# PLACER COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1993 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `52451`
- **Case Number:** 09-1993-0035
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $23K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- PIERCE MECHANICAL SERVICES, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- PLACER COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

FACILITY IS SMD-1 TRUNK SEWER LINE, HIGHWAY 49 AND CANAL   STREET IN AUBURN, CA.                                          IN APRIL 1, 1993, RESPONDENTS CRUSHED AN ASBESTOS-CONTAIN- ING SEWER PIPE DURING EXCAVATION OF THE PIPE IN AUBURN, CA.  THE CRUSHED PIPE WAS MIXED WITH EXCAVATED SOIL AND BACK      FILLED OR DEPOSITED NEARBY.  RESPONDENTS FAILED TO PROVIDE   NOTICE OF THIS RENOVATION ACTIVITY, FAILED TO KEEP THE       CRUSHED FRIABLE ASBESTOS PIPE WET UNTIL DISPOSED OF, AND     FAILED TO PROPERLY DISPOSE OF THE PIPE FRAGMENTS, IN         VIOLATION OF THE ASBESTOS NESHAP, 40 C.F.R. PART 61, SUBPART M.

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