# OMEGA PROCESSING COMPANY, INC.
> **Judicial** · FY1984 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `74`
- **Case Number:** 01-1984-0007
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $25K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- OMEGA PROCESSING (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

THIS CASE INVOLVES VIOLATIONS OF THE CLEAN WATER ACT BY    OMEGA PROCESSING COMPANY, INC., AN ELECTROPLATER DOING       BUSINESS IN MONSON, MASSACHUSETTS.                             THE COMPANY'S DISCHARGE MONITORING REPORTS HAVE REVEALED   VIOLATIONS OF ITS NPDES PERMIT FOR SEVEN OUT OF THE LAST     NINE MONTHS.  MOREOVER, AN EPA INSPECTION IN JANUARY 1984    DEMONSTRATED ADDITIONAL EFFLUENT VIOLATIONS, AND GENERAL     PERMIT CONDITION VIOLATIONS.                                  (THE FOLLOWING IS AN AMENDMENT TO THIS CWA CASE, INCORPOR-  ATING VIOLATIONS OF HAZARDOUS WST REGS ENFORCEABLE UNDER     RCRA.)                                                            AN INSPECTION OF OMEGA ON 5/25/84, BY EPA'S WSTE MGT    DIV REVEALED RCRA VIOL'S FOUND AT 42 USC SECT 6901-6987.     FILING OF COMPLAINT UNDER THE CWA WAS DELAYED TO ALLOW FOR   FURTHER INVESTIGATION INTO RCRA VIOL'S.  A COMPLAINT INCLUD- ING COUNTS UNDER BOTH THE CWA & RCRA WAS FILED ON 9/10/84,   IN U.S. DIST COURT.                                            DEFENDANT:                                                      OMEGA PROCESSING IS LOCATED ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF THE     BUSINESS CTR IN MONSON, A RURAL COMMUNITY OF APPROX 7,135    PERSONS IN SO. CENTRAL MASS.  THE FACILITY'S MAIN BLDG CON-  SISTS OF A BASEMENT WHERE ELECTROPLATING OPERATIONS, LOADING DOCKS, OFFICES, & UNUSED STORAGE AREA ARE LOCATED, & A       GROUND FLOOR WHERE PLATING BATHS, CHEMICALS, & EQUIPMENT ARE STORED.  THE STORAGE BLDG'S 1ST FLOOR 

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