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OLYMPIA After state regulators cited and decertified Partners Construction for exposing its workers to asbestos at a Seattle apartment project, a family member from the company started a new business to take its place on the same project.

That business, Asbestos Construction Management, shared workers and equipment used by Partners Construction.

Together, the businesses are being fined about $380,000, according to the state Department of Labor & Industries (L&I).

The violations occurred during the demolition of an apartment building in the Fremont neighborhood where the companies were supposed to remove asbestos before the building was torn down. A three-story building with five units, it featured popcorn ceilings and vinyl floors that both contained asbestos.

An L&I investigation between February and May revealed nearly 19 willful and serious safety and health violations between work done by the two companies. Workers were exposed to asbestos, and hazardous debris was left on site, according to a statement Friday from L&I.

Donald Murray, listed in state documents as the owner of Asbestos Construction Management, did not return a call or email seeking comment.

Asbestos, a mineral fiber found in soil and rocks, has been used in buildings and automobiles, among other things, and today is used in small amounts in a few products. It can cause mesothelioma and lung cancer, and even has its own potentially fatal disease named after it: asbestosis.

The state fined Partners Construction, which was based in Federal Way, for $291,950 for 14 violations. Asbestos Construction Management, of Bonney Lake, was fined $87,150 for five violations.

Before Partners Construction was decertified to handle asbestos and went out of business, it provided the apartment buildings owner in March with a letter stating that all asbestos had been removed.

But when L&I inspectors responded to a worker complaint, they found the site grossly contaminated, with about 5,400 square feet of popcorn ceiling and some vinyl flooring remaining in the building.

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Work has stopped on a luxury apartment building at the former Lanes Bakery on South Park Street after DNR inspectors found oil-contaminated water being pumped from the site into the storm sewer without a permit.

JD McCormick Developmentis working on a five-story, 40-unit apartment building with commercial space on the bottom floor. The $5 million project at 444 S. Park St., directly across Drake Street from the new Ideal Apartments, includes underground parking.

The problem was discovered on Oct. 14 after a Department of Natural Resources staffer noticed cloudy water and sediment flowing into Monona Bay just a block from the construction site, according to DNR groundwater supervisor Linda Hanefeld.

An investigator then went to the site and saw water being pumped from an excavation hole into the storm sewer. Construction crews were not on the site at the time and the pumps were operating off a diesel-powered electric generator.

The inspector also detected a petroleum smell. A review of records then found no permit to discharge water into the storm sewer.

Hanefeld said the DNR was unable to connect with the owners and eventually had Madison police come to the site to shut off the generator and stop the pumping.

It appears the pumps were set up to operate as long as the generator would keep working, she says.

The DNR also took samples from six different locations where the water was pumped and found one sample nearest the corner of Park and Drake street with some level of petroleum-related contamination, Hanefeld said.

Hanefeld says its unclear if the water was contaminated would require special treatment. In either case, a permit is needed whether the water is sent to the storm sewer or the sanitary sewer, where it is then treated by the Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District before being discharged into Nine Springs Creek.

Developer Joe McCormick did not return a phone call seeking more information or the status of the project.

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Green Hills Retirement Community in Ames is preparing for another expansion.

Adding 32 apartments to its more than 130 units for independent living, the community is heading into another stage of its master plan.

Currently a green space, some of the land on the north part of its property and connected to its current facilities will be home to a four-story building.

Rod Copple, Green Hills executive director, said the apartments will feature 9-foot-high ceilings, in-home washer and dryer and covered balconies. All features are new to Green Hills units, and were added due to increasing demand for them.

People are starting to see that these are a part of the transition to senior living, said Copple, who has been at Green Hills for nearly 14 years.

Sales for the upcoming apartments recently started.

When completed in late spring 2016, Green Hills will be home to 166 units for independent living, 16 assisted living units and 56 skilled nursing and memory care units.

The project, which also includes adding some more common space and a new entrance to the retirement community, will cost about $13 million.

Parking for the new units will be underground.

Green Hills Retirement Community, located south of U.S. Highway 30 and just west of the Gateway Hotel, opened in 1986.

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The world keeps shrinking for smokers.

As of New Years Day, it will be illegal to smoke on any bar or restaurant patio in Ontario, the province announced Friday.

Smoking is not only banned on public playgrounds and sports fields, it will be illegal to smoke within 20metres of them.

Sales of tobacco also will be prohibited anywhere on a college or university campus.

The new rules come as no surprise. London North Centre MPP Deb Matthews announced the new restrictions were coming a year ago when she was health minister.

The new provincial rules are tougher than the ban on smoking imposed by city council last year, which specified a nine-metre no-smoking zone around parks and recreational facilities. But council took no action on a recommendation from the Middlesex-London Health Unit to ban smoking on open patios, with some councillors arguing it would drive some bars and restaurants out of business.

Health unit manager Linda Stobo said the number of bars and restaurants affected will be limited because many have covered patios already subject to the smoking ban and about 20 establishments have voluntarily moved to end smoking on their patios.

One of them is Rich Hunter, owner of the King Edward Pub in Ilderton.

He banned smoking on his rear patio two years ago.

It was a business decision. It is what the majority of our customers wanted, he said.

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