# AZ DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS
> **Judicial** · FY1986 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `52084`
- **Case Number:** 09-1986-0013
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $25K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS (complaint) (settlement)
- ARIZONA, STATE OF (complaint) (settlement)
- FLORENCE, TOWN OF (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

THIS CASE ARISES UNDER THE CLEAN WATER ACT AND CONCERNS AN UNPERMITTED DISCHARGE OF SEWAGE EFFLUENT.  THE PRIMARY DE-   FENDANTS ARE THE STATE OF ARIZONA, ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF     CORRECTIONS (ADOC) AND THE TOWN OF FLORENCE, ARIZONA.  ADOC  AND THE TOWN OF FLORENCE ARE JOINT OWNERS OF A               (WWTP) RECEIVING SEWAGE FLOWS FROM THE STATE PRISON AT FLOR- ENCE AND FROM THE TOWN OF FLORENCE.  THE WWTP RECEIVES       APPROXIMATELY 1 MILLION GALLONS PER DAY OF DOMESTIC SEWAGE.  ALSO NAMED AS DEFENDANTS ARE THE DIRECTOR OF ADOC, SAMUEL    LEWIS; AND THE MAYOR OR THE TOWN OF FLORENCE, JAMES ENGLAND.   THE PRIMARY DEFENDANTS HELD A NATIONAL POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM (NPDES) PERMIT FROM 1974-1977 ALLOWING    THEM TO DISCHARGE INTO THE GILA RIVER.  THE PERMIT WAS       ISSUED BY EPA SINCE ARIZONA WAS NOT AUTHORIZED TO ADMINISTER THE NPDES PROGRAM.  DEFENDANTS DID NOT APPLY FOR PERMIT      RENEWAL BECAUSE THEY BEGAN USING THE EFFLUENT FOR IRRIGATION PURPOSES AND CEASED THEIR DISCHARGE IN 1976.  IN OCTOBER,    1983, A FLOOD SEVERELY DAMAGED THE WWTP AND CAUSED THE       RELEASE OF RAW EFFLUENT INTO THE GILA RIVER.  DEFENDANTS     CEASED USING THE EFFLUENT FOR IRRIGATION AND INSTEAD CONTIN- UED TO DISCHARGE RAW OR PARTIALLY TREATED EFFLUENT INTO THE  GILA RIVER.  THIS DISCHARGE HAS CONTINUED TO THE PRESENT     TIME.  DEFENDANTS DID NOT NOTIFY EPA OF THE DISCHARGE OR     APPLY FOR AN NPDES PERMIT.                                     IN JULY, 1985, THE ARIZONA DEPARTMEN

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