# WILLOW DRUMS REMOVAL UAO
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1994 · — · Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `28864`
- **Case Number:** 05-1994-0235
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
- **Penalty assessed:** $0
- **Cost recovery:** $0
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
## Summary

THE SITE IS LOCATED ON A 15 ACRE TRACT IN A RURAL AREA NEAR  NEW BOSTON, MICHIGAN.  THE SITE WAS DISCOVERED IN AUGUST     1991 BY SUMPTER TOWNSHIP OFFICIALS BASED ON A REPORT FROM A  CONCERNED CITIZEN WHO STATED THAT ILLEGAL DUMPING HAD        OCCURRED AT THE SITE.  A MAN-MADE BERM WAS DISCOVERED THAT   CONTAINED DRUMS PROTUDING FROM THE GROUND.   EPA WAS         NOTIFIED BY MDNR IN SEPTEMBER 1991 AND ATTEMPTED TO INSPECT  THE SITE BUT INITIALLY WAS UNABLE TO OBTAIN ACCESS TO THE    SITE. ON OCTOBER 2, 1991 AN INSPECTION WAS MADE THAT LED TO  AN EMERGENCY RESPONSE ACTION COMMENCING ON DECEMBER 6, 1991.   SAMPLES FROM DRUMS INDICATED THE PRESENCE OF PCBS, METALS  (LEAD, CHROMIUM, AND BARIUM), TOLUENE, ETHYLBENZENE,         CHLOROBENZENE, AND XYLENE.  THE SITE IS APPROXIMATELY 600    FEET SOUTH OF A  BURNAP DRAIN  WHICH IS A COLLECTION POINT   FOR NEARBY SUFACE RUNOFF AND FIELD DRAINAGE SYSTEMS.  THE    DRAIN EMPTIES INTO SWAN CREEK WHICH IS A TRIBUTARY OF LAKE   ERIE.                                                        EPA'S EMERGENCY REMOVAL ACTION WAS TO FOCUS (AS PHASE I) ON  ESTABLISHING  

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