# EL ANCON MUTUAL DOMESTIC WATER CONSUMERS ASSOCIATION
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1999 · — · Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `39304`
- **Case Number:** 06-1999-0640
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** $2K
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- EL ANCON MUTUAL DOMESTIC WATER CONSUMERS (settlement)
## Summary

1. SECTION 1414 OF THE SAFE DRINKING WATER ACT ( SDWA ), 42     U.S.C. SECTIONS 300F TO 300J-26.                          2. EL ANCON MUTUAL DOMESTIC WATER CONSUMERS ASSOCIATION         P.O. BOX 248                                                 RIBERA, MORA COUNTY, NEW MEXICO 87560                     3. RESPONDENT WAS IN VIOLATION OF SECTION 1412 OF THE SDWA      BY 1) FAILING TO COLLECT THE REQUIRED NUMBER OF ROUTINE      SAMPLES FROM THE DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM AND SUBMIT THEM TO A    STATE CERTIFIED LAB, AND 2) EXCEEDING THE MAXIMUM CONTAM-    INANT LEVEL (MCL) FOR SYSTEMS THAT COLLECT 40 OR FEWER       SAMPLES PER MONTH, BY HAVING MORE THAN ONE FECAL COLIFORM    POSITIVE SAMPLE PER MONTH.                                4. RELIEF SOUGHT PURSUANT TO SECTION 1414 OF THE SDWA, EPA      ISSUED THE RESPONDENT AN ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER (AO). THE      AO ORDERED THE RESPONDENT TO: A) CORRECT THE COLIFORM        ROUTINE MONITORING VIOLATIONS IMMEDIATELY UPON RECEIPT OF    THE AO, 2) CORRECT THE TOTAL COLIFORM EXCEEDANCE VIOLA-      TIONS WITHIN 60 DAYS OF THE AO, AND 3) CORRECT THE FECAL     COLIFORM EXCEEDANCE VIOLATIONS WITHIN 60 DAYS OF RECEIPT     OF THE AO.

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