Chateau Estates, located at 3565 Folk Ream Road, is comprised of 225 mobile homes. It was initially ordered to connect to North Hampton in 2006 and did so by September of that year, according to the EPA. That November, Helen LLC was notified it was exceeding its agreed limit of waste water sent to North Hampton.
In December, the park violated EPA orders by diverting part of the flow back to its wastewater treatment plant, which discharges into Donnels Creek.
The EPA sent notices of violation to the facility. Chateau Estates complied and installed a temporary solution to prevent water from entering the wastewater treatment plant.
The facility is now ordered to permanently plug the sewer.
Chateau Estates is not a stranger to water issues. High levels of arsenic in its drinking water caused a group of residents, nine years ago, to start a legal fight to get clean water.
Five years later the park was ordered to get a water filtration system installed and a $1 million system paid for by the EPA was installed.
The residents dropped their lawsuit in 2008.
Contact this reporter at (937) 328-0347 or kmori@coxohio.com.
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