# MARVIN PROCHNOW, ET AL.
> **Judicial** · FY1995 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `29201`
- **Case Number:** 05-1995-0186
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $550K
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- BRUNSWICK CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- CEDARBURG, CITY OF (complaint) (settlement)
- CEDARBURG, TOWN OF (complaint) (settlement)
- EMERSON ELECTRIC CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- MARVIN PROCHNOW (complaint) (settlement)
- W.W. GRAINGER
## Summary

EPA SEEKS RECOVERY OF APPROXIMATELY $550,000 IN RESPONSE     COSTS INCURRED DURING A REMOVAL ACTION AT A LANDFILL NEAR    CEDARBURG, WI. THE DEFENDANTS ARE MARVIN PROCHNOW, THE       LANDFILL OWNER AND OPERATOR; THE CITY AND THE TOWN OF        CEDARBURG, THE CITY AS FORMER OWNER AND BOTH MUNICIPALITIES  AS OPERATORS; AND 2 CORPORATIONS, WHICH ARRANGED FOR THE     DISPOSAL OF HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES AT THE LANDFILL.  AMONG THE VARIOUS HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES WERE CHLORINATED SOLVENTS, SUCH AS TRICHLOROETHYLENE.  THE SOLVENTS HAD DEGRADED INTO VINYL  CHLORIDE, WHICH WAS FOUND IN RESIDENTIAL DRINKING WATER      WELLS.  VINYL CHLORIDE IS ONE OF A FEW CLASS A CARCINOGENS,  THE HIGHEST CATEGORY EPA RECOGNIZES.  EPA'S REMOVAL ACTION   INCLUDED BOTTLED WATER DELIVERY, INSTALLATION OF AIR         STRIPPERS IN HOMES, CONNECTING THE RESIDENCES TO MUNICIPAL   WATER, AND PLUGGING THE WELLS.

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