# FISHERVILLE MILL
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2000 · — · —
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `1254`
- **Case Number:** 01-2000-0057
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** —
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** $240K
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- FISHERVILLE MILL (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

THE REMOVAL ACTION UNDER THE ORDER WILL CONSIST OF EPA  WORKING WITH CMEDA TO REMOVE ASBESTOS CONTAMINATED BUILDING  DEBRIS FROM THE SITE, WHICH WILL ALLOW THE MASSACHUSETTS     DEP AND CMEDA TO ADDRESS GROUNDWATER CONTAMINATION AT THE    FORMER MILL SITE.  THE FORMER 330,000 SQUARE FOOT MILL       COMPLEX HAD BEEN THE SITE OF A BROWNSFIELD REDEVELOPMENT     PROJECT BY CMEDA, PARTIALLY FUNDED BY EPA, WITH WAS          DESTROYED IN A MASSIVE FIRE LAST YEAR.  AFTER THE FIRE,      EPA SPENT APPROXIMATELY $554,000 TO REMOVE THE ASBESTOS      DEBRIS FROM COMMUNITIES UP TO TWELVE MILES DOWNWIND OF THE   FIRE.  WITH THE ONGOING RISK THAT A PLUME OF VOLATILE        ORGANIC COMPOUND (VOC) CONTAMINATED GROUNDWATER UNDER THE    MILL WOULD MIGRATE OFFSITE AND THREATEN DOWNGRADIENT         DRINKING WATER WELLS AND THE ADJACENT BLACKSTONE RIVER.      UNDER THE AOC, EPA'S SUPERFUND REMOVAL PROGRAM WILL PROVIDE  HEAVY EQUIPMENT AND EQUIPMENT OPERATORS TO SEGREGATE         UNCONTAMINATED, SALVAGEABLE DEBRIS (STEEL, GRANITE, ETC)     FROM THE ASBESTOS CONTAMINATED MATERIAL AND PLACE THE        CONTAMINATED DEBRIS INTO TRUCKS FOR OFF-SITE DISPOSAL.       CMEDA'S OBLIGATION UNDER THE AOC IS TO PROVIDE THE TRUCKS    AND TO ARRANGE AND PAY FOR OFF-SITE DISPOSAL AT A LICENSED   LANDFILL.  BY REMOVING THE ASBESTOS-CONTAMINATED FIRE        DEBRIS, MA AND DEP WILL HAVE SAFE ACCESS TO TEH SITE WHICH   WILL ENABLE THEM TO INVESTIGATE AND DEAL WITH THE GROUND-    WATER CONTAMINATION ISSUES.

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