# INDEPENDENT PLATING COMPANY, INC. ET AL.
> **Judicial** · FY1985 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `104`
- **Case Number:** 01-1985-0019
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $75K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- INDEPENDENT PLATING COMPANY, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- WORCESTER MANUFACTURING, INC.
## Summary

THIS CASE INVOLVES VIOLATIONS OF THE PRETRMT REQUIRE-   MENTS OF THE CWA BY INDEPENDENT PLATING CO, INC, AN ELECTRO- PLATER IN WORCESTER, MA.                                          INDEPENDENT DISCHARGES APPROX 40,000 TO 100,000 GPD OF  INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATER INTO THE UPPER BLACKSTONE WATER POLLU- TION ABATEMENT DISTRICT (UBWPAD) POTW AT MILLBURY, MA.  THE  HIGH CONCENTRATIONS OF TOT CN, TOT CR, TOT NI, TOT ZN, & TOT METALS VIOLATE THE ELECTROPLATING NATIONAL CATEGORICAL STDS  AT 40 CFR PART 413.  INDEPENDENT ALSO FAILED TO COMPLY W/THE MONITORING & REPORTING REQUIREMENTS OF THE GENERAL PRETRMT   REGS AT 40 CFR SECT 403.12.                                       THE DEF OPERATES AN ELECTROPLATING FACILITY IN WHICH A  LARGE PORTION OF THE PRODUCTS PLATED ARE PARTS FOR METAL     FURNITURE MFG.  THE COMPANY USES 5 PLATING LINES WHOSE RINS- ES & OVERFLOWS ARE COLLECTED & DISCHARGED THRU 2 OUTFALLS TO THE SANITARY SEWER SYSTEM WHERE, AFTER TRMT, THE EFFLUENT    FLOWS INTO THE BLACKSTONE RIVER.  INDEPENDENT DOES NOT       PRETREAT ANY OF ITS WASTEWATERS PRIOR TO DISCHARGE TO THE    SEWER.  AVAILABLE DATA SHOW CONSISTENT VIOLATIONS OF APPLI-  CABLE LIMITS.                                                     THE UBWPAD DOES NOT YET HAVE AN APPROVED PRETRMT PGM;   THEREFORE EPA IS THE LEAD ENFORCEMENT AUTHORITY TO BRING     SUIT.                                                        VIOLATIONS:                                                       INDEPENDENT IS AN EXISTING, 'NON-INT

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