# CONRAIL SITE - ELKHART/PENN CENTRAL
> **Judicial** · FY1990 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `27302`
- **Case Number:** 05-1990-0017
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $6.00M
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- CONRAIL (complaint) (settlement)
- PENN CENTRAL (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

THIS PROPOSED COST RECOVERY CASE CONCERNS THE CONRAIL SITE   IN ELKHART, INDIANA.  THE CONRAIL SITE WAS PROPOSED FOR THE  NATIONAL PRIORITIES LIST IN JUNE 1988.  U.S. EPA IS CURRENT- LY CONDUCTING A REMEDIAL INVESTIGATION/FEASIBILIYT STUDY OF  THE CONRAIL SITE.                                            -                                                            FROM JUNE 1986 TO MARCH 1987, U.S. EPA CONDUCTED REMOVAL     ACTIVITIES IN RESPONSE TO THE RELEASE AND SUBSTANTIAL THREAT OF RELEASE OF TRICHLOROETHYLENE AND CARBON TETRACHLORIDE     FROM THE CONRAIL SITE.  U.S. EPA EXPENDED THESE FUNDS DURING A REMOVAL ACTION DESIGNATED AS THE  MAIN STREET WELL FIELD   REMOVAL ACTION, ELKHART, INDIANA .  THE MAIN STREET WELL     FIELD REMOVAL ACTION INCLUDED SIX OR SEVEN DISTRICT AREAS OF CONTAMINATION.  THE CONRAIL RAIL YARD, ELKHART, INDIANA IS   BELIEVED TO BE THE SOURCE OF THE CONTAMINATION IN TWO OF     THESE AREAS:  THE COUNTY ROAD 1 AND LARUE STREET AREAS OF    ELKHART, INDIANA.  U.S. EPA RESPONDED TO THE RELEASE BY IN-  STALLING WATER FILTRATION SYSTEMS, WATER MAIN CONNECTIONS,   AND BY SUPPLYING BOTTLED WATER TO AFFECTED RESIDENTS IN THE  COUNTY ROAD 1 AND LARUE STREET AREAS OF ELKHART, IN.         -                                                            U.S. EPA SEEKS THE RECOVERY OF APPROXIMATELY $350,000 IN     PAST COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH THE REMOVAL ACTIVITIES CONDUCTED  IN THE COUNTY ROAD 1 AND LARUE STREET AREAS OF ELKHART,      INDIANA PURSUANT TO SECTION 107 OF C

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