MPCA Fines Housing Developer

Ernest Zelinka, C.L. Preserve LLC, North Pine Aggregate Incorporated and the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency have reached an agreement that requires the three parties to pay the MPCA 25,000 dollars for alleged stormwater violations. The violations occurred at a 35-acre housing development construction site near Pine City.
Inspections at the site confirmed that construction had begun without a required stormwater permit and a pollution prevention plan had not been submitted by the developers. In addition, two ponds within the construction site received substantial amounts of sediment, one of which drains directly into a nearby Lake.