EPA v. PRASA TOA ALTA HEIGHTS WWTP
Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
Compliance action
$25,000
Case summary
********** THE TOA ALTA HEIGHTS WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT HAS NOT BEEN ABILE TO CONSISTENTLY MEET IT'S EFFLUENT LIMITATIONS SINCE JANUARY 2000. SPECIFICALLY THE FACILITY HAS VIOLATED THE FOLLOWING PARAMETERS: BOD, TSS, DO, COLOR, SURFACTANTS, TURBIDITY, PHOSPHOROUS, MAGANESE, FLOW, RESIDUAL CHLORINE, TOTAL COLIFORM, FECAS COLIFORM AND AMMONIA. IN ADDITION, DURING AN INSPECTION CONDUCTED BY EPA ON MAY 7, 2001, SEVERAL OPERATIONAL DEFICIENCIES WERE OBSERVED. THE ORDER REQUIRES PRASA TO IMMEDIATELY MAXIMIZE THE OPERATION OF THE FACILITY TO MEET EFFLUENT LIMITATIONS AND TO CORRECT THE DEFICIENCIES AT THE FACILITY.
Defendants (1)
- PRASA TOA ALTA HEIGHTS WWTPNamed in complaintNamed in settlement
Facilities (1)
PRASA - TOA ALTA HEIGHTS
ST 29TH, TOA ALTA, PR, 00953
Registry ID: 110013696777
Statutes cited
- CWA 301 — NPDES Discharge without a Permit
Enforcement conclusions (1)
PRASA TOA ALTA HEIGHTS WWTPentered 2001-05-25
Primary law: CWA
Timeline (3 milestones)
- 2001-05-25Final Order Issued
- 2001-05-25Enforcement Action Closed
- 2001-05-31Enforcement Action Data Entered
Case metadata
- EPA activity ID
- 8369
- Case number
- 02-2001-3046
- Lead agency
- EPA
- HQ division
- WAT
- Branch
- CT
- EPA region
- 02
- Multimedia
- No
- Voluntary self-disclosure
- No
- Primary statute
- NPDES Discharge without a Permit
Sourced verbatim from EPA ECHO Enforcement Case Report for case 02-2001-3046 . Bulk data: ICIS-FEC download summary.
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