# ALTO NORTH WATER CO-OPERATIVE
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2000 · — · Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `39807`
- **Case Number:** 06-2000-0180
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** $3K
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- ALTO NORTH WATER CO-OPERATIVE (settlement)
## Summary

1. SECTION 1414 OF THE SAFE DRINKING WATER ACT ( SDWA ), 42     U.S.C. SECTIONS 300F TO 300J-26.                          2. ALTO NORTH WATER CO-OPERATIVE                                P.O. BOX 373                                                 ALTO, LINCOLN COUNTY, NEW MEXICO 88312                    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; 3) EXCEEDING THE MAXIMUM CONTAMINANT LEVEL (MCL) FOR    COLIFORM; 4) EXCEEDING THE MAXIMUM CONTAMINANT LEVEL         (MCL) FOR FECAL COLIFORM BACTERIA; AND 5) FAILING TO COL-    LECT SAMPLES TO DETERMINE IF THE TAP WATER EXCEEDS THE       ACTION LEVEL FOR LEAD AND COPPER.                         4. RELIEF SOUGHT PURSUANT TO SECTION 1414 OF THE SDWA, EPA      ISSUED THE RESPONDENT AN ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER (AO) THAT      REQUIRED THE RESPONDENT TO: A) COMPLY WITH THE COLIFORM      MONITORING REQUIREMENTS IMMEDIATELY ON RECEIPT OF THE AO;    B) COMPLY WITH THE COLIFORM REPEAT MONITORING REQUIRE-       MENTS IMMEDIATELY ON RECEIPT OF THE AO; C) CORRECT THE       COLIFORM EXCEEDANCES WITHIN 60 DAYS OF RECEIPT OF THE AO;    D) CORRECT THE FECAL COLIFORM EXCEEDANCES WITHIN 60 DAYS     OF RECEIPT OF THE AO; AND E) COMPLY WITH THE LEAD AND        COPPER MONITORING REQUIREMENTS WI

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