# KNOUSE FOODS COOPERATIVE, INC.
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2023 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `3603427262`
- **Case Number:** 03-2023-0009
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** —
## Defendants
- KNOUSE FOODS COOPERATIVE, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

On November 16, 2022, EPA, Region III entered into a Consent Agreement and Final Order (?CAFO?) with Knouse Food Cooperative, Inc. (Knouse), in which Knouse will pay $230,000 to settle CWA violations at its fruit processing facility located in Peach Glen, PA.  Cited violations included: (1) 120 discharges of water exceeding discharge limitations; and (2) failure to implement a SWPPP to minimize pollutant discharges, resulting in violations of Sections 301 and 402 of the CWA.  EPA coordinated with PADEP in the development of this case. An EJSCREEN was run for Peach Glen, PA area was not identified as a potential EJ concern. As a result of the investigation into these violations and this penalty action, Knouse is no longer discharging nutrients to the Chesapeake Bay in excess of its permit limits.

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