# LFE CORPORATION, INC.
> **Judicial** · FY1984 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `84`
- **Case Number:** 01-1984-0017
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $56K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- LFE CORPORATION, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

SYNOPSIS:                                                        THIS CIVIL ACTION WAS INITIATED TO OBTAIN INJUNCTIVE      RELIEF & PENALTIES UNDER SECT 309(B) & (D) OF THE CWA, 33   U.S.C. SECT. 1319(B),(D), AGAINST DEF FOR VIOLATIONS OF PRE- TREATMENT STDS TO WHICH THE CORP. IS SUBJ AS AN INDUSTRIAL   USER OF A POTW.                                                  LFE OPERATES AN ELECTROPLATING FACILITY IN CLINTON, MA.  APPROX. 20,000 GPD OF INDUSTRIAL WSTEWTRS ARE DISCHARGED     FROM LFE'S FACILITY INTO PUBLIC SEWERS LEADING INTO THE POTW IN CLINTON, MA AND OPERATED BY THE WATER DIVISION OF THE     MDC.  MDC-CLINTON OPERATES UNDER AN NPDES PERMIT.                HIGH CONCENTRATIONS OF CU & PB IN LFE'S DISCHARGE VIO-   LATE THE ELECTROPLATING NAT'L CATEGORICAL STDS TO WHICH LFE  IS SUBJ UNDER THE ACT.  THE LOW PH OF THE DISCHARGE VIOLATES THE SPECIFIC PROHIBITIONS OF THE NATIONAL PROHIBITED DISCH.  STDS.  IN ADDN, LFE HAS FAILED TO COMPLY W/THE MONITORING &  REPORTING REQUIREMENTS OF THE GENERAL PRETREATMENT REGS.         REG I BELIEVES THAT A CIVIL ACTION IS APPROPRIATE BOTH   TO ENSURE THAT LFE COMES INTO COMPLIANCE W/PRETREATMENT STDS BY INSTALLING ADEQUATE TRMT ON A RAPID SCHEDULE & TO EMPHA-  SIZE THE SERIOUSNESS W/WHICH EPA VIEWS SUCH VIOLATIONS SO    THAT OTHER COMPANIES WILL BE ENCOURAGED TO COMPLY W/PRETRMT  REGS.                                                        DEFENDANT:                                                       LFE CORPORATION IS A PUBLIC CORP

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