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Feds charge local builders with environmental offenses

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Wednesday, 28 April 2010 20:06

The office of U.S. Attorney General Nashville, Tennessee, on Tuesday filed criminal charges against construction companies in the Nashville Yazdian Building and Contractors Company, Inc. Madison, accusing them of fouling Mill Creek in Williamson County north in violation of the Clean Water Act.

The companies have also accused the government of violating the Endangered Species Act in danger by taking exactly nine samples from the Nashville crayfish (Orconectes shoupi) of the creek.

The alleged crimes and misdemeanors, but all credit carries the possibility of paying a fine of 200,000 dollars.

In a court filing in detail the allegations (available at this link), Assistant U.S. Attorney Sandra Moses says that in June 2007 for companies "came out of neglect of pollutants, ie, non-washed limestone crusher, operating without a permit" and remove illegal lobster Sea threatened with extinction.

Court documents do not give the location of the alleged actions. NashvillePost.com but I learned that the site has been divided Downs Britain in Nolensville, built by the construction Yazdian.

Can not be reached to Moses and the representatives of the two companies on Tuesday evening to discuss this issue. Is required of every company of the defendant to appear in court May 4 summons issued by the federal authorities.

The website of the Metro water is presented with scientific information about large-scale lobster Nashville (not viewable using the Mozilla Firefox browser).

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