Kimberling City developer to pay for water-quality violation

The Missouri Department of Natural Resources and Attorney General Jay Nixon’s office reached the settlement with Jedi Corp., which is building the Tuscany Village subdivision on Joe Bald Road, north of Kimberling City in Stone County.

According to DNR, Jedi Corp. did not have a state operating permit and did not use “best management practices” for erosion and sediment control when clearing land for the project on Table Rock Lake.

The company has agreed to pay a $15,000 civil penalty to the Stone County School Fund and reimburse the state $1,000 for investigative costs.

Jedi Corp. also will pay $4,000 to the James River Basin Partnership’s Pump A Million Septic Tank program, which provides financial assistance to homeowners in the James River Basin Watershed to properly maintain their septic tanks and prevent discharge of water contaminants.

Also included in the agreement is a $5,000 payment to the state’s Natural Resource Damages fund. That money will be used to provide water quality monitoring equipment for the Volunteer Water Quality Monitoring Program, which collects data to establish baseline data on rarely sampled streams, locate emerging water quality problems and identify long-term trends in stream conditions.