# MARINA CLIFF/NORTHWESTERN BARREL
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2001 · — · Final Order No Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `33064`
- **Case Number:** 05-2001-0428
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order No Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** $2.00M
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- MARINA CLIFF/NORTHWESTERN BARREL (settlement)
## Summary

THE MARINA CLIFFS SITE CURRENTLY OCCUPIES ROUGHLY 13 ACRES   OF VACANT LAND SOUTH OF DREXEL STREET AND EAST OF FIFTH      AVENUE ALONG LAKE MICHIGAN IN SOUTH MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN.    FROM 1941 THROUGH THE MID-1960S, NORTHWESTERN BARREL DUMPED, WASHED, RECYCLED AND RECONDITIONED BARRELS AT THE SITE.  AS  A RESULT OF THOSE OPERATIONS, THE SITE BECAME CONTAMINATED   WITH HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES INCLUDING POLYCHLORINATED BIPHEN-  YLS ( PCBS ), VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS ( VOCX ), PAINT     WASTES, CHROMIUM, LEAD, AND OTHER HEAVY METALS.  DRUMS,      BARRELS, AND DEBRIS WERE ABANDONED IN THE RAVINE AND LAKE    BLUFF AREAS OF THE SITE.                                       THE AREA AROUND THE SITE IS HEAVILY POPULATED.  IT IS      BORDERED ON THE SOUTH AND WEST SIDES BY RESIDENTIAL AREAS    (MOSTLY APARTMENTS AND CONDOMINIUMS), ON THE EAST BY LAKE    MICHIGAN, AND ON THE NORTH BY SOUTH MILWAUKEE WASTE WATER    TREATMENT PLANT IS APPROXIMATELY THREE-QUARTERS OF A MILE    OFF-SHORE FROM THE SITE.                                       THE SITE IS NOT ON THE NATIONAL PRIORITIES LIST.           ON OCTOBER 3, 1995, U.S. EPA ISSUED A UNILATER ADMINISTRA-   TIVE ORDER ( 1995 UAO ) TO THE CURRENT OWNERS OF THE SITE    AND TO 78 OF THE LARGEST GENERATORS OF MATERIALS DISPOSED OF AT THE SITE.  UNDER THAT UAO, A GROUP OF THE GENERATOR PRPS  (THE  PRP GROUP ) EXCAVATED, STOCKPILED AND DISPOSED OF MORE THAN 10,000 TONS OF CONTAMINATED SOILD AND SLUDGE FROM       DISPOSAL PIT AREAS, ALONG WITH MORE 

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