# Orofino Asbestos Cost Recovery
> **Judicial** · FY2015 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `3600054913`
- **Case Number:** 10-2015-0131
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** —
## Defendants
- CLEARWATER OPERATIONS, INC.
- JOHN ANDERSON AND RICHARD BURNHAM
- OWYHEE CONSTRUCTION, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- RIVERSIDE WATER AND SEWER DISTRICT (complaint) (settlement)
- TAYLOR ENGINEERING, INC.
## Summary

On August 2, 2016, the U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho entered an ability-to-pay Consent Decree resolving liability and ordering payment of $523,000 in past costs for EPA?s removal actions at the Orofino Asbestos Superfund Site during 2008-2010.  The asbestos contamination occurred when Owyhee Construction, a contractor of the Riverside Water and Sewer District, crushed concrete asbestos pipe and then disposed it as fill across several properties in Orofino, Idaho.

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