# IVEY, ROBERT C. - LIQUID DISPOSAL INC.
> **Judicial** · FY1989 · — · Default Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `27137`
- **Case Number:** 05-1989-0077
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Default Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $4.59M
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- A-1 DISPOSAL CORP. (complaint) (settlement)
- BRINKMAN, RAYMOND (complaint) (settlement)
- BUSSCHERS PUMPING SERV., INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- CHEMICAL RECOVERY SYSTEM (complaint) (settlement)
- DETROIT EDISON CO. (complaint) (settlement)
- FRONTIER CHEMICAL WASTE PROCESSING, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- HEXEL CORP. (complaint) (settlement)
- HOLLY CONTAINERS, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- INECO, LTD. (complaint) (settlement)
- IVEY, C. ROBERT (complaint) (settlement)
- LAKESIDE REFINING CO. (complaint) (settlement)
- LIQUID DISPOSAL, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- MAZIV INDUSTRIES, LTD. (complaint) (settlement)
- METRO TANK SERV., INC. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

NATURE OF THE CASE:                                           THIS PROPOSED COST RECOVERY CASE CONCERNS THE LIQUID DIS- POSAL, INC. SITE (LDI SITE) IN MACOMB COUNTY, MI. THE LDI    SITE WAS USED TO INCINERATE LIQUID WASTE FROM APPROXIMATELY  JANUARY 1968 TO JANUARY 1982.  THE MAJOR SITE FEATURES INCLU DED A HIGH TEMPERATURE INCINERATOR, A WASTE LIQUID LAGOON, A SCRUBBER WASTE LAGOON AND NUMEROUS ABOVE AND BELOW GROUND    STORAGE TANKS.  THE LDI SITE WAS PERMANENTLY CLOSED IN JANU- ARY 1982 AFTER TWO WORKERS WERE KILLED IN AN INDUSTRIAL ACCI DENT.                                                           THE LDI SITE WAS LISTED ON THE NAT'L PRIORITIES LIST ON   DEC. 30, 1982.  FROM MAY 1982 TO APRIL 1986, USEPA COMPLETED FOUR REMOVAL ACTIONS TO ABATE THE RELEASE AND SUBSTANTIAL    THREAT OF RELEASE OF PCB AND OTHER HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES FROM THE LDI SITE.  REMOVAL ACTIVITIVES INCLUDED RECOVERY OF CON- TAMINATED OIL AND SEDIMENT ON AND OFF SITE, CLOSURE OF THE   SURFACE LAGOONS AND INCINERATION OF FLAMMABLE LIQUIDS AND    SLUDGE IN ABOVE AND BELOW GROUND TANKS.  THE MICHIGAN DEPT   OF NATURAL RESOURCES, THROUGH A COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT WITH   THE USEPA, INITIATED A REMEDIAL INVESTIGATION/FEASIBILITY    STUDY (RI/FS) AT THE LDI SITE IN SEPT. OF 1983.  THE RI/FS   WAS COMPLETED IN AUGUST OF 1987, AND USEPA ISSUED A RECORD   OF DECISION (ROD) ON SEPT. 30, 1987.  THE RI/FS DEMONSTRATED THAT SURFACE SOILS AT THE LDI SITE AND IN THE VICINITY OF    THE LDI SITE ARE CONTAMINATED WITH A W

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