Discharge Pollution

Hartford, CT: (Jan-30-08) Attorney General Richard Blumenthal and the Connecticut Fund for the Environment (CFE) brought charges against Electric Boat, alleging that it violated the federal Clean Water Act with repeated polluted discharges into the Thames River during a five-year period ending June 2007. In the Electric Boat reports, the CFE claimed to have found 26 test samples that violated permit levels for copper, zinc, chlorine, pH, aquatic toxicity and others. The Department of Environmental Protection verified 22 of the violations. The lawsuit was the result of an action taken by the CFE notifying five companies that it would sue for Clean Water Act violations under a provision of the law that allows a citizens' group to force compliance when state and federal agencies fail to do so.

Sources close to the case stated that as part of a settlement reached, Electric Boat has agreed to pay $20,000 in penalties plus $55,000 to a state fund for environmental projects, resolving allegations. Similar suits were filed against Whyco Finishing Technologies on the Naugatuck River in Thomaston and Cytec Industries on the Quinnipiac River in Wallingford, claiming violations of the federal Clean Water Act. Those settlements ranged from $300,000 for Whyco to $56,000 for Cytec Industries. [THE DAY: BOAT POLLUTION]

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Published on Jan-31-08