# BRIDGE CITY, TX AND STATE OF TEXAS
> **Judicial** · FY1988 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `34372`
- **Case Number:** 06-1988-0129
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $20K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- BRIDGE CITY, TX AND STATE OF TEXAS (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

DATA SHEET:                                                  *                                                            VIOLATION(S) UPON WHICH THE ACTION IS BASED:                 THIS REFERRAL IS BASED ON NUMEROUS VIOLATIONS OF THE CWA,    PRIMARILY INVOLVING BYPASSING THE TREATMENT WORKS.           *                                                            PROPOSED RELIEF:                                             REGION VI RECOMMENDS A BOTTOM-LINE SETTLEMENT AMOUNT OF      $17,500 FOR A CIVIL PENALTY PLUS AN INJUNCTION PLACING THE   CITY ON A CONSTRUCTION SCHEDULE AND STIPULATED PENALTIES,    IF A CONSENT DECREE CAN BE NEGOTIATED.                       *                                                            THE RECENT CONTACTS:                                         THE MOST RECENT FACE-TO-FACT CONTACT WAS A MEETING HELD      PURSUANT TO AN AO ON MARCH 31, 1988.                         *                                                            *                                                            SYNOPSIS:                                                    THE PERMITTEE, BRIDGE CITY, OWNS AND OPERATES A POTW IN      ORANGE COUNTY, TEXAS.  IT DISCHARGES MUNICIPAL WASTE INTO    AN UNNAMED DITCH, THENCE TO COW BAYOU TIDAL IN THE SABINE    RIVER BASIN.  THE FACILITY HAS BEEN OPERATED BY THE CITY     SINCE OCTOBER 1, 1986.  (THE PERMIT REFLECTS THE CHANGE IN   OPERATION, BUT THE DATE OF ORIGIANL ISSUANCE OF THE PERMIT   TO PERMIT APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN ISSUE

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