# POWELL ROAD LANDFILL
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1998 · — · Final Order No Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `30950`
- **Case Number:** 05-1998-0346
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order No Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** $23.00M
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- POWELL ROAD LANDFILL (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

U.S. EPA ISSUED TWO CERCLA 106 UAOS TO SIX MAJOR PARTIES     CONNECTED WITH THE POWELL ROAD LANDFILL SITE/DAYTON, OHIO.   IMPACT:  ON MAY 6, 1998, U.S. EPA ISSUED TWO SEPARATE CERCLA SECTION 106 UAOS TO 6 MAJOR CONTRIBUTORS OF HAZARDOUS SUB-   STANCES TO THE POWELL ROAD NPL SITE, LOCATED OUTSIDE OF      DAYTON, OHIO.  THE FIRST UAO REQUIRES THE RESPONDENTS TO     CONSTRUCT AND IMPLEMENT THE 100% FINAL APPROVAL REMEDIAL     DESIGN FOR THE SITE, AND TO DESIGN, CONSTRUCT, AND IMPLEMENT AN ON-SITE LEACHATE TREATMENT SYSTEM WHEN SO DIRECTED IN THE FUTURE BY U.S. EPA.  THE SECOND UAO REQUIRES THE RESPONDENTS TO DESIGN, CONSTRUCT, AND IMPLEMENT A GROUNDWATER PUMP AND   TREAT SYSTEM WHEN SO DIRECTED IN THE FUTURE BY U.S. EPA.     THE TOTAL ESTIMATED COST OF THE CLEANUP IS $23,000,000.      BACKGROUND:  THE POWELL ROAD LANDFILL SITE IS NPL SITE.  THE SITE IS A FORMER GRAVEL PIT THAT WAS CONVERTED TO A LANDFILL IN 1959 AND OPERATED UNTIL 1984.  COMMERCIAL, INDUSTRIAL,    AND DOMESTIC WASTES WERE DISPOSED OF AT THE SITE.  THE ROD   WAS SIGNED IN SEPTEMBER 1993.  IN AN EXPLANATION OF SIGNIFI- CANT DIFFERENCES ( ESD ) U.S. EPA HAD AGREED TO DELAY IMPLE- MENTATION OF THE GROUNDWATER COMPONENT OF THE RECORD OF      DECISION ( ROD ) REMEDY PENDING THE OUTCOME OF A GROUNDWATER STUDY.  IF THE STUDY DEMONSTRATES THAT GROUNDWATER CONTAMI-  NATION LEVELS ARE DROPPING AS A RESULT OF SOURCE CONTROL     MEASURES, THEN U.S. EPA CAN USE THE STUDY RESULTS TO CHANGE  THE ROD'S REQUIREMENTS REGARDING GRO

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