No one on Friday was at the three-acre Cheverly site, which is surrounded by wooden and chain-link fencing and posted with no trespassing signs. There were four bright-red roll-offs, a few heaps of trash and some scrap tires strewn around the ruined foundation of the plant.
“It doesn’t bother us any,” said Brandon Martin, an employee at Xylem, a water technology company east of the former recycling center. He said that other thanBehind the site is a Pepco electric substation, and rail lines beyond that. Across the road is a wooded lot that screens the George M. Boyd Memorial Park.
Additional penalties — including $100 per day per violation — began accruing April 30, 2018, and continue to add up, the complaint says. It now asks the court to tack on an additional civil penalty of up to $10,000 per violation per day against all defendants.