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State of Utah

SPENCER J. COX
Governor

DEIDRE HENDERSON
Lieutenant Governor
Department of
Environmental Quality

Kimberly D. Shelley
Executive Director

DIVISION OF WATER QUALITY
John K. Mackey, P.E.
Director

February 6, 2025

CERTIFIED MAIL
(Return Receipt Requested)

Holiday Trucking, L.L.C.
Attn: Mr. Aaron Leonard
3115 West 2100 South
West Valley City, Utah, 84119

VIA E-MAIL
(Read Receipt Requested)

Holiday Trucking, L.L.C.
Attn: Mr. Aaron Leonard
[e-mail]

Subject: Warning Letter
Holiday Trucking, L.L.C., Gasoline discharge to Burch Creek
DEQ Environmental Incident Report No. 19218

Dear Mr. Leonard:

This Warning Letter is in response to the unlawful discharge of gasoline to Burch Creek on August
8, 2024, resulting in a fish kill. The discharge was associated with a fuel release at the Gas Stop
South Ogden facility located at 925 Chamber Street in South Ogden, Utah. The Division was
notified of this incident on August 8, 2024 and responded on site. The incident was recorded in
the Department’s Environmental Incidents Database as Incident Report No. 19218

You are hereby officially notified that the unlawful discharge is in violation of the Utah Water
Quality Act in Utah Code § 19-5-107 which states:

…it is unlawful for any person to discharge a pollutant into waters of the state or to
cause pollution which constitutes a menace to public health and welfare, or is harmful to
wildlife, fish or aquatic life, or impairs domestic, agricultural, industrial, recreational, or
other beneficial uses of water, or to place or cause to be placed any wastes in a location
where there is probable cause to believe it will cause pollution.

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Warning Letter
Utah Code § 19-5-115 provides that violations of the Water Quality Act may be subject to a civil
penalty of up to $10,000 per day of violation.

Be advised that future violations of this nature may be subject to formal enforcement action
which may result in monetary penalties and/or other sanctions.

If you have any questions with regards to this Warning Letter, please contact Brendon Quirk at
[phone] or by email at [e-mail].

Sincerely,

Samantha Heusser, Manager
Compliance & Enforcement Section

SH/BQ/is

Cc Via email:
John K. Mackey, Director, Division of Water Quality
Leanna Littler-Woolf, Division of Water Quality
Samantha Heusser, Division of Water Quality
Brendon Quirk, Division of Water Quality
Haley Sousa, Office of Attorney General
Nicole Turner, Weber-Morgan Health Department
Scott Braeden, Weber-Morgan Health Department
Morgan Atkinson, Division of Environmental Response and Remediation

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