in part due to a polluted waterfront.â
If you ve noticed some activity under the east-side of the Blatnik Bridge this week, it s for a reason. The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) started a planned dredging project at Howards Bay that s expected to last the summer and into early fall.
According to details released by the EPA, the work is tied to the St. Louis River Area of Concern - which was created as part of the 1987 Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement. This specific project will see crews dredging contaminated sediment at Howards Bay. Sediment in Howards Bay is polluted with contaminants typically associated with fossil fuels such as coal, gasoline, and oil . The work is one part routine navigation dredging combined with environmental restoration to remove the contamination.
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The cleanup of decades old contaminated sediment in the St. Louis River will begin next week. The EPA said the work extends from Hughitt Slip to the head of Howard s Bay, near 5th and Main Street in Superior.
It s a combination of routine navigation dredging along with environmental restoration. The contractor is finishing up the navigational work this week, shared Corey Weston, Chief of Construction and Survey Section for the USACE, Detroit District. We haven t had the opportunity to dredge this area in 20+ years, to this magnitude.
A mechanical dredge will be removing approximately 75,000 cubic yards of contaminated sediment. It will be disposed at the Wisconsin Point Landfill, where a protective barrier of soil will cover the sediment.