# Mulberry-Fairplains Water Association
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2025 · — · Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `3604481007`
- **Case Number:** 04-2025-5009
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** —
## Defendants
- Mulberry-Fairplains Water Association (settlement)
## Summary

ADMINISTRATIVE COMPLIANCE ORDER: 7/30/2025
Docket No. SDWA-04-2025-5009
Mulberry-Fairplains Water Association
Proceeding pursuant to Section 1414(g) of the Safe Drinking Water Act, 42 U.S.C. ? 300g-3(g).

This Administrative Compliance Order (?Order?) is issued to Mulberry-Fairplains Water Association Public Water System (?Respondent?) pursuant to the authority vested in the Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency by Section 1414(g) of the Safe Drinking Water Act (?SDWA?), 42 U.S.C ? 300g-3(g). The Administrator has delegated this authority to the Regional Administrator of EPA Region 4, who has, in turn, delegated this authority to the Director of the Enforcement Compliance and Assurance Division.

Respondent?s PWS provides piped water for human consumption and regularly serves at least 15 service connections and/or at least 25 residents and is therefore a ?public water system? as defined by Section 1401(4) of the SDWA, 42 U.S.C. ? 300f(4), and 40 C.F.R. ? 141.2, and is also a  community water system  ( CWS ) as defined by Section 1401(15) of the SDWA, 42 U.S.C. ? 300f(15), and 40 C.F.R. ? 141.2.

Respondent?s ownership and operation of the System makes it a ?supplier of water? within the meaning of Section 1401(5) of the SDWA, 42 U.S.C. ? 300f(5), and 40 C.F.R. ? 141.2.

Respondent is an individual, corporation, company, association, and/or an officer or agent of said corporation, company or association and is therefore a ?person? within

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