EPA v. Alto de Las Flores MDWCA (NM0028819)
Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
Case summary
Respondent is a small/poor community in southern New Mexico that is operating a very old wastewater treatment plant without a permit, without a plant operator, and without sampling or reporting its discharges to EPA for 4 years. The plant discharges into a ditch along side a community field with residential homes along it. EPA is ordering Respondent to get a permit and, in the interim, comply with their previous permit.
Defendants (1)
- Alto de Las Flores MDWCANamed in complaintNamed in settlement
Facilities (1)
ALTO DE LAS FLORES MDWCA
OFF TIERRA DEL SOL ST. IN SAN, SAN MIGUEL, NM, 88058
Registry ID: 110028119042
Statutes cited
- CWA 301 — NPDES Discharge without a Permit
Enforcement conclusions (1)
Alto de Las Flores MDWCA (NM0028819)entered 2004-05-24
Primary law: CWA
Timeline (4 milestones)
- 2004-04-29Enforcement Action Data Entered
- 2004-05-24Final Order Issued
- 2009-07-01Enforcement Action Closed
- 2009-07-01NPDES Closed
Case metadata
- EPA activity ID
- 118880
- Case number
- 06-2004-2199
- Lead agency
- EPA
- Branch
- 6EN-W
- EPA region
- 06
- Voluntary self-disclosure
- No
- Primary statute
- NPDES Discharge without a Permit
Sourced verbatim from EPA ECHO Enforcement Case Report for case 06-2004-2199 . Bulk data: ICIS-FEC download summary.
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