# CLEVELAND MILL SUPERFUND SITE
> **Judicial** · FY1993 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `35562`
- **Case Number:** 06-1993-0014
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $970K
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- BAYARD MINING CORP. (complaint) (settlement)
- MINING REMEDIAL RECOVERY COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- PARAMOUNT COMMUNICATIONS INC. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

THE CLEVELAND MILL SUPERFUND SITE OCCUPIES ABOUT 18 ACRES    APPROXIMATELY 5.5 MILES NORTH OF SILVER CITY IN GRANT        COUNTY, NEW MEXICO. A MINE AND MILL WERE OPERATED AT THE SIT E DURING THE PERIOD FROM ABOUT 1910 TO 1949. ONLY FOUNDATION S OF THE MILL REMAIN. THERE ARE NO LONGER ANY BUILDINGS AT   THE SITE.                                                    GENERALLY SPEAKING, THE SOURCE OF THE HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES   ST THE SITE IS APPROXIMATELY 30,000 CUBIC YARDS OF TAILINGS  FROM MILLING OPERATIONS AT THE SITE, AND 15,000 YARDS OF     WASTE ORE. THE TAILINGS AND WASTE ORE ARE LOCATED AT THE     HEADWATERS OF AN INTERMITTENT STREAM KNOWN AS LITTLE WALNUT  CREEK. THE MILL FOUNDATIONS AND MAIN TAILINGS PILES COVER    AN AREA OF APPROXIMATELY FOUR ACRES. PRECIPATATION RUNOFF    FROM THE SITE INTO LITTLE WALNUT CREEK IS HIGHLY ACIDIC,     AND CONTRIBUTES TO THE EXTENSIVE LEACHING OF METALS FROM     THE TAILINGS AND WASTE ORE. HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES OF PRIMARY  CONCERN INCLUDE ARESNIC, COPPER, LEAD, ZINC,AND OTHER        METALS.                                                      THE REMEDIAL INVESTIGATION/FEASIBILTY STUDY (RI/FS) FOR THE  SITE WAS COMPLETED BY THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO'S ENVIRONMENT  DEPARTMENT UNDER A COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT DATED OCTOBER 1,    1990. EPA ISSUED THE PROPOSED PLAN, IDENTIFYING EPA'S        PREFERRED ALTERNATIVE FOR THE SITE ON APRIL 9, 1993. THE     PREFERRED REMEDY, OFF-SITE REPROCESSING, RECYCLING, AND      DISPOSAL OF RESIDUALS IDENTIFIED BY 

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