Editor’s Note: This is an updated version of an earlier story.
A Cheshire maker of metal aerospace parts faces as much as $175,739 in federal fines for allegedly failing to notify authorities about its storage and handling of toxic chemicals on its premises, authorities say.
The federal Environmental Protection Agency said it slapped Consolidated Industries with the charges last week for allegedly violating federal clean air and right-to-know laws.
Consolidated failed to file forms with EPA for its inventory of chromium and nickel in 2007 and 2008, the agency said. It also failed to declare that it had toxic hydrofluoric acid stored at its facility at 677 Mixville Road.
Consolidated President John Wilbur said in a voice-mail message Friday that the company and its environmental consultant are reviewing the EPA complaint and that alleged deficiencies have been addressed for quite some time. He declined further comment.
