On July 30, 2015, Region 10 entered a Consent Decree in Idaho Federal Court resolving violations of the Clean Water Act by the City of Jerome. Defendant, which operates a municipally owned wastewater treatment facility, exceeded its NPDES permit limits for total residual chlorine, total suspended solids, E. coli, and biological oxygen demand. The company agreed to pay a penalty of $86,000. The Consent Decree requires the City to spend $43 million to upgrade its existing wastewater treatment plant, and put in place an emergency storage lagoon to be able to divert some of the waste in the future to protect the treatment plant.