# GENERAL DIE CASTING-UAO #1
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1995 · — · Voluntarily Dismissed After Filing
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `29236`
- **Case Number:** 05-1995-0236
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Voluntarily Dismissed After Filing
- **Penalty assessed:** $0
- **Cost recovery:** $0
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- AIKENS, WILLIAM (complaint)
- GENERAL DIE CASTING CO. (complaint)
- SHIRLEY, RICHARD E. (complaint)
- SPARTAN METAL FINISHING
## Summary

THE GENERAL DIE CASTING COMPANY OPERATED THE FACILITY FROM   AUGUST 1970 TO DECEMBER 1988 AS A PLATING FACILITY IN WHICH  IT MANUFACTURED AND ELECTROPLATED ZINC DIE CASTINGS.         CHEMICALS COMMONLY USED IN ELECTROPLATING OPERATIONS         INCLUDE:  NICKEL, LEAD, ZINC,  COPPER SULFIDES, CHROME       PLATING AND CYANIDE COMPOUNDS.                               THE FACILITY IS LOCATED ON APPROXIMATELY 0.6 ACRES OF LAND   WHICH IS BOUNDED BY MOUNT ELLIOT STREET ON THE WESTERN EDGE, CONRAIL TRACKS ON THE EAST, CENTRAL STEEL & WIRE ON THE      WEST, AND INDUSTRIAL BUSINESSES ON THE NORTH AND SOUTH.  THE AREA IS CONSIDERED A MIXTURE OF RESIDENTIAL AND LIGHT        INDUSTRIAL BUSINESSES.                                       CS & W HAD SOILS SAMPLES TAKEN FROM THE FACILTY.  THE        RESULTS SHOWED SIGNIFICANT AMOUNTS OF CYANIDE IN THE SOILS.    THESE SAMPLES WERE FOLLOWED UP BY SAMPLING AND ANALYSIS BY THE MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES.  MDNR SAMPLE   RESULTS SHOWED CYANIDE IN SOILS NEAR THE FACILITY BUILDING,  PLUS ELEVATED LEVELS OF ARSENIC, BARIUM, CHROMIUM, COPPER,   MERCURY, NICKEL, LEAD, SELENIUM, AND ZINC WERE FOUND.  ON    MAY 3, 1991, AN INSPECTION, ATTENDED BY THEN EPA EMPLOYEE,   JIM SIAS, FOUND THAT SOILS HAD BEEN EXCAVATED AND REMOVED    ALONG THE SOUTH EXTERIOR OF THE BUILDING ON SITE WHICH FACES CENTRAL STEEL & WIRE.  SLUDGES HAD ALSO BEEN REMOVED FROM    INSIDE THE BUILDING AT THAT TIME.                            THE UAO INDICATES THAT MR. SHIRLEY W

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