# GRIMMEL(NC)(LEAD)
> **Judicial** · FY2014 · — · —
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `3400170980`
- **Case Number:** 01-2014-2001
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** —
- **Penalty assessed:** —
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## Defendants
- GRIMMEL INDUSTRIES INC (complaint) (settlement)
- GRIMMEL INDUSTRIES LLC (complaint) (settlement)
- KENNEBEC SCRAP IRON INC (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

On April 15, 2020, the Federal District Court for the District of Maine granted final approval of a settlement between the United States and Grimmel Industries, Inc., Grimmel Industries, L.L.C., and Kennebec Scrap Iron, Inc. The three closely related companies agreed to comply with their Clean Water Act industrial stormwater permits and to pay $250,000 to resolve claims involving facilities in Topsham, Lewiston, and Oakland, Maine. The facilities are involved in sorting, shredding, storing, and transferring processed scrap metal for recycling. State and federal EPA inspections revealed numerous violations of state industrial stormwater permit requirements and of federal oil spill prevention regulations. Metal scrapyards can discharge pollutants through stormwater including suspended solids and many other pollutants which present the potential to harm human health, the environment, and aquatic ecosystems. Region 1 worked cooperatively with the Maine Department of Environmental Protection in this action. 

On September 30, 2014, the Region referred to the Department of Justice a case against Grimmel Industries, Inc. and Grimmel Industries, L.L.C.  (Grimmel Entities) for violations of Section 301 of the Clean Water Act (CWA) and of its federal and state multi-sector general permits for the discharge of stormwater (MSGPs).  The Grimmel Entities, located in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Lewiston, Maine and Topsham, Maine, collect, sort, shred, store and transfer processed scrap met

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