# DURANT, CITY OF
> **Judicial** · FY1986 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `34017`
- **Case Number:** 06-1986-0031
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $33K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- DURANT, CITY OF (complaint) (settlement)
- FANKTED METALS, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

************************************************************ SUMMARY OF VIOLATIONS:                                       EPA REGION VI AWARDED A STEP 2+3 GRANT, EVENTUALLY TOTALING  OVER 5.3 MILLION DOLLARS, TO THE CITY OF DURANT IN SEPT 1982 TO FUND CONSTRUCTION OF A PRIMARY TREATMENT PLANT AND LAND   APPLICATION SYSTEM.  THE CITY INITIATED OPERATION OF THIS    SYSTEM ON JULY 24, 1985, BUT WASTEWATER APPLICATION RATES    SOON EXCEEDED THE SOILS ABILITY TO ACCEPT WATER.  UNPERMIT-  TED DISCHARGES OF LAND APPLIED WASTEWATER BEGAN IN SEPT      1985, AND CONTINUE AT RATES OFTEN EXCEEDING 500,000 GALLONS  PER DAY.                                                     *                                                            ALTHOUGH THE LAND APPLICATION SYSTEM'S INABILITY TO ACHIEVE  'NO DISCHARGE' ORIGINATES IN PART FROM DESIGN PROBLEMS,      THE CITY'S FAILURE TO PROPERLY OPERATE AND MAINTAIN THE      SYSTEM HAS OFTEN CONSTITUTED BLATANT NEGLECT, AND HAS FUR-   THER COMPOUNDED THE RUNOFF PROBLEM.                          *                                                            WE HAVE RECEIVED NUMERIOUS COMPLAINTS FROM THE CITIZENS OF   DURANT AND DOWNSTREAM LANDOWNERS ABOUT ODORS, INCREASED      ALGAE GROWTH IN CANEY CREEK, AND POSSIBLE THREATS THAT THESE DISCHARGES MAY POSE TO THEIR DAIRY OPERATIONS AND THE PUB-   LIC HEALTH IN GENERAL.  IT APPEARS THAT A TIMELY SOLUTION    TO THIS PROBLEM CAN ONLY BE ACHIEVED THROUGH LEGAL ACTION.

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