# SPARTON TECHNOLOGY, INC.
> **Judicial** · FY1996 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `36428`
- **Case Number:** 06-1996-0126
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $294K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** $4.60M
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** Y
## Defendants
- SPARTON TECHNOLOGY, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

1. SECTION 7003 OF THE RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND RECOVERY       ACT ( RCRA ) AND SECTION 1431 OF THE SAFE DRINKING WATER     ACT ( SDWA ).                                             2. SPARTON TECHNOLOGY, INC.                                     COORS ROAD FACILITY                                          ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO                                   3. SPARTON MANUFACTURED ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS FROM 1961 TO      1994, AND PAST WASTE MANAGEMENT PRACTICES PRODUCED A CON-    TAMINANT PLUME IN THE GROUND WATER CONTAINING SOLVENTS       SUCH AS TRICHLOROETHYLENE (TCE). THE LEADING EDGE OF THIS    CONTAMINANT PLUME IS APPROXIMATELY 1/2 MILE BEYOND THE       FACILITY BOUNDARY. CONCENTRATIONS OF TCE IN THE GROUND       WATER ARE AS HIGH AS 7.6 PARTS PER MILLION (PPM), WHICH      IS OVER 1000 TIMES THE MAXIMUM CONTAMINANT LEVEL OF 0.005    PPM FOR DRINKING WATER UNDER THE SDWA. GROUND WATER IS       THE SOLE SOURCE OF DRINKING WATER FOR THE CITY OF ALBU-      QUERQUE, AND A PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY WELL IS APPROXIMATELY     2 MILES DOWNGRADIENT FROM THE LEADING EDGE OF THE CON-       TAMINANT PLUME.                                              SPARTON HAS BEEN INVESTIGATING AND EVALUATING REMEDY AL-     TERNATIVES UNDER A RCRA SECTION 3008(H) ADMINISTRATIVE       ORDER ON CONSENT (AOC) SIGNED WITH EPA ON OCT. 1, 1988.      AS PART OF THIS PROCESS, EPA PREPARED A STATEMENT OF         BASIS SUMMARIZING THE SITE HISTORY AND THE VARIOUS CLEAN-    UP ALTERNATIVES TO ADDRESS GROUND

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