Aug. 8

Honeywell International Inc. is paying a $5 million penalty and another $1 million for an environmental project to settle 30 years of environmental violations at its Phoenix airport facility, the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality said.

Honeywell´s violations included discharging chlorinated solvents into the public sewer system without a permit and failure to clean up releases of fuel from underground storage tanks. The company also failed to disclose information regarding contamination over a period of several years, the ADEQ said.

"These were extremely serious violations of the law, and the size of the penalty reflects the significance of the problems at the facility," ADEQ Director Steve Owens said.

This settles a lawsuit filed by the state against the company in 2004. "The company has made a lot of progress at this facility in the last few years," Owens said.

Contact Waste News senior reporter Jim Johnson at (937) 964-1289 or jpjohnson@crain.com

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