# PEQUEA WATER COOPERATIVE ASSOC. INC.
> **Judicial** · FY1984 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `9648`
- **Case Number:** 03-1984-0019
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $500
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- PEQUEA WATER COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATION INC (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

=> THE PEQUEA WATER CO-OP ASSOC. INC. A NON-PROFIT      CORPORATION, SUPPLIES WATER FROM AN ENCLOSED SPRING TO THE   67 HOMES IN THE VILLAGE OF PEQUEA, LANCASTER COUNTY, PA.     THE SYSTEM CONSISTS OF AN OLD 3 INCH CAST IRON GRAVITY FED   MAIN AND LATERALS. THERE IS NO DISINFECTION EQUIPMENT IN     PLACE.                                                            => PEQUEA HAS CONSISTENTLY VIOLATED THE MCL FOR COLI-   FORM BACTERIA. THERE ARE ALSO 2 VIOLATIONS OF THE NITRATE    MCL. PEQUEA HAS ALSO VIOLATED THE MONITORING & REPORTING     REQUIREMENTS ON NUMEROUS OCCASIONS.                               => THE THREAT TO HEALTH IS POSED BY THE CONSISTENT      COLIFORM BACTERIA VIOLATIONS. COLIFORM BACTERIA ARE INDICAT- ORS OF POSSIBLE FECAL COLIFORM CONTAMINATION. FECAL COLIFORM BACTERIA ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR NUMEROUS WATER BOURNE DISEASES, SOME OF WHICH CAN BE FATAL. HIGH NITRATES ARE ALSO A DANGER  TO NEW-BORN BABIES.

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