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GENERAL OIL - NORTHVILLE ADMIN ORDER ON CONSENT (CERCLA)

Administrative - Formal · FY2004 · — · — · 108905

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Cost recovery
Compliance action

Case

Case Number
05-2004-0504
Type
Administrative - Formal
Lead
EPA
Outcome
Multimedia
Self-disclosure
N

Defendants (1)

Summary

BEGINNING IN 1950, MERGRAF OIL COMPANY OPERATED A USED OIL REPROCESSING FACILITY. THEN MERGRAF OIL AND D.A. STUART USED UNLINED LAGOONS ON THE NORTHERN PART OF THE GENERAL OIL PROPERTY TO STORE AND PROCESS WASTE OILS. BETWEEN 1983 AND 1991, A SERIES OF INVESTIGATIONS WAS CONDUCTED THAT OIL IN WELLS NEAR FORD POND WAS CONTAMINATED WITH PCBS. A SITE ASSESSMENT CONDUCTED BY U.S. EPA IN JUNE OF 2002 CONFIRMED THAT OIL CONTAINING PCBS IN THE 25 TO 150 PPM RANGE WAS SEEPING INTO FORD POND. BASED ON THE FINDINGS OF FACT SET FORTH ABOVE, RESPONDENTS, ALLIED WASTE SYSTEMS, INC., DAIMLER CHRYSLER CORPORATION, D.A. STUART COMPANY, INC., DELPHI CORPORATION, EATON CORPORATION, FORD MOTOR COMPANY, GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION, GENERAL OIL CORPORATION, HONEYWELL, INC., INDIANA MICHIGAN POWER COMPANY, LUCAS VARITY AUTOMOTIVE HOLDING COMPANY ( AS SUCCESSOR TO MASSEY-FERGUSON ), OWENS-ILLINOIS, INC., REYNOLDS METALS COMPANY, AND TECUMSEH PRODUCTS COMPANY, SHALL PERFORM THE REMOVAL ACTIONS. RESPONDENTS SHALL MAKE A LUMP-SUM PAYMENT TO U.S. EPA IN THE AMOUNT OF $50,000 TO SATISFY RESPONDENTS' OBLIGATION FOR FUTURE RESPONSE COSTS. RESPONDENTS FAIL TO FULLY PERFORM ANY REQUIREMENT OF THIS CONSENT ORDER IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE SCHEDULE ESTABLISHED PURSUANT TO THIS CONSENT ORDER, RESPONDENTS SHALL BE LIABLE, AND SHALL BE STIPULATED AND STATUTORY PENALTIES. PENALTIES SHALL CONTINUE TO ACCRUE DURING ANY DISPUTE RESOLUTION PERIOD. VIOLATION OF ANY PROVISION OF THIS CONSENT ORDER MAY SUBJECT RESPONDENTS TO

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