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City of Salem Wastewater Treatment Plant to pay $25,000 fine for Permit
Violations
Philadelphia (Nov 18, 2024) – The United States Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) announced it has entered into a Consent Agreement and Final Order
with the City of Salem, West Virginia for Clean Water Act (CWA) violations at
its wastewater treatment plant. The City of Salem was cited for several CWA
violations for failing to, among other things, comply with the effluent limits
contained in its National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES)
permit and discharging more pollutants than permissible into Salem Fork, a
tributary of the Monongahela River. The City of Salem has agreed to pay a
$25,000 fine in settlement of its CWA violations.
This civil penalty action follows an Administrative Order on Consent (AOC)
that was filed earlier this year in April 2024. In addition to paying the
civil penalty, the City of Salem has agreed pursuant to the AOC to develop and
implement an updated Operations and Maintenance Manual, conduct an engineering
evaluation of the wastewater treatment plant, develop and implement a
corrective action plan to improve the operations at its wastewater treatment
plant and correct all effluent exceedances.  EPA pursued these actions due to
the fact that continued violations without corrective action posed the
potential for harm to aquatic life with excessive discharges of pollutants
including fecal bacteria, suspended solids, ammonia nitrogen, and copper.
The CWA regulates certain discharges of pollutants from point sources,
including wastewater treatment plants, through NPDES permits.  These permits
contain limits on what parameters can be discharged by the facility and at
what acceptable levels to ensure water quality. 
A copy of the consent agreement and final order can be found here.
For more information about EPA’s NPDES municipal wastewater program, visit
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