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The Columbus Dispatch
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Cincinnati foundry to pay fine for violating air-pollution
rules
Monday, January 8, 2001
Willard Industries has agreed to pay $82,000 to the state
for violating air- pollution controls at its aluminum foundry,
the Ohio EPA said in a statement released Friday.
The company installed three air contaminant sources at
the foundry in 1989 and began operating them in 1990 without
the necessary installation or operation permits regulating
organic emissions, the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency
said.
A woman who answered the phone Friday at the company's
offices said Willard Industries would have no comment on
the settlement.
State and Hamilton County environmental officials said
they documented numerous occasions since August 1998 in
which the company caused a public nuisance because of odors
from air-emission sources at the foundry.
In addition to paying the civil penalty, the company also
must submit applications for installation and operation
permits and must eliminate the public nuisance by raising
the stacks of some of its emission sources.
Willard Industries will pay $16,400 of the $82,000 penalty
to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources for urban tree-planting
projects in the state, the Ohio EPA said. Half of the remaining
money will go to the Ohio Environmental Education Fund,
and the rest will go to the Ohio EPA's Division of Air Pollution
Control.
The settlement was filed in Hamilton County Common Pleas
Court by the Ohio attorney general's office on behalf of
the Ohio EPA and the Hamilton County Department of Environmental
Services.
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