# BASF WYANDOTTE CORPORATION
> **Judicial** · FY1980 · — · Final Order No Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `25069`
- **Case Number:** 05-1980-0030
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order No Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $0
- **Cost recovery:** $0
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- BASF WYANDOTTE CORP. (complaint) (settlement)
- FEDERAL MARINE TERMINALS, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

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

---
*Source: [EPA ECHO](https://echo.epa.gov/) · AI Analytics · CC0 1.0*