# ELECTRO-VOICE INC.
> **Judicial** · FY2000 · — · —
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `32593`
- **Case Number:** 05-2000-0597
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** —
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** $145K
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- ELECTRO-VOICE INC. (settlement)
- MARK IV INDUSTRIES (settlement)
## Summary

THE ELECTRO-VOICE SUPERFUND SITE (SITE) IS LISTED ON THE     NATIONAL PRIORITIES LIST (NPL).  U.S. EPA LISTED THE SITE ON THE NPL ON NOVEMBER 21, 1984 (49 FED. REG. 185).             THE ELECTRO-VOICE SUPERFUND SITE CONSISTS OF THE EV INTER-   NATIONAL (EVI) PROPERTY AND OFF-PROPERTY GROUNDWATER CONTA-  MINATION THAT EXTENDS ABOUT ONE-HALF MILE NORTH OF EVI.      ELECTRO-VOICE MANUFACTURED AUDIO EQUIPMENT.  THE EVI PROPER- TY INCLUDES A BUILDING, PARKING AREAS, A FORMER DRYWELL AREA WHERE ELECTRO-VOICE DISPOSED PAINT WASTES, A FORMER FUEL     TANK AREA, AND TWO FORMER LAGOONS WHERE ELECTRO-VOICE DIS-   POSED ELECTROPLATING WASTES.                                 EVI IS LOCATED AT 600 CECIL STREET IN BUCHANAN, MICHIGAN.    BUCHANAN IS IN BERRIEN COUNTY IN THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF     MICHIGAN.  THE GROUNDWATER CONTAMINATION EXTENDS FROM EVI    ABOUT ONE-HALF MILE NORTH OF EVI TO ABOUT 500 FEET BEYOND    MCCOY CREEK.  SEE ATTACHMENT 1.                              IN 1992 U.S. EPA DIVIDED THE SITE INTO TWO OPERABLE UNITS.   OPERABLE UNIT 1 ADDRESSED CONTAMINATED SOILS IN THE DRYWELL  AREA, THE LAGOONS AND ON-PROPERTY GROUNDWATER.  OPERABLE     UNIT 2 ADDRESSES THE OFF-PROPERTY GROUNDWATER CONTAMINATION. THIS CONSENT DECREE ADDRESSES OPERABLE UNIT 2, THE OFF-PRO-  PERTY GROUNDWATER CONTAMINATION.

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