# DELAWARE COUNTY REGIONAL WATER QUALITY CONTROL AUTHORITY
> **Judicial** · FY1989 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `14488`
- **Case Number:** 03-1989-1660
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $350K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- DELAWARE CNTY REGNL WATER CNTL (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

THIS IS A PROPOSED ACTION AGAINST THE DELAWARE COUNTY    REGIONAL WATER CONTROL AUTHORITY ( DELCORA ) UNDER SECTION   309 OF THE CLEAN WATER ACT ( THE ACT ), 333 U.S.C. 1319, TO  COMPEL COMPLIANCE WITH DELCORA'S NPDES PERMIT AT ITS WES-    TERN REGIONAL TREATMENT PLANT ( PLANT ).                         THE NPDES PERMIT VIOLATIONS AT THE PLANT INCLUDE THE     FOLLOWING:                                                     1.  VIOLATION OF NPDES PERMIT EFFLUENT LIMITATIONS FROM          APRIL 1985 TO THE PRESENT.  DELCORA HAS JUST BEEN            LISTED ON THE QUARTERLY NONCOMPLIANCE REPORT AS BE-          ING IN SIGNIFICANT NONCOMPLIANCE FOR ITS DISCHARGES IN       TO THE DELAWARE RIVER.                                   2.  VIOLATIONS OF NPDES SAMPLING AND REPORTING REQUIRE-          MENTS.                                                     THE REMEDY SOUGHT BY THE REGION INCLUDES THE OPERATION   OF THE TREATMENT EQUIPMENT THAT HAS BEEN TURNED OFF AND THE  IMPROVEMENT OF ITS SAMPLING METHODOLOGY IN ORDER TO ACCUR-   ATELY CHARACTERIZE THE PLANT'S INFLUENT AND EFFLUENT.  THE   REGION ALSO SEEKS A SUBSTANTIAL CIVIL PENALTY.

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