# MERIDIAN RESOURCE CORPORATION - WEST LAKE VERRET FIELD
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2002 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `42212`
- **Case Number:** 06-2002-4807
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $15K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- MERIDIAN RESOURCE CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

1. SECTIONS 311(B)(6)(A)(I) AND 311(B)(6)(B)(I) OF THE CLEAN    WATER ACT ( CWA ), 33 U.S.C. SECTIONS 1321(B)(6)(A)(I)       AND 1321(B)(6)(B)(I), AS AMENDED BY THE OIL POLLUTION ACT    OF 1990.                                                  2. MERIDIAN RESOURCE CORPORATION                                IN THE WEST LAKE VERRET FIELD                                BREAUX BRIDGE, ST. MARTIN PARISH, LOUISIANA 70517         3. RESPONDENT WAS IN VIOLATION OF SECTION 311(B)(3) OF THE      CWA BY THE UNAUTHORIZED DISCHARGE OF 200 BARRELS OF OIL      FROM ITS FACILITY INTO OR UPON WEST LAKE VERRET AND AD-      JOINING SHORELINES.                                       4. RELIEF SOUGHT PURSUANT TO SECTIONS 311(B)(6)(A)(I) AND       311(B)(6)(B)(I) OF THE CWA, EPA PROPOSED A CIVIL PENALTY     IN THE AMOUNT OF $27,500 FOR THE VIOLATION CITED.

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