OCWAP Enforcement Action Summary:
Sundance Lumber Company, Inc.
The concentration of total suspended solids in stormwater discharged from Sundance Lumber Company, Inc.‘s N. 35th Street facility has repeatedly exceeded the applicable industrial stormwater permit benchmark of 130 milligrams per liter since at least 2000. Oregon Clean Water Action Project sent Sundance Lumber Company, Inc. a letter on behalf of Willamette Riverkeeper on March 22, 2007 informing Sundance Lumber Company, Inc. that Willamette Riverkeeper would file a Clean Water Act suit against Sundance Lumber Company, Inc. unless it addressed the concentration of total suspended solids in its stormwater discharges. Sundance Lumber Company, Inc. responded to our letter with a May 8th letter outlining Sundance Lumber Company, Inc.‘s past efforts to address elevated levels of total suspended solids in its stormwater discharges, and its recent contracting of Mid-State Industrial Service to perform additional vacuumng of the site. OCWAP will be continuing to review Sundance Lumber Company, Inc.‘s monitoring results as soon as they become available in order to gauge the effectiveness of its efforts to reduce total suspended solids levels in its stormwater discharges.
