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Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul has announced a civil judgment against United Liquid Waste Recycling Inc., an environmental service provider based in Clyman, Wisconsin, requiring it to pay a $160,000 penalty for hazardous waste violations.
According to a news release from the Wisconsin Department of Justice, the company allegedly violated the state’s hazardous substance spill laws and wastewater discharge laws.
“Hazardous substance spills harm our natural resources and put people’s health at risk,” Kaul says. “We will continue working to ensure that those who violate our environmental laws are held accountable.”
According to the complaint, United collects and stores industrial and municipal wastes and recycles them by applying them as fertilizer to farm fields. United provides storage and land application of industrial liquid wastes, industrial sludge and byproduct solid sewage sludges and septage to businesses across the state, and outside of Wisconsin. It has about 500 locations that it owns or leases for land application of waste in Wisconsin, totaling about 15,000 acres.
The decision stems from complaints against the company between 2011 and 2017 for violations that occurred primarily at and around United’s Dodge County, Wisconsin, waste storage facility. The complaint alleges that United failed to report and remediate hazardous substance spills, failed to properly maintain its wastewater storage facilities, improperly applied waste to fields and failed to report its waste collection, sampling and application activities as required by United’s wastewater discharge permit.
Assistant Attorneys General Jennifer S. Limbach and Bradley J. Motl represented the state and worked closely with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources to obtain this judgment. The Order for Judgment was signed by Dane County Circuit Judge Stephen Ehlke Nov. 11.
The Wisconsin State Legislature’s Joint Committee on Finance approved the proposed resolution on May 31.
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