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OKMULGEE, CITY OF WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT

Judicial · FY2001 · — · Final Order With Penalty · 41174

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Case

Case Number
06-2001-0272
Type
Judicial
Lead
EPA
Outcome
Final Order With Penalty
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Self-disclosure
N

Defendants (1)

Summary

1. SECTION 309 OF THE CLEAN WATET ACT ( CWA ), 33 U.S.C. SECTION 1319. 2. CITY OF OKMULGEE, AN OKLAHOMA MUNICIPALITY WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT 1012 SOUTH OKLAHOMA OKMULGEE, OKMULGEE COUNTY, OKLAHOMA 74447 3. RESPONDENT WAS IN VIOLATION OF SECTION 301(A) OF THE CWA BY: 1) DISCHARGING POLLUTANTS FROM ITS FACILITY WHICH EX- CEEDED PERMITTED EFFLUENT LIMITATIONS ON THAN 5,000 DIS- CHARGES; 2) FAILING TO PROPERLY OPERATE AND MAINTAIN ITS TREATMENT UNITS WHICH RESULTED IN THE EXCESSIVE DIS- CHARGES OF POLLUTANTS FROM ITS FACILITY; AND C) NUMEROUS UNAUTHORIZED DISCHARGES OF UNTREATED OR IMPROPERLY TREAT- ED WATER FROM AN UNAUTHORIZED DISCHARGE POINT TO WATERS OF THE U.S. 4. RELIEF SOUGHT PURSUANT TO SECTION 309 OF THE CWA, EPA SUBMITTED A DIRECT REFERRAL TO DOJ REQUESTING AN INITIA- TION OF A CIVIL ENFORCEMENT ACTION AGAINST THE RESPOND- ENT FOR INJUNCTIVE RELIEF AND OTHER RELIEF.

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