OCWAP Enforcement Action Summary:
Leavitt's Freight Service, Inc.
OCWAP initiated an enforcement action against Leavitt’s Freight Service, Inc. on behalf of Sierra Club in October of 2005 concerning Leavitt’s Freight Service, Inc.‘s failure to report monitoring results to the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) for 2001-2002, 2002-2003, 2003-2004, and 2004-2005. Our enforcement action prompted Leavitt’s Freight Service to submit monitoring results to DEQ for all of the years listed above, however our review of these monitoring results indicated that Leavitt’s Freight Service had sampled its stormwater discharges only once per year (instead of twice as required by its permit). During the course of our enforcement action, we also discovered that Leavitt’s Freight Service had unpermitted wash water discharges from its facility. Our enforcement action against Leavitt’s Freight Service was resolved via a settlement agreement between Leavitt’s Freight Service and Sierra Club that called for Leavitt’s Freight Service to apply to the DEQ for Clean Water Act permit coverage for its wash water discharges, and to pay $2,000 to the City of Springfield for the city to use toward the purchase of wash water pollution prevention kits. The settlement agreement calls for additional payments to the City of Springfield in the event of future Clean Water Act violations.
