# MERIDIAN RESOURCE CORPORATION - WEST LAKE VERET
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2001 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `41602`
- **Case Number:** 06-2001-4524
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $500
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- MERIDIAN RESOURCE CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

1. SECTION 311(B)(6)(B)(I) OF THE CLEAN WATER ACT  ( CWA ),     33 U.S.C. SECTION 1321(B)(6)(B)(I), AS AMENDED BY THE OIL    POLLUTION ACT OF 1990.                                    2. MERIDIAN RESOURCE CORPORATION- CRUDE OIL FLOWLINE TO WELL    NO. 17                                                       WEST LAKE VERET PRODUCTION FACILITY                          BREAUX BRIDGE, SAINT MARTIN PARISH, LOUISIANA 70517       3. RESPONDENT WAS IN VIOLATION OF SECTION 311(B)(3) OF THE      CWA BY THE UNAUTHORIZED DISCHARGE OF 5 BARRELS OF OIL        FROM ITS FACILITY INTO OR UPON WEST LAKE VERET AND AD-       JOINING SHORELINES.                                       4. RELIEF SOUGHT PURSUANT TO SECTION 311(B)(6)(B)(I) OF THE     CWA, EPA ASSESSED THE RESPONDENT A CIVIL PENALTY OF $500     FOR THE VIOLATION CITED.

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