# ROBROY
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1984 · — · Unknown
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `33855`
- **Case Number:** 06-1984-0071
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Unknown
- **Penalty assessed:** $0
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- ROBROY (complaint)
## Summary

SINCE 1962, ROBROY HAS BEEN AT THE PRESENT SITE.  IT HAS     BEN IN THE BUSINESS OF ELECTRICAL CONDUIT MANUFACTURING.  IN 1967, AN ACID WASTE PIT RECEIVED UNTREATED ACID WASTES AND   WAS UNLINED.  IN 1970, A WASTEWATER TREATMENT IMPOUNDMENT    WITH OIL SKIMMERS WAS CONSTRUCTED TO RECEIVE WASTE HIGH IN   INC, CYANIDE, CHROMATE, AND A LOW PH.  LIME WAS SENT TO THE  ACIT PIT AT THIS TIME.  AROUND 1972, NETRALIZATION SYSTEM    WAS INSTALLED.  DURING 1977, TWQB ACKNOWLEDGED GROUNDWATER   CONTAIMINATION, ACID PIT WAS CLAY LINED AND SLUDGES ENCAP-   SULATED, AND TWO MONITORING WELLS WERE TO BE DRILLED.  IN    JAN 1978, SITE  B  LANDFILL WAS CONSTRUCTED AND RECEIVED     SLUDGE FROM ACID PIT WITH SUPERNATANT GOING TO WASTEWATER    IMPOUNDMENT AND PLANS WERE TO USE 25% OF ACID PIT FOR DE-    WATERING WASTES BEFORE DISPOSAL.  IN OCTOBER 1978, SEEPAGE   FROM ACID PIT WAS EVIDENT, AND IN 1978, ELECTROPLATING WAS   DISCONTINUED BUT PRE-GALVANIZING-PICKLING CONTINUED.         *                                                            APRIL 11, 1983, THE PRE-GALVANIZING-PICKLING PROCESS WAS     DISCONTINUED AND THE FACILITY WAS NO LONGER GENERATING       PROCESS WASTES.  THE WASTE COMPONENTS INCLUDE SITE  B        LANDFILL, SITE  A  EVAPORATION IMPOUNDMENT (OLD ACID PIT)    AND PART OF THE SITE  A  WASTEWATER TREATMENT IMPOUNDMENT    (PARTIALLY CLOSED).  IN 1980, A GW INJECTION AND RECOVERY    SYSTEM WAS INSTALLED TO TRY A CLEANUP OF THE GW, BUT         PROVED UNSUCCESSFUL.  TDWR ISSUED AN

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