# MARATHON ELECTRIC MFG & WAUSAU-CITY OF
> **Judicial** · FY1989 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `27172`
- **Case Number:** 05-1989-0117
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** $0
- **Cost recovery:** $50K
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- MARATHON ELECTRIC MFG CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- WAUSAU-CITY OF (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

23, 1988, ROD AND THE CONSENT DECREE CALL FOR THE PRPS TO    COMPLETE DESIGN WORK ON AND TO IMPLEMENT A GROUNDWATER EX-   TRACTION WELL WHICH IS INTENDED TO CAPTURE A PORTION OF THE  VOC PLUME EMANATING FROM THE ABANDONDED LANDFILL.  THE       DECREE SETS FORTH PERFORMANCE GOALS AND CLEAN-UP STANDARDS   WHICH REQUIRE THE PRPS TO OPERATE THE WELL UNTIL U.S. EPA    DETERMINES THAT GROUNDWATER VOC CONCENTRATIONS HAVE BEEN RE- DUCED BELOW THE STATE STANDARD OF 1.8 MICROGRAMS PER LITER.  IT IS ANTICIPATED THAT THE FINAL REMEDY FOR THE SITE WILL IN CORPORATE OR OTHERWISE DIRECT THE OPERATION OF THE WELL.     THE DECREE ALSO REQUIRES THE PRPS TO PAY OVERSIGHT COSTS,    AS WELL AS $50,000 IN PAST U.S. EPA RI/FS COSTS.             THE WAUSAU NPL SITE IS A CONTAMINATED AQUIFER LOCATED UNDER  THE WAUSAU, WISCONSIN AREA.  THE SURFACE OF THE SITE IS      TOPOGRAPHICALLY DIVIDED IN HALF BY THE WISCONSIN RIVER,      WHILE THE AQUIFER ITSELF IS ONE CONTINUOUS UNIT.             -                                                            PHASE I OF THE RI/FS IS COMPLETE AND AN OPERABLE UNIT RECORD OF DECISION WAS SIGNED BY ON DECEMBER 23,1988.  THE ROD      SELECTED AN INTERIM OPERABLE UNIT EXTRACTION WELL REMEDY, TO REMOVE A VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND PLUME FROM THE WESTERN    ONE-HALF OF THE SITE.                                        -                                                            TWO OF THE PRPS FOR THE SITE, (WHICH ALSO ARE TWO OF THREE   SETTLEING DEFENDANTS IN THE FILED CO

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