By Walter F. Roche Jr.
Tennessee environmental officials have cited Pilot Travel, the truck-stop firm controlled by the Haslam family, for violations of its permits at locations in Knox and Giles counties.
In two notices, both dated Jan. 9, the state Department of Environment and Conservation imposed fines totaling $56,235 for violations of the Water Quality Control Act. The company must pay $11,247 immediately. The balance becomes due if the Knoxville based firm fails to meet deadlines for taking corrective action.
The Knox County Pilot location was cited for exceeding effluent limits for multiple reporting periods and the failure to submit required discharge monitoring reports.
According to the TDEC notice the excess effluent came from treated bay wash water that contained oil, grease and e.coli and flowed into an unnamed tributary of Turkey Creek.
The site was covered under a TDEC permit issued Aug. 1, 2018.
Some of the violations of the permit were self-reported by Pilot, but others were not.
The Giles County location was cited for exceeding the limits of a permit issued on Sept. 1, 2017 capping the amount of total suspended solids flowing into an unnamed tributary of Richland Creek.
The family of former Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam still has a controlling interest in the firm.
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