# ROBESONIA-WERNERSVILLE MUNICPAL AUTH.
> **Judicial** · FY1988 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `12248`
- **Case Number:** 03-1988-0265
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $120K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- ROBESONIA-WERNERSVILLE MUNICIPAL AUTH. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

THIS IS AN ACTION BROUGHT PURSUANT TO SECTIONS 309(B),  AND 309(D) OF THE CLEAN WATER ACT (CWA), FOR VIOLATIONS OF   THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THE NPDES PERMIT ISSUED TO THE   ROBESONIA-WERNERSVILLE MUNICIPAL AUTHORITY FOR OPERATION OF  ITS PUBLICLY OWNED TREATMENT WORKS.                               THE FACILITY IS LOCATED IN HEIDELBERG TOWNSHIP, BERKS   COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA. DEFENDANT SERVES AND ACTS THROUGH AND  IN COOPERATION WITH THE BOROUGHS OF ROBESONIA & WERNERSVILLE AND THE TOWNSHIPS OF HEIDELBERG, LOWER HEIDELBERG AND SOUTH  HEIDELBERG. THE DEFENDANT DISCHARGES POLLUTANTS INTO SPRING  CREEK.                                                            DEFENDANT WAS ISSUED AN NPDES PERMIT ON JULY 8, 1980.   THE PERMIT EXPIRED AND HAS BEEN RENEWED. THE ORIGINAL PERMIT ISSUED TO ROBESONIA-WERNERSVILLE, CONTAINED EFFLUENT LIMITS  FOR BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (BOD), AND FOR TOTAL SUSPENDED SOLIDS (SS). THE RENEWED PERMIT CONTAINED THESE EFFLUENT     LIMITATIONS AND ALSO CONTAINED EFFLUENT LIMITATIONS FOR BOD, SS AND NEW LIMITS FOR AMONIA-NITRIGEN AND PHOSPHOROUS.            DEFENDANT HAS BEEN IN CONTINUOUS NONCOMPLIANCE WITH THE EFFLUENT LIMITATIONS SPECIFIED IN ITS NPDES PERMIT FOR BOD,  SS, AMMONIA-NITROGEN, AND PHOSPHOROUS, AS INDICATED BY DATA  CONTAINED IN ITS DMR'S. DEFENDANT HAS COMMITTED 'AT LEAST'   4,551 VIOLATIONS OVER A PERIOD OF 53 MONTHS.                      SECTION 309(D) OF THE CLEAN WATER ACT PROVIDES THAT ANY PERSON WHO VIOLATES ANY CONDITION OR LIMI

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