# CHESAPEAKE APPLACHIA, LLC (22 FACILITIES)
> **Judicial** · FY2015 · — · —
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `3600407270`
- **Case Number:** 03-2015-7015
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** —
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** —
## Defendants
- CHESAPEAKE APPALACHIA, LLC (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

On May 17, 2021, DOJ filed an Unopposed Motion to Enter a Consent Decree between the United States and PADEP (co-plaintiff) and Chesapeake Appalachia, LLC (CALLC) resolving unauthorized discharges of dredged and fill material in waterways in Pennsylvania.  On May 14, 2021, EPA, PADEP, the Corps of Engineers, and CALLC held an initial pre-implementation meeting to address questions raised by CALLC concerning aspects of permit applications necessary to return the sites to compliance.

In the consent decree, CALLC agreed to a $1.9 million penalty for violating federal and state clean water laws, and to restore or mitigate impacts to water resources.  In 2014, CALLC informed EPA, the Army Corps and PADEP that an internal audit had identified potential unauthorized discharges of fill material without applicable permits at multiple sites in the Commonwealth.  Following lengthy negotiations and multiple site visits by EPA (both ECAD and LSAD staff), PADEP and the Army Corps, the company ultimately disclosed potential unauthorized discharges at a total of 76 sites across Pennsylvania, impacting about 26 acres of wetlands and 2,326 linear feet of streams.  As part of the settlement, CALLC will either seek after-the-fact authorization from the Army Corps and/or PADEP to leave the fill in place, or CALLC will restore the impacted wetlands or waterways. In all cases, the impacted water resource either will be restored or the environmental harm will be offset through off-site compensato

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