# PRASA (WTP-MIRADERO)
> **Judicial** · FY1991 · — · Combined With Another Case(s)
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `4153`
- **Case Number:** 02-1991-0161
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Combined With Another Case(s)
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- PRASA (WTP-MIRADERO) (complaint)
- PUERTO RICO, THE COMMONWEALTH OF (complaint)
## Summary

PRASA IS THE OWNER OF THE MIRADERO FILTER PLANT.  THE      FACILITY HAS A NATIONAL POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION      SYSTEM ( NPDES ) PERMIT.  DISCHARGE MONITORING REPORTS       ( DMRS ), PERIODIC REPORTS OF TEST RESULTS ON THE            EFFLUENT OF THE FACILITY REQUIRED BY THE PERMIT, FILED       BY PRASA, HAVE REVEALED VIOLATIONS OF THE EFFLUENT           LIMITS IN ITS PERMIT.  THERE ARE ALSO DEFICIENCIES IN THE    DMRS THEMSELVES.  THEY FAIL TO REPORT CERTAIN EFFLUENT       DATA REQUIRED BY THE PERMIT.  IN ADDITION, THE DMRS HAVE     BEEN SUBMITTED LATE ON AT LEAST 32 OCCASSIONS AND HAVE       NOT BEEN SUBMITTED ON AT LEAST 2 OCCASSIONS.                   THE PROPOSED RELIEF TO BE SOUGHT IS A JUDICIAL ORDER       DIRECTING PRASA TO COMPLY WITH ITS PERMIT REQUIREMENTS       AND CONDITIONS AND THE IMPOSITION OF A CIVIL PENALTY.          AN ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER WAS ISSUED ON 7/18/83.  FROM       1983 TO 1988 EPA, EQB, AND PRASA EXCHANGED CORRESPONDENCE    AND TOOK PART IN NEGOTIATIONS REGARDING COMPLIANCE           SCHEDULES FOR THIS FACILITY AND PRASA'S OTHER WATER          FILTRATION FACILITIES.  VARIOUS LETTERS OF DEFICIENCY        WERE SENT TO PRASA DURING THAT TIME PERIOD.  ON 9/28/88      EPA'S ORDER CITED FINDINGS OF EFFLUENT VIOLATIONS AT         THIS FACILITY AND FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH ITS PERMIT.           ON 3/29/89 EPA ISSUED ANOTHER ORDER TO PRASA REQUIRING     COMPLIANCE AND QUARTERLY REPORTING OF COMPLIANCE MEASURES    TAKEN.  ON 3/2/90, EPA NOTIFIED PRASA 

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