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photo credit: Google Maps via Bay City NewsBased in Santa Rosa, the company's concrete recycling facility in Windsor received two violations.
A construction materials manufacturing company with operations in Santa Rosa, Forestville and Windsor agreed to pay nearly $1.3 million in fines to resolve allegations it repeatedly violated air pollution laws.
The Bay Area Air District accused the business, BoDean Company, Inc., of nine violations of air quality regulations between 2021 and 2025 for instances that allegedly produced sustained black smoke, a strong odor and emissions that exceeded allowable pollution levels, according to a statement from the Air District on Tuesday.The fine was agreed to in a settlement that kept in place BoDean Company's denial of the allegations, while also establishing that the alleged violations had been cured and the facilities brought into compliance.
The company did not respond to a request for comment Wednesday afternoon.
Air regulators said the violations caused significant disruption to nearby residents.
"Air quality rules exist to prevent harm to the public, and they apply to everyone," said Philip Fine, the Air District's executive officer. "This penalty makes clear that violations have consequences and that facilities are expected to always comply with air quality requirements."
The $1.28 million collected as part of the settlement will go towards funding projects that will improve air quality in the nine counties that the Bay Area Air District encompasses.
Seven of the violations allegedly occurred at the company's Santa Rosa construction materials plant at 1060 Maxwell Dr. The other two were recorded at the company's concrete recycling plant at 490 Caletti Ave. in Windsor.
The company makes a variety of paving and construction materials including asphalt, concrete, and several types of aggregates, according to its website.
The Air District said some of the violations that allegedly occurred in August and September 2022 were for "significant unauthorized operations" of equipment to manufacture rubberized asphalt, which is paving material made from recycled tire rubber combined with asphalt binder, according to the state Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery.
