BOSTON — A Watertown-based real estate developer and a Vermont-based contractor have agreed to pay up to $335,000 to settle allegations that workers improperly handled, stored and disposed of asbestos-containing material and solid waste during the redevelopment of a former manufacturing site in Lawrence, Attorney General Maura Healey announced Tuestay.
The consent judgments, entered Friday in Suffolk Superior Court, settle allegations that Washington Mills II LLP, the developer and owner of the site, and PC Construction Company, the general contractor, violated the Massachusetts Clean Air Act and the Solid Waste Management Act and their corresponding regulations by illegally handling, storing and disposing of asbestos and solid waste while redeveloping two former manufacturing buildings into a large residential and commercial complex in Lawrence. The AG’s Office alleges that these violations potentially endangered the health of workers at the site, the public and nearby residents in Lawrence – a densely populated environmental