# MERRICK LANDING AT SUMMERPORT (RYLAND HOMES)
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2004 · — · Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `121681`
- **Case Number:** 04-2004-4767
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** —
## Defendants
- MERRICK LANDING AT SUMMERPORT (settlement)
- RYLAND HOMES (settlement)
## Summary

4/1/04 - COMPLIANCE ORDER ISSUED.  ON JULY 10, 2003, REPRESENTATIVES OF SAIC, A CONTRACTOR FOR EPA, PERFORMED A COMPLIANCE STORM WATER EVALUATION INSPECTION (CSWEI) AT THE FACILITY TO EVALUATE THE TREATMENT AND DISPOSAL OF STORM WATER AT THE FACILITY IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CWA, THE REGULATIONS PROMULAGTED THEREUNDER AT 40 CFR 126.26, THE NPDES PERMIT.

DURING THE CSWEI, SAIC INSPECTORS WERE NOT PROVIDED A COPY OF THE NOI.  REPRESENTATIVES OF RYLAND HOMES STATED IN A FACSIMILE ON AUGUST 12, 2003, TO SAIC THAT THE NOI WAS SUBMITTED ON JANUARY 8, 2002.  A RECORD OF THE SUBMISSION OF A NOI FOR THE FACILITY WAS NOT FOUND IN THE DATABASES MAINTAINED BY EPA AND FDEP.  RYLAND HOMES HAS FAILED TO COMPLY WITH PART II.A OF THE NPDES PERMIT BY FAILING TO SUBMIT AN NOI AT LEAST 2 DAYS BEFORE COMMENCEMENT OF CONSTRUCTION.

DURING THE CSWEI, INSPECTORS MADE THE FOLLOWING OBSERVATIONS:

A.  INLETS/OUTLETS WERE NOT ADEQUATELY PROTECTED, POSSIBLY ALLOWING SEDIMENTS TO BE DISCHARGED INTO THE STORM DRAINS.

B.  CONSTURCTION MATERIALS AND TRASH WERE NOT PROPERLY COLLECTED.

C.  GRASS BUFFERS AROUND THE RETENTION POND WERE NOT SUFFICIENT TO PREVENT SEDIMENT LOSS.

D.  STREETS NEEDED TO BE CLEANED DUE TO RAINFALL.

THEREFORE, RYLAND HOMES HAS VIOLATED SECTION 301 AND 402(p) OF THE CWA, BY FAILING TO PROPERLY COMPLY WITH THE NPDES PERMIT.

ORDER REQUIRES:

A.  WITHIN 7 DAYS, RYLAND HOMES SHALL SUBMIT AN INDIVIDUAL PERMIT APPLICATION OR A NOI FOR COVERAGE OF THE FACILIY UNDER THE FD

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