# J & J CHEMICAL CO.
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2011 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `2600040583`
- **Case Number:** 04-2011-5132
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** —
## Defendants
- J & J CHEMICAL CO.  (SB) (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

8/2/2011 - CONSENT AGREEMENT ISSUED, ASSESSING A PENALTY OF $4,500. RESPONDENT SHALL MAKE PAYMENT WITHIN THIRTY DAYS.

ORDER ALLEGES:
ON JULY 28, 2010, APPROXIMATELY 205 POUNDS OF FORMALDEHYDE AND 450 POUNDS OF 1,4-DICHLOROBENZENE WAS DISCHARGED FROM RESPONDENT'S FACILITY INTO EAST FORK TRAIL CREEK.

THE JULY 28, 2010, DISCHARGE OF FORMALEHYDE AND 1,4-DICHLOROBENZENE, EXCEEDED THE RESPECTIVE REPORTABLE QUANTITIES; AND, THEREFORE, WAS IN A QUANTITY THAT HAS BEEN DETERMINED MAY BE HARMFUL. ACCORDINGLY, SECTION 311(b)(3) OF THE CWA, 33 U.S.C. SECTION 1321(b)(3), WAS VIOLATED.

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