# IMPERIAL UTILITIES CO.
> **Judicial** · FY1982 · — · Final Order No Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `42268`
- **Case Number:** 07-1982-0009
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order No Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- IMPERIAL UTILITIES CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

* THIS LITIGATION CONCERNS 10 WATER PERMITS (NPDES) *         IMPERIAL UTILITIES CORPORATION. THIS IS A CIVIL ACTION     AGAINST IMPERIAL UTILITIES CORPORATION, JEFFERSON COUNTY,    MISSOURI FOR, AMONG OTHER THINGS, DISCHARGES WITHOUT A PER-  MIT, BYPASSING OF RAW SEWAGE, DISCHARGES IN VIOLATION OF     NPDES EFFLUENT LIMITS AND FAILURE TO SUBMIT NPDES DISCHARGE  MONITORING REPORTS, ALL OF WHICH VIOLATE SEC. 301 OF THE     CLEAN WATER ACT, 33 U.S.C. 1311.                               IMPERIAL UTILITIES CORPORATION IS A PRIVATE SEWER COMPANY, ESTABLISHED IN 1974, WHICH OPERATES NINE SEWAGE TREATMENT    FACILITIES (NAMED ABOVE) AND ONE LIFT STATION IN THE ROCK    CREEK WATERSHED, JEFFERSON COUNTY, MISSOURI.  SEVEN OF THESE FACILITIES DISCHARGE INTO ROCK CREEK OR ITS TRIBUTARIES.     ROCK CREEK IS A HIGH QAULITY STREAM USED FOR WHOLE BODY CON- TACT RECREATION AND DESIGNATED FOR USE AS A WILDLIFE AND     LIVESTOCK WATERING STREAM AND FOR THE PROTECTION OF WARM     WATER AQUATIC LIFE.                                            SINCE 1974, SEVEN OF THESE FACILITIES HAVE DISCHARGED OR   ARE NOW DISCHARGING WITHOUT A VALID NPDES PERMIT.  IN ADDI-  TION, IUC HAS FAILED TO SUBMIT MONITORING REPORTS FOR ANY OF THE PERMITTED FACILITIES AND HAS FAILED TO OPERATE SUCH      FACILITIES PROPERLY AS DOCUMENTED BY FREQUENT STATE REPORTS  OF RAW SEWAGE OVERFLOWS, DISCHARGES OF BLACK, SEPTIC EF-     FLUENT AND BYPASSES.  IN TWO INSTANCES THESE DISCHARGES RE-  SULTED IN FISH KILLS.  SPECIFIC VIOLA

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