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Construction Stormwater Enforcement: Commonwealth of Massachusetts and Solar Array Developer Enter into Consent Decree | Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard, P.L.L.C.


Federal Clean Water Act
Massachusetts Clean Waters Act
The CD provides that Dynamic is the lessee, developer, project proponent and general contractor in an 18.5 acre commercial solar array (“Array”) in Williamsburg, Massachusetts.
The Array is also stated to include the use of, and improvements to, an access road that connects along with the planned installation of a utility connection.
The Massachusetts Attorney General alleged in a previously filed Complaint that certain Dynamic activities related to the construction of the Array resulted in excessive sediment discharges to the West Branch of Mill River and Rogers Brook and their associated tributaries and wetlands resource areas. Such activities are alleged to have violated the previously referenced federal and state statutes and their implementing regulations. ....

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Solar farm ordered to pay $1M for polluting wetlands, river


Stormwater from the site eroded the hillside, filled in wetlands and streams and polluted the branch of the river with what was equivalent to more than an acre of sediment, prosecutors said.
“The impacts to the wetlands and wildlife habitat areas were not only egregious, they were entirely avoidable,” Michael Gorski, director of Mass Department of Environmental Protection’s Western Regional Office in Springfield, said in a statement Monday. The office had investigated pollution at the site, issued remediation orders and eventually, referred the case to the attorney general’s office, the newspaper reported.
“We look forward to completing restoration work at the site, and to placing land into conservation to help protect Massachusetts’ natural resources,” Tony Orr, general counsel for Dynamic Energy Solutions, told the newspaper. ....

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