The Pima County Department of Environmental Quality has issued a Notice of Violation to California-based developer Beale Infrastructure, which is working on the new data center on South Houghton Road, just north of the Pima County Fairgrounds, for “excess dust that crossed property boundary lines and no use of dust control measures.”
This comes at a time when the contractor was disconnected from a City of Tucson water source it had used to fill spray trucks that brought dust control water to the site.
The official notice from PIma DEQ says, “AMES Construction had failed to employ dust mitigation practices (i.e. water), which resulted in visible fugitive dust emissions being generated. The fugitive dust was observed crossing property boundary lines.”
According to the Pima County Department of Environmental Quality, the contractor has five days to correct the violation instead of the usual 30 days. We have reached out to Pima County to clarify why the contractor only has five days instead of the standard 30 days and will provide more information here once we hear back. The company has until May 17 to respond to the notice.
If the contractor does not comply within the five-day period, PDEQ may impose a “civil penalty….for each violation for the entire non-compliance period.” State law allows for fines up to $10,000 per day, per violation of the permit…