# CITY OF LAKE WALES AIRPORT (FLORIDA)
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2017 · — · Final Order No Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `3601183145`
- **Case Number:** 04-2017-5757
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order No Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** —
## Defendants
- LAKE WALES AIRPORT (CITY OF) (settlement)
## Summary

09-13-17 - ADMINISTRATIVE COMPLIANCE ORDER ON CONSENT ISSUED.  

THIS AOC PERTAINS TO THE DEPOSITION OF DREDGED AND/OR FILL MATERIAL INTO JURISDICTIONAL WETLANDS AND WATERS OF THE U.S. INCLUDING APPRO 5.82 ACRES OF HERBACEOUS FRESHWATER WETLANDS AND 10.33 ACRES OF SURFACE WATER THAT ARE ADJACENT TO THE PEACE CREEK DRAINAGE CANAL WITHIN AN APPROX 545 ACRE PARCEL.  THE PEACE CREEK DRAINAGE CANAL IS A PERENNIAL TRIBUTARY THAT FLOWS TO THE PEACE RIVER, A NAVIGABLE-IN-FACT WATER OF THE U.S. THE VIOLATION OCCURRED DURING THE CONSTRUCTION OF A TAXIWAY REALIGNMENT AN DRUNWAY SAFETY IMPROVEMENT AREA AT THE SITE.

ON NOV 10, 2016, THE U.S. ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS CONDUCTED AN INSPECTION OF THE DISCHARGE AREA.

ON FEB 7, 2017, THE COE ISSUED A NOTIFICATION AND WARNING TO THE CITY OF LAKE WALES PROHIBITING FURTHER PLACEMENT OF DREDGED AND/OR FILL MATEIRAL IN WATERS OF THE U.S.  ON MARCH 29, 2017, THE COE REFERRED THE ENFORCEMENT CASE AGAINST THE RESPONDENT TO EPA IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE 1989 MEMO OF AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE COE AND EPA CONCERNING FEDERAL ENFORCEMENT OF CWA 404.

RESPONDENT AT ALL TIMES RELEVANT TO THIS AOC, WAS THE OWNER AND/OR OPERATORS OF THE SITE, WHICH CONTAINS THE DISCHARGE AREA.

COMMENCING ON OR ABOUT NOV 2014 TO THE PRESENT, RESPONDENT AND/OR THOS ACTING ON BEHALF OF THE RESPONDENT DISCHARGED DREDGED AND/OR FILL MATERIAL INTO WETLANDS ON THE SITE USING EARTH MOVING MACHINERY, DURING UNAUTHORIZED ACTIVITIES ASSOCIATED WITH THE CONSTRUCTION OF A TAXIWAY REALI

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