# ESCANABA & LAKE SUPERIOR RR CO.
> **Judicial** · FY1983 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `25209`
- **Case Number:** 05-1983-0025
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $20K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- ESCANABA & LAKE SUPERIOR RR (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

THIS IS A CIVIL ACTION AGAINST THE ESCANABA AND LAKE SUP-  ERIOR RAILROAD AND ITS OWNER, MR. JOHN LARKIN, FOR DUMP-     ING APPROXIMATELY 400 TONS OF TACONITE PELLETS INTO THE      MENOMINEE RIVER AT A POINT IN MARINETTE COUNTY, WISCONSIN,   IN AUGUST 1981.  AN ANONYMOUS INFORMER INDICATED TO THE      MICHIGAN STATE POLICE THAT IN NEED OF RAIL CARS TO  TRANS-   PORT OTHER MATERIALS, MR. LARKIN ORDERED FOUR RAILROAD CARS  FILLED WITH THE TACONITE PELLETS TO BE OVERTURNED AT NIGHT   ON A RAILROAD BRIDGE OVER THE RIVER.  HE ASSIGNED THIS TASK  TO  FIVE  TRUSTED EMPLOYEES  WHO WERE INSTRUCTED TO SWEEP    CLEAN ALL THE RAIL TIES APPARENTLY TO REDUCE THE CHANCE OF   DISCOVERY.  A DIVERSE TEAM FROM THE MICHIGAN STATE POLICE    CONFIRMED THE PRESENCE OF THE PELLETS IN THE RIVER BELOW     THE BRIDGE-- THE PILE IS ABOUT 6-8 FEET DEEP AT ITS GREAT-   EST DEPTH.

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