# HARAHAN, TOWN OF (LA0043940)
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1997 · — · Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `37122`
- **Case Number:** 06-1997-0291
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- HARAHAN, TOWN OF (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

1. SECTION 309(A)(3) OF THE CLEAN WATER ACT ( CWA ), 33         U.S.C. SECTION 1319(A)3).                                 2. TOWN OF HARAHAN                                              6437 JEFFERSON HIGHWAY                                       HARAHAN, JEFFERSON PARISH, LOUISIANA 70183                3. RESPONDENT WAS IN VIOLATION OF SECTION 301(A) OF THE CWA     BY THE UNPERMITTED DISCHARGE OF UNTREATED WASTEWATER THAT    CAUSED HYDRAULIC OVERLOADING AT THE PLANT, ACCUMULATION      OF SOLIDS IN THE DRAINAGE DITCH ADJACENT TO THE PLANT,       PIPES ENTERING THE GROUND ADJACENT TO THE DITCH ARE LEAK-    ING, BELT PRESS IS INOPERATIVE, ADEQUATE ALARM SYSTEM FOR    POWER OR EQUIPMENT FAILURE NOT AVAILABLE, AND PH BUFFER      USED IN THE LAB HAD EXPIRED.                              4. RELIEF SOUGHT PURSUANT TO SECTION 309(A)(3) OF THE CWA,      EPA ISSUED AN ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER (AO) ORDERING THE RE-     SPONDENT TO CORRECT, ELIMINATE AND PREVENT THE RECURRENCE    OF THE VIOLATIONS IN THE SHORTEST TIME POSSIBLE, AND SUB-    MIT A REPORT DETAILING THE STEPS TAKEN TO CORRECT, ELIM-     AND PREVENT THE RECURRENCES OF THE VIOLATIONS.

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