# TAYLOR/BUECHLER
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2003 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `91721`
- **Case Number:** 06-2003-1117
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** —
## Defendants
- James A. Taylor (complaint) (settlement)
- Sherman Buechler
## Summary

VIOLATIONS:   Failed to plug and abandon an injection well within one year after termination of            injection operations.
	Maintaining injection well with a static fluid level above base of underground 	          sources of drinking water providing a potential route for contaminants to flow through the           well bore into underground sources of drinking water.

RELIEF:  Issue Administrative Complaint to assess penalty and to either plug the well or          demonstrate mechanical integrity of the well within 30 days after the effective settlement          date.

PENALTY:  Up to $137,500

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