# MIDWEST GAS (PEOPLES NATURAL GAS SITE)
> **Judicial** · FY1992 · — · Litigated With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `44300`
- **Case Number:** 07-1992-0047
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Litigated With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** $0
- **Cost recovery:** $137K
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- DUBUQUE, CITY OF  IOWA (complaint) (settlement)
- EXXON CORP. (complaint) (settlement)
- IOWA DEPT OF TRANSPORTATION (complaint) (settlement)
- MIDWEST GAS, A DIV. OF IOWA PUBLIC SER. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

THIS PRE-REFERRAL RELATES TO THE PEOPLE NATURAL GAS          SUPERFUND SITE IN DUBUQUE, IOWA. THE SITE IS THE LOCATION OF A FOME COAL GAS MANUFACTURING PLANT. THE REGION ISSUED A ROD IN SEPT. 1991. CALLING FOR EXCAVATION OF CONTAMINATED SOILS, OFF-SITE  INCENERATION OF EXCAVATED MATERIALS, & PUMPING AND TREATING CONTAMINATED GROUND WATER. THE DRAFT CONSENT DECREE SEEKS RD/RA PERFORMANCE AND REIMBURSEMENT OF PAST COSTS FROM THE FOUR PRPS. MIDWEST GAS IS THE CORPORATE SUCCESSOR TO THE OPERATOR OF THE PLANT. EXXON IS A CORPERATE SUCCESSOR TO A   COMPANY THAT DISPOSED OF MATERIALS AT THE SITE, AND THE CITY OF DUBUQUE & IOWA DEPT.OF TRANSPORTATION ARE THE CURRENT     OWNERS OF THE SITE. MIDWEST GAS IDOT & THE CITY PREFORMED    THE RI/FS AND A REMOVAL AT THE SITE PURSUANT TO A 1989       ADMIN. CONSENT ORDER.

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