# BRAZOS WATER COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATION
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1998 · — · Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `38344`
- **Case Number:** 06-1998-0652
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** $8K
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- BRAZOS WATER COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATION (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

1. SECTION 1414 OF THE SAFE DRINKING WATER ACT ( SDWA ).     2. BRAZOS WATER COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATION                         FACILITY: BRAZOS WATER COOPERATIVE WATER SYSTEM                        HC 75 BOX 109                                                CHAMA, RIO ARRIBA COUNTY, NEW MEXICO 87520      3. RESPONDENT WAS IN VIOLATION OF SECTION 1412 OF THE SDWA      BY (1) FAILING TO COLLECT THE REQUIRED NUMBER OF SAMPLES     FROM THE DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM AND SUBMITTING THEM TO A        STATE CERTIFIED LAB; (2) FAILING TO COLLECT ENOUGH REPEAT    SAMPLES AS REQUIRED AFTER A TOTAL COLIFORM POSITIVE SAM-     PLE; AND (3) EXCEEDING THE STANDARD FOR SYSTEMS THAT COL-    LECT 40 OR FEWER SAMPLES PER MONTH BY HAVING MORE THAN       ONE COLIFORM POSITIVE SAMPLE.                             4. RELIEF SOUGHT PURSUANT TO SECTION 1414 OF THE SDWA, EPA      ISSUED AN ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER (AO) TO THE RESPONDENT.       THE AO ORDERS THE RESPONDENT TO: (1) BEGIN COLIFORM MONI-    TORING IMMEDIATELY UPON RECEIPT OF THE AO; (2) BEGIN COL-    IFORM REPEAT MONITORING IMMEDIATELY UPON RECEIPT OF THE      AO; AND (3) CORRECT THE COLIFORM EXCEEDANCES WITHIN 60       DAYS OF RECEIPT OF THE AO.

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