Companies fined for dust pollution

Friday, Aug. 6, 1999 | 11 a.m.

The Clark County Health District's Air Pollution Control Division issued $37,000 in penalties in July to nine companies for major air pollution control violations.

Progressive Contracting Inc. received $10,000 in fines for five separate violations. The violations involved visible emissions from contaminants at its Moapa Valley asphalt plant and for failing to take corrective action on four separate occasions.

Rose Hill Limited Partnership received a $7,000 penalty for failing to meet dust-control permit conditions at its 10-acre residential development at the northeast corner of Alexander Avenue and Clayton Street.

Terravita Home Construction Co., building the Del Webb Anthem Country Club, and Wadsworth Gold Construction Co. were penalized $4,000 and $2,000 respectively. The violations involved dust kicked up by loading trucks, scrapers and heavy equipment at the 778-acre residential country club community in the southeast valley.

Sandia Construction received a $4,000 penalty for visible emissions above the amounts listed in its construction permit from an asphalt plant stack at its nonmetallic minerals site on Lake Mead Drive, east of Sunrise Mountain.

Las Vegas Paving Corp. was penalized $4,000 for failing to take reasonable precautions to control dust and for allowing dust to leave its sand and gravel pit lot near the southeast corner of Sunset Road and Eastgate Road.

Thatcher Chemical Co. was fined $2,000 for generating dust from a tank trailer at its continuous bleach plant at 850 W. Lake Mead Drive.

Hanson Aggregates, also known as Bonanza Materials Inc., received a $2,000 penalty for dust emissions from stockpiles and road surfaces at the upper portion of its site in North El Dorado Valley.

Western States Contracting drew a $2,000 penalty for dust from its construction work at its 87-acre development, Anthem Coventry, on Eastern Avenue.

Other construction companies and developers paid fines ranging in the hundreds to $1,000 in penalties as well.

The Health District's Air Pollution Control Division assigns cases to a hearing officer. If the company contests the proposed penalty, it may appeal to the full Air Pollution Control Hearing Board.