Chicago’s Trump International Hotel and Tower has continued to skirt laws and regulations related to its intake and discharge of water in the Chicago River, the Illinois attorney general’s office alleges.
Attorney General Kwame Raoul filed an amended complaint Thursday to a lawsuit filed in 2018 that alleged the owners of the building operate a cooling water system without the necessary permits, and that it underreports the amount of water it discharges into the river.
Sucking in such large amounts of water each day can be harmful to aquatic life, as fish and other organisms could be caught in the stream and become trapped against intake screens, Raoul’s office said. The building’s previous NPDES permit expired in 2017. It hasn’t been renewed because the owners did not include in its application for a new permit reports outlining intake structure conditions and other information, the lawsuit states.
"Even after the state of Illinois took steps to hold Trump Tower accountable for violations of state and federal environmental laws, violations have continued — underscoring a disregard for the laws and regulations that are in place to protect our waterways and aquatic life," Raoul said in a statement.
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