# CLIMAX CHEMICAL
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1983 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `33771`
- **Case Number:** 06-1983-0028
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $5K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- CLIMAX CHEMICAL (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

CLIMAX CHEMICAL CO. CONDUCTS ITS BUSINESS OF SULFURINE       ACIDE, HYDROCHLORIC ACID AND SODIUM SULFATE PRODUCTION AT    MONUMENT, NM.                                                *                                                            NOV 30, 1982, EPA ISSUED A WARNING LETTER TO CLIMAX RE-      QUESTING THEIR SUBMITTAL OF THE QUARTERLY AND ANNUAL GROUND- WATER MONITORING RESULTS.                                    *                                                            CLIMAX INFORMED EPA ON DEC 23, 1982, THEY HAD FAILED TO OB-  TAIN A QUARTER SAMPLES ON ALL PARAMETERS.  CLIMAX SAMPLE     ONLY THOSE IN THE CORROSIVE NATURE OF A DISCHARGE.  CLIMAX   WAS CITED FOR THESE VIOLATIONS:  SAMPLING ANALYSIS, UP-      GRADIENT WEL AND POST CLOSURE ASSURANCE.                     *                                                            PROPOSED CIVIL PENALTY $12,000 - COLLECTED $4,900 ON SEPT    18, 1985.

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