# DESHLER LEAD SITE/BALDAUF LEAD SITE
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1996 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `29813`
- **Case Number:** 05-1996-0382
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $67K
- **Compliance action $:** $1.69M
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- DESHLER LEAD SITE (settlement)
## Summary

THE SITE IS IN THE MIDDLE OF A BEANFIELD.  THE FORMER LESSE  AND POSSIBLE                                                 OWNER, MIKE OR JAMES ODLE, USED TO BURN TRANSFORMERS AT THE  SITE.  MR.                                                   ODLE DIED IN 1994.  THE SITE IS CURRENTLY OWNED AND OCCUPIED BY CURTIS                                                    STEWART.  HE HAS A HOUSE TRAILER ON SITE AND CHILDREN ARE    BELIEVED TO                                                  LIVE THERE.  CHILDREN SERVICES MAY BE INVOLVED.  SAMPLES     TAKEN BY OEPA                                                SHOWED HIGH LEVELS.  CONFIRMATORY SAMPLES WERE TAKEN BY THE  OSC AUGUST                                                   8, 1996.                                                     ON SEPTEMBER 20,, 1996, U.S. EPA MAILED A GENERAL NOTICE PRP LETTER TO                                                    THE RESPONDENT NOTIFYING IT OF ITS POTENTIAL LIABILITY FOR   LEAD                                                         CONTAMINATION FOUND IN DESHLER, OHIO.  RESPONDENT RUNS A     SCRAPYARD IN                                                 TOLEDO, OHIO, WHICH HAD DELIVERED TRANSFORMERS AND WIRE TO   AN INDIVIDUAL                                                IN DESHLER, OHIO WHO BURNED AND SCRAPPED MATERIALS TO        RECLAIM THE                                                  METALS, WHICH WERE RETURNED TO THE SCRAPYARD FOR CASH        PROPERTY WHERE THE                  

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