# TRI CITY INDUSTRIAL DISPOSAL
> **Judicial** · FY1989 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `20524`
- **Case Number:** 04-1989-0131
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $2.06M
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- DOW CORNING CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- FORD MOTOR COMPANY, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- LLC (SUCCESSOR TO WASTE MGMT OF KY) (complaint) (settlement)
- WASTE MANAGEMENT OF KENTUCKY, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- WMX TECHNOLOGIES, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

THIS IS A COST RECOVERY ACTION UNDER SECTION 107 OF       CERCLA FOR RECOVERY OF REMOVAL COSTS INCURRED BY EPA IN THE  SUMMERS OF 1988 AND 1989.  THE CASE INVOLVES AN INDUSTRIAL   WASTE DISPOSAL DUMP/LANDFILL LOCATED IN BROOKS, KY, A RURAL  AREA OF BULLITT COUNTY LOCATED ABOUT 15 MILES SE OF          LOUISVILLE.  THE SITE WAS OPERATED AS AN INDUSTRIAL WASTE    DUMP FROM APPROXIMATELY LATE 1964 THROUGH THE FIRST HALF OF  1967.  DURING AT LEAST A PORTION OF THIS TIME, THE SITE WAS  LEASED AND OPERATED BY TRI-CITYINDUSTRIAL SERVICES, INC.,    WHICH OVER THE YEARS HAS UNDERGONE A SERIES OF MERGERS INTO  WHAT IS NOW WASTE MANAGEMENT OF KENTUCKY, INC.  TRI-CITY     NOT ONLY OPERATED THE SITE, BUT ALSO ACTED AS THE TRANS-     PORTER OF WASTES TO THE SITE.  IT HAS BEEN REPORTED THAT     TRI-CITY'S GENERATOR CUSTOMERS INCLUDED FORD MOTOR CO., INC. AND GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, INC. AND THE WASTES HAULED AND DISPOSED OF FOR THESE COMPANIES INCLUDED PAINT SLUDGES,      PAINT THINNERS, SOLVENTS AND HYDRAULIC FLUIDS.  TRI-CITY'S   PRESIDENT, HARRY KLETTER, IS BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN DIRECTLY  INVOLVED IN BOTH THE OPERATION OF THE SITE AND IN ARRANGING  FOR THE TRANSPORTATION OF GENERATOR WASTES TO THE SITE.         SAMPLING ACTIVITIES CONDUCTED BY THE STATE OF KENTUCKY    AND BY EPA REVEALED THE PRESENCE OF VARIOUS HAZARDOUS SUB-   STANCES IN SOILS, GROUNDWATER AND DRUMS, INCLUDING TOLUENE,  TETRACHLOROETHANE, TRICHLOROETHENE, PCBS, XYLENES,           PHTHALATES, ETHYL BENZENE, CYANIDE, COP

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