SARALAND, Ala. (NBC 15) — The City of Saraland has agreed to a Consent Order with the Alabama Department of Environmental Management over stormwater runoff during the construction of the city’s sports complex, The Land.
According to the Order, signed by now former Saraland Mayor Howard Rubenstein, the City agrees to pay $30,900 to settle violations of their permit “for regulated disturbance activities and discharges of treated stormwater.”
ADEM alleges that on two occasions in May and June of 2024, stormwater runoff carried sediment from the site and into Bayou Sara…