The federal Environmental Protection Agency is fining the city of Danbury $3,650 for failure to update the risk management plan for its West Lake reservoir water treatment plant. David Deegan, spokesman for the EPA’s New England office in Boston, said Monday the fine was the largest of the eight the EPA levied for failure to file a risk management plan.
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Deegan said such plans are important because they let the city and the region know how to react if there should be an emergency incident at the water treatment plant. The plant stores and uses chlorine gas — a highly caustic gas used to purify water.
"This isn’t just a piece of paper,’’ Deegan said.
Antonia Iadarola, the city’s superintendent of public works, said the city believes Veolia Water of North America — the Texas-based management company that has run the plant since 1997 — has the responsibility of updating the risk management plan. Iadarola said the city may ask the company to pay the fine.
Ah, what? The company should pay the fine? Isn't it the city's responsibility to make sure that the company you hired to do the job isn't SCREWING UP?
Since this isn't the first time Danbury was slapped with this type of fine (the first being in Oct 2001), you'd think that the city would have their act together and the top dog at City Hall would have a handle on things.
Oh I get it, he'll just find some way to blame this on Gene...how silly of me.
Hat tip to you know who for passing along this info so quickly. I love my readers!
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On September 26, 2007, ten plaintiffs filed suit in response to an arrest of aday laborers at a public park in Danbury, Connecticut. Plaintiffs amended their complaint on November 26, 2007.
The amended complaint states that plaintiffs sought to remedy the continued discriminatory and unauthorized enforcement of federal immigration laws against the Latino residents of the City of Danbury by Danbury's mayor and its police department.
Plaintiffs allege that the arrests violated their Fourth Amendment rights and the Connecticut Constitution because defendants conducted the arrests without valid warrants, in the absence of exigent circumstances, and without probable cause to believe that plaintiffs were engaged in unlawful activity. In addition, plaintiffs allege that defendants improperly stopped, detained, investigated, searched and arrested plaintiffs. Plaintiffs also allege that defendants violated their Fourteenth Amendment rights when they intentionally targeted plaintiffs, and arrested and detained them on the basis of their race, ethnicity and perceived national origin. Plaintiffs raise First Amendment, Due Process and tort claims.
Plaintiffs request declaratory relief, damages and attorneys fees.
On September 26, 2007, ten plaintiffs filed suit in response to an arrest of aday laborers at a public park in Danbury, Connecticut. Plaintiffs amended their complaint on November 26, 2007.
