A Saugus construction company has been told to stop work on a site in its hometown.

The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP) last week issued a cease-and-desist order to American Residential Construction LLC for “numerous” wetlands and water quality certification violations at a construction site on Berthold Street in Saugus. In addition, MassDEP issued a $6,000 demand letter for a previously suspended penalty due to the company’s “repeated failure to submit monitoring reports” as required under a previous consent order it signed with MassDEP on Oct. 31, 2016.

“MassDEP inspected this site in February 2018 and attempted to work with the company and its representatives to resolve the issues, but ARC did not respond,” Eric Worrall, director of MassDEP’s Northeast regional office in Wilmington, said in a statement. “Instead, the company started work at the site again early in 2019 for which it had no approval, making today’s actions by MassDEP a necessity.”

ARC also failed to comply with the approved project and wetland replication and restoration plans; failed to maintain site stabilization; worked in a jurisdiction after the expiration of the valid order of conditions; failed to record a water quality certification deed restriction as required or even file the water quality certification application; and repeatedly failed to submit required monitoring reports, MassDEP said.

MassDEP’s cease-and-desist order requires all activity within jurisdiction to stop immediately with the exception of immediate stabilization. It also requires the company to submit monitoring reports, with no project work to take place in jurisdiction until the filing of required notice of intent to the Saugus Conservation Commission and MassDEP for approval. The company must also record the deed restriction or file the water quality certification application and receipt of approval.