# ALUMET PARTNERSHIP
> **Judicial** · FY1995 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `50457`
- **Case Number:** 08-1995-0314
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $7.28M
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- ALUMET PARTNERSHIP (complaint) (settlement)
- EARTH SCIENCES, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- FOXMEYER HEALTH CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- NATIONAL INTERGROUP, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- NATIONAL STEEL CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- SOUTHWIRE COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

ON 12/20/94, EPA FLED AN ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER FOR REMEDIAL DESIGN/REMEDIAL ACTION.                                        FROM 1969 UNTIL 1986, MUNICIPAL SEWAGE SLUDGE WAS APPLIED  TO APPROXIMATELY 160 ACRES ALONG THE NORTHERN AND EASTERN    BOUNDARIES OF SECTION 6.  THE SLUDGE WAS APPLIED TO THE SUR- FACE OF THE LAND AND THEN INCORPORATED INTO THE NATIVE       SOILS.  AFTER 1980, LEACHATE COLLECTED IN ON-SITE SURFACE    IMPOUNDMENTS WAS INJECTED IN THE SAME 160-ACRE AREA.  BOTH   THE MUNICIPAL SEWAGE SLUDGE AND THE LEACHATE CONTAINED       HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES.

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