Puget Soundkeeper: Community Enforcement to Protect Muck Creek
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Puget Soundkeeper:
Community Enforcement to
Protect Muck Creek
Katelyn KinnPuget Soundkeeper
206-297-7002
WHO IS PUGET SOUNDKEEPER?http://www.pugetsoundkeeper.org/
• grass roots, member
based 501(c)3 non-
profit
• founding member of
Waterkeeper Alliance
• Puget Sound &
tributaries
• water quality focused
• Monitoring and Enforcement
• Policy and Civic Engagement
• Education and Stewardship
WHO IS PUGET SOUNDKEEPER?http://www.pugetsoundkeeper.org/
Clean Water Act
• framework
• swim, fish, drink
• National Pollution Discharge Elimination (NPDES)
• unlawful to discharge any pollutant from a point source without a permit
National Pollution Discharge Elimination System (NPDES)
• EPA
• WA Dept of Ecology
• Industrial Stormwater
• Construction Stormwater
COMMUNITY ENFORCEMENT
• primary authority: federal
and state government
agencies
• citizens: “any citizen may
commence a civil action on
his own behalf” 33 U.S.C. §1365
o injunctive relief
o civil penalties
o recovery of litigation costs
d/b/a/ LRIand Waste Connections of Washington, Inc.
30919 Meridian Street East, Graham, WA 98338
Pierce County Recycling, Composting and Disposal, LLC
Agency Documented Violations
• Patterns documented over period of years (2012, 2014, 2016, 2017)
• Effluent limit violations
• Repeated discharges of leachate into storm system
• Repeated “intentional and knowing” failure to report violations
• Monitoring point concerns