# Spess Oil Company (Chapman Estate Lease)
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2016 · — · Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `3600745214`
- **Case Number:** 06-2016-1806
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** —
## Defendants
- Spess Oil Company (settlement)
## Summary

On March 29, 2016, an EPA inspector observed that pollutants, specifically oil field brine and produced wastewater generated from oil production activities, had been discharged from the facility to ?waters of the United States,as that term is defined by 40 C.F.R. 122.2.  Pollutants were discharged to a tributary of the Dry Creek, which is considered a water of the United States.  The inspector determined that the water located at the discharge point of entry into the tributary of the Dry Creek was contaminated from brine discharges.

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