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Barrett's Minerals, Inc.

Judicial · FY1999 · — · Litigated With Penalty · 85044

Penalty
Cost recovery
Compliance action

Case

Case Number
08-1999-0284
Type
Judicial
Lead
EPA
Outcome
Litigated With Penalty
DOJ Docket
90-5-1-1-06884
Multimedia
Self-disclosure
N

Defendants (1)

Summary

'This case is being referred for 3 sets of violations under sections 301 and 402 of the CWA. EPA alleges that Barrett''s violated its NPDES permit for the discharge of process wastewaters consisting of drainage from its talc mine. Specifically, Barretts violated it TSS permit limit on 18 occasions from 9/94 to 6/99. Additionally, Barretts has never met the nitrate limit since the permit was issued. Barretts also chronically failed to measure its discharge flowrate from 1/98 through 1/99.'

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