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| Battery manufacturer fined $53,547 for Clean Water Act violations | |
| Friday, June 11, 2010 | |
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| KANSAS CITY, KAN. — East Penn LLC, which operates a lead acid battery manufacturing facility in Corydon, Iowa, has reached a settlement with EPA Region 7 over issues related to the company’s failure to properly monitor and report discharges of its industrial process wastewater into the city’s public wastewater treatment system, according to a press release. The company has agreed to pay a $53,547 civil penalty to the United States in settlement of alleged violations of the Clean Water Act, the release stated. In July 2009, during a compliance inspection of Corydon’s public wastewater treatment system, EPA staff discovered that East Penn LLC’s facility was discharging industrial process wastewater to the city’s system. At that time, the company had never applied for a water pretreatment permit from the Iowa Department of Natural Resources (IDNR), and the city confirmed that the company was not conducting proper monitoring or reporting of wastewater discharges to ensure that the battery plant was in compliance with the Clean Water Act, according to the release. As a result of the settlement, East Penn LLC has filed an application for a pretreatment permit with IDNR and has begun to conduct the required monitoring. To read the entire article, click here. For related information, click here. | |
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