# BOURDEAUDHUI, ET AL.
> **Judicial** · FY1988 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `148`
- **Case Number:** 01-1988-0010
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** $0
- **Cost recovery:** $200K
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- A. LEVENTHAL AND SONS, INC (complaint) (settlement)
- BATTLE, EDWARD (complaint) (settlement)
- BENCO DENTAL SUPPLY CO. (complaint) (settlement)
- BOURDEAUDHUI, ELSIE (complaint) (settlement)
- BOURDEAUDHUI, EUGENE L. (complaint) (settlement)
- INDIVDUAL BREAKDOWN
- OTT DENTAL SUPPLY CO. (complaint) (settlement)
- SMITH-HOLDEN, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

IN APRIL, 1983, A LARGE DEPOSIT OF MERCURY WAS DISCOVERED  BY CHILDREN USING A METAL DETECTOR AT ONE OF THE SITES.  THE CHILDREN RECOVERED APPROXIMATELY TEN POUNDS OF MERCURY USING THEIR T-SHIRTS TO SCREEN THE MERCURY FROM THE SOIL.  WHEN    THEY BROUGHT THE MATERIAL HOME, THEIR PARENTS REPORTED THE   DISCOVERY AND LODGED A COMPLAINT WITH THE CONNECTICUT DEPT.  OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION (CT DEP).                          MR. BOURDEAUDHUI PURCHASED WASTE DENTAL AMALGAM FROM       1969 UNTIL 1984 FROM DENTISTS AND DENTAL EQUIPMENT AND       SUPPLY COMPANIES, AND PROCESSED THAT AMALGAM TO RECOVER      SILVER AND MERCURY UTILIZING A CRUDE STILL. MR. BOURDEAUDHUI PROCESSED AMALGAM AT THE BOURDEAUDHUI SITE FROM 1969 UNTIL   1973 AND AT THE KAPINOS SITE FROM 1974 UNTIL 1984. AS A CON- SEQUENCE OF MR. BOURDEAUDHUI'S PROCESSING OPERATION, EXTEN-  SIVE SOIL CONTAMINATION OCCURRED AT THOSE SITES. THE CONTAM- INATION OCCURRED AT THOSE SITES.  THE CONTAMINATION IS BE-   LIEVED TO BE THE DIRECT RESULT OF CONDENSATION OF VAPORIZED  MERUCURY, AS WELL AS POSSIBLE SPILLAGE OF MERCURY SOLUTE.

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