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ELLENSBURG -- A Manastash Creek landowner has been assessed a $16,000 penalty for changing the creek's channel without permits, a 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.
Officials said Hunt told them she was trying to rectify a flooding problem but she ended up removing vegetation on 700 feet of the shoreline and moving the creek bed 25 feet without proper permits from the county, state and federal agencies.
The work occurred without a county flood plain development permit, a state hydraulic permit and approval from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, they said.
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.
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