# FLORIDA TILE INDUSTRIES, INC
> **Judicial** · FY1991 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `20733`
- **Case Number:** 04-1991-0060
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $493K
- **Cost recovery:** $0
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- FLORIDA TILE INDUSTRIES, INC (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

FLORIDA TILE IS THE THIRD LARGEST MANUFACTURER OF CERAMIC    TILE IN THE UNITED STATES AND OWNS AND OPERATES THREE FACILI TIES INCLUDING A FACILITY LOCATED IN LAKELAND, FLORIDA       ( FACILITY ), WHICH IS THE SUBJECT OF THIS REFERRAL. IN 1985 EPA ISSUED NPDES PERMIT NO. FL0029637 TO FLORIDA TILE WHICH  BECAME EFFECTIVE FEBRUARY 3, 1986. THE PERMIT AUTHORIZED     FLORIDA TILE TO DISCHARGE TOTAL COPPER, TOTAL LEAD, TOTAL    ZINC, TOTAL RESIDUAL CHLORINE, AND ACUTE WHOLE EFFLUENT TOX- ICITY WITHIN SPECIFIED EFFLUENT LIMITS FROM ONE POINT SOURCE A STORM WATER RETENTION POND, INTO LAKE WIRE, A NAVIGABLE    WATER OF THE UNITED STATES. FLORIDA TILE HAS CONSISTENTLY    DISCHARGED LEAD AND ZINC INTO LAKE WIRE SIGNIFICANTLY EX-    CEEDING THE EFFLUENT LIMITATIONS IN THE PERMIT, IN VIOLATION OF THE CLEAN WATER ACT, SECTION 301(A), 33 U.S.C. 1311(A).   IN ADDITION, FLORIDA TILE HAS INTERMITTENTLY DISCHARGED      COPPER, TOTAL RESIDUAL CHLORINE AND ACUTE WHOLE EFFLUENT     TOXICITY IN EXCESS OF THE PERMIT LIMITS IN VIOLATION OF THE  CLEAN WATER ACT, SECTION 301(A), 33 U.S.C. 1311(A).

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