The Bay Area Air Quality Management District announced Thursday that it had fined an Alabama-based corporation operating in Pleasanton $228,000 for several air quality violations.
The violations occurred in 2021 at the Vulcan Materials Co. manufacturing plant, the air district announced.
The company produces, supplies, and distributes materials such as gravel, sand, crushed stone, and concrete among other materials.
“The financial penalty for these violations sends a clear message to Vulcan Materials Co. that they must carefully monitor their emissions and comply with air quality regulations,” said Dr. Philip Fine, executive officer of the air district.
He added that ensuring clean air for local communities is ‘non-negotiable.’
The penalty resolves two violations that were issued to the construction material producer, the air district said.
The first was for public nuisance due to burning asphalt or tar odors from the facility, while the second was for odors that occurred over four days in June and July of 2021.
The air district said it received 128 complaints from the public and added that they also issued a notice of violation due to a failed source test and exceeding the nitrogen oxide limits for 35 days.
The air district announced that the violations they found have all since been corrected.
A call to Vulcan Materials Co. headquarters seeking comment was not immediately returned.
Sounds like retraining on NOX ehaust stack sampling test equipment is needed.
Prior to retirement part of daily routine for our industrial electricians was to do a calibration procedure on NOX analyzers. Introducing bottled NOX calibration gas, if it failed then filters were changed and a trek up six flights of stairs to check heated exhaust stack sampling filter. Process of elimination until analyzers passed calibration test. PLC software program recorded NOX readings and archived them. One of last projects was to install brand new analyzer and upgrade PLC.