# Alto de Las Flores MDWCA (NM0028819)
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2004 · — · Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `118880`
- **Case Number:** 06-2004-2199
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** —
## Defendants
- Alto de Las Flores MDWCA (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

Respondent is a small/poor community in southern New Mexico that is operating a very old wastewater treatment plant without a permit, without a plant operator, and without sampling or reporting its discharges to EPA for 4 years.  The plant discharges into a ditch along side a community field with residential homes along it.  EPA is ordering Respondent to get a permit and, in the interim, comply with their previous permit.

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