# JEFFERSON COUNTY, ALABAMA (BNK)
> **Judicial** · FY2012 · — · Final Order No Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `3000008258`
- **Case Number:** 04-2012-9003
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order No Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** —
## Defendants
- JEFFERSON COUNTY, ALABAMA (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

PROTECTIVE PROOF OF CLAIM (EXISTING CWA CONSENT DECREE).
On Nov 8, 2011, Jefferson County, Al filed what has been reported as the largest municipal bankruptcy in US history due to its claim of inability to repay creditors that issued bonds for sanitary sewer and school infrastructure improvements. The bankruptcy case was filed in the US Bankruptcy Court in Birmingham, Alabama. Jefferson County is liable to the United States with respect to the discharge of pollutants (in the form of sanitary sewer overflows or SSOs from its municipal sanitary sewer system) without the required NPDES permits and for violations of its NPDES permits issued pursuant to the CWA. On Dec 9, 1996, the US District Court for the ND of AL entered a CD requiring Jefferson County to undertake comprehensive injunctive relief to bring its sewer collection, transmission and treatment facilities into compliance with the CWA. See Consent Decree in R. Allen Kipp, Jr., et al., and Cahaba River Society v. Jefferson County, Alabama and the Jefferson County Commission, Civil Action No. 93-G-2492-S, United States v. Jefferson County, Alabama, Jefferson County Commission, State of Alabama, Civil Action No.94-G-2947-S. (CONSOLIDATED).
On Apr 16, 2008, Dec 8, 2008, Feb 23, 2009, and Apr 29, 2009, the District Court entered Orders terminating provisions of the CD with respect to certain portions of Jefferson County’s sewer system:  the Warrior Creek Complete Waste Treatment System, Turkey Creek Complete Waste Treatme

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