RSSKittitas landowner fined for altering Manastash creek
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ELLENSBURG, Wash. — A Manastash Creek landowner has been assessed a $16,000 penalty for changing the creek’s channel without permits and in violation of the Clean Water Act.
The state Department of Ecology imposed the fine against Monica Hunt for taking action in the creek last year, the agency said in a news release Thursday.
The removal of vegetation on 700 feet of the shoreline and moving the creek bed 25 feet occurred without proper permits from the county, state and federal agencies, officials said. The work occurred without a county flood plain development permit, a state hydraulic permit and approval from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
The area is located on Brown Road, west of Ellensburg.
Hunt has 30 days to pay the penalty or file an appeal with the state Pollution Control Hearings Board.
Her attorney, James Denison of Ellensburg, declined comment through a receptionist.
An order accompanying the penalty directs her to restore riparian buffers and plant native vegetation after obtaining permits.
— David Lester
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