# AMERICAN RENOVATING/ROSE TOWNSHIP
> **Judicial** · FY1989 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `27082`
- **Case Number:** 05-1989-0019
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** $0
- **Cost recovery:** $275K
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- AMERICAN RENOVATING (complaint) (settlement)
- ARGO PAINT & CHEMICAL (complaint) (settlement)
- BASF CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- COMMERCIAL STEEL TREATING (complaint) (settlement)
- DESOTO, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- DORSEY, LEONARD & GERTRUDE (complaint) (settlement)
- EMCO CHEMICAL (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

I.  SYNOPSIS OF THE CASE                                     THE ROSE TOWNSHIP DUMP SITE IS LOCATED ON DEMODE ROAD IN   RURAL ROSE TOWNSHIP, OAKLAND COUNTY, MICH.  FROM 1966 UNTIL  AT LEAST 1968, AN UNKNOWN NUMBER IF DRUMS OF WASTES WHICH    INCLUDED SOLVENTS, PAINT SLUDGES AND PCB WERE BURIED AT THE  SITE.  IN ADDITION, BULK WASTES WERE ALSO DISCHARGED TO THE  SURFACE OR INTO SHALLOW LAGOONS OR PITS AT THE SITE.           THE SITE WAS PLACED ON THE NATIONAL PRIORITY LIST (NPL)    IN SEPT. OF 1983.  BEGINNING IN 1983, USEPA AND THE MICH.    DEPT OF NATURAL RESOURCES (NDNR) CONDUCTED A REMEDIAL INVES- TIGATION/FEASIBILITY STUDY (RI/FS) TO DETERMINE THE NATURE   AND EXTENT OF CONTAMINATION WHICH EXISTS AT THE SITE.          THE RI/FS FOR THE ROSE TOWNSHIP DUMP SITE CONCLUDED THAT   SURFACE SOIL, SUBSTANCES SOIL AND GROUNDWATER HAD BEEN CON-  TAMINATED BY THE DISPOSAL ACTIVITIES WHICH HAD BEEN CONDUC-  TED AT THE SITE.  AT THE TIME THAT THE ROSE TOWNSHIP RI/FS   WAS RELEASED FOR PUBLIC COMMENT (IN JUNE OF 1987), USEPA     NOTIFIED 28 COMPANIES BY LETTER OF THEIR PRTENTIAL LIABILITY FOR THE HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCE CONTAMINATION WHICH EXISTS AT    THE SITE.  IN THIS LETTER, USEPA ALSO GAVE THESE AN OPPORTU- NITY TO NEGOTIATE WITH USEPA FOR PRIVATELY FUNDED CLEANUP AT THE ROSE TOWNSHIP SITE.                                        RECENTLY USEPA REACHED AN AGREEMENT WITH TWELVE OF THE     TWENTY-EIGHT NOTIFIED COMPANIES FOR A PRIVATELY FUNDED CLEAN UP AT THE SITE.  THESE TWELVE COMPANIE

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