# Costco Wholesale
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2006 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `600015597`
- **Case Number:** 09-2006-0255
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** —
## Defendants
- Costco Wholesale Corporation (Hawaii) (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

This is an Administrative Penalty action (APO) issued to Costco Wholesale Corporation pursuant to the Safe Drinking Water Act. The violation involves the continued operation of 3 large capacity cesspools beyond the required April 5, 2005 closure date, thereby allowing ongoing discharge of raw sewage directly to the ground/subsurface. The Complaint seeks a penalty of $75,000 and closure or conversion of the 3 cesspools, and of 2 additional industrial wells, by July 31, 2007.

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