8/1/18 - OIL SPILL EXPEDITED SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT ISSUED, ASSESSING A PENALTY OF $4,500.
ON OR ABOUT APRIL 16, 2017, RESPONDENT DISCHARGED APPROX 3,000 GALLONS OF OIL FROM ITS FACILITY INTO OR UPON COTTON MILL BRANCH AND/OR ADJOINING SHORELINES. COTTON MILL BRANCH IS A NAVIGABLE WATER OF THE U.S. RESPONDENT'S DISCHARGE CAUSED A SLUDGE OR EMULSION TO BE DEPOSITED BENEATH THE SURFACE OF COTTON MILL BRANCH AND/OR ADJOINING SHORELINES AND THEREFORE WAS IN A QUANTITY THAT HAS BEEN DETERMINED MAY BE HARMFUL UNDER 40 CR 110.3, WHICH IMPLEMENTS CWA 311(b)(3) AND (b)(4).