# WESTINGHOUSE/ABB PLANT
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1993 · — · Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `28402`
- **Case Number:** 05-1993-0871
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
- **Penalty assessed:** $0
- **Cost recovery:** $0
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC CORPORATION (complaint)
## Summary

THE WESTINGHOUSE PLANT WAS PURCHASED BY ASEA BROWN BOVERI    (ABB).HOWEVER, WESTINGHOUSE HAS AGREED TO UNDERTAKE THE WORK AT THE SITE.                                                 THE UAO REQUIRES WESTINGHOUSE TO ERECT A FENCE AND WARNING   SIGNS, SAMPLESOILS, CONDUCT AIR MONITORING OF PCB LEVELS,    DEVELOP A SITE SAFETY PLAN,AND DEVELOP A PLAN TO PREVENT     FURTHER SOIL, SEDIMENT AND RAINWATERRUNOFF INTO THE DITCH    THAT LEADS FROM THE PLANT.  WESTINGHOUSE MUST ALSODEVELOP    PLANS TO CHARACTERIZE PCB CONTAMINATED SOILS AND SEDIMENTS   ATTHE SITE AS WELL AS A PLAN FOR CONTAINING AND EVENTUALLY   DISPOSING OFTHE CONTAMINATED MATERIALS.  THE CONTAMINATION   IS KNOWN TO INCLUDE ADITCH ON WESTINGHOUSE PROPERTY PLUS A 6 ACRE AREA IMMEDIATELY NORTH OFTHE PLANT.  2 MOBILE HOME      PARKS LIE DIRECTLY NORTH AND WEST OF THEDRAINAGE AREA.       THE PLANT MANUFACTURES AND SELLS CAPACITORS, REDUCERS,       BREAKERS, ANDOTHER EQUIPMENT FOR THE TRANSMISSION AND        DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRICITY. DURING MANUFACTURE, PCB'S LEFT  THROUGH ROOF EXHAUST VENTS, DRAINEDTHROUGH THE PLANT STORME  WATER SYSTEM AND ENTERED INTO THE DRAINAGEAREA.  PCBS LEVELS AS HIGH AS 34,000 PPM WERE FOUND IN THE DITCH, AND77PPM IN   SURFACE WATER SAMPLES.  THE PLANT EMPLOYS 700 PEOPLE.  IT    QUITUSING PCBS IN 1976.

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