# HUNTSVILLE UTILITIES
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2015 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `3600065825`
- **Case Number:** 04-2015-5000
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** —
## Defendants
- HUNTSVILLE UTILITIES (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

1/29/15 - OIL SPILL EXPEDITED SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT ISSUED, ASSESSING A PENALTY OF $500. ON FEB 4, 2014, RESPONDENT DISCHARGED APPROX 120 GAL OF OIL FROM ITS FACILITY INTO OR UPON THE UNNAMED TRIBUTARY AND/OR ADJOINING SHORELINES. THE UNNAMED TRIBUTARY FLOWS INTO THE ALDRIDGE CREEK, WHICH FLOWS INTO THE TENNESSEE RIVER. THE TENNESSEE RIVER IS A NAVIGABLE WATER OF THE U.S. RESPONDENT'S FEB 4, 2014, DISCHARGE OF OIL CAUSED A FILM OR SHEEN UPON OR DISCOLORATION OF THE SURFACE OF THE UNNAMED TRIBUTARY AND/OR UPON THE ADJOINING SHORELINES, WHIHC EVENTUALLY FLOWS TO THE TN RIVER AND THEREFORE, WAS IN A QUANTITY THAT HAS BEEN DETERMINED MAY BE HARMFUL UNDER 40 CFR 110.3, WHICH IMPLEMENTS SECTION 311(b)(3) AND (b)(4) OF THE CWA.

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