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MICHIGAN PEAT AND BAY-HOUSTON TOWING CO.

Administrative - Formal · FY1998 · — · — · 30876

Penalty
Cost recovery
$600K
Compliance action

Case

Case Number
05-1998-0255
Type
Administrative - Formal
Lead
EPA
Outcome
Multimedia
Y
Self-disclosure
N

Defendants (1)

Summary

FACILITY HARVESTS PEAT FROM A PEAT BOG. ORDER REQUIRES FACILITY TO DO PARTIAL RESTORATION IN NEAR TERM AND SHOP DISCHARGES TO WETLANDS AND TO BLACK RIVER DRAIN (A CHANNEL THAT GOES TO A TRIBUTARY OF LAKE HURON). FACILITY IS THEN GIVEN CHOICE OF EITHER APPLYING TO ARMY COE FOR AN AFTER THE FACT CWA SECTION 404 PERMIT, OR SUBMITTING A PLAN FOR COMPLETE SITE RESTORATION TO EPA. THE VOLUME OF POLLUTANTS BEING DISCHARGED -- AND WHICH THIS ORDER REQUIRES CEASE -- ARE HARD TO QUANTIFY AS GRAVITY AS A GRAVITY DRAIN SYSTEM OF DITCHES ARE DRAINING THE PEAT BOG. THERE ARE NO MONITORING CONTROLS ON THOSE DISCHARGES. HOW- EVER, WATER SAMPLES TAKEN BY EPA DURING AUGUST 1997 SHOWED DETECTABLE BUT LOW LEVERLS OF ARSENIC, LEAD, TOAL SUSPENDED SOLIDS, TOTAL PHOSPHORUS, MERCURY, SULFIDE, BARIUM, MAGNE- SIUM, CALCIUM, IRON, AND ALUMINUM. THE DISCHARGES TO WET- LANDS ARE ALSO HARD TO QUANTIFY, BUT RESTORATION WILL REQUIR E REMOVAL OR DISTRIBUTION OF LARGE VOLUMES OF PEAT, CLAY, SOILS, AND VEGETATION THAT HAVE BEEN PLACE IN THE WETLANDS.

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