In a $4.3million settlement agreement, Georgia residential builders Pulte Homes, KB Home, Centex Homes ended a six-year investigation by the Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Justice into compliance with the stormwater management provisions of the Clean Water Act. The investigation focused compliance efforts between 2001 and 2004 and covered seventy-one subdivision construction sites in Georgia.
Pulte Homes, based in Bloomfield Hills, Mich., will pay $877,000; KB Home, based in Los Angeles will pay $1,185,000; Centex Homes, based in Dallas, will pay $1,485,000; and, Richmond American Homes, based in Denver will pay $795,000 in penalties. Richmond American Homes did not have properties in Georgia.
