# VULCAN-CINCINNATI ADJACENT WENTWORTH PROPERTY
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1993 · — · Final Order No Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `28484`
- **Case Number:** 05-1993-1231
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order No Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $0
- **Cost recovery:** $0
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- SHIRLEY M. WENTWORTH
- THEODORE O. WENTWORTH
- VULCAN CINCINNATI, INC
## Summary

AFTER VULCAN CINCINNATI AGREED TO PERFORM A REMOVAL AT THE   SITE UNDER ACONSENT ORDER DATED JULY 31, 1990, EPA           DETERMINED THAT ADJACENT PROPERTYALSO NEEDED RESPONSE        ACTION.  THE OWNER OF THAT ADJACENT PROPERTY WAST.O.         WENTWORTH AND HIS WIFE.  MR. WENTWORTH WAS FORMER OWNER      ANDPRESIDENT OF OLD VULCAN-CICINNATI, INC., WHOSE ASSETS     WERE PURCHASED BYNEW VULCAN IN 1975.  MR. WENTWORTH,         HOWEVER, RETAINED OWNERSHIP OF THELAND UNTIL ITS SALE TO NEW AFTER LITIGATION, IN 1987.                                   NEW VULCAN DISCLAIMED ANY RESPONSIBILITY FOR DUMPING ONTO    MR.WENTWORTH'S ADJACENT PROPERTY.  MR. WENTWORTH ALSO        DISCLAIMED ANYKNOWLEDGE OF THE DISPOSAL ON HIS PROPERTY.     ALSO, WENTWORTH'S INDICATEDTHEY DID NOT HAVE THE RESOURCES   TO COMPLY.                                                   THE FUND, THEREFORE, WENT AHEAD WITH THE CLEANUP OF THE      ADJACENTPROPERTY.

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