# SHILOH PECAN FARMS, INC.
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2015 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `3600177257`
- **Case Number:** 04-2015-5504
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** —
## Defendants
- SHILOH PECAN FARMS (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

7/10/2015 - CONSENT AGREEMENT AND FINAL ORDER ISSUED, ASSESSING A PENALTY OF $22,000. RESPONDENT SHALL MAKE PAYMENT WITHIN THIRTY DAYS.

ORDER ALLEGES:
BETWEEN APRIL 2012 AND MAY 2014, RESPONDENT, AND/OR THOSE ACTING ON BEHALF OF RESPONDENT, DISCHARGED DREDGED AND/OR FILL MATERIAL INTO FORESTED WETLANDS ON THE SITE USING EARTH MOVING MACHINERY DURING UNAUTHORIZED ACTIVITIES ASSOCIATED WITH THE CONVERSION OF WETLANDS TO A PECAN ORCHARD. TO DATE, THE UNAUTHORIZED DREDGE AND/OR FILL MATERIAL REMAINS IN WATERS OF THE UNITED STATES.

RESPONDENT IMPACTED APPROXIMATELY 67.25 ACRES OF FORESTED WETLANDS THAT ABUT AN UNNAMED TRIBUTARY, WHICH FLOWS TO CAT CREEK, WHICH FLOWS INTO THE WITHLACOOCHEE RIVER, A NAVIGABLE-IN-FACT WATER OF THE UNITED STATES.

THE DISCHARGE DREDGED AND/OR FILL MATERIAL, INCLUDING EARTHEN MATERIAL DEPOSITED AT THE DISCHARGE AREA, ARE  POLLUTANTS  AS DEFINED UNDER THE CWA.

THE EXCAVATORS AND BULLDOZERS EMPLOYED BY RESPONDENT TO DEPOSIT THE DREDGED AND/OR FILL MATERIAL AT THE DISCHARGE AREA ARE  POINT'SOURCES  AS DEFINED UNDER THE CWA SECTION 504.

RESPONDENT'S PLACEMENT OF THE DREDGED AND/OR FILL MATERIAL AT THE DISCHARGE AREA CONSTITUTES  DISCHARGE OF POLLUTANTS  AS DEFINED UNDER THE CWA SECTION 502.

AT NO TIME DURING THE DISCHARGE OF DREDGED AND/OR FILL MATERIAL AT THE DISCHARGE AREA FROM JUNE 2013 TO THE PRESENT, DID RESPONDENT POSSESS A PERMIT UNDER SECTION 404 OF THE CWA, AUTHORIZING THE ACTIVITIES PERFORMED BY RESPONDENT.

EACH DISCHARGE BY 

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