# PLYMOUTH WATER & SEWER DISTRICT, PLYMOUTH, NEW HAMPSHIRE
> **Judicial** · FY1988 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `152`
- **Case Number:** 01-1988-0014
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $10K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- PLYMOUTH WATER & SEWER DISTRICT (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

THE PLYMOUTH WATER AND SEWAGE DISTRICT IN PLYMOUTH, NEW    HAMPSHIRE, HAS BEEN ISSUED THREE NATIONAL POLLUTANT DIS-     CHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM PERMITS BY EPA. THE FIRST PERMIT   WAS ISSUED ON 10/19/74, AND THE SECOND ON 05/31/77.          PLYMOUTH'S CURRENT PERMIT WAS ISSUED ON 09/17/84 AND WILL    EXPIRE ON 09/17/89.  THE LATTER TWO PERMITS REQUIRED         PLYMOUTH TO ACHIEVE SECONDARY TREATMENT BY 07/01/77.         PLYMOUTH'S PRESENT WASTEWATER SYSTEM CONSISTS OF A PRIMARY   TREATMENT PLANT. AS A RESULT, THIS COMMUNITY HAS CONTINUOUS- LY VIOLATED EFFLUENT LIMITATIONS SINCE 07/01/77.  THEREFORE, THIS CASE IS BEING ADDRESSED AS PART OF EPA'S NATIONAL       MUNICIAL POLICY EFFORT.                                        IN SEPTEMBER 1986, EPA ISSUED AN ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER TO   PLYMOUTH.  THE ORDER WAS BASED UPON PLYMOUTH'S INABILITY TO  MEET THE EFFLUENT LIMITATIONS IN ITS PERMIT.  THE ORDER CON- TAINED INTERIM EFFLUENT LIMITATIONS AND A CONSTRUCTION       SCHEDULE REQUIRING COMPLETION OF CONSTRUCTION AND PERMIT     COMPLIANCE BY 07/01/88.  BECAUSE OF PROBLEMS ENCOUNTERED IN  FINANCING THE TREATMENT PLANT ( THE IMPROVEMENTS WERE TO BE  FINANCED PRIVATELY), PLYMOUTH FAILED TO MEET THE MILESTONE   DATES IN THE ORDER.  ON 03/24/88, A MEETING WAS HELD WITH    REPRESENTATIVES OF THE TOWN. AT THAT TIME, EPA WAS TOLD THAT FINANCING FOR THE PLANT HAD RECENTLY BEEN APPROVED BY THE    STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE UNDER SPECIAL LEGISLATION AND THAT    PLYMOUTH WAS READY TO MOVE FORWARD TO 

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