# COLORADO AVENUE SUBSITE, HASTINGS, NE
> **Judicial** · FY1999 · — · Litigated With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `46507`
- **Case Number:** 07-1999-0333
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Litigated With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- DRAVO CORP (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

10/5/99:  THIS IS A COST RECOVERY ACTION FOR $5.7 MILLION    HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES, TRICHLOROETHYLENE (TCE) AND 1,1,1      TRICHLOROETHANE (TCA) WERE USED AS SOLVENTS IN A VAPOR       DEGREASER AT A MANUFACTURING FACILITY LOCATED AT THE         COLORADO AVENUE SUBSITE )(108 S. COLORADO AVENUE, HASTINGS,  NE) BETWEEN 1963 AND 1971.  THE SPENT SOLVENT THAT WAS       DRAINED FROM THE DEGREASER WAS  INTENTIONALLY DISCHARGED     INTO THE SANITARY SEWER AT TIMES AND THE STORM SEWER AT      OTHER TIMES.  THE SPENT SOLVENT EXFILTRATED FROM BOTH SEWER  LINES, MIGRATED THROUGH THE SOIL AND INTO THE GROUNDWATER,   CREATING A PLUME OF CONTAMINATION THAT IS APPROXIMATELY      ONE MILE LONG.  THE PAST OWNER/OPERATOR, DRAVO CORP., OWNED  THE FACILITY BETWEEN 1975-1982, ERIC INC. OWNED AND OPERATED THE SUBSITE FOR 18 MONTHS (MAY 1982-DEC 1983), AND THE CURRE NT OWNER/OPERATOR, DRESCO CORP., 1983 TO THE PRESENT.

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