# METROPOLITAN DADE COUNTY,ON BEHALF OF ITSELF & WATER & SEWER
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1998 · — · Final Order No Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `22461`
- **Case Number:** 04-1998-0087
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order No Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** $2.00M
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- METROPOLITAN DADE COUNTY (complaint) (settlement)
- MIAMI-DADE WATER AND SEWER DEPARTMENT (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

ORDER REQUIRES METROPOLITAN DADE COUNTY, ON BEHALF OF ITSELF AND THE                                                      MIAMI-DADE WATER AND SEWER DEPT, TO CONDUCT HYDROGEOLOGIC    STUDIES TO DETERMINE THE CAUSE OF ANY MOVEMENT OF FLUID      CONTAINING CONTAMINANTS AT THE COUNTY'S SOUTH DISTRICT WWTP  INTO THE UPPER FLORIDAN AQUIFER, A PORTION OF WHICH IS AN    UNDERGROUND SOURCE OF DRINKING WATER.

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