# CHASE BRASS & COPPER
> **Judicial** · FY2005 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `154595`
- **Case Number:** 01-2005-0012
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** —
## Defendants
- BP AMERICA INC (complaint) (settlement)
- CHASE BRASS & COPPER (complaint) (settlement)
- INDUSTRIAL HOLDINGS CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- KEN-CHAS RESERVE COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- STANDARD OIL COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

THE CHASE BRASS & COPPER COMPANY OWNED AND OPERATED THIS SITE AS A DISPOSAL AREA FOR WASTE FROM ITS METAL FORGING OPERATIONS, WHICH DATE BACK TO 1868. THE WASTE COVERED 5 ACRES ALONG THE BANK OF THE NAUGATUCK RIVER AND CONTAINED HIGH CONCENTRATIONS OF HEAVY METALS, ASBESTOS AND PAHS. THESE CONDITIONS POSED A THREAT TO HUMANS AND WILDLIFE CONTACTING THE SITE AND WERE CAUSING CONTAMINATION OF THE RIVER. EPA COMPLETED A CLEANUP OF THE SITE IN 2003. IN THIS ACTION, EPA SEEKS TO RECOVER THE COSTS OF THE CLEANUP FROM THE CORPORATE SUCCESSORS TO THE CHASE BRASS AND COPPER COMPANY.

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