# GROUP EIGHT TECHNOLOGY
> **Judicial** · FY1990 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `27493`
- **Case Number:** 05-1990-0213
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** $0
- **Cost recovery:** $124K
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- BERNARD SCHROTT
- GRAND MACHINING, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- GROUP EIGHT TECHNOLOGY, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

THE GROUP EIGHT TECHNOLOGY, INC. SITE WAS OPERATED AS A    HUBCAP MFG FACILITY UNTIL 1987 WHEN GROUP EIGHT TECH, INC.   ENTERED INTO A LAND CONTRACT FOR THE SITE AND TOOK POSSES-   SION.  IN AUGUST 1987, LESS THAN ONE MONTH AFTER GROUP EIGHT TECH, INC. TOOK POSSESSION OF THE SITE, THE ONLY BUILDING AT THE SITE WAS PARTIALLY DEMOLISHED IN A FIRE WHICH WAS DETER- MINED TO BE CAUSED BY ARSON.  AFTER THE FIRE THE SITE CON-   TAINED ABANDONED ELECTRICAL TRANSFORMERS AND PITS WHICH CON- TAINED PLATING WASTES.  THE CITY OF WYANDOTTE WAS UNSUCCESS- FUL IN OBTAINING A CLEANUP OF THE SITE BY RESPONSIBLE        PARTIES AND THUS CONTACTED THE MDNR WHICH CONTACTED USEPA    FOR ASSISTANCE.

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