# CALTRANS - ROUTE 56 PROJECT
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2001 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `53824`
- **Case Number:** 09-2001-0117
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- CALTRANS DISTRICT 11 - ST RTE 56 PROJECT (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

THIS IS AN CLASS II APO PURSUANT TO CWA 309(G)(2) AGAINST    CALTRANS DIST. 11 FOR NPDES CONSTRUCTION STORM WATER         PERMIT VIOLATIONS AT THE STATE ROUTE 56 CONSTRUCTION PROJECT LOCATED IN POWAY, SAN DIEGO COUNTY, CA.  EPA INSPECTORS HAD  MADE SEVERAL INSPECITONS OF THIS PROJECT AND PLACED CALTRAN  ON NOTICE OF OUR CONCERNS. ON 1/11/01 DURING A RAIN          EVENT, EPA INSPECTOR NOTED SIGNIFICANT AMOUNTS OF SEDIMENT   BEING DISCHARGED TO LOS PENASQUITOS CREEK, TRIBUTARY         TO LOS PENASQUITOS LAGOON, WHICH IS LISTED BY THE STATE      OF CAL AS BEING WATER QUALITY IMPAIRED DUE TO SEDIMENTATION/ TURBIDITY.

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