# REEDY CREEK IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT
> **Judicial** · FY1989 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `20469`
- **Case Number:** 04-1989-0073
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $375K
- **Cost recovery:** $0
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- REEDY CREEK IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

U.S. VS REEDY CREEK IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT AND THE STATE OF  FLORIDA.  DEFENDANT REEDY CREEK OWNS A WASTEWATER TREATMENT  FACILITY WHICH SERVES THE WALT DISNEY WORLD COMPLEX IN LAKE  BUENA VISTA, FLORIDA.  THE FACILITY HAS BEEN DISCHARGING     TREATED EFFLUENT IN EXCESS OF THE LIMITS OF ITS NATIONAL     POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM (NPDES) PERMIT SINCE  NOVEMBER 1985.  SUCH DISCHARGES ARE A VIOLATION OF THE CWA,  SECTION 402, AND EPA IS SEEKING A CIVIL PENALTY FOR PAST     ECONOMIC BENEFIT AND INJUNCTIVE RELIEF TO COMPLETE MODIFICA- TIONS TO THE FACILITY, PURSUANT TO SECTION 309 OF THE ACT.   UNDER SECTION 309(E), THE STATE IS JOINED AS A DEFENDANT.      EPA HAD ISSUED TWO ADMINISTRATIVE ORDERS TO REEDY CREEK,   ON MAY 28, 1986 AND AUGUST 31, 1987, TO MEET INTERIM         EFFLUENT LIMITS AND TO COMPLETE CONSTRUCTION.  REEDY CREEK   FAILED TO MEET THE DEADLINES IN THE ADMINISTRATIVE ORDERS,   AND REGION IV HELD ONE SHOW CAUSE MEETING SEPETEMBER 22,     1988.  THERE ARE NO SIGNIFICANT ASPECTS TO THIS CASE OTHER   THAN THE FACT THAT REEDY CREEK IS A SPECIAL DISTRICT THAT    REPRESENTS DISNEY WORLD.

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