Owners of “Unregulated” Site on Allens Ave Expand - Buy 9.8 Acre Adjacent Property

Owners of “Unregulated” Site on Allens Ave Expand - Buy 9.8 Acre Adjacent Property

The owners of Rhode Island Recycled Metals (RIRM), which has been entangled in environmental controversies for more than a decade, have purchased the adjacent parcel of land.

RIRM and the newly acquired parcel are tied to a web of corporations that lead to the Sevinor family.

The newly acquired adjacent property is known as the “Cumberland Farms” land and totals 9.8 acres, according to city records and marketing materials.

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UPS Store in a Strip Mall in Swampscott, MA

According to Rhode Island Corporation records, the manager of the company buying the property is Jared Sevinor. The corporation’s address is 450B Paradise Road, Box #162 at a UPS Store in Swampscott, Massachusetts — the same mailbox that RIRM is registered to. The companies are controlled by Ralph Sevinor and his son Jared.        

According to city land records, the land was purchased for $2.7 million and, combined with RIRM, totals upwards of 20 acres.                

GoLocal repeatedly tried to reach Ralph Sevinor without success.            

The existing RIRM operation located on the Providence waterfront looks like an environmental disaster — the property is described as de facto “unregulated” by the Director of the Department of Environmental Management, Terry Gray, in an interview with GoLocal last week.

 

 

 

Violations of the Clean Water Act and Oil Pollution Have Been Pending for 8 Years

RIRM was cited in 2015, when DEM and then-Attorney General Peter Kilmartin hit the company with a series of enforcement actions.

A complaint had been filed against Rhode Island Recycled Metals, LLC, and AARE, LLC, located on Allens Avenue in Providence, along with the property owner, and the onsite manager for RI Recycled Metals, Edward Sciaba, Sr. The complaint concerned violations of Rhode Island’s Oil Pollution Control Act and Water Pollution Act, and DEM's Water Quality Regulations, RI Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Regulations, and Oil Pollution Control Regulations.

"These corporations failed to obtain the permits that were required to begin operations, ignored the law, and then did not comply with the agreement they reached with DEM to resolve their environmental violations," said then-DEM Director Janet Coit. "By failing to invest in the equipment and other measures necessary to prevent pollution, their actions harmed the environment.  As government officials work together to stimulate the economy, it's so important that we ensure compliance with our laws to provide an even playing field." 

The travels of the intertwined legal cases and alleged environmental crimes were outlined in an investigative report published by GoLocal -- it can be read HERE.