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PRASA Puerto Nuevo WWTP

Administrative - Formal · FY2002 · — · — · 87391

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Penalty
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Cost recovery
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Compliance action

Case

Case Number
02-2002-3323
Type
Administrative - Formal
Lead
EPA
Outcome
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Multimedia
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Self-disclosure
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Defendants (1)

Summary

PRASA violated the Act by discharging from the POTW treated sewage at a location other than the authorized in said permit for at least twelve (12) consecutive days. Although the discharge was of treated sewage, it was sewage from a primary treatment plant. Section 301(h) of the CWA allows the discharge of primary treated effluent into deep waters, as it is the case of the Puerto Nuevo WWTP. A penalty is proposed based on the above findings of violations, and after taking into consideration the statutory factors in Section 309(g) of the Act.

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