# BURROWS, ELMER
> **Judicial** · FY1988 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `26794`
- **Case Number:** 05-1988-0083
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** $0
- **Cost recovery:** $2.86M
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- AUTO SPECIALTIES MANUFACTURING COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- DOUGLAS MACKINDER (complaint) (settlement)
- DU-WEL HARTFORD INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- DU-WEL PRODUCTS, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- ELMER BURROWS D/B/A BURROWS (complaint) (settlement)
- FUNK, DUANE (complaint) (settlement)
- FUNK, EVELYN (complaint) (settlement)
- GEORGIA MACKINDER (complaint) (settlement)
- WHIRLPOOL CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

DATE VIOLATION DETERMINED:  1984                               LIABILITY OF DEFENDANTS:                                   DEFENDANTS ARE LIABLE FOR RESPONSE COSTS INCURRED BY U.S.    EPA IN CONNECTION WITH A SITE KNOWN AS THE BURROWS LAND-     FILL IN HARTFORD, MI.  THE COSTS ARE RECOVERABLE UNDER       SECTION 107 OF CERCLA.                                         PROPOSED RELIEF:                                           U.S. EPA SEEKS RECOVERY OF ALL COSTS INCURRED BY U.S. EPA,   WHICH TOTALLED APPROXIMATELY $860,490.28 AS OF MARCH, 1988   AS WELL AS DECLARATORY RELIEF AS TO FUTURE COSTS (ESTI-      MATED TO EXCEED $2 MILLION).                                   RECENT CONTACTS WITH DEFENDANTS:                           ON MARCH 9, 1988, U.S. EPA NOTIFIED DEFENDANTS BY LETTER     OF ITS PLANS TO RECOVER THE U.S. EPA COSTS, AND DEMANDED     SAME.                                                          SIGNIFICANCE OF THE REFERRAL:                              INITIATION OF THIS ACTION BY APRIL 22, 1988 WILL AVOID ANY   STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS BAR TO THE RECOVERY OF SUPERFUND     COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS SITE.                               EVIDENCE OF LIABILITY:                                     SAMPLING PERFORMED BY U.S. EPA AND THE STATE DEMONSTRATED    THE RELEASE OF HEAVY METALS, ARSENIC, CYANIDE FROM THE       BURROWS FACILITY.  DOCUMENTARY AND TESTIMONIAL EVIDENCE      ESTABLISHES THAT LARGE QUANTITIES OF METAL HYDROXIDE         SLUDGES WERE DISPOSED OF AT THE SITE.

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