Posted on 11/24/2010 10:07:57 AM PST by Graybeard58
CVS Inc. agreed Tuesday to pay nearly $270,000 in penalties for improperly dumping photo-processing chemicals and drugs into wastewater at many of its nearly 140 stores in Connecticut, including locations in Southbury and New Canaan.
According to the state Department of Environmental Protection, Woonsocket, R.I.-based CVS and its subsidiary, Connecticut CVS Pharmacy LLC, agreed to a settlement that includes paying $223,900 to the state's General Fund and $45,000 to a project to study ways to reduce storm water in sewer systems in Bridgeport and New Haven. The company also agreed to make improvements in its environmental practices.
According to DEP spokesman Dennis Schain, the department inspected 10 CVS stores in 2009 and discovered violations that included discharging wastewater from photographic processing, and discharging pharmaceuticals and wastewater that contains pharmaceuticals into onsite septic systems or sewers without a permit.
The Southbury CVS, located at 22 Depot Hill Road, was among five stores initially inspected in June 2009, according to the DEP's consent order. The Southbury CVS discharges wastewater into a septic system on the property, located about 1,000 feet from Bullet Hill Brook, which runs into the Pomperaug River.
"CVS fined for dumping chemicals and drugs Many area stores cited for some level of violation"
And they wonder why they are finding fish and frogs that are winding up with female hormones...
Interesting that CT thinks it's OK as long as the state gets paid off.
No doubt there's more to the story ~ I'd look for some "old fashioned" Patriarca crime family involvement here.
Interesting that CT thinks it's OK as long as the state gets paid off.
No doubt there's more to the story ~ I'd look for some "old fashioned" Patriarca crime family involvement here.
Probably just semantics, don't you think?
Sure, you can dump with a permit because to obtain the permit you must submit to certain guidelines that can be measured through inspection - what you're dumping, where you're dumping and in what quantities your dumping. Without a permit, you're dumping who knows what, who knows where, and in who knows what quantities.
I called Kansas department of health on my former photo lab employer for doing this. The silver reclamation unit died and the city manager didn’t want to buy a new one because the expenditure would make her performance look bad. Five gallons a shot she told me to pour it down the sink. I started stacking buckets, I was determined to not pour it in the sewer. She came in saw the buckets and dumped them herself. I got yelled at and later fired for other reasons and the dumping continued. Weeks later I got a call from a former coworker that someone from the state had paid a visit and a new reclamation unit was on the way along with a check.for a hefty.fine was going to the state. I believe that was the most enjoyable act of retribution I was ever party to.
No, that is not the case. Most likely the writer is not versed in the laws or something was lost in translation.
My goodness, maybe the “writer” is an MSM reporter or something. At the same time it really is the case that folks get punished for not having the right permit.
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