# ALGOMA, CITY OF
> **Judicial** · FY1991 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `27621`
- **Case Number:** 05-1991-0025
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** $0
- **Cost recovery:** $73K
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- ALGOMA, CITY OF (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

THE ALGOMA MUNICIPAL LANDFILL (AMLF) IS FORMER MUNICIPAL   LANDFILL LOCATED APPROX. THREE MILES WEST OF ALGOMA, WI. IN  THE TOWN OF AHNAPEE IN KEWAUNEE COUNTY, WI.  THE AMFL OCCU-  PIES A TOTAL OF 13 ACRES OF DISPOSAL AREA.  THE CITY OF ALGO MA OPERATED THE LANDFILL FROM 1969 TO 1983, DURING WHICH     TIME THE LANDFILL ACCEPTED RESIDENTIAL, MUNICIPAL AND INDUC- TRIAL WASTES AFTER SEPTEMBER 10, 1980 AND ALL MUNICPAL AND   WATES AFTER JULY, 1981.  THE CITY LEASED THE LANDFILL PROPER TY CONSISTING OF APPROX. SEVEN ACRES DURING THE TIME OF      OPERATION FRON CLARENCE AND MARY KROHN UNTIL 1975.  THE PRO- PERTY WAS SUBSEQUENTLY SOLD TO DUMMAN REALTY, ITS PRESENT    OWNER, WHICH LEASED THE LANDFILL TO THE CITY UNTIL THE LAND- FILL WAS CLOSED ON JULY 31, 1983.                              APPROX. 400,000 CUBIC YARDS OF WASTE ARE CONTAINED WITHIN  THE WASTE BOUNDARY.  THE MAIN PORTION OF THE LANDFILL HAS    BEEN DESIGNATED THE LANDFILL DISPOSAL AREA (LDA).  THE LDA,  APPROX. 10 ACRES, WAS COVERED BY A LAYER OF CLAY AND TOPSOIL AND VEGETATED FOLLOWING ITS CLOSURE IN 1983.                   A SMALLER FILL AREA NORTH DISPOSAL AREA (NDA).  THE NDA IS APPROX. 1 ACRE AND HAS NO COVER.  WASTE IN THE NDA IS BELIE- VED TO CONSIST ONLY OF CONSTRUCTION DEBRIS.                    THE THIRD FILL AREA, DESIGNATED THE SOUTH DISPOSAL AREA    (SDA), IS LOCATED SOUTH OF THE LDA.  THE SDA IS APPROX. 1.5  ACRES AND IS BELIEVED TO CONSIST PRINCIPALLY OF CONSTRUCTION DEBRIS.  ASBESTOS-CONTAINING WASTES MA

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