# HOLLY SUGAR CORPORATION
> **Judicial** · FY1978 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `47676`
- **Case Number:** 08-1978-0011
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $48K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- HOLLY SUGAR CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

HOLLY SUGAR CORPORATION OPERATES A SUGAR BEET PROCESSING  FACILITY LOCATED AT SIDNEY, MT.  THE FACILITY USUALLY IS OPE RATIONAL ONLY FROM OCTOBER THRU JANUARY.  WASTEWATERS WHICH  RESULT FROM DEFENDANT'S BEET PROCESSING OPERATIONS CONTAIN   HEAVY CONCENTRATIONS OF ORGANIC MATERIALS WHICH, WHEN        INTRODUCED TO THE RECEIVING WATERS, CONSUME THE DISSOLVED    OXYGEN IN SUCH WATERS.  THE TYPE OF WASTE MATERIAL IS IDEN-  TIFIED AS BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND(BOD)5.  THE COMPANY      DISCHARGES ITS WASTE WATER THRU A SERIS OF TREATMENT PONDS   LOCATED ON ITS PROPERTY TO THE UNNAMED DITCH, WHICH IN TURN  DISCHARGES TO THE YELLOWSTONE RIVER.                            DURING THE 1973 PROCESSING CAMPAIGN, THE COMPANY VIOLATED CERTAIN PROVISIONS OF THEIR NPDES PERMIT, INCLUDING THE BOD5 LIMITATION PROVIDED IN SECTION 2 OF THE SPECIAL CONDITIONS.

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