# COPPERWELD BIMETALLICS, LLC
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2018 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `3601520987`
- **Case Number:** 04-2018-5002
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** —
## Defendants
- COPPERWELD BIMETALLICS, LLC (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

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).

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*Source: [EPA ECHO](https://echo.epa.gov/) · AI Analytics · CC0 1.0*