https://www.siliconvalley.com/2019/08/05/silicon-valley-vc-hit-with-3-7-million-penalty-for-filling-in-wetlands-and-burying-stream-at-vineyard/

A prominent Silicon Valley venture capitalist has agreed to pay $3.7 million after wetlands and a stream were buried during development at one of his vineyards, in Mendocino County, according to state water officials. Almost half of the penalty is to be suspended if an agreed-upon environmental project is completed.

Kevin Harvey’s Rhys Vineyards — which also grows grapes in the Santa Cruz Mountains — committed multiple violations of the federal Clean Water Act, the California Water Boards said in a news release, after a four-year investigation.