# EAST KENTUCKY BEVERAGE CO.
> **Judicial** · FY1983 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `20185`
- **Case Number:** 04-1983-0018
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $100K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- EAST KENTUCKY BEVERAGE COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

SYNOPSIS OF THE CASE                                            EAST KENTUCKY BEVERAGE CO., INC., OPERATES A SOFT       DRINK BOTTLING PLANT IN COAL RUN VILLAGE, KENTUCKY.  COAL    RUN VILLAGE IS IN EASTERN KENTUCKY NEAR THE CITY OF PIKE-    VILLE.  AN NPDES PERMIT NUMBER KY0041068 WAS ISSUED TO THE   COMPANY EFFECTIVE JANUARY 27, 1977, WITH AN EXPIRATION DATE  OF JANUARY 27, 1982.  THE PERMIT CONTAINED INTERIM EFFLUENT  LIMITATIONS UNTIL JULY 1, 1977, AT WHICH TIME THE COMPANY,   ALONG WITH ALL OTHER INDUSTRIES, WAS REQUIRED TO BE IN COM-  PLIANCE WITH FINAL EFFLUENT LIMITS.  THE COMPANY HAS ONE     DISCHARGE POINT CONSISTING OF SANITARY, PROCESS, AND NON-    CONTACT COOLING WATER WHICH DISCHARGES INTO LEVISA FORK OF   THE BIG SANDY RIVER.                                              SINCE THE PERMIT WAS ISSUED AND BECAME EFFECTIVE IN     JANUARY 1977, THE COMPANY HAS BEEN IN CONTINUING VIOLATION   OF THE PERMIT.  THE PERMIT HAD LIMITS ESTABLISHED FOR BOD,   TOTAL SUSPENDED SOLIDS (TSS), FECAL COLIFORM AND PH.  IN     ADDITION, IT REQUIRED THE COMPANY TO MONITOR AND REPORT      FLOW.  AT NO TIME IN THE PAST SIX YEARS HAS THE COMPANY RE-  PORTED EITHER FECAL COLIFORM OR FLOW TO THE AGENCY.  THE     COMPANY HAS FEW MONTHS WHERE IT COMPLIED WITH THE BOD LIMITS  OR THE TSS LIMITS.  THE CONTINUING NATURE AND SEVERITY OF   THE VIOLATIONS IS SHOWN IN THE  TABLE OF VIOLATIONS  FOUND   AT PAGE 17.                                                       THE REGION HAD NOT FOCUSED ON THI

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