# Dolan Directional Drilling, Inc.
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2008 · — · Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `600071615`
- **Case Number:** 06-2008-1744
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** —
## Defendants
- Dolan Directional Drilling, Inc. (settlement)
## Summary

Violation: Respondent's facility was a  point source   discharge  of pollutants to  waters of the US .  The facility was a drilling operation in Ellis Co., TX.  The facility was inspected on October 10, 2007.  During the inspection the EPA inspector cited a violation to the Clean Water Act (the Act).  The violation was the unauthorized discharge of drilling mud to a tributary of the South Fork Trinity River.

Relief:  An Administrative Order for Compliance is being issued Ordering the Respondent to: cease all discharges of pollutants from the facility; remove all the drilling mud from the impacted water body; and to submit written certification that the previous mentioned activities have been completed.

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