An Albany, NY based construction company will pay a $50,000 fine for unlawfully dumping construction and demolition debris at its plant in Kingston.

The penalty against Callanan Industries Inc. was announced Wednesday by the state Department of Environmental Conservation. A total of $10,000 will be paid to the state, while the remaining $40,000 will go toward an enviro-friendly parking lot at Forsyth Park in Kingston.

State regulators began seeking fines against Callanan in 2006 after barges delivered tons of construction and demolition debris up from Brooklyn and Long Island. They dumped the crushed building materials along the Hudson River in an area of the city known as East Kingston.

A December 2006 site inspection found that roughly 30,000 cubic feet of debris had been dumped. Callanan, a supplier of road-paving materials and concrete products, was not permitted as a disposal site.

"You can't just take a pile like this and put it somewhere," DEC regional attorney John Parker said.

Callanan is expected to remove the debris by summer. DEC officials said the company could use the crushed brick, glass and other materials as foundation aggregate for new roads and parking lots because the debris was not tainted by pollution.

"That's a good result because we don't have to use landfill space," DEC Regional Director Willie Janeway said.

Callanan executives stood alongside environmental regulators as the citation was announced. Callanan Senior Vice President Charles A. Stokes said the company is hoping to pay its fines and get on with business.