# HAMMOND SD-ROBTSDAL
> **Judicial** · FY1980 · — · Dismissed By Tribunal
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `25093`
- **Case Number:** 05-1980-0055
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Dismissed By Tribunal
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- SANITARY DISTRICT OF HAMM-MUNS (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

REGION V HAS REFERRED A PROPOSED CASE AGAINST THE          HAMMOND-MUNSTER SANITARY DISTRICT FOR DISCHARGING STORMWATER CONTAMINATED BY SANITARY WASTE INTO LAKE MICHIGAN WITHOUT A  PERMIT.  THIS DISCHARGE CAUSED POLLUTION OF THE LAKE AND     CREATED A FEDERAL COMMON LAW NUISANCE IN THAT IT FORCED THE  CLOSING OF CHICAGO'S BEACHES ON NUMEROUS OCCASIONS BETWEEN   JULY AND SEPTEMBER 1980.                                       THE HALMMOND-MUNSTER SANITARY DISTRICT IS SUPPOSED TO      MAINTAIN COMPLETELY SEPARATE STORMWATER AND SANITARY WASTE   SEWER SYSTEMS.  THERE ARE, HOWEVER, CONNECTORS BETWEEN THE   TWO SYSTEMS AT VARIOUS POINTS, INCLUDING THE ROBERTSDALE     PUMPING STATION.  THE CONCRETE SEPARATING THE TWO SYSTEMS AT ONE OF THE CONNECTOR POINTS COLLAPSED ALLOWING UNTREATED     SANITARY WASTE TO GO DIRECTLY INTO THE ADDITION, THE         HAMMOND-MUNSTER SANITARY DISTRICT HAS DELIBERATELY PUMPED    SANITARY WASTE TO LAKE MICHIGAN ON VARIOUS OCCASIONS THROUGH A BUTTERFLY VALVE AT THE PUMPING STATION.  THE EVIDENCE      GATHERED IS SO OVERWHELMING THAT REGION V WILL HAVE NO DIF-  FICULTY PROVING ITS CASE.

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