On Februin Wassaic, NY she married Maryanne Pitts who survives at home.Ĭindy was the founder of the Harlem Valley Arts and Bonnie Boxes, a volunteer project that made boxes of love for cancer warriors. Cindy was a self-employed photographer locally.īorn on Januin Presque Isle, Maine, she was the daughter of the late Herman and Vera (Craig) Kilcollins. Michael McKinney is a breaking news reporter for The Journal News, Poughkeepsie Journal and Times Herald-Record of Middletown.Cindy Dale Snow-Pitts, 69, a longtime resident of the area passed away peacefully on Thursday, Jat her home in Wassaic. The suit said the Wallkill River flows northeast from the Bart Bull Road site to Rondout Creek, a tributary of the Hudson River. The complaint, filed in White Plains federal court, asks the court to award injunctive relief and civil penalties for the alleged violations. Some wetlands that were allegedly filled were on Stony Ford Road property owned by Edward and Frances Pushkal, parents of Thomas Pushkal, and the suit claims they allegedly “agreed to allow fill to be discharged into the wetlands on their property or knew or should have known of, but failed to exercise their authority to prevent, the discharges.” The suit claims Frances Pushkal sought and received a building permit from Wallkill to conduct clearing, filling, and grading work at 230 Stony Ford Road.ĮPA investigators examined the additional site in 2019 and found 1.5 acres of wetlands in which fill material had been deposited, which included 1.3 acres on the Stony Ford Road property. The work caused fill to be discharged into 1.5 wetland acres at the expansion site, the suit alleges. Pushkal, Vanover, and Maplewood Warmbloods, through their lawyer at the time, entered into discussions with EPA about the alleged violations.Īt the end of that month, the suit claims the the EPA learned of potential development activity at an additional property and that December told Thomas Pushkal by phone that he would need a federal permit if filling protected wetlands on any additional properties.īut from December 2018 to April 2019, the suit claims the defendants used dump trucks and other machinery for earth moving, grading and filling to build private access roads, comprised of crushed construction and demolition material, though the additional property, without a permit. In November 2018, Thomas Pushkal, Vanover, and Maplewood Warmbloods received EPA’s inspection report summarizing its inspection conclusion, including that defendants had illegally filled about two acres of wetlands without a permit. In September 2018, EPA inspectors examined the Bart Bull Road site and focused largely on the eastern side of it where fill material had allegedly been deposited. The suit claims the discharges occurred while operating and expanding the breeding, boarding and training facility, which is located on a portion of 460 Bart Bull Road.įrom June 2015 to March 2016, they allegedly directed or permitted construction and demolition material to be trucked in and deposited at the Bart Bull Road Site and directed or permitted use of heavy machinery to spread the fill material to level and raise the property’s grade. Garcia, Environmental Protection Agency regional administrator, names as defendants Thomas Pushkal, Jennifer Vanover, Edward Pushkal, Frances Pushkal, and Maplewood Warmbloods, a limited liability company.įrom 2015 to 2019, the suit alleges Thomas Pushkal, Jennifer Vanover and their business Maplewood Warmbloods discharged fill material without a federal permit into a total of about 3.5 wetland acres that are protected by the federal Clean Water Act. Attorney for New York’s southern district, and Lisa F. The suit, announced in a statement by Damian Williams, U.S. A federal lawsuit claims the owners of a town of Wallkill horse boarding and training facility discharged fill material without a permit into wetlands near the Wallkill River, material that included rock, brick, electrical wiring, ceramic, asphalt, rebar, PVC piping, metal, and glass.
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