Puget Soundkeeper:

Community Enforcement to

Protect Muck Creek

Katelyn KinnPuget Soundkeeper

206-297-7002

katelyn@pugetsoundkeeper.org

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

Muck Creek – South Creek

• coastal cutthroat trout

• steelhead trout

• coho salmon

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

• PCBs • Aroclor 1242• Aroclor 1254

• Cu 5,100

• Zn 37,000

• Lead

• Selenium

• Chromium

• Arsenic

Community Lawsuit?

QUESTIONS?

Katelyn Kinn

206-297-7002

katelyn@pugetsoundkeeper.org