Fabcon Incorporated, a concrete panel manufacturer in Savage, has agreed to pay the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency a $32,623 civil penalty for allegedly allowing sediment-laden water to pollute a wetland in the Minnesota River Valley.

In addition to the civil penalty, the company agreed to donate $20,000 to the Scott County chapter of Pheasants Forever for wetland restoration. It also agreed to install new water conservation equipment at its facility at an estimated cost of $300,000.

During inspections in 2005, MPCA staff discovered that a water recycling system installed by the company in 1994 occasionally discharged water used in manufacturing through an overflow pipe onto the facility grounds near an unprotected storm water drain. Some of the storm water discharged to wetlands in the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge.