THE US & STATE OF MICH AS INTERVENOR, BROUGHT SUIT AGAINST BASF WYANDOTTE CORP AND FEDERAL MARINE TERMINAL, INC. RIVERVIEW, MI FILED 9/30/80, CIVIL ACTION #80-73699 U.S. DISTRICT CT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF MI BASF OWNED 30 ACRES NEAR THE DETROIT RIVER FROM 1951-1979. BASF ALLEGEDLY DISPOSED OF INDUSTRIAL HAZARDOUS WASTES AT THE SITE, CONTAMINATING SOIL, GROUNDWATER AND SURFACEWATER AROUND RIVERVIEW, MI. BASF OWNS & OPERATES 2 CHEM PLANTS IN WYANDOTTE, MI, AN ADJACENT CITY, AND DUMPED WASTES FROM THE PLANTS AT ITS RIVERVIEW PROPERTY WHICH ADJOINS THE TRENTON CHANNEL OF THE DETROIT RIVER. DEFENDANT FMT PURCHASED THE RIVERVIEW PROPERTY FROM BASF FOR $1250000 ON OCT 15, 1979, TO CONSTRUCT & THEN OPERATE A MARINE TERMINAL. FMT PAID $250000 CASH TO BASF, & WAS TO PAY THE BALANCE UNDER $1 MIL PURCHASE MONEY NOTE & MORTGAGE. FMT ACQUIRED NECESSARY CONSTRUCTION PERMITS & CONSTRCTN BEGAN OCT 1979. DURING EXCAVATION FMT DISCOVERED CHEM & IND WASTE. ON DEC 5, 1979 MI DEPT OF NATURAL RESOURCES ISSUED A CEASE & DESIST ORDER REQUIRING FMT CEASE CONSTRCTN & CONTAIN THE POLLUTION AFTER WHICH FMT CEASED PAYMNT OF THE $1 MIL BALANCE TO BASF. IN APR 1980, FMT INFORMED ARMY CORPS OF ENGNRS THAT IT WAS ABANDONING THE PROJ. THE FILL PLACED ON RIVERVIEW SITE BY BASF CONTAINS CHEM AND IND WASTES DRUMS, GLASS JARS, LAB TEST TUBES, & OTHER CHEM CONTAINRS. CONTAMINANTS D