UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, et al., Case No. 24-cv-00274-EMC
Plaintiffs,
ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO
v. ENTER INTO CONSENT DECREE
SWINERTON BUILDERS, Docket No. 15 Defendants.
I. FACTUAL & PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND The United States moves to enter this Consent Decree following Defendant Swinerton’s alleged violations of the Clean Water Act (CWA) and related state laws during the construction of solar energy facilities in Alabama, Illinois, and Idaho. Swinerton is a national construction company that built four solar energy facilities: the American Falls Site near American Falls, Idaho; the AL Solar Site near LaFayette, Alabama; the Prairie State Site in Perry County, Illinois; and the Big River Site in White County, Illinois. Docket No. 1 (Complaint) at ¶ 54. The Complaint alleges that Swinerton failed to obtain required permits for construction stormwater discharges under the CWA, 33 U.S.C. § 1319(b), the Alabama Water…