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Article: Oconomowoc-based Wolf Paving Co. says failure of air quality test was bad timing
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- Daily Reporter (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- January 16, 2009
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The day federal regulators tested air quality at Wolf Paving Co.
Inc.'s asphalt plant was the same day a seal came loose on a big bag
that collects emission dust, according to the company's president.
Devin Wolf said it was just a case of bad timing that led to a
complaint from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and a Jan. 5
settlement for $114,740. Company employees, he said, unhooked the
bag to test it the day before federal inspectors visited the
Oconomowoc-based company's Genesee asphalt plant on Oct. 13, 2004,
for the annual air-quality survey.
But the seal on the bag was not reconnected properly, Wolf said,
so dust started flying around, and Wolf Paving flunked the next
day's ...