# ADCOM METALS CO INC
> **Judicial** · FY1980 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `20137`
- **Case Number:** 04-1980-0041
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $15K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- ADCOM METALS CO INC (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

NATURE OF THE CASE:                                            ADCOM METALS CO, INC IS IN THE BUSINESS OF DRAWING,      PICKLING & GALVANIZING STEEL WIRE FOR VARIOUS USES. IN       ITS OPERATION ADCOOM UTILIZES A BATCH PICKLING SYSTEM        PRIOR TO DRAWING THE WIRE AS FINISHED PRODUCTS.                  EPA ISSUED AN NPDES PERMIT FL0030121 TO ADCOM'S PRE-     DECESSOR IN INTEREST, CONTAINER WIRE PRODUCTS CO, INC.       THIS PERMIT BECAME EFFECTIVE ON 12/13/76. IT HAS NOT BEEN    MODIFIED, NOR HAS IT BEEN CONTESTED THROUGH AN ADJUDICA-     TORY OR EVIDENTIARY HEARING. THE BPT EFFLUENT LIMITS CON-    TAINED IN THE PERMIT WERE ESTABLISHED UNDER 40 CFR SUB-      PART Q (PICKLING - SULFURIC ACID BATCH & CONTINUOUS SUB-     CATEGORY). IN PARTICULAR 40 CFR 420.172(A) STATES: BATCH     PICKLING OPERATIONS; SPENT PICKLE LIQUOR & RINSES: THERE     SHALL BE NO DISCHARGE OF PROCESS WASTEWATER POLLUTANTS TO    NAVIGABLE WATERS.                                                THE FOREGOING STATEMENT WAS INCLUDED IN ADCOM'S          NPDES PERMIT FOR EACH OUTFALL. THE PERMIT ALSO CONTAINED     AN ADDITIONAL PROVISION THAT  THERE SHALL BE NO DISCHARGE    OF PROCESS WASTEWATER POLLUTANTS FROM BATCH PICKLING         OPERATIONS FROM ANY OUTFALL FROM THIS FACILITY.                CAUSE OF ACTION:                                                THE PROPOSED CIVIL ACTION INVOLVES SIGNIFICANT          VIOL'S OF THE AFOREMENTIONED NPDES PERMIT. ADOOM HAS         VIOL'D ITS NPDES PERMIT FOR EACH MONTH

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