# ALTO NORTH WATER COOPERATIVE
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1996 · — · Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `36457`
- **Case Number:** 06-1996-0156
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** $2K
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- ALTO NORTH WATER COOPERATIVE (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

1. SECTION 1414(G)(2) OF THE SAFE DRINKING WATER ACT, 42        U.S.C. SECTION 300G-3(G)(2) ( SDWA ).                     2. ALTO NORTH WATER COOPERATIVE                                 ALTO NORTH WATER SYSTEM                                      STATE HIGHWAY 312                                            ALTO, LINCOLN COUNTY, NEW MEXICO 88312                    3. RESPONDENT WAS IN VIOLATION OF 40 CFR SECTION 141.63 BY      DELIVERING WATER THAT EXCEEDED THE MAXIMUM CONTAMINANT       LEVEL (MCL).                                              4. RELIEF SOUGHT PURSUANT TO SECTION 1414(G)(2) OF THE SDWA,    EPA ISSUED AN ADMINSITRATIVE ORDER (AO) ORDERING THE RE-     SPONDENT TO DELIVER WATER TO THE FREE FLOWING OUTLET OF      THE ULTIMATE USER OF THE WATER SYSTEM WITH CONCENTRATIONS    OF COLIFORM BACTERIA NOT TO EXCEED THE MAXIMUM CONTAMIN-     ANT LEVEL.

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