# SALEMVILLE WATER ASSOCIATION
> **Judicial** · FY1979 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `9022`
- **Case Number:** 03-1979-0021
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $100
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- SALEMVILLE WATER ASSOCIATION (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

NATURE OF THE CASE:                                             SPECIFICALLY, DEF'S HAVE VIOL'D THE FOLLOWING RE-       QUIREMENTS OF THE REGULATIONS: (A) THE REPORTING REQUIRE-    MENTS BY FAILING TO REPORT TO EPA RESULTS OF SAMPLING &      ANALYSIS REQUIRED BY THE REGULATIONS, (B) THE MONITORING     REQUIREMENTS BY FAILING TO PERFORM MICROBIOLOGICAL & TUR-    BIDITY SAMPLING & ANALYSIS, EXCEPT DURING THE MONTH OF       9/78 FOR WHICH THE DEF'S REPORTED SAMPLING OF COLIFORM       BACTERIA, & (C) THE REGULATIONS FOR MICROBIOLOGICAL CON-     TAMINANTS & TURBIDITY. (THE 9/78 REPORTED SAMPLE CONTAIN-    ED COLIFORM, A CONTAMINANT PARAMETER, IN EXCESS OF THE       MAXIMUM CONTAMINANT LEVEL AUTHORIZED BY THE REGULATIONS.)         SEC 1414(B) OF THE ACT, 42 USC SEC 300F-3(B), IS THE    AUTHORITY FOR THIS ACTION. IT PROVIDES THAT EPA MAY BRING    A CIVIL ACTION TO ENJOIN VIOL'S OF THE NATIONAL INTERIM      PRIMARY DRINKING WATER REGULATIONS & THAT THE COURT MAY      ENTER AN APPROPRIATE JUDGMENT, INCLUDING, IN THE CASE OF     WILLFUL VIOL'S, CIVIL PLTY'S IN THE AMOUNT OF $5K/DAY.       SINCE DEF'S HAVE BEEN GIVEN WRITTEN & IN PERSON NOTICE ON    REPEATED OCCASIONS OF THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE ACT & THE      REGULATIONS BUT CONTINUE TO VIOLATE THEM WE BELIEVE THAT     DEF'S VIOL'S HAVE BEEN WILLFUL.                                   THE INDIVIDUAL DEF'S, AS CO-OWNERS OF THE WATER SYS-    TEM, ARE W/I THE JURISDICTION OF THE SDWA & ITS REGULA-      TIONS. IN PARTICULAR, THE IMPLEMENTATI

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