January 10, 2008--Company must fix creek, wetlands (Rocky Mountain News)
The Environmental Protection Agency has ordered an excavating company to restore a section of creek and wetlands in city of Lafayette open space, which the firm allegedly damaged in violation of the Clean Water Act. The agency's regional office in Denver said Kenneth L. Schell and Twin Peaks Excavating Inc. dug a new stream channel in Rock Creek, filled nearby wetlands with debris and then filled about 150 feet of the original channel last March and April. The work was conducted without a permit from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and without permission from Lafayette, the EPA said in a news release. The EPA ordered the company to remove unauthorized materials dumped in the creek and to restore the creek and wetlands to earlier conditions.
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