# ARCO-BINGHAM CREEK CHANNEL
> **Judicial** · FY1994 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `50040`
- **Case Number:** 08-1994-0277
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $256K
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- ARCO-BINGHAM CREEK CHANNEL PHASE I SITE (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

09/16/94:  REGION 8 HAS REFERRED AN ACTION UNDER SECTION   107A OF CERCLA TO RECOVER APPROXIMATELY $613,766 IN PAST     COSTS AND ANY FUTURE COSTS INCURRED IN CONNECTION WITH THE   BINGHAM CREEK CHANNEL PHASE I SITE IN WEST JORDAN, UTAH.     BEGINNING IN 11/90, THE U.S.E.P.A. TOOK ACTIONS TO INVESTI-  GATE RELEASES OF LEAD AND ARSENIC AT THE SITE.  IN 1991,     EPA CONDUCTED A REMOVAL ACTION IN WEST JORDAN, UTAH IN COOP- ERATION WITH THE STATE.  EPA IS NOW SEEKING TO RECOVER ITS   PAST AND FUTURE COSTS FROM ARCO AND POSSIBLE THE AMERICAN    SMELTING AND REFINING COMPANY(ASARCO), THE PAST OPERATORS    OF NEARBY FACILITIES THAT DISPOSED OF WASTE INTO BINGHAM     CREEK THUS BECOMING GENERATORS UNDER THE CERCLA SCHEME.

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