# CAMBRIDGE, CITY OF
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2001 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `19695`
- **Case Number:** 03-2001-0343
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- CAMBRIDGE, CITY OF (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

THE CITY OF CAMBRIDGE (CAMBRIDGE) OWNS AND OPERATES A        PUBLICLY OWNED TREATMENT WORKS LOCATED ON ROSLYN AVENUE IN   CAMBRIDGE, MARYLAND, WHICH DISCHARGES POLLUTANTS TO THE      CHOPTANK RIVER AND ITS TRIBUTARIES UNDER AN NPDES PERMIT.    CAMBRIDGE IS ALLEGEED TO HAVE FAILED TO COMPLY WITH THE      TERMS OF ITS NPDES PERMITS, THE CLEAN WATER ACT, AND ITS     IMPLEMENTING REGULATIONS (1) BY FAILING TO ENSURE ITS        INDUSTRIAL USERS COLDWATER SEAFOOD CORPORATION, CHUN KING/   NABISCO CORPORATION, AND INTERSTATE CORRPACK COMPLIED WITH   APPLICABLE PRETREATMENT STANDARDS AND REQUIREMENTS, (2) BY   FAILING TO SAMPLE THE EFFLUENT FROM EACH SIGNIFICANT         INDUSTRIAL USER AT LEAST ONCE A YEAR, AND (3) BY FAILING TO  PROVIDE PUBLIC NOTIFICATION, IN THE LARGEST NEWSPAPER        PUBLISHED IN THE CITY OF CAMBRIDGE, OF IU'S WHICH WERE IN    SIGNIFICANT NONCOMPLIANCE (SNC).                             EPA REGION III PROPOSES TO ASSESS A CLASS II ADMINISTRATIVE  CIVIL PENALTY OF ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-SEVEN THOUSAND FIVE  HUNDRED DOLLARS ($137,500) AGAINST CAMBRIDGE PURSUANT TO     SECTION 309(G) OF THE ACT, 33 U.S.C. SECTION 1319(G)

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