# CHEMPLATE CORPORATION
> **Judicial** · FY1985 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `52063`
- **Case Number:** 09-1985-0006
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $22K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- CHEMPLATE CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

THE DEF. IN THE PROPOSED CIV. ACTION IS CHEMPLATE CORP.    CHEMPLATE OWNS & OPERATES AN ELECTROPLATING FACILITY IN LOS  ANGELES, CA. THE FACILITY DISCHARGES PROCESS WASTEWATER INTO THE JOINT WATER POLLUTION CONTROL PLANT (JWPCP) OWNED & OPER ATED BY THE L.A. COUNTY SANITATION DISTRICTS (LACSD) WHERE   IT IS TREATED PRIOR TO BEING DISCHARGED INTO THE PACIFIC     OCEAN. THE JWPCP OPERATES UNDER EXISTING NPDES PERMIT # CA00 53813. CHEMPLATE IS NOT REQUIRED TO OBTAIN A NPDES PERMIT    FOR THE PLANT BECAUSE IT DISCHARGES INTO A PUBLICLY OWNED    TREATMENT WORKS (POTW). AS AN INDUSTRY WHICH DISCHARGES INTO A POTW, CHEMPLATE IS REQUIRED TO COMPLY WITH THE PRETREATMEN T REQUIREMENTS OF CWA/307.                                     THE BASELINE MONITORING REPORTS CHEMPLATE SUBMITTED TO     LACSD INDICATE THAT CHEMPLATE IS DISCHARGING HEAVY METALS    INTO THE JWPCP IN EXCESS OF THE PRETREATMENT STANDARDS FOR   EXISTING ELECTROPLATING FACILITIES - 40 C.F.R. S 413. CHEM-  ICAL ANALYSES PERFORMED ON CHEMPLATE'S DISCHARGE CONFIRMED   THE OCCURRENCE OF EFFLUENT VIOLATIONS FOR NICKEL, CHROMIUM,  COPPER, ZINC, CYANIDE AND TOTAL METALS. THESE POLLUTANTS ARE TOXIC & MANY ARE BIOACCUMULATIVE. THE MOST FLAGRANT VIOLA-   TIONS WERE THE DISCHARGES OF CONSISTENTLY HIGH LEVELS OF     NICKEL AND TOTAL METALS. BASED ON SAMPLING DATA & INSPECTION OF THE FACILITY, EPA REG. 9 BELIEVES THAT CHEMPLATE WILL BE  IN CONTINUOUS VIOLATION OF THE ELECTROPLATING PRETRTMNT STAN DARDS UNTIL IT COMPLETELY IMPLEMENTS I

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