# MIDDLESBORO, CITY OF (MIDDLESBORO TANNING CO.)
> **Judicial** · FY1986 · — · Combined With Another Case(s)
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `20258`
- **Case Number:** 04-1986-0056
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Combined With Another Case(s)
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- MIDDLESBORO, MIDDLESBORO TANNING CITY OF (complaint)
## Summary

NATURE OF THE CASE  ON MAY 7-9, 1986, A TRO HEARING WAS    HELD IN THE U.S. DISTRICT COURT OF KENTUCKY, LONDON DIVISION ON A TRO MOTION FILED BY THE U.S. THAT MOTION SOUGHT A COURT ORDER TO RESTRAIN THE MIDDLESBORO TANNING CO. FROM DISPOSING OF PROCESSED TANNERY LAGOON SLUDGE IN THE 10-YEAR FLOOD      PLAIN OF A ?SECOND-TIER? TRIBUTARY OF YELLOW CREEK. SUCH     DISPOSAL WAS PROHIBITED BY THE CONSENT DECREE SETTLING THIS  CASE, WHICH DECREE WAS ENTERED BY THE COURT ON 01/24/86. THE COURT DENIED THE MOTION.

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