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EPA files complaints against 10 wastewater treatment plants
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Friday, July 30, 2010
PHILADELPHIA — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently filed administrative penalty complaints against 10 publicly owned wastewater treatment plants operated by nine municipalities in Pennsylvania for failing to comply with the Clean Water Act, according to a press release.
The 10 plants’ Clean Water Act discharge permits require them to periodically reevaluate their industrial pretreatment programs and submit information from that reevaluation to state and federal regulators.
The complaints allege in part that the plant operators failed to conduct the sampling needed to reevaluate the pollution limits they set for industrial users, the release stated.
The penalties range from $22,000 to $32,000.
“Wastewater treatment plants are the last line of defense against the disposal of harmful pollutants into our rivers and streams,” said EPA Regional Administrator Shawn M. Garvin. “Uncontrolled discharges of pollution can result when municipalities don’t update their pretreatment programs to protect our waterways as the law requires.”
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