# COLUMBIA MANUFACTURING COMPANY, INC.
> **Judicial** · FY1990 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `210`
- **Case Number:** 01-1990-0041
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $100K
- **Cost recovery:** $0
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- COLUMBIA MANUFACTURING COMPANY, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- MTD PRODUCTS, INC.
## Summary

COLUMBIA MANUFACTURING COMPANY, INC. (COLUMBIA) MANUFACTURES BICYCLES AND SCHOOL FURNITURE AT ITS WESTFIELD FACILITY.     PURSUANT TO THE CLEAN WATER ACT (CWA), COLUMBIA DISCHARGED   APPROXIMATELY 200,000 GALLONS PER DAY (GPD) OF ITS PROCESS   AND OTHER WASTEWATER THROUGH A NATIONAL POLLUTANT DISCHARGE  ELIMINATION SYSTEM (NPDES) OUTFALL TO THE LITTLE RIVER.      INCLUDED IN THIS TOTAL WAS AT LEAST 39,500 GALLONS PER DAY   OF NON-CONTACT COOLING WATER, GROUNDWATER AND STORMWATER.    THE COMPANY WAS IN CHRONIC VIOLATION OF IT'S PERMIT MONTHLY  AVERAGE LIMITATIONS ON HEXAVALENT CHROMIUM CONCENTRATION,    AND ITS MAXIMUM DAILY LIMITATIONS ON HEXAVALENT CHROMINIUM   AND COPPER CONCENTRATIONS, WITH OCCASIONAL VIOLATIONS OF     PERMIT LIMITATIONS ON ZINC, NICKEL, AND OIL AND GREASE.      COLUMBIA NOW DISCHARGES APPROXIMATELY 360,000 GALLONS PER    DAY OF INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATER TO THE PUBLICLY OWNED TREATMENT WORKS (POTW) OWNED AND OPERATED BY WESTFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS. THE FLOW TO THE POTW IS ESTIMATED BY THE COMPANY SINCE THERE IS NO FLOW MEASURING DEVICE ON THIS DISCHARGE. FEDERAL       CATEGORICAL PRETREATMENT REGULATIONS REQUIRE IT TO SAMPLE    DISCHARGES TO THE POTW SEMI-ANNUALLY. HOWEVER, COLUMBIA      ROUTES THE PROCESS WASTEWATER TO A POINT IN ITS SEWER LINE   WHERE THE PROCESS WASTEWATER IS COMBINED WITH THE SANITARY   WASTE OF THE PLANT.  THUS, THE CONCENTRATION OF POLLUTANTS   IN ITS PROCESS WASTEWATER IS DILUTED BY SANITARY WASTE FLOW  GENERATED BY ITS EMPLOYEES, IN VIOLA

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