.CoosaRiverkeepr and selc_org have agreed to a consent order resolving a Clean Water Act lawsuit against Newcastle Homes, more than two years after the Riverkeeper began documenting excess runoff from a new subdivision being built along U.S. 280. 🚰➡️
A major home builder in Birmingham metro area has reached a settlement with environmental group Coosa Riverkeeper over excess sediment pollution in Shelby County.
Under the agreement, Newcastle will pay the Riverkeeper group $39,750 to recoup its expenses for two years of monitoring the site and legal expenses and $500 to the U.S. Treasury for violations of its operating permit. Runoff from the 78-lot subdivision was documented entering the North Fork of Yellowleaf Creek -- a tributary of Lay Lake and the Coosa River -- carrying heavy loads of muddy sediment, which impairs water quality and harms wildlife, especially in rocky-bottomed creeks or streams.
“In the springtime, it is a gorgeous place to actually see mountain laurel, it feels like it’s dripping off every bush as you walk along the North Fork,” Overton said. “This particular creek, it has primarily been a rock bottom creek and so you can hear this creek gurgling and babbling, and it’s just a very great place for people of all walks of life to be able to safely enjoy the outdoors.”
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