Moscow, ID

Moscow, ID: (Jun-20-07) The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) brought charges against the city of Moscow, over alleged Clean Water Act violations related to the city's discharge of wastewater. The city owns and operates a wastewater treatment facility that discharges treated wastewater into Paradise Creek. The wastewater treatment plant is part of a sanitary sewer system that receives domestic wastewater from residential and commercial sources serving a population of approximately 22,000. The suit claimed that discharge from the city's facility exceeded the fecal coliform bacteria, copper, biochemical oxygen demand (BOD), total suspended solids (TSS), pH, and total residual chlorine effluent limits on numerous occasions. The discharge analysis showed that it exceeded the limits that were set in the city's National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit. The suit stated that between March 2002 and June 2006, the facility had 871 effluent limit violations. In a settlement reached, the city of Moscow agreed to pay the EPA $134,000, resolving the environmental damage lawsuit. [WEBWIRE: WASTEWATER VIOLATIONS]

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Published on Jun-23-07