The referral addresses violations of the recent sewage sludge incinerator rules for existing sources at 40 CFR Part 62, Subpart LLL. The City of Waterbury, Connecticut, and the facility operator Synagro Northeast, LLC, have failed to reach compliance with the Subpart standards by the March 21, 2016 compliance date. The referral seeks to establish a compliance schedule, to assess an appropriate penalty, and to require mitigation measures.
1/10/2018: On January 10, 2018, a proposed Consent Decree in U.S. v. Borough of Naugatuck, CT was lodged in Federal Court in Connecticut. This CD requires the installation of emission control equipment to limit the discharge of mercury pollution at an incinerator owned by the Borough of Naugatuck. The City and its contract operator of the incinerator, Naugatuck Environmental Technologies, LLC, a subsidiary of Veolia Northeast, are both responsible under the CD for the necessary upgrades at the Naugatuck sewage sludge incinerator, which processes sewage waste from the Borough?s wastewater treatment plant as well as from other communities. Naugatuck and its operator failed to meet the compliance deadline for Clean Air Act rules for sewage sludge incinerators that came into effect in 2016. In addition to meeting these CAA rules, the defendants will pay a penalty of $100,000, and take measures to limit the mercury content of sewage sludge received at the incinerator. This Consent Decree follows entry in December 2017 of a CD between th