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EPA Region 3 and Four Manufactured Home Communities Settle Wastewater
Treatment Cases in Ann Arundel County, Maryland with $1.1 million in penalties
Settlement protects waters leading to the Chesapeake Bay
PHILADELPHIA (Aug. 29, 2024) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
announced today a final settlement over alleged violations related to
wastewater treatment plants with Manufactured Home Community (MHC) management
company Horizon Land Management, LLC (Horizon), and four of the MHCs it
manages located in Lothian and Harwood, Maryland. Horizon is the managing
agent for over 170 MHCs across the country. 
Through four administrative consent agreements with EPA, Horizon and the four
MHCs—Boone’s Estates MHC, LLC, Lyons Creek MHC, LLC, Maryland Manor MHC,
LLC and Patuxent MHC, LLC—will pay a combined total of $1,136,162 in
penalties for alleged Clean Water Act violations associated with discharges
from their wastewater treatment plants into local waterways, including
suspended solids, nitrogen, dissolved oxygen and E. coli.  From January 2019
to October 2023, Boone’s had 194 exceedances of permit limits, Lyons Creek
had 50 exceedances, Maryland Manor had 33 exceedances, and Patuxent had 38
exceedances.  These exceedances introduce illegal pollutants into the
Patuxent River and its tributaries, negatively impacting water quality in
those water bodies, which flow to the Chesapeake Bay.
The four MHCs are located in potential Environmental Justice Areas of Concern,
and experience other environmental stressors from other industrial activity. 
Maintenance of the wastewater treatment plants in each community was neglected
for years.  In December 2023, EPA Region 3 entered into four Administrative
Orders on Consent for Horizon and the MHCs to repair and improve the
maintenance of each wastewater treatment plant to bring the plants back into
compliance with their permits.
EPA Region 3 worked in conjunction with the Maryland Department of the
Environment to address these cases. 
This settlement also furthers EPA’s obligation to reduce significant
noncompliance and improve surface water quality by addressing unauthorized
discharges and other violations that may impact public health and the
environment. 
For more information about the Clean Water Act permit program,
visit www.epa.gov/npdes.
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