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NH DOT Fined for Lake Winnisquam Pollution

Charlie Schuessler

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The Concord Monitor is reporting that the NH Department of Transportation has been fined $44,000 for polluting Lake Winnisquam for five months, environmental officials said yesterday. The fine came more than a year after the state Department of Environmental Services discovered sediment washing into the lake from a state road construction project in Belmont...

http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041207/REPOSITORY/412070301/1001

After reading the article,I wondered who didn't live up to their professional responsibility? The Contractor? Consulting Engineers? Or was it DOT (Engineers, Inspector's & Project Management) Employees?

On the surface it appears everyone failed.... It makes me wonder why in the 21st Century, with nearly 100-years of building and maintaining automobile roads, why does this inexcusable practice happen? :(
 
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