For the Cumberland Times-News Cumberland Times-News
Cumberland — CUMBERLAND — Two Garrett County landowners and an Allegany County company were included in a recent Maryland Department of the Environment action seeking penalties for alleged violations of requirements for water and land management.
Robert G. Renfro and Annette Sante of Swanton are required to pay a $4,500 penalty as part of a settlement agreement to resolve alleged sediment control, sediment pollution, waterway construction and nontidal wetland violations that occurred Aug. 6.
The alleged violations involved unauthorized grading for an access road, excavation and breaching of a small pond, and excavation of an outlet channel through nontidal wetlands.
State laws require that property owners notify MDE before conducting any work in tidal and nontidal wetlands, their buffers and waterways of the state. MDE assesses the impact of any work on tidal and nontidal wetlands and, if appropriate, will issue a permit authorizing the work.
Cumberland Concrete Corp. of LaVale is required to pay a $10,000 penalty as part of a settlement agreement to resolve alleged discharge permit violations that occurred at the company’s redi-mix and concrete block manufacturing plant. The alleged violations involved discharges of pollutants to Braddock Run and failure to develop and implement a pollution prevention plan.
A pollution prevention plan has been developed and is being implemented.
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