# ARMOUR FRESH MEATS CO & CON AGRA INC
> **Judicial** · FY1986 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `54028`
- **Case Number:** 10-1986-0010
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $150K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- ARMOUR FRESH MEATS CO (complaint) (settlement)
- CON AGRA INC (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

ARMOUR FRESH MEATS CO (ARMOUR), A SUBSIDIARY OF CON AGRA   INC, OPERATES A COMPLEX SLAUGHTERHOUSE AND MEAT PROCESSING   FACILITY IMMEDIATELY EAST OF NAMPA, ID.  ON THE MORNING OF   1/31/86, A BREACH OCCURRED IN A WASTE TREATMENT POND         ADJACENT TO THE PACKING PLANT ALLOWING A DISCHARGE OF        APPROXIMATELY 6.7 MILLION GALLONS OF PARTIALLY-TREATED       PROCESS WASTEWATER AND SLUDGE INTO INDIAN CREEK, A SMALL     WATERCOURSE.  THIS DISCHARGE CAUSED SEVERE ENVIRONMENTAL     DAMAGE TO THE RESIDENT FISHERY AND OTHER BIOTA IN INDIAN     CREEK FROM THE ARMOUR PLANT SITE THROUGH NAMPA AND CALDWELL, ID, TO THE BOISE RIVER, ABOUT 12 MILES DOWNSTREAM.             ALTHOUGH ARMOUR WAS AWARE OF THE IMMEDIATE DAMAGE AND WAS  AWARE THAT THEIR DISCHARGE WAS OF CONTINUING NATURE, COMPANY OFFICIALS POSTPONED THE CESSATION OF PRODUCTION UNTIL        APPROXIMATELY 7 PM ON 1/31/86.  PRODUCTION DISCHARGE         CONTINUED UNTIL ABOUT 4 PM ON 2/1/86 AT WHICH TIME ARMOUR    COMPLETED TEMPORARY REPAIR OF THE BREACHED DIKE.  IN PART,   THE DISCHARGE CONTINUED BECAUSE OF PLANT CLEAN-UP OPERATIONS REQUIRED BY USDA REGULATIONS.                                  ARMOUR'S TREATMENT FACILITIES WERE INSPECTED 1/8, 1/9,     1/22, 1/31, 2/1, 2/2, 2/4, 2/18, 2/21, 4/3, 4/23, 4/28,      5/2/86.  SAMPLES WERE TAKEN DURING THE MAJORITY OF THESE     INSPECTIONS, AND REVEALED THAT VIOLATIONS OF ARMOUR'S NPDES  PERMIT EFFLUENT LIMITATIONS WERE OCCURRING IN THE EFFLUENT   STREAM.  IN THE JUDGMENT OF THE INSPEC

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