# JACKSON DROP FORGE
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1994 · — · Final Order With Unspecified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `28896`
- **Case Number:** 05-1994-0274
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Unspecified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- INNOVA CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- MERCER FORGE CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

ON JANUARY 21, 1994, THE WASTE MANAGEMENT DIVISION FOR   EPA REGION VEXECUTED A PROPOSED REMOVAL ADMINISTRATIVE       ORDERON CONSENT ( AOC )REQUIRING, INTER ALIA, TWO            POTENTIALLY RESPONSIBLE PARTIES TO REMOVESEVERAL THOUSAND    DRUMS OF HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES AND CONTAMINANTS FROM          THEJACKSON DROP FORGE SITE AND REIMBURSE EPA FOR ALL OF ITS  PAST ANDOVERSIGHT COSTS.                                         THE JACKSON DROP FORGE SITE (THE  SITE ) IS LOCATED AT   WELLWORTHAVENUE, JACKSON, MICHIGAN.  THE SITE IS SITUATED IN A MIXED INDUSTRIALAND RESIDENTIAL AREA AND IS ADJACENT TO    THE GRAND RIVER.  FOR SEVERALYEARS, PORTION OF THE SITE WAS  OPERATED AS DROP FORGE FACILITY WHILEOTHER PORTIONS OF THE   SITE WERE UTILIZED AS A DUMP.  ON DECEMBER 2,                1993, EPA ISSUED A REMOVAL ACTION MEMORANDUM DOCUMENTING,    INTER ALIA,THE PRESENCE OF SEVERAL THOUSAND DRUMS OF         INDUSTRIAL WASTES, INCLUDING HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES AND        CONTAMINANTS, AT THE SITE (AND WITHIN THE FLOODPLAIN OF THE  GRAND RIVER) AND APPROVING THE EXPENDITURE OF APPROXIMATELY  $2 MILLION TO ADDRESS THE CONDITIONS AT THE SITE.            SUBSEQUENTLY, EPAENTERED INTO THE AOC WITH JACKSON . INNOVA  CORPORATION AND MERCER FORGECORPORATION PURSUANT TO WHICH    THOSE CORPORATIONS WOULD UNDERTAKE REMOVALCLEANUP ACTIVITIES AT THE SITE AND REIMBURSE EPA FOR ALL ITS PAST ANDOVERSIGHT  COSTS.

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