Cmwlth Ct affirms $11,589 penalty for mobile home park's discharge of treated sewage in violation of NPDES

摘要

Commonwealth Court held on March 18 that a $11,589 civil penalty imposed by the Department of Environmental Protection reasonably fit a mobile home park's violations of its National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit by discharging treated sewage into an unnamed tributary to Lizard Creek. The panel upheld the Environmental Hearing Board's approval of the penalty imposed on The Pines of West Penn, a mobile home park in New Ring-gold consisting of 200 homes and an on-site sewage treatment plant.