Ketchikan, Alaska seafood processor fined $25,000 by EPA

Ketchikan, Alaska

E. C. Phillips and Son has been fined by the EPA for discharging untreated waste directly into Tongass Narrows and onto the adjacent shoreline. The Ketchikan seafood processor has agreed to pay a $25,000 penalty to settle water discharge permit violations.

E. C. Phillips and Son had violated their National Pollution Discharge Elimination System permit.

The company and federal agency signed a Consent Agreement and Final Order which settles all the violations and sets the monetary penalty.

The list of violations included failing to ensure that its effluent was one-half inch or less prior to discharge and failing to develop and implement an adequate Best Management Practices Plan.