# ENSENADA MUTUAL DOMESTIC WATER CONSUMERS ASSOCIATION
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1999 · — · Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `39610`
- **Case Number:** 06-1999-0946
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** $3K
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- ENSENADA MDWCA (settlement)
## Summary

1. SECTION 1414 OF THE SAFE DRINKING WATER ACT ( SDWA ), 42     U.S.C. SECTIONS 300F TO 300J-26.                          2. ENSENADA MUTUAL DOMESTIC WATER CONSUMERS ASSOCIATION         FACILITY: ENSENADA WATER SYSTEM                                        P.O. BOX 226                                                 ENSENADA, RIO ARRIBA COUNTY, NEW MEXICO 87575   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 THE REQUIRED      NUMBER OF REPEAT SAMPLES FOLLOWING A TOTAL COLIFORM          POSITIVE SAMPLE; AND 3) EXCEEDING THE STANDARD FOR SYS-      TEMS THAT COLLECT 40 OR FEWER SAMPLES PER MONTH BY HAV-      ING 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        THAT ORDERED THE RESPONDENT TO: A) IMMEDIATELY ON RECEIPT    OF THE AO, COMMENCE COLIFORM MONITORING; B) IMMEDIATELY      ON RECEIPT OF THE AO, PERFORM COLIFORM REPEAT MONITORING;    AND C) WITHIN 60 DAYS OF THE AO, CORRECT THE COLIFORM EX-    CEEDANCES.

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