JNJ Engineering over 4 years was awarded upwards of $11 million dollars in contracts with Clark County, the city and the water district. Despite not having any kind of license (required by law) for spraying herbicides or pesticides, or any background in wetlands work, JNJ Engineering landed a contract with Clark County much to their detriment, losing $500,000 to shoddy work.
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appears Clark County is preparing to go to court against JNJ.
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Arizona, the company is under investigation by the Department of Labor for using minors on job sites.
One of the most recent contracts awarded to JNJ for restoring habitat at Clark County's Wetlands Park area. JNJ was to remove invasive tamarisk
trees and replace them with native trees and shrubs in what is an ecologically fragile park on the east side of the valley. However, instead of improving habitat, the county says JNJ killed hundreds of expensive trees that were raised just for this project. One estimate of the damage is more than $500,000. Inspectors say they often found JNJ
employees sleeping in the bushes or in their trucks, driving vehicles that leaked oil onto the wetlands, pruning trees down to stumps. The most persistent problem was the
application of an herbicide named Garlon. County inspectors repeatedly warned JHJ to stop spraying Garlon when temperatures exceed 80 degrees. They did it anyway, the county says, again and again. Now hundreds of trees and shrubs have been tagged for removal because they're dead or dying. An arborist hired by the county described the damage as egregious and incalculable.
Inspectors repeatedly complained about
leaking irrigation pipes installed by JNJ. Jessop alleges his pipes were sabotaged by county workers. JNJ even called Metro to report it. The county responded by barring some of
JNJ's employees from the site and discovered some used phony names.