# EAST HELENA PLANT-SITE 8T30
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1991 · — · —
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `48992`
- **Case Number:** 08-1991-0224
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** —
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- EAST HELENA PLANT (complaint)
## Summary

CONTAMINATION CONSISTS PRIMARILY OF METALS, SUCH AS LEAD,  CADMIUM, COPPER, ZINC AS WELL AS ARSENIC AND SULFUR COM-     POUNDS.  SEVERAL EXPOSURE ROUTES EXIST AT THE SITE.  THEY    INCLUDE INGESITON OF CONTAMINATED SURFACE SOILS, INGESTION   & INHALATION OF CONTAMINATED DUST AND VEGETABLES GROWN IN    CONTAMINATED SOILS.                                            THE ACTUAL OR THREATENED RELEASE OF HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES   FROM THE FACILTIY MAY PRESENT AN IMMINENT AND SUBSTANTIAL    ENDANGERMENT TO PUBLIC HEALTH & ENVIRONMENT.

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