# NEW HANOVER COUNTY AIRPORT BURN PIT
> **Judicial** · FY1993 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `20921`
- **Case Number:** 04-1993-1222
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $728K
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- CAPE FEAR COMMUNITY COLLEGE (complaint) (settlement)
- NEW HANOVER COUNTY (complaint) (settlement)
- WILMINGTON, CITY OF (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

THE SITE WAS LISTED ON THE NPL ON 3/31/89 WITH A HAZARD      RANKING SCORE OF 39.39.  ON 9/20/89, EPA ISSUED SPECIAL      NOTICE LETTERS TO THE FOUR PRPS, NOTIFYING THOSE PARTIES OF  THEIR POTENTIAL LIABILITY WITH RESPECT TO SITE CONTAMINATION AND OFFERING THEM AN OPPORTUNITY TO CONDUCT AND FUND THE     RI/FS OF THE SITE.  SUBSEQUENT NEGOTIATIONS AMONG THE PRPS   FAILED IN REACHING AN AGREEMENT WITH EPA TO CONDUCT THE      RI/FS.                                                       EPA ENTERED AN AOC WITH THE 4 PRPS ON JUNE 21, 1990,         HOWEVER, WHICH OUTLINED THE REMOVAL ACTIONS TO BE PERFORMED  AT THE SITE.  THE PRPS BEGAN THE REMOVAL IN NOVEMBER 1990,   AND COMPLETED IT IN DECEMBER 1990.  THE PRP SPONSORED        REMOVAL INVOLVED REMOVAL WASTE MATERIALS, CONTAMINATED       WATER, AND CONTAMINATED SURFACE AND SUBSURFACE SOILS.        A TOTAL OF 12,500 GALLONS OF WATERS WAS REMOVED FROM THE     BURN PIT AND 6,000 GALLONS OF WATER WAS REMOVED FROM ON-SITE TANKS.  CONTAMINATED SURFACE AND SUBSURFACE SOILS WERE       REMOVED FROM THE FIRE FIGHTER TRAINING AREAS.  IN ADDITION,  STRUCTURES ASSOICATED WITH FIRE FIGHTER TRAINING ACTIVITIES  WERE DISMANTELED AND REMOVED, INCLUDING THE FUEL SUPPLY TANK AND ITS ASSOCIATED UNDERGROUND PIPING SYSTE, THE RAILROAD    TANK CAR, THE AUTOMOBILE BODIES AND THE AIRCRAFT MOCK-UP OF  55-GALLON DRUMS.                                             A TOTAL OF 3,220 TONS OF CONTAMINATED SOIL AND DEBRIS WERE   REMOVED.  EXCAVATED AREAS WERE BACKF

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