A Durham developer has agreed to pay fines and fund new land protections after years of muddy runoff polluted streams that feed into Falls Lake, Raleigh’s primary drinking water source.
The settlement, announced Monday by the Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC) and Sound Rivers, ends a lawsuit against Clayton Properties Group, Inc., which conducts business in North Carolina as Mungo Homes. The lawsuit alleged that construction at the Sweetbrier subdivision in southeast Durham caused extreme sediment pollution in nearby creeks.