Firm Fined $70,000 for Water Act Violations
A Chico-based company will pay $70,000 for Clean Water Act violations that occurred during the Larkspur Ferry Channel maintenance dredging project in 2001.
J.E. McAmis Inc. reached a settlement Wednesday with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, according to Alexis Strauss, director of the agency’s water division.
In 2001, McAmis dredged more than 435,000 cubic yards of sediment from the channel. However, about 86,000 cubic yards of material came from outside the channel boundaries, and should not have been dredged, or dumped, at a federally approved disposal site near Alcatraz, officials said.
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