# INDIANA AMERICAN WATER COMPANY, INC.
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2000 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `32353`
- **Case Number:** 05-2000-0335
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $8K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- INDIANA AMERICAN WATER COMPANY, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

IAWC FAILED TO IMMEDIATELY REPORT TWO SEPARATE RELEASES OF   CHLORINE TO THE NRC.                                         VIOLATION OF SECTION 103 OF CERCLA AND 304 OF EPCRA- COMPANY FAILED TO REPORT RELEASE OF A REPORTABLE QUANTITY OF         CHLORINE TO THE NATIONAL RESPONSE CENTER ON 2 SEPARATE       DATES.                                                       DURING ROUTINE MAINTENANCE ROUNDS OF 2/12/1998 AN EMPLOYEE   DISCOVERED THAT THE VACUUM REGULATOR ON ONE OFTHE CHLORINE   TANKS WAS CHATTERING, AND ALSO NOTICED A CHLORINE SMELL IN   THE ROOM.  THE EMPLOYEE HIT THE REGULATOR TO STOP IT FROM    CHATTERTING AND ALSO NOTED THAT THE CHLORINE ALARM SYSTEM    WAS NOT WORKING.  THE NEXT MORNING WHEN THE EMPLOYEE ARRIVED AT THE FACILITY HE SMELLED CHLORINE AT THE GATE.  HE CALLED  FOR BACK UP AND ALONG WITH A CO-WORKER EVENTUALLY MITIGATED  THE RELEASE.  THE SAME REGULATOR VALVE MALFUNCTIONED AND WAS REPLACED.  IAWC DID NOT NOTIFY THE NRC OF THE 2/12/1998      RELEASE AND NOTIFIED THE NRC OF THE 2/13/1998 RELEASE        SEVERAL HOURS AFTER IT OCCURRED.

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