The Crescent City Harbor District has been forgiven of $123,000 of unpaid fines for dumping contaminated water into the ocean.
The district owed the penalties to the North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board. Between 2004 and 2011, the district’s wastewater treatment plant dumped filtered water in the ocean with illegally high levels of a number of contaminants, including chlorine, copper, oil and zinc.
Last week the board waived the fees, saying the district has proven it is now in compliance.
The district stopped pumping into the ocean at the site in 2011.