# MENARDS DDS
> **Judicial** · FY1999 · — · —
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `31789`
- **Case Number:** 05-1999-0478
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** —
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $145K
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- BRIGGS & STRATTON CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- CARDINAL FABRICATING CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- COOPER POWER SYSTEMS, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- GIDDINGS & LEWIS, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- INX INTERNATIONAL INK COMPANY, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- J.I. CASE COMPANY
- KRAMER BRASS FOUNDRY INC.
- LADISH COMPANY, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- MACWHYTE COMPANY, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- MENDARDS DDS (complaint) (settlement)
- MILLER BREWING COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- SERVICE PAINTING CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- SUNSTRAND CORPORATION
- SUPREME CASTING, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- THE FALK CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- THE MANITOWOC COMPANY, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- WAUKESHA ENGINE, A DIV. OF DRESSER IND. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

SITE WAS USED AS AN UNLICENSED DUMP BY A PREVIOUS OWNER, NOW DECEASED, FROM 1970 THROUGH 1982.  IN ADDITION, TO EXEMPT    SOLID WASTE, THE PREVIOUS SITE OWNER ALSO DISPOSED OF REGU-  LATED WASTE, INCLUDING METAL, WOOD, FOUNDRY WASTE, CRUSHED   DRUMS, SLAG-TYPE BOILER WASTE, AND VARIOUS SLUDGES.            IN 1983, THE CURRENT OWNER, MENARD, UNCOVERED BARRELS      DURING EXCAVATION ACTIVITIES.  SEVERAL OF THESE BARRELS      RUPTURED WHILE MENARD PERSONNEL WERE MOVING THEM, SPILLING   THEIR CONTENTS AT THE SITE.  MENARD NOTIFIED WDNR, WHO       EVENTUALLY REFERRED THE SITE TO U.S. EPA.  IN APRIL 1987,    U.S. EPA NEGOTIATED AN AOC WITH ACME PRINTING, A GENERATOR   PRP AT THE SITE, TO CONDUCT A RI/FS AT THE SITE.  IN SEPTEM- BER 1991, U.S. EPA NEGOTIATED AN AOC WITH MENARD TO CONDUCT  THE RD AT THE SITE.  U.S. EPA HAS RECOVERED ALL COSTS        ASSOCIATED WITH THESE TWO AOCS.                                U.S. EPA ATTEMPTED TO NEGOTIATE AN AOC WITH BOTH MENARD    AND ACME, NOW KNOWN AS INX INTERNATIONAL INC, AND SEVERAL    OTHER GENERATOR PRPS.  HOWEVER, THESE NEGOTIATION FAILED,    AND IN APRIL 1993, U.S. EPA ISSUED AN UAO TO THE PRPS TO     PERFORM THE RA.  THE PRPS COMPLETED THE RA IN SEPTEMBER 1994 5SINCE THAT TIME, U.S. EPA HAS ISSUED SEVERAL DEMANDS FOR    PAYMENT OF U.S. EPA'S OVERSIGHT COSTS, CURRENTLY TOTALING    $476,230.10, WITHOUT INTEREST.

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