DC sues construction company for polluting waterways [Video]

WASHINGTON — One of the DMV’s largest road paving and infrastructure construction companies is being sued for illegally polluting D.C.’s stormwater system and repeatedly defying orders to stop for nearly nine years, Attorney General Brian Schwalb announced Thursday.

The District is suing Fort Myer Construction Company for violating the Water Pollution Control Act. According to a press release, the company has been repeatedly allowing petroleum-contaminated runoff to discharge into D.C.’s stormwater sewer from its storage and maintenance yard in Ward 5 since at least 2015.

“In total, DOEE (DC Department of Energy and Environment) found at least 20 unpermitted, illegal pollutant facility discharges of greywater and petroleum into the District’s stormwater system from 2015 to present,”  the complaint says.

The stormwater sewer empties into waterways around the District, including …