# OAK HILL PCB SUPERFUND SITE
> **Judicial** · FY1997 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `22019`
- **Case Number:** 04-1997-0106
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $1.88M
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- BLUE RIDGE ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CORP. (complaint) (settlement)
- DUKE ENERGY CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

THE SITE IS LOCATED IN LENOIR, CALDWELL COUNTY, NC, AND WAS FORMERLY OPERATED AS A SCRAP METAL BUSINESS DURING 1952 THROUGH THE EARLY 1970'S.  THE OPERATION INVOLVED OPEN BURNING AND DISPOSAL OF PCB TRANSFORMERS AND CAPACITORS.  THIS ACTIVITY RESULTED IN EXTENSIVE PCB CONTAMINATION OF THE SOILS AT THE SITE.  BETWEEN JUNE 1991 AND NOVEMBER 2, 1993, EPA CONDUCTED A REMOVAL ACTION WHICH CONSISTED OF THE REMOVAL OF SEVERAL  PCB-RELATED ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENTS (APPROXIMATELY 60 CAPACITORS AND         TRANSFORMER DEBRIS); AND APPROXIMATELY 6,000 CUBIC FEET OF CONTAMINATED SOIL.  BASED ON THE SAMPLING RESULTS, EPA FOUND NO  GROUNDWATER CONTAMINATION.  THE TOTAL COST TO DATE IS $2,168,358.29. THE IDENTIFIED PRPS AT THE SITE ARE BLUE RIDGE MEMBERSHIP CORPORATION (BREMCO) AND DUKE POWER CORPORATION (DUKE).

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