DOTHAN OWNS AND OPERATES 4 MAJOR WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS (WWTPs) UNDER 4 SEPARATE NPDES PERMITS. THE WWTPs ARE NAMES BEAVER CREEK, OMUSSEE CREEK, CYPRESS CREEK AND LITTLE CHOCTAWATCHEE. DOTHAN, AL, WAS TARGETED AS PART OF THE NATIONAL MEDIUM MUNICIPALITY INITIATIVE. THE VIOLATIONS IN THIS CASE ARE SSOs AND EFFLUENT VIOLATIONS.
Settlement with Dothan, Ala., Resolves City?s Clean Water Act Violations
Contact Information: Dawn Harris Young, (404) 562-8421 (Direct), (404) 562-8400 (Main), harris-young.dawn@epa.gov
ATLANTA ? The City of Dothan will pay a $264,000 civil penalty to resolve violations of the Clean Water Act (CWA) under a settlement reached today with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), the State of Alabama and the Alabama Department of Environmental Management (ADEM). The violations included unauthorized overflows of untreated raw sewage and other permit violations. To come into compliance with the CWA, Dothan previously agreed to undertake improvements to its wastewater treatment and collection system as part of a separate EPA administrative enforcement action.
?Bringing systems like Dothan?s into compliance is one of EPA's top enforcement priorities,? said EPA Regional Administrator Heather McTeer Toney. ?This settlement sends a strong message to other municipalities across the Southeast to correct sewer overflows and protect residents from exposure to raw sewage and other contamination.?
The settlement r