# MAINE METAL FINISHING
> **Judicial** · FY1982 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `56`
- **Case Number:** 01-1982-0028
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $35K
- **Cost recovery:** $0
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- MAINE METAL FINISH (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

NATURE OF THE CASE:                                             THE CO DISCHARGES TOXIC POLLUTANTS INTO A SERIES OF     LAGOONS. FOR MANY YRS, THERE HAS BEEN A BREAKOUT FROM THE    FINAL LAGOON CAUSING A SUBSTANTIAL DISCHARGE OF TOXIC        POLLUTANTS INTO THE STROUDWATER RIVER. AFTER THIS BREAK-     OUT WAS DISCOVERED, THIS REGN ASKED THE CO, BY LTR           10/29/81, TO APPLY FOR AN NPDES PERMIT. THE CO HAS FAILED    TO DO SO & IS CONTINUING TO DISCHARGE W/O A PERMIT. THE      RESULTING PROBLEM HAS BEEN DESCRIBED BY THE DIRECTOR OF      THE STATE OF MAINE'S BUREAU OF WATER QUALITY CONTROL AS      ONE OF THE MOST SERIOUS WATER POLLUTION PROBLEMS IN THE      STATE. STATE OFFICIALS HAVE BEEN WORKING W/THE CO BUT        HAVE NOT OBTAINED ITS EXPEDITIOUS COOPERATION.

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