Everett company accused of muddying water, endangering fish
EVERETT — A global building-materials company faces $21,000 in state fines over allegations that concrete and muddy water flowed from a local facility into city storm drains.
The violation involves a sand, gravel and concrete-mixing operation at 6300 Glenwood Ave. that belongs to CEMEX Construction Materials Pacific. The drains there let out into Pigeon Creek Number Two, a tributary of Pigeon Creek.
“This case involved repeated and preventable violations,” said Kevin Fitzpatrick, the Department of Ecology’s regional water quality section manager, in a statement. “It’s important for CEMEX to fix these problems because the street drains flow directly to the creek and Puget Sound.”
The Department of Ecology identified two series of violations.
The first involved the discharge of about 1,000 gallons of water from a concrete washout pond to the sidewalk, roadway and storm drains on Glenwood Avenue on Feb. 25. The runoff was caustic and posed a danger to fish and other aquatic life. CEMEX stopped the discharge and cleaned slurry from the road and storm drains under a city emergency order, the state said.
CEMEX received a $6,000 fine from the state in 2013 for a similar violation.
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