# PORT OF LOS ANGELES
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1998 · — · —
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `52934`
- **Case Number:** 09-1998-0057
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** —
- **Penalty assessed:** $525K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- PORT OF LOS ANGELES (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

SEDIMENTS (MUD) DREDGED FROM HARBOR AND DISPOSED AT SEA WERE IN EXCESS OF AMOUNTS AUTHORIZED IN PERMITS, PLUS SOME OF     THE SEDIMENTS DUMPED WERE CONTAMINATED, AND SOME WERE        UNTESTED. THE DUMPSITE WAS APPROXIMATELY 9.7 KILOMETERS      OFF THE COAST OF PALOS VERDE PENINSULA, CALIFORNIA.          EXACT LOCATION AT 33 DEGREES, 37.10 MINUTES NORTH            LATITUDE; 118 DEGREES, 17.40 MINUTES WEST LONGITUDE.         OCEAN FLOOR IS APPROXIMATELY 300 FEET DEEP IN THIS AREA.     DUMPED SEDIMENT COVERED CIRCULAR AREA WITH A RADIUS OF       APPROXIMATELY 3000 FEET. PENALTY ASSESSED BY CONSENT         AGREEMENT IN THE AMOUNT OF $525,000.

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