# NELSON MCCOY POTTERY SITE
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1995 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `29428`
- **Case Number:** 05-1995-0464
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $125K
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- JGRP, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- JUSTIN GASARCH (complaint) (settlement)
- RALPH PORTO (complaint) (settlement)
- RICKY J. DEMENT (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

THE NELSON MCCOY POTTERY SITE IS AN ABANDONED POTTERY        PRODUCTION PLANT LOCATED IN A RURAL/RESIDENTIAL AREA IN      ROSEVILLE, OHIO, WHICH WAS IN OPERATION FROM APPROXIMATELY   1910 TO 1990.  THERE HAVE BEEN RELEASES OR THREATS OF        RELEASES OF HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES, WITHIN THE DEFINITION OF   SECTION 101(14) OF CERCLA, INTO THE ENVIRONMENT AT OR FROM   THE FACILITY.                                                EPA, PURSUANT TO SECTION 106 OF CERCLA, DETERMINED THAT      CONDITIONS AT THE FACILITY CONSTITUTED AN IMMINENT AND       SUBSTANTIAL DANGER TO PUBLIC HEALTH OR WELFARE OR THE        ENVIRONMENT.  WHILE TAKING RESPONSE ACTIONS UNDER CERCLA 104 AND 106, EPA FOUND EVIDENCE AT THE FACILITY OF OPEN AND      DETERIORATED DRUMS OF FLAMMABLE MATERIALS WITH UNRESTRICTED  ACCESS, TANKS, GAS CYLINDERS AND OTHER CONTAINERS.  SOME     CONTAINERS HAD CORROSIVE WASTE, BARIUM- AND                  LEAD-CONTAMINATED HAZARDOUS WASTE (LIQUIDS AND SOLIDS) AND   IGNITABLE MATERIALS.  BETWEEN OCTOBER AND NOVEMBER 1992, EPA CONDUCTED REMOVAL ACTIVITIES AT THE FACILITY.                AS PART OF ITS INVESTIGATIVE ACTIVITIES, EPA DEVELOPED       INFORMATION CONCERNING POTENTIALLY RESPONSIBLY PARTIES       (PRPS) BASED UPON RESPONSES TO INQUIRIES AND CERCLA 104      INFORMATION REQUESTS.  RESPONDENT JGRP, INC. WAS THE OWNER   OF DESIGNER ACCENTS CORP., THE LAST ACTIVE POTTERY MAKING    OPERATION AT THE FACILITY, AND WAS INVOLVED WITH THE         HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES MENTIONED ABOVE

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