# DU-WEL HARTFORD, INC.
> **Judicial** · FY1986 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `25959`
- **Case Number:** 05-1986-0153
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $21K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- DU-WEL HARTFORD INC (complaint) (settlement)
- DU-WEL PRODUCTS INC
## Summary

LEGAL BASIS FOR PROPOSED ACTION:  SECTION 3005 AND 3008    OF THE RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND RECOVERY ACT OF 1976, AS    AMENDED, 42 U.S.C. SECTION 6901 ET. SEQ.                       IDENTITY OF DEFENDANTS:  DU-WEL HARTFORD INC., 520         HEYWOOD STREET, HARTFORD, MICHIGAN (FACILITY) AND DU-WEL     PRODUCTS, INC., 48 CEMETERY ROAD, BANGOR, MICHIGAN           (PARENT).                                                      ALLEGED VIOLATIONS:  THE FACILITY HAS OPERATED AND CON-    TINUES TO OPERATE A HAZARDOUS WASTE TREATMENT AND STORAGE    FACILITY AFTER LOSING INTERIM STATUS ON NOVEMBER 8, 1985.    ON OCTOBER 31, 1985 THE PRESIDENT OF THE PARENT CERTIFIED    FALSELY THAT THE FACILITY WAS IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE         FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY REQUIREMENTS OF 40 CFR 265 SUBPART  H.  AT THAT TIME THE FACILITY DID NOT MAINTAIN LIABILITY     COVERAGE FOR SUDDEN AND NONSUDDEN OCCURRENCES AS REQUIRED    BY THESE REGULATIONS.                                          PROPOSED RELIEF:  A PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION AND A PERMANENT INJUNCTION WHICH WOULD PROHIBIT THE FACILITY FROM TREATING,  STORING, OR DISPOSING OF ANY WASTE AT THE FACILITY AND       WHICH WOULD REQUIRE DU-WEL HARTFORD TO CLOSE ITS ON-SITE     SURFACE IMPOUNDMENTS.  IN ADDITION, THE AGENCY RECOMMENDS    THAT A CIVIL PENALTY BE SOUGHT AGAINST THE FACILITY AND THE  PARENT IN THE AMOUNT OF $25,000 PER DAY PURSUANT TO RCRA     SECTION 3008(G).                                               RECENT CONTACTS WITH DEFENDANTS:  IN

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