# ARROWHEAD REFINING CO.
> **Judicial** · FY1989 · — · Final Order No Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `27174`
- **Case Number:** 05-1989-0119
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order No Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- ARMCO INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- ARROWHEAD REFINING CO. (complaint) (settlement)
- BAME, FRED H (complaint) (settlement)
- DULUTH MISSAKE & IRON RANGE RAILWAY CO. (complaint) (settlement)
- EVELITH TACONIBE CO. (complaint) (settlement)
- HEINO, WILLIAM (complaint) (settlement)
- HIBBING TACONIBE CO. (complaint) (settlement)
- ORVAL KEMP (complaint) (settlement)
- USX CORP. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

NATURE OF THE CASE:                                         THIS PROPOSED COST RECOVERY CASE CONCERNS THE ARROWHEAD RE FINING COMPANY SITE (SITE) LOCATED OUTSIDE OF THE CITY OF DU LUTH., MN.  THE SITE WAS HOME TO THIS WASTE OIL RECYCLING    COMPANY BETWEEN 1961 AND 1977.  DURING THIS PERIOD, THE OPER ATOR DISPOSED OF THE RESIDUAL WASTE FROM ITS WASTE OIL RECYC LING PROCESS INTO A WASTEWATER POND AND SLUGDE LAGOON LOCA-  TED ON THE SITE. THE OPERATION CEASE IN 1976, UNDER DIREC-   TIONS FROM THE MN POLLUTION CONTROL AGENCY (MPCA).             IN 1979, THE USEPA INSPECTED THE SITE AND OBSERVED THAT    CONTAMINATED SURFACE WATER WAS FLOWING INTO NAVIGABLE WA-    TERS.  THIS OBSERVATION, PROMPTED REMEDIAL ACTION UNDER THE  CWA.  IN 1983, ARROWHEAD WAS PLACED ON THE NAT'L PRIORITIES  LIST (NPL) 42 USC SECT 9605.  THE EPA PERFORMED A REMEDIAL   INVESTIGATION (RI) IN 1984, WHICH REVEALED THE PRESENCE OF   HEAVILY CONTAMINATED SOIL/SEDIMENT, GROUNDWATER, AND SURFACE WATER.  FOLLOWING THE CONCLUSION OF A FEASIBILITY STUDY (FS) EPA SIGNED A RECORD OF DECISION (ROD) IN SEPTEMBER 1986.     STATE RESISTANCE TO THE CHOSEN REMEDY, STEMMING FROM THEIR   CONCERNS AS TO THE THOROUGHNESS OF THE RI AND SOIL INCINERA- TION, PROMPTED THE EPA TO DO FURTHER INVESTIGATION AND EX-   PLORE NEW SOURCE CONTROL ALTERNATIVES.                          CAUSE OF ACTION:                                            EPA SEEKS THE RECOVERY OF APPROXIMATELY $1.9 MIL EXPENDED  IN RESPONSE TO CONDITIONS AT THE SITE P

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