Companies illegally dumped debris into Skykomish River for three years
MONROE — Two companies dumped more than 54,000 cubic yards of debris into the Skykomish River over a three-year period, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Starting in 2008, Bobby Wolford Trucking & Salvage, Inc. delivered fill material to the Karl Frederick Klock Pacific Bison, LCC property three miles east of Monroe.
The trucking company used heavy equipment to dump enough material, including construction debris, to fill more than 16 Olympic-sized swimming pools into wetlands. They also dumped fill into the Skykomish River and a stream flowing through the Klock property without obtaining permits, according to a document called a federal consent decree. The company also charged others to dump materials in the same locations.
The illegal dumping impacted almost three acres of wetlands and over 2,000 linear feet of streams, Chris Hladick, EPA regional administrator, said in a news release.
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