# AIRCO PLATING COMPANY, INC
> **Judicial** · FY1992 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `20748`
- **Case Number:** 04-1992-0013
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** $0
- **Cost recovery:** $168K
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- AIRCO PLATING COMPANY, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- ALLIED PRODUCTS CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- COHEN, MARGARET (complaint) (settlement)
- COHEN, MAX (complaint) (settlement)
- COHEN, MURIEL (complaint) (settlement)
- COHEN, RONI (complaint) (settlement)
- COHEN, WILLIAM (complaint) (settlement)
- KING, GEORGE (complaint) (settlement)
- LEUKOFF, RUTH (complaint) (settlement)
- LEVINE, SHERWIN (complaint) (settlement)
- LEVINE, STANLEY (complaint) (settlement)
- STERLING, HARRIET (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

THE SITE IS LOCATED IN MIAMI, DADE COUNTY, FLORIDA. THE SITE CONSISTS OF SEVERAL PARCELS OF LAND ON WHICH AIRCO DISPOSED  OF HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES GENERATED IN ITS ELECTROPLATING OP-  ERATIONS FROM 1957 - 1973.THE DISPOSAL ACTIVITIES CONSISTED  OF DISCHARGES OF FOUR WASTESTREAMS GENERATED FROM AIRCO'S    OPERATIONS. THE FOUR WASTESTREAMS INCLUDED: 1) A CHROMIC A-  CID STREAM; 2) A SODIUM CYANIDE STREAM; 3) AN ACID (SULFURIC AND MURIATIC) AND ALKALI STREAM; AND 4) A CADMIUM, COPPER,   ZINC, AND TIN STREAM. THREE UNDERGROUND STORAGE TANKS WERE   USED TO COLLECT THESE EFFLUENTS PRIOR TO TREATMENT. THE      CHROMIC, CYANIDE AND ACID AND ALKALI STREAMS WERE PLACED IN  TANKS FOR TREATMENT. EFFLUENTS FROM THE TREATMENT PROCESSES  AND ANY SLUDGE THAT WAS GENERATED WAS ULTIMATELY DISPOSED     OF IN THREE UNLINED SEEPAGE PONDS LOCATED AT THE SITE. THE  OTHER WASTESTREAM CONSISTED OF A DIRECT DISCHARGE FROM THE   PLATING OPERATION INTO THE SEEPAGE PONDS.  FROM 1970 - 1986, ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS, THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMEN-  TAL RESOURSES MANAGEMENT (DERM) AND THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT   OF ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION (FDER) INSPECTED THE SITE AND    DETECTED VIOLATIONS OF STATE AND LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL REGULA- TIONS. FROM 1971 - 1992, EPA INSPECTED THE SITE ON SEVERAL   OCCASIONS. THESE INSPECTIONS CONFIRMED, AMONG OTHER THINGS,  THE DISPOSAL OF WASTEWATERS CONTAINING CYANIDE, CHROMIUM,    CADMIUM, COPPER, ZINC, AND TIN INTO THE PONDS, AND THE PRE-  SENCE OF HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES INCLUD

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