# LEEDS SILVER RECLAMATION
> **Judicial** · FY1995 · — · Final Order No Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `50307`
- **Case Number:** 08-1995-0159
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order No Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- 5M (complaint)
## Summary

THE LEEDS SILVER RECLAMATION SITE IS AN INOPERATIVE ORE    PROCESSING FACILITY WHICH FORMERLY UTILIZED AN ACID HEAP     LEACH PROCESS FOR THE EXTRACTION OF COPPER AND SILVER.         BETWEEN 1986 & 1993, VARIOUS SAMPLES WERE COLLECTED FROM   THE SITE AND ASSESSED BY EPA AND THE STATE OF UTAH. THE      LEACH PAD AND PONDS CAUSE A SIGNIFICANT DANGER OF RUNOFF OF  HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES AND CONTAMINANTS.  EPA TOXICOLOGISTS    HAVE REVIEWED THE SAMPLE RESULTS OF THIS EXTREMELY ACIDIC    WATER AND DETERMINED THAT IT MAY POSE AN ACUTE HEALTH RISK   TO CHILDREN OR OTHER INDIVIDUALS TRESPASSING ON THE SITE.    THIS WATER COULD CAUSE BURNS OR PERMANENT DAMAGE TO THE EYES IF CONTACT WERE TO OCCUR. ADDITIONALLY, THE ACIDIC PH IN     THE POND IS LIKELY TO SOLUBILIZE HEAVY METALS IN THE SEDI-   MENT AND CARRY THEM INTO THE GROUND WATER. FURTHER, TORREN-  TIAL THUNDERSTORMS AND STRONG WINDS OFTEN OCCUR AT THE       SITE DURING THE LATTER PART OF THE SUMMER. THIS COULD RESULT IN OFF-SITE MIGRATION OF HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES VIA DOWNGRAD-  IENT SURFACE WATERS WHICH FLOW INTO WELLS USED FOR DRINKING  WATERS, PASTURES, LIVESTOCK WATERS, AND GARDEN IRRIGATION.

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