# GREEN RIDGE WATER CO-OPERATIVE
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2000 · — · Final Order No Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `39869`
- **Case Number:** 06-2000-0242
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order No Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** $201K
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- GREEN RIDGE 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. GREEN RIDGE WATER CO-OPERATIVE                               5711 PRINCESS JEANNE AVENUE NE                               ALBUQUERQUE, BERNALILLO COUNTY, NEW MEXICO 87110          3. RESPONDENT WAS IN VIOLATION OF SECTION 1412 OF THE SDWA      BY 1) EXCEEDING THE MAXIMUM CONTAMINANT LEVEL (MCL) FOR      FLUORIDE; AND 2) FAILING TO COLLECT THE REQUIRED NUMBER      OF SAMPLES FROM THE DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM AND SUBMITTING       THEM TO A STATE CERTIFIED LAB.                            4. RELIEF SOUGHT PURSUANT TO SECTION 1414 OF THE SDWA, EPA      ISSUED THE RESPONDENT AN ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER (AO) THAT      REQUIRED THE RESPONDENT TO: A) CORRECT THE FLUORIDE EX-      CEEDANCES WITHIN 180 DAYS OF RECEIPT OF THE FINAL ORDER;     B) COMMENCE COLIFORM MONITORING IMMEDIATELY ON RECEIPT OF    THE FINAL ORDER; C) IF COMPLIANCE WITH THE MCL FOR FLUOR-    IDE SEEMS UNATTAINABLE WITHOUT MAJOR MODIFICATIONS TO THE    CURRENT PROCESS OF THE WATER SYSTEM, WITHIN 180 DAYS AF-     TER RECEIPT OF THE AO, SUBMIT TO EPA, A FEASIBILITY          STUDY TO INCLUDE COSTS OF TREATING WATER TO MEET STAND-      ARDS OR PURCHASING WATER FROM AN APPROVED WATER SYSTEM IF    AVAILABLE; D) UNTIL THE FLUORIDE CONCENTRATION IS REDUCED    TO 4.0 MG/L OR LESS, RESPONDENT WILL CONTINUE TO NOTIFY      ITS CUSTOMERS  ON A QUARTERLY BASIS OF THE ELEVATED          FLUORIDE LEVEL; AND E) UNTIL THE 

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