# PLAINVIEW, CITY OF POTW
> **Judicial** · FY2001 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `41502`
- **Case Number:** 06-2001-3713
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- PLAINVIEW, CITY OF (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

1. SECTION 309 OF THE CLEAN WATER ACT ( CWA ), 33 U.S.C.        SECTION 1319.                                             2. CITY OF PLAINVIEW, A TEXAS MUNICIPALITY                      ADJACENT TO RUNNING WATER DRAW, 2 MILES SOUTHEAST OF THE     INTERSECTION OF U.S. HIGHWAY 70 AND STATE HIGHWAY LOOP       445                                                          PLAINVIEW, HALE COUNTY, TEXAS 79072                       3. RESPONDENT WAS IN VIOLATION OF SECTION 301(A) OF THE CWA     BY VIOLATING ITS PERMIT OVER 1900 TIMES BY DISCHARGING       WASTEWATER INTO WATERS OF THE U.S. IN EXCESS OF ITS PER-     MITTED EFFLUENT LIMITS.                                   4. RELIEF SOUGHT PURSUANT TO SECTION 309 OF THE CWA, EPA        SUBMITTED A DIRECT REFERRAL REQUESTING DOJ INITIATE A        CIVIL ENFORCEMENT ACTION FOR INJUNCTIVE AND OTHER RELIEF     AGAINST THE RESPONDENT. EPA IS SEEKING AN INJUNCTION         WHICH WOULD IMPLEMENT A COMPLIANCE PLAN THAT ASSURED COM-    PLIANCE BY OCT. 2003. THE PROPOSED BOTTOM-LINE PENALTY IS    $419,095.

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