# GAYLORD CONTAINER CORPORATION, BOGALUSA, LA
> **Judicial** · FY1988 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `34326`
- **Case Number:** 06-1988-0004
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $25K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- GAYLORD CONTAINER CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

DATA SHEET:                                                  *                                                            DEFENDANTS:                                                  GAYLORD CONTAINER CORP OWNS AND OPERATES A PAPER AND PULP    MILL AND MANUFACTURES CORRUGATED CONTAINERS AND PAPER FIBER  BOARD PRODUCTS.  GAYLORD CONTAINER CORP, IS A SUCCESSOR TO   CROWN ZELLERBACH CORP, WITH PRESENT CONTROL HAVING SUCCEEDED IN NOV 1986.  GAYLORD CONTAINER IS A SUBSIDIARY OF GOSL      ACQUIESITION CORP.                                           *                                                            VIOLATIONS:                                                  ON OCT 7, 1987, GAYLORD CONTAINER CORP, NOTIFIED EPA OF AN   UNAUTHORIZED DISCHARGE AND RESULTANT FISHKILL FROM ITS       FACILITY.  THE DISCHARGE WAS DESCRIBED AS HAVING BEEN        CAUSED BY AN EQUIPMENT PROBLEM WHICH RESULTED IN THE FACI-   LITY'S SUMP PUMPS SHUTTING DOWN.  GAYLORD'S NPDES PERMIT     AUTHORIZES THEIR TREATED WASTEWATER TO BE DISCHARGED INTO    PEAR RIVER AND NOT INTO THE BOGUE LUSA CREEK, AND YET THE    FISCHKILL OCCURRED IN THE CREEK.  THE REFERRAL ALSO CITES    OTHER SIMILIAR UNAUTHORIZED DISCHARGES INTO THE CREEK AND    OTHER EFFLUENT LIMIT VIOLATIONS.                             *                                                            PROPOSED RELIEF:                                             SETTLEMENT IN THE FORM OF A CONSENT DECREE, WHICH SHOULD     ENCOMPASS A CIVIL PENALTY AND REMEDI

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