# SPRINGFIELD DUMP SITE - CITY OF
> **Judicial** · FY1990 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `27348`
- **Case Number:** 05-1990-0063
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** $0
- **Cost recovery:** $1.16M
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- AZKO COATINGS, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- BASF (complaint)
- CHRYSLER (complaint)
- DETREX (complaint)
- FEDERAL SREW WORKS (complaint)
- FORD MOTOR CO. (complaint)
- G.M. (complaint)
- GREAT LAKES DIVISION OF NTL STEET (complaint)
- HOECHST CELANESE CORP. (complaint)
- RPM (complaint)
- TRW (complaint)
- UNIROYAL GOODRICH TIRE (complaint)
## Summary

SITE BACKGROUND:                                            THE SITE COVERS APPROX. FOUR ACRES IN A RURAL RESIDENTIAL  AREA IN SPRINGFIELD TOWNSHIP.  THE SITE WAS USED FOR CHEMI-  CAL WASTE DISPOSAL IN THE LATE 1960S.  IN 1980, MDNR CONDUC- TED A REMOVAL ACTION AND HAULED AWAY APPROX. 1500 DRUMS OF   WASTES AND 711 TONS OF CONTAMINATED SOILS.  THE SITE WAS     PLACED ON THE NPL IN 1983.                                      CERCLA RESPONSE ACTIONS:                                    MDNR, PURSUANT TO A COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT WITH USEPA, CON- DUCTED AN RI AT THE SITE FROM 1984 TO 1986.  THE RI REPORT   WAS FINALIZED IN JULY, 1989.  THE RI INDICATES THAT ON-SITE  SOILS ARE CONTAMINATED WITH PESTICIDES, PCBS, ORGANICS, LEAD AND ARSENIC.  THE GROUNDWATER IS CONTAMINATED WITH ORGANICS, LEAD AND ARSENIC.  THE SOIL CONTAMINATED IS LIMITED TO ON-   SITE; HOWEVER, GROUNDWATER SAMPLING EVENTS CONDUCTED BETWEEN 1987 AND 1989 BY THE MDNR INDICATE THAT GROUNDWATER CONTAMI- NATION MAY BE MIGRATING OFF-SITE.                              MDNR, PURSUANT TO A COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT WITH USEPA, ALSO COMPLETED TO DRAFT FS IS 1987.  THE FS HAS NOT YET BEEN FIN- ALIZED.                                                        IN JANUARY 1988, THE LEAD ON THE PROJECT WAS TRANSFERRED   FROM MDNR TO EPA.  THE SITE IS NOW A FEDERAL LEAD PROJECT.      ENFORCEMENT REMEDY:                                         AS INDICATED ABOVE, THE RI/FS WAS FUND-LEAD PROJECT. THERE ARE APPROX. 25 PRPS AT THE SITE.       

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