# FRONTERA CREEK SUPERFUND SITE
> **Judicial** · FY1991 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `4238`
- **Case Number:** 02-1991-0247
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $153K
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- COOPER DEVELOPMENT CO (complaint) (settlement)
- MILES DIAGNOSTICS CORP (complaint) (settlement)
- MILES INC (complaint) (settlement)
- REVLON INC (complaint) (settlement)
- TECHNICON ELECTRONICS CORP
- TECHNICON INSTRUMENTS
## Summary

THIS IS A PRE-REFERRAL ACTION REGARDING THE FRONTERA       CREEK SUPERFUND SITE, IN HUMACAO, PR UNDER CERCLA SECTIONS   106A AND 107A.                                                SEVERAL INDUSTRIES, INCLUDING TECHNICON ELECTRONICS CORP    (FORMERLY A SUBSIDIARY OF REVLON, INC) WHICH USED MERCURY    IN ITS MANUFACTURING PROCESS, AND REEDCO, INC WHICH USED     LINDANE, PREVIOUSLY DISCHARGED THEIR WASTE WATER DIRECTLY    INTO FRONTERA CREEK.  TECHNICON AND REEDCO WERE FINED FOR    THIS PRACTICE.                                                 AS A RESULT OF THE POTENTIAL THREAT TO PUBLIC HEALTH IN    1983 THE FRONTERA CREEK SITE WAS INCLUDED ON EPA'S NATIONAL  PRIORITIES LIST.  IN ADDITION TO HUMAN HEALTH, CONTAMINATION AT THE SITE POSES A THREAT TO AN ENDANGERED SPECIES.           FROM 1978 TO 1980, A HOUSING DEVELOPMENT, WAS BUILT ALONG  FRONTERA CREEK.  THE COMMUNITY BEGAN TO COMPLAIN OF HEALTH   PROBLEMS WITHIN A YEAR AFTER THEIR ARRIVAL.  IN FEBRUARY     '85 THE PR DEPT OF HEALTH SAMPLED THE BLOOD AND URINE OF     THE RESIDENTS AND FOUND ELEVATED LEVELS OF MERCURY.  SOIL    SAMPLES COLLECTED ALSO REVEALED THE PRESENCE OF MERCURY.  AS A RESULT OF THOSE INVESTIGATIONS, THE GOVERNOR OF PR ORDERED AN IMMEDIATE EVACUATION OF THE COMMUNITY.                      IN MARCH 1985 THE EPA BEGAN A FOCUSED REMEDIAL INVESTIGA-  TION TO ASSESS THE MERCURY CONTAMINATION AND CONCLUDED THAT  MERCURY DID NOT PRESENT AN IMMEDIATE NOR A SIGNIFICANT       HEALTH THREAT TO THE RESIDENTS.       

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