# CLARE WATER SUPPLY
> **Judicial** · FY1996 · — · —
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `29843`
- **Case Number:** 05-1996-0422
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** —
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $150K
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- AMERICAN DRY CLEANERS (complaint) (settlement)
- COLTEC INDUSTRIES, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION (complaint) (settlement)
- MITCHELL MANUFACTURING GROUP, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- MITCHIGAN COMPANY OF OWOSSO (complaint) (settlement)
- STAGERIGHT CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- TEXTRON, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- UNITED TECHNOLOGIES AUTOMOTIVE, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

THIS IS A COST RECOVERY REFERRAL FOR PRIMARILY OVERSIGHT     COSTS FOR THE                                                SITE.  SOME OF THE PRPS HAD CONDUCTED AN RI/FS UNDER A       CONSENT ORDER AND                                            HAD COMPLIED WITH AN INTERIM ACTION SECTION 106 UNILATERAL   ORDER.                                                       NEGOTIATIONS FOR AN RD/RA CONSENT DECREE WERE UNSUCCESSFUL.  A SECOND                                                     SECTION 106 ORDER WAS ISSUED.  A GROUP OF THE PRPS ARE       CARRYING OUT THE                                             WORK UNDER THE SECOND ORDER. THE GROUP HAS REFUSED TO        REIMBURSE U.S.                                               EPA'S OVERSIGHT COSTS UNDER THE TERMS OF THE ORDER AND TWO   NON-GROUP                                                    PRPS HAVE FAILED TO COMPLY WITH THE ORDER IN ANY FASHION.    THE REFERRAL                                                 ALSO SEEKS DAMAGES UNDER SECTION 106(B).                     THE CONSENT DECREE MEMORIALIZES A SETTLEMENT WITH THE        MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION WHEREBY MDOT WILL      REIMBURSE THE UNITED STATES $150,000 OF ITS PAST RESPONSE    COSTS RELATED TO THE CLARE WATER SUPPLY SITE.                THE CLARE WATER SUPPLY NPL SITE INVOLVES CONTAMINATION OF A  MUNICIPAL WELL FIELD.  THE MAIN CONTAMINANT OF CONCERN IS    TCE.  THE SITE WAS LISTED ON THE NPL IN 1984.  FOUR POTEN-   TIALLY RESPONSIBLE PARTIES ( PRPS ) 

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