# VILLALPANDO RUST INDUSTRIAL INTERNATIONAL CORP.
> **Judicial** · FY1984 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `52046`
- **Case Number:** 09-1984-0003
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $115K
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- AVILEZ, HERMAN(TRANSPORTER)
- GOMEZ, ENRIQUE (complaint) (settlement)
- INDUSTRIAL INTERNATIONAL CORP. (complaint) (settlement)
- INGALLS, MELVIN(OWNER)
- MANGRUM, ALBERT(LESSEE)
- RUST, JACK(GENERATOR) (complaint) (settlement)
- TORRES, DAVID (complaint) (settlement)
- VILLALPANDO, JUANITA (complaint) (settlement)
- VILLALPANDO, PROCULO (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

SYNOPSIS                                                     THIS CASE SEEKS THE RECOVERY OF FUNDS SPENT FOR TWO EMER-  GENCY REMOVAL ACTIONS TAKEN BETWEEN 7/21/83 AND 8/19/83      AT TWO ABANDONED DRUM SITES IN SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA (BROWN  FIELD AND TECATE).  THE SITES, LOCATED NEAR THE BORDER BET-  WEEN MEXICO AND THE U.S., CONTAINED RUSTING AND CORRODING    DRUMS OF HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES.  THE HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES     WERE CAUSTICS, FLAMMABLES AND ACIDS, INCLUDING HYDROGEN      FLOURIDE.  THE SAN DIEGO COUNTY DEPT OF HEALTH SERVICES AND  EPA'S ON-SCENE COORDINATOR DETERMINED THAT THE CONDITIONS AT THE SITE PRESENTED A THREAT TO HUMAN HEALTH BECAUSE OF THE   POTENTIAL FIRE, EXPLOSION, AND THE RELEASE OF TOXIC VAPORS   AND GASES.                                                     THE DRUMS WERE DEPOSITED AT THE BROWN FIELD SITE SOMETIME  BETWEEN APRIL AND SEPT, 1980, AND AT THE TECATE SITE BETWEEN LATE 1981 AND MARCH, 1982.  STATE AND LOCAL ENFORCEMENT AC-  TIONS AT THE SITES WERE TAKEN AGAINST THE GENERATOR AND      OTHER RESPONSIBLE PARTIES BETWEEN JUNE 1981 AND JUNE 1983.   ON 6/23/83, THE STATE OF CALIF REQUESTED EPA'S ASSISTANCE AT THE BROWN FIELD AND TECATE SITES TO REMOVE HAZARDOUS SUB-    STANCES.  ON 6/28/83, THE RESPONSIBLE PARTIES WERE GIVEN     ORAL NOTICE OF EPA'S INTENT TO CONDUCT REMOVAL ACTIONS AT    THE SITES.  NOTICE LETTERS WERE SENT ON 6/30/83.               THE SOLE GENERATOR INITIALLY AGREED TO UNDERTAKE THE CLEAN UP OF BOTH SITES.  HOWEVER, AFTER SAMP

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