# GENERAL DIE CASTING COMPANY-AOC
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1995 · — · Final Order No Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `29238`
- **Case Number:** 05-1995-0238
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order No Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $0
- **Cost recovery:** $0
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- GENERAL DIE CASTING COMPANY, INC. (complaint)
## Summary

THE AOC REQUIRES TO UNDERTAKE REMOVAL WORK AT THE FACILITY.  GENERA DIE CASTING BEGAN OPERATING AT THE FACILITY IN AUGUST 1970 AS A ZINC DIE CASTTING AND ELECTROPLATING BUSINESS.     GENERAL DIE CASTING OPERATED THE FACILITY UNTIL ITS CLOSURE  IN DECEMBER 1988.  GENERAL DIE CASTING THEN SOLD THE         FACILITY IN JANUARY 1989 TO MR. WILLIAM AIKENS  AN AGENT FOR A CORPORATION TO BE NAMED AT A LATER DATE  ACCORDING TO THE  AOC.                                                         THE FACILITY WAS OPERATED, PRIOR TO GENERAL DIE CASTING, BY  THE WOLVERINE DIE CASTING COMPANY FROM THE 1950'S UNTIL      1970.  WOLVERINE IS AN INDIRECT SUBSIDIARY OF NORANDA, INC.  PRIOR TO THE SALE TO MR. AIKENS, GENERAL DIE CASTING HAD AN  ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT CONDUCTED, INCLUDING SAMPLING THAT  REVEALED POLYNUCLEAR AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS.  (TOXICO REPORT  IN JANUARY 1989).  SAMPLING FOR CYANIDE AND SULFIDE WAS NOT  DONE BY GENERAL DIE CASTING'S CONTRACTOR (TOXICO             CORPORATION), BUT AN ADJACENT LANDOWNER, CS&W, HAD SAMPLES   TAKEN AND ANALYZED IN JULY-SEPTEMBER 1989. THE RESULTS       REVEALED ELEVATED LEVELS HEAVY METALS AND POLYNUCLEAR        AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS.                                       BEGINNING IN JULY 1990, GENERAL DIE CASTING BEGAN REMOVAL OF CERTAIN SOILS AFTER RECEIVING APPROVAL OF MDNR BASED UPON    ITS EARLIER REPORT.  WHILE THIS WORK WAS ONGOING CS&W        CONTRACTOR, GABRIEL LABORATORIES, TOOK MORE SOIL AND SURFACE WATER SAMPLES THAT REVEALED ELEVATED

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