# MOTOR WHEEL DISPOSAL SITE
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1999 · — · Final Order No Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `31979`
- **Case Number:** 05-1999-0688
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order No Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- MOTOR WHEEL DISPOSAL SITE (settlement)
- W.R. GRACE & CO.
## Summary

W.R. GRACE CAUSED AMMONIA TO ENTER AN UNDERGROUND SOURCE     OF DRINKING WATER.  IN THE '60S IT OPERATED A FACILITY THAT  PRODUCED AGRICULTURAL FERTILIZER, WHICH TRAVELED TO THE      MOTOR WHEEL DISPOSAL SITE.  THE AMMONIA IN THE RUNOFF        LEACHED INTO THE GROUND AND CONTAMINATED THE SAGINAW         AQUIFER, WHICH PROVIDES DRINKING WATER FOR LANSING, MI.

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