As part of a deal to settle a major lawsuit brought by federal environmental regulators, the Utah Department of Transportation is agreeing to clean up the way it manages and monitors stormwater runoff from road construction sites and salt storage facilities.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency documented various violations of UDOT’s wastewater discharge permit and the Clean Water Act dating back to 2013, according to a suit filed Sept. 23 in U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City. Before that legal step, the feds arranged a settlement with UDOT in the form of a proposed consent decree filed at the same time.