# SUPERIOR POLISHING SITE
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1999 · — · Final Order No Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `31869`
- **Case Number:** 05-1999-0568
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order No Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** $60K
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- SUPERIOR POLISHING SITE (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

SUPERIOR POLISHING OPERATED AT THE SITE FOR AN UNKNOWN       PERIOD OF TIME, CEASING OPERATIONS BY JULY 1992.  THE        FACILITY ELECTROPLATED AUTOMOTIVE PARTS, GENERATING CORRO-   SIVE WASTES CONTAMINATED WITH CHROMIUM.  IT CONSISTS OF ONE  MAIN BUILDING WHICH HOUSED PROCESS TANKS FOR CHROME PLATING  SYSTEMS OPERATED BY SUPERIOR POLISHING, AND A SMALLER        STORAGE BUILDING. WHEN SUPERIOR POLISHING STOPPED OPERATING, IT LEFT THE TANKS CONTAINING AN ESTIMATED 3,000 GALLONS OF   PLATING SOLUTIONS.  ACCORDING TO INFORMATION FROM THE        MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES, THERE WERE         SEVERAL RELEASES OF THIS ELECTROPLATING WASTE BETWEEN NOVEM- BER 1984 AND SEPTEMBER 1993.  IN EACH INCIDENT, THE PLATING  WASTE LEAKED THROUGH THE EAST WALL OF THE BUILDING AND       FLOWED OUT INTO THE GRAVEL PARKING LOT.  SUPERIOR POLISHING  RESPONDED TO THESE RELEASES BY REMOVING CONTAMINATED SOILS   FROM THE PARKING LOT AND INSTALLING A REINFORCED WALL IN     THE PROCESS BUILDING.  HOWEVER, IT DID NOT REMOVE THE        PLATING WASTE.  IN SEPTEMBER 1993, AFTER MR. KRSTICH HAD     TAKEN POSSESSION OF THE SITE, A WATER MAIN BURST IN THE MAIN BUILDING ON THE SITE.  THE FLOODING WATER CARRIED CHROMIUM-  CONTAMINATED SOIL TO ADJACENT PROPERTY.                      THE PROPOSED AGREEMENT PROVIDES THAT MR. KRSTICH WILL PAY    $60,000 TOWARD RESPONSE COSTS INCURRED BY EPA AT THE SITE.   RECOVERY OF PAST COSTS UNDER CERCLA 122(H)(1) FOR A          PROPERTY FORMERLY USED AS A CHROMIUM

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