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City of Toledo, Ohio, Clean Water Act Settlement
The Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Justice and the State of Ohio announced on June 28, 2002, the Federal court filing of a Clean Water Act settlement in which the City of Toledo, Ohio, agrees to make extensive improvements to its sewage treatment plant and its sewage collection and transportation system.
Toledo will more than double sewage treatment capacity, build a basin to hold excess sewage and improve the sewage collection and treatment system. These activities should eliminate most of the raw sewage discharges from the city's treatment plant and sewers, even during peak flow times.
The city will pay a $500,000 penalty and spend at least $1 million to undertake two environmental improvement projects: restoring and providing public access to wetlands in the Duck Creek basin near the east bank of the Maumee River, and development in an area of newly developed industrial enterprises.
The proposed consent decree was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, and is subject to a 30-day public comment period.
- Press Release 08/28/02)
- Consent Decree (PDF) (118.3K, 84 pp, About pdf)
Enforcement Programs
Enforcement Priorities
- EPA's Clean Water Act National Enforcement Priorities
- Compliance and Enforcement Strategy Addressing Combined Sewer Overflows and Sanitary Sewer Overflows (PDF) (72K, 17 pp, About pdf)
- Setting Priorities for Addressing Discharges from Separate Sanitary Sewers, March 7, 1996 (PDF) (20K, 9 pp, About pdf)
- "Enforcement Alert" Newsletter: "EPA Strategically Addressing Raw Sewage Discharges Across Nation to Protect Public,
Environment (PDF)" Volume 6, Number 1 (March 2003) (EPA 300-N-03-001) (101K, 4 pp)
- "Enforcement Alert" Newsletter: "EPA Addresses Pollutants in Storm Water Through Systematic Enforcement Strategy (PDF)"
Volume 5, Number 3 (April 2002) (159K, 6 pp, About pdf)
General Information
For additional information, contact:
Alan Morrissey
U.S. EPA
1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW (2243A)
Washington, DC 20460
(202) 564-4026
morrissey.alan@epa.gov