# OLD COBALT PONDS
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1996 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `50587`
- **Case Number:** 08-1996-0131
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $171K
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- JUSTIN WHITE (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

ON 12/15/94, THE UTAH DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY  PERFORMED AN EXTENSIVE ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AT THE OLD   COBALT PONDS SITE.  IN AUGUST OF 1995, EPA CONDUCTED MORE    SAMPLING AT THE SITE TO DETERMINE THE IMPACTS AND POTENTIAL  RISKS TO HUMAN HEALTH AND ECOLOGICAL RECEPTORS CAUSED BY THE RELEASE OF HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES.                               THE TAILINGS AND CONTAMINATED SOILS AT THIS SITE CONTAIN   ARSENIC, LEAD, COBALT, ASBESTOS AND VANADIUM PENTOXIDE AT    ELEVATED LEVELS.  THERE IS A SIGNIFICANT POTENTIAL FOR CON-  TINUED EXPOSURE OF THESE HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES TO HUMANS AND  TO THE SENSITIVE ENVIRONMENT AT THE SITE, WHICH INCLUDES     ENDANGERED SPECIES AND A WETLAND ECO-SYSTEM.

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