# BOLTON, TOWN OF
> **Judicial** · FY1987 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `20303`
- **Case Number:** 04-1987-0041
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $6K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- MISSISSIPPI, TOWN OF BOLTON (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

THE TOWN OF BOLTON IS A SMALL COMMUNITY IN THE SOUTH       CENTRAL PART OF MISSISSIPPI.  THE TOWN OPERATES A WATER      SYSTEM WHICH SUPPLIES PIPED WATER FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION.     THE SYSTEM IS SUPPLIED BY A GROUNDWATER SOURCE.  IT INCLUDES APPROXIMATELY THREE HUNDRED-THIRTY (330) SERVICE CONNECTIONS AND SERVES APPROXIMATELY ONE THOUSAND FIFTY-SIX (1056)       INDIVIDUALS.                                                   THE TOWN HAS VIOLATED VARIOUS PROVISIONS OF THE            MISSISSIPPI SAFE DRINKING WATER ACT AND THE FEDERAL SAFE     DRINKING WATER ACT SINCE APRIL OF 1978.  BETWEEN 1978 AND    1982, THE SYSTEM VIOLATED MONITORING AND COLIFORM DENSITY    REQUIREMENTS IN THE STATE STATUTE.  IN 1982, THE             MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH HELD A HEARING TO DETER-    MINE WHETHER CIVIL PENALTIES OR INJUNCTIVE RELIEF SHOULD BE  SOUGHT UNDER STATE LAW, RELATIVE TO THE SYSTEM'S VIOLATIONS  TO THAT POINT.

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