# OAK GROVE SANITARY LANDFILL
> **Judicial** · FY1991 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `27720`
- **Case Number:** 05-1991-0126
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** $0
- **Cost recovery:** $300K
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- ANOKA TOOL & MFG. COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- ART WILLMAN & SON TRUCKING (complaint) (settlement)
- ATLAS MFG. COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- BARRY & SEWALL (complaint) (settlement)
- DRESSER-RAND/ELECRIC MACHINERY (complaint) (settlement)
- WARDEN OIL (complaint) (settlement)
- WHITTAKER CORPORATION/JUSTER STEEL (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

THE OAK GROVE SANITARY LANDFILL (OGSL) BEGAN RECEIVING WASTE IN 1967 AND CONTINUED UNTIL 1984 WHEN THE LANDFILL REACHED   CAPACITY.  WHILE MOST OF THE WASTE RECEIVED AT THE LANDFILL  CONSTITUTED HOUSEHOLD TRASH, A CERTAIN QUANTITY OF INDUSTRI- AL, CHEMICAL AND HAZARDOUS WASTE IS BELIEVED TO BE BURIED IN THE CENTER OF THE OGSL.  MANY ORGANIC COMPOUNDS WERE DE-     TECTED IN GROUNDWATER, SURFACE SOIL AND LEACHATE SAMPLES     COLLECTED BY U.S.EPA AT THE SITE.                            -                                                            REMEDIATION FOR THE OGSL WAS DIVIDED INTO 2 OPERABLE UNITS,  THE FIRST OF WHICH ADDRESSES THE SOURCE OF CONTAMINATION BY  CONTAINING ON SITE WASTES AND CONTAMINATED SOILS.  THE 2ND   OPERABLE UNIT ADDRESSES GROUNDWATER CONTAMINATION VIA        NATURAL ATTENUATION AND INSTITUTIONAL CONTROLS.  THE REMEDI- AL INVESTIGATIONS AND FEASIBILITY STUDIES (RI/FS) FOR THESE  OPERABLE UNITS WERE CONDUCTED BY THE MINNESOTA POLLUTION     CONTROL AGENCY.                                              -                                                            RECORDS OF DECISION FOR OPERABLE UNITS 1 & 2 WERE SIGNED ON  9/30/88 AND 12/21/90, RESPECTIVELY.                          -                                                            THERE ARE SIGNIFICANT PAST COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH THE SITE.   U.S. EPA PLANS TO SEND OVER 80 SPECIAL NOTICE LETTERS TO     PARTIES IT BELIEVES RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CONTAMINATION ON     2/15/90.  A 120 DAY PERIOD OF RD/RA 

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