# CHARPIOT, ARNOLD B.
> **Judicial** · FY1990 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `34998`
- **Case Number:** 06-1990-0019
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $8K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- CHARPIOT, ARONOLD B. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

06/29/90:  SYNOPSIS OF THE CASE:  THIS REFERRAL CONCERNS   THE UPERMITTED DISCHARGES OF FILL MATERIAL INTO WETLANDS     NEAR CRYSTAL BEACH, GALVESTON COUNTY ,TX RESULTING IN THE    DESTRUCTION OF APPROXIMATELY 60,400 SQUARE FEET OF PRODUCT-  IVE ESTUARINE MARSH & SHALLOW OPEN WATER AREA.  THE FILLING  HAS OCCURRED SINCE NOV, 87 UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MR. A.B.   CHARPIOT, & INVOLVED THE EXPANSION OF A PARKING LOT, CREAT-  ION OF MINNOW PONDS, DISPOSAL OF DREDGED MATERIAL & ROAD     CONSTRUCTION.  MR. CHARPIOT HAD PRIOR KNOWLEDGE OF TH CWA    SECT. 404 PROGRAM, HAVING RECEVIED NUMEROUS PERMITS & WRITTE WARNINGS DATING BACK TO 1956. THE PURPOSE OF THE CIVI ACTION IS TO OBTAIN AN ENFORCEABLE RESTORATION AND/OR IF A SETTLE   MENT IS REACHED, A CONSENT DECREE & TO OBTAIN CIVIL PENALTIE AS APPROPRIATE, REGION 6 HAS COORDINATED WITH THE GALVESTON  DISTRICT OF THE CORPS OF ENGINEERS ON THIS ACTION AND TOOK   THE LEAD IN ENFORCING THE CWA 301 VIOLATIONS INVOLVED HERE   AS A RESULT OF THIS MATTER BEING TURNED OVER TO REGION 6 BY  THE COE.

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