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PRASA TOA ALTA HEIGHTS WWTP

Administrative - Formal · FY2001 · — · Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication · 8369

Penalty
Cost recovery
$25K
Compliance action

Case

Case Number
02-2001-3046
Type
Administrative - Formal
Lead
EPA
Outcome
Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
Multimedia
N
Self-disclosure
N

Defendants (1)

Summary

********** THE TOA ALTA HEIGHTS WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT HAS NOT BEEN ABILE TO CONSISTENTLY MEET IT'S EFFLUENT LIMITATIONS SINCE JANUARY 2000. SPECIFICALLY THE FACILITY HAS VIOLATED THE FOLLOWING PARAMETERS: BOD, TSS, DO, COLOR, SURFACTANTS, TURBIDITY, PHOSPHOROUS, MAGANESE, FLOW, RESIDUAL CHLORINE, TOTAL COLIFORM, FECAS COLIFORM AND AMMONIA. IN ADDITION, DURING AN INSPECTION CONDUCTED BY EPA ON MAY 7, 2001, SEVERAL OPERATIONAL DEFICIENCIES WERE OBSERVED. THE ORDER REQUIRES PRASA TO IMMEDIATELY MAXIMIZE THE OPERATION OF THE FACILITY TO MEET EFFLUENT LIMITATIONS AND TO CORRECT THE DEFICIENCIES AT THE FACILITY.

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