# NEW HAMPSHIRE BALL BEARINGS INC. (SOUTH MUNI WATER SUPPLY)
> **Judicial** · FY1994 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `281`
- **Case Number:** 01-1994-0001
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $1.13M
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- MINEBEA LTD (complaint) (settlement)
- NEW HAMPSHIRE BALL BEARINGS INC (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

THE REFERRAL RECOMMENDED FILING A COST RECOVERY ACTION       PURSUANT TO SECTION 107 OF CERCLA FOR APPROXIMATELY $1.2     MILLION IN PAST COSTS AND FOR ALL FUTURE COSTS FOR THE       SOUTH MUNICIPAL WELL SUPERFUND SITE IN PETERBOROUGH, NEW     HAMPSHIRE. THE PROPOSED DEFENDANT IS NEW HAMPSHIRE BALL      BEARINGS, INC. ( NHBB ), A SUBSIDIARY OF MINEBEA CO., LTD    OF JAPAN.                                                    ENFORCEMENT HISTORY:  THE SOUTH MUNICIPAL WELL WAS INSTALLED IN 1952. IN 1982 NEW HAMPSHIRE WATER SUPPLY AND POLLUTION    CONTROL COMMISSION ( NHWSPCC ) SAMPLING SHOWED THE PRESENCE  OF VOCS. AT THE RECOMMENDATION OF THE EPA AND NHWSPCC, THE   TOWN THEN DISCONTINUED USE OF THE WELL. IN MAY 1983, THE     SOUTH WELL SITE WAS LISTED ON THE NPL. IN 1984 AND 1985, THE STATE CONDUCTED A HYDROGEOLOGIC INVESTIGATION TO CHARACTER-  IZE THE AQUIFER SUPPLYING GROUNDWATER TO THE SOUTH WELL.     ON JULY 26, 1986, NHBB ENTERED INTO AN ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER  BY CONSENT TO CONDUCT THE RI/FS. NHBB COMPLETED THE RI/FS IN JULY, 1989 AND ITS RESULTS DEMONSTRATED THAT NHBB'S          OPERATING AND WASTE DISPOSAL PRACTICES WERE RESPONSIBLE FOR  THE CONTAMINATION AT THE SITE. ON SEPTEMBER 27, 1989, EPA    ISSUED A ROD FOR THE SITE. THE SELECTED REMEDY IS COMPRISED  OF SIX COMPONENTS, INCLUDING: 1. GROUNDWATER PUMP-AND-TREAT  USING AIR STRIPPING WITH EMISSIONS CONTROLS FOR VOCS;        2. IN SITU VACUUM EXTRACTION FOR CONTAMINATED SOILS;         3. EXCAVATION AND/OR DREDGING OF SED

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