# DARIGOLD, INC - ACO (CWA NPDES)
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2024 · — · Final Order No Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `3604091503`
- **Case Number:** 10-2024-0237
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order No Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** —
## Defendants
- DARIGOLD, INC (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

On September 12, 2024, Region 10 issued an administrative order on consent to Darigold, Inc. for its violations at Darigold, Inc. facilities in Caldwell ID, as well as Chehalis, Issaquah, Lynden, Seattle and Spokane, WA. For its widespread corporate noncompliance, which may have lead to the destruction of one facility due to fire, chronic unauthorized discharges, and multiple large-scale spill events to WOTUS resulted in six consent agreement and final orders (CAFOs). Violations included, but were not limited to, failure to meet effluent limits, failure to have an adequate Quality Assurance Plan (QAPP), unauthorized discharges, inadequate control measures, failure to conduct routine inspections, inadequate corrective actions, inadequate best management practices, inadequate Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plans (SWPPPs), failure to monitor all outfalls, and failure to take representative samples. Darigold agreed to pay a total, combined penalty of $1,158,425. Under the terms of the AOC, Darigold must hire a third-party contractor to perform Clean Water Act compliance verifications at all six facilities and the company must prepare and implement action plans to correct any non-compliance identified. The estimated cost of implementing this injunctive relief is $900,000.  The Caldwell, Idaho facility and the Chehalis, Seattle and Spokane facilities in Washington impacts areas with environmental justice concerns.

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