AG Campbell and the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office announced a $150,000 settlement with K&M Sales & Leasing, LLC (K&M) in Worcester to resolve allegations that the company violated the Federal Clean Water Act by illegally discharging industrial stormwater into wetlands immediately adjacent to Broad Meadow Brook without obtaining a federal stormwater permit. 

The consent decree, entered by the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, requires K&M to make two payments of $60,000 each to Mass Audubon and Worcester Common, Inc. for projects that directly benefit water quality in the Blackstone River Watershed, as well as pay for the AGO’s attorney fees. It also requires K&M and its lessees to obtain and comply with a stormwater permit and minimize pollution.