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Environmental Cases

Burak Anderson & Melloni, PLC maintains a searchable database of summaries of Vermont Environmental Court decisions from August 1991 to November 2006. The database contains the case caption, date of decision, docket number, and a brief summary. You may search the database for a specific case if you know the name of a case, docket number, or by keyword. Enter a search term and press Submit.

Docket # Date Caption Case Summary
E91-011 7/10/1991 State of Vermont Agency of Natural Resources v. Carroll Duranleau and Duranleau Construction Company

Order issued and penalty assessed following commercial extraction and crushing of stone by contract with town and FEMA following severe flooding without an Act 250 permit.  Stone crushing on more than one acre constituted development in the...

E91-017 7/18/1991 State of Vermont Agency of Natural Resources v. Edward B. and Judy Ann Fuller

Mobile home was placed on 1.8 acre parcel by Respondent for use by his elderly and developmentally disabled cousins would had been unexpectedly required to move. For three years prior Repsondent had sought and was denied a permit to do the same...

E91-012 8/9/1991 State of Vermont Agency of Natural Resources v. Burlington Rent-All, Inc.

Respondent pumped liquid contents (waste) of underground storage tanks into a storm drain prior to excavation and removal. The pumping of liquid from an out-of-service gasoline storage tank into a storm sewer, without certain knowledge of what...

E91-015 8/18/1991 State of Vermont Agency of Natural Resources v. John Russin

Respondent obtained a permit for a four lot subdivision which required a buffer strip along a stream bank. Several storms blew trees into the buffer zone diverting the water flow and creating a risk of erosion. Respondent removed trees and...

E-91-030 1/8/1992 State of Vermont Agency of Natural Resources v. Lise T. Gates

Assurance of Discontinuance was entered into with ANR for property containing a mobile home park, two apartment buildings and a barn used for storage and apartments. Order required notice of which permits would be sought, Respondent contact the...

E-90-010 5/28/1992 State of Vermont Agency of Natural Resources v. Cortland T., Christopher, and Gregory Corsones

Permit was issued with conditions to Respondents for construction of a retaining wall along the shoreline of Lake Bomoseen. New construction to the north extended an existing southerly wall to the neighbor's wall at the northern property line....

E92-031 2/9/1993 Secretary, Vermont Agency of Natural Resources v. Earth Construction, Inc. and Rodney Jordan

Earth Construction, and a corporate officer are both named in an order for filling, excavating, and grading a Class II wetland. Officer had control over corporate actions. Court elects to exercise primary jurisdiction in enforcement rather than...

E92-032 2/19/1993 Secretary, Vermont Agency of Natural Resources v. Casella Waste Management, Inc.

Court concludes that respondent filed a timely renewal application for a recylcing plant that was administratively complete. An Act 250 permit, however, was determined to be required by an Env. Bd. Declaratory Ruling and the facility continued...

E92-021 2/22/1993 Secretary, Vermont Agency of Natural Resources v. Rome Family Corporation

Parking lot constructed in violation of 1981 permit constitutes a continuing violation until the amended permit application was approved four years later. For fairness the Court does not assess penalties for the time prior to enactment of the...

E92-022 6/14/1993 Secretary, Vermont Agency of Natural Resources v. Handy Family Enterprises and Taft Corners Associates, Inc.

Internally lit signage for the Ponderosa Steak House was denied by District Commission initially and all but the building-mounted one were approved after showing of support by Planning Commission. Subsequent banners affixed to the buildings...