# CLOW WATER SYSTEMS
> **Judicial** · FY1985 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `25708`
- **Case Number:** 05-1985-0444
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $725K
- **Cost recovery:** $0
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- CLOW CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

IMPACT:  ON SEPTEMBER 18, 1985, A CONSENT AGREEMENT AND      FINAL ORDER (CAFO) WAS ISSUED IN THE CLOW CORPORATION CASE   WHEREBY THE COMPANY AGREED TO RECTIFY THE VIOLATIONS WHICH   HAD BEEN FOUND IN THE COMPLAINT AND TO PAY A CIVIL PENALTY   IN THE AMOUNT OF $85,000.                                    <<< PENALTY OF $85,000 WAS COLLECTED ON 10/23/85. >>>        BACKGROUND:  ON DECEMBER 16, 1983, CLOW CORPORATION WAS      SERVED WITH A COPY OF A COMPLAINT ALLEGING VIOLATIONS OF THE RCRA REGULATIONS PERTAINING TO RECORD KEEPING, FINANCIAL     ASSURANCE, CLOSURE PLANS, AND GROUNDWATER MONITORING.  ON    NOVEMBER 20, 1984, THE COMPLAINT WAS AMENDED TO INCLUDE      VIOLATIONS WHICH WERE DISCOVERED PURSUANT TO AN INSPECTION   WHICH TOOK PLACE AFTER THE ORIGINAL ISSUANCE OF THE COM-     PLAINT.                                                      I.  SYNOPSIS OF CASE                                           CLOW COPORATION OWNS AND OPERATES A FACILITY LOCATED IN    COSHOCTON, OHIO WHICH MANUFACTURES PIPES AND PIPE FITTINGS.  ON NOVEMBER 20, 1984, AN ADMINISTRATIVE COMPLAINT WAS FILED  BY USEPA, REGION V PURSUANT TO SECTION 3008 OF RCRA, ALLEG-  ING VIOLATIONS OF THE REGULATIONS WHICH HAVE BEEN PROMULGA-  TED PURSUANT TO SUBTITLE C OF THE ACT.  ON SEPTEMBER 18, 198 5, THE MATTER WAS RESOLVED PURSUANT TO A CONSENT AGREEMENT   AND FINAL ORDER (CAFO).                                        CLOW, PURSUANT TO THE TERMS OF THE CAFO, WAS REQUIRED IN-  TER ALIA TO:                        

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