# FULTZ LANDFILL/ARMCO
> **Judicial** · FY1992 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `28076`
- **Case Number:** 05-1992-0251
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $6.20M
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- AMERICAN HOME PRODUCTS
- ARMCO (complaint) (settlement)
- GOULD, INC.
- SCOVILL MANUFACTURING CO/WESTINGHOUSE CO
- SMITH, ELWIN G.
- T&N INDUSTRIES
## Summary

THE SITE IS LOCATED IN AN AGRICULTURAL AND COAL MINING   REGION OF                                                    EAST-CENTRAL OHIO, APPROX. 75 MILES EAST OF COLUMBUS.  THE   COUNTY'S                                                     LARGEST CITY, CAMBRIDGE, LIES ABOUT 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF THE SITE.  THE                                                   LANDFILL IS SITUATED ON THE NORTH SLOPE OF A RIDGE THAT      OVERLIES                                                     ABANDONED COAL MINES IN THE UPPER FREEPORT COAL SEAM.  THE   NORTH HALF OF                                                THE LANDFILL LIES IN AN UNRECLAIMED STRIP MINE IN THE COAL   SEAM, WHERE                                                  SURFACE MINE SPOIL AND NATURAL SPOILS FORM THE  SHALLOW      AQUIFER .  THE                                               SOUTH HALF OF THE LANDFILL LIES 20 TO 80 FEET ABOVE AN       ABANDONED,                                                   FLOODED DEEP MINE IN THE SAME COAL SEAM.  THE FLOODED DEEP   MINE FORMS AN                                                AQUIFER REFERRED TO AS THE  DEEP MINE AQUIFER .

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