# CHRYSLER CORP./WILLOW DRUM SITE
> **Judicial** · FY1996 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `29685`
- **Case Number:** 05-1996-0215
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $250K
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- ARCHER DANIELS MIDLAND (settlement)
- BASF (settlement)
- CHRYSLER CORP. (complaint) (settlement)
- GENERAL MOTORS (settlement)
## Summary

THE WILLOW DRUM SITE IS ABOUT 2.5 ACRES OF A 15 ACRE FARM    PROPERTY LOCATED IN WAYNE COUNTY, MICHIGAN.  THE SITE WAS    USED IN THE LATE 1970'S FOR FLY DUMPING OF SOLID AND         HAZARDOUS WASTES.  THE 2.5 ACRE DISPOSAL AREA CONTAINED      1,800 DRUMS AND 20,000 SMALL CONTAINERS OF WASTE AND OTHER   TRASH.  HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES INCLUDE ETHYLBENZENE, XYLENE,   ARSENIC AND LEAD.  THE U.S. EPA SPENT APPROXIMATELY $1.4     MILLION ON A REMOVAL ACTION TO STAGE THE WASTES.  CHRYSLER   CORP., ONE OF THE POTENTIALLY RESPONSIBLE PARTIES (PRPS),    HAS BEEN WORKING AT THE SITE UNDER A UNILATERAL ORDER (UAO)  SINCE 1992, COMPLETED A REMOVAL ACTION AT THE SITE IN 1993,  AND PREPARED AN ENGINEERING EVALUATION/COST DECLINED         PARTICIPATION IN THE UAO AND PAST COSTS WERE NOT ADDRESSED   AT THAT TIME.

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