New York Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo today announced that a preliminary injunction has been issued against a Monticello resident and his company who had turned his Waverly Avenue property into an illegal dump.

Sullivan County State Supreme Court Judge Robert A. Sackett signed a consent order prohibiting David Turick and his company, Waverly Turick, LLC, from dumping illegally and violating other environmental laws. In November 2006, the Office of the Attorney General filed a lawsuit against Mr. Turick and his company after they had failed to properly address citations from the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) regarding their unlawful acts.

Mr. Turick engages in commercial demolition work, auto dismantling, and other waste-generating activities. An inspection after the lawsuit commenced found 30,000 cubic yards of trash, demolition debris, fill, and even hazardous waste, such as televisions, computers, and lead-acid batteries. The waste was piled in a valley behind Mr. Turick