# OLEAN WELL FIELD SITE
> **Judicial** · FY1986 · — · Final Order With Penalty & Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `2201`
- **Case Number:** 02-1986-0280
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty & Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** $50K
- **Cost recovery:** $1.73M
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- ALCAS CUTLERY CORP - OLEAN NY (complaint) (settlement)
- ALUMINUM CO OF AMERICA - PITTSBURGH PA (complaint) (settlement)
- AVX CORP - GREAT NECK NY (complaint) (settlement)
- COOPER INDUSTRIES INC - HOUSTON TX (complaint) (settlement)
- MCGRAW-EDISON COMPANY - HOUSTON TX (complaint) (settlement)
- W R  CASE & SONS CUTLERY CO -BRADFORD PA (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

THIS IS AN ACTION TO RECOVER THE COSTS INCURRED BY EPA IN  TAKING AND/OR FUNDING RESPONSE ACTIONS AT THE OLEAN WELL     FIELD SITE, AND ASSOCIATED ADMINISTRATIVE, OVERSIGHT AND     ENFORCEMENT COSTS.  THE RESPONSE ACTIONS WHICH HAVE BEEN     FUNDED BY EPA AT THE SITE INCLUDE SEVERAL IMMEDIATE REMOVAL  ACTIONS, AN INITIAL REMEDIAL MEASURE, A PRELIMINARY HYDRO-   GEOLOGIC INVESTIGATION, AN RI/FS, AND VARIOUS OTHER INVESTI- GATIONS.  THE SITE IS ON THE NATIONAL PRIORITIES LIST.  RE-  IMBURSEMENT IS SOUGHT FROM SIX RESPONSIBLE PARTIES, EACH OF  WHICH IS A PAST AND/OR PRESENT OWNER AND OPERATOR OF A FACI- LITY AT THE SITE, FOR PURPOSES OF 42 USC 9607.                 THE SITE IS LOCATED IN CATTARAUGUS COUNTY, NY, AND IS      CHARACTERIZED BY CONTAMINATED GROUNDWATER UNDERLYING THE CI- TY OF OLEAN, THE TOWN OF OLEAN AND THE TOWN OF PORTVILLE,    AND BY CONTAMINATED SOIL IN THE CITY AND TOWN OF OLEAN.      TRICHLOROETHYLENE ( TCE ) IS PRESENT IN SOIL AT THE SITE AT  LEVELS UP TO & OCCASIONALLY OVER 2,000,000 PPB, AND HAS BEEN DETECTED IN GROUNDWATER AT THE SITE IN CONCENTRATIONS OVER   10,000 PPB.  IN ADDITION, SEVERAL OTHER VOC'S HAVE BEEN DE-  TECTED AT THE SITE IN SIGNIFICANT CONCENTRATIONS.              A NUMBER OF RESPONSE ACTIONS HAVE BEEN PERFORMED AND/OR    FUNDED BY EPA AT THE SITE SINCE 1981.  AMONG THESE ACTIONS   WAS AN RI/FS COMPLETED IN THE SPRING OF 1985.  THE EVIDENCE  ESTABLISHING DEFENDANTS' LIABILITY UNDER SECTION 107 WAS OB- TAINED BY EPA DURING THE COURSE OF A N

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