# CITY OF LEWES DELAWARE ON BEHALF OF BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS OF LEWEST OF DELAWARE
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2005 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `142222`
- **Case Number:** 03-2005-0109
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** —
## Defendants
- BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS LEWES DELAWARE (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

EPA AND CITY OF LEWES, DELAWARE POTW SETTLE ENFORCEMENT CASE FOR PENALTIES AND SUPPLEMENTAL ENVIRONMENTAL PROJECT
On August 10, 2005, the City of Lewes, Delaware, on behalf of the City���s Board of Public Works, settled chronic Clean Water Act violations at the City���s wastewater treatment plant.  The City has agreed to pay a $33,000 penalty and complete a $22,000 project to monitor the level of dissolved oxygen in Lewes-Rehoboth Canal, downstream from the plant.  This monitoring, which constitutes a Supplemental Environmental Project, will improve the water quality data available to the City of Lewes, the State of Delaware, EPA and interested citizens.  
Primary Contact: Lori Kier (215) 814-2656; Additional Contact: Lisa Brannigan Trakis (215) 814-5433

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