# GULF RESOURCES & CHEMICAL CORP
> **Judicial** · FY1987 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `54115`
- **Case Number:** 10-1987-0085
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** $0
- **Cost recovery:** $1.44M
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- GULF RESOURCES & CHEMICAL CORP (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

THIS IS A COST RECOVERY ACTION UNDER SECTION 107 0F CERCLA 42 USC, 9607, SARA, TO RECOVER $962,500. FROM GULF RESOURCES & CHEMICAL CORP FOR CERCLA 104 REMOVAL ACTION TO CLEANUP     HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES FROM BUNKER HILL SUPERFUND SITE.          ON 5/28/86, A CERCLA REMOVAL ACTION WAS INITIATED BY       REGION 10 EPA AT THE BUNKER HILL SUPERFUND SITE IN THE       SILVER VALLEY OF NORTHERN IDAHO.  EPA EXCAVATED AND REPLACED THE TOP LAYER OF SOIL FROM DUSTY AREAS WHERE CHILDREN PLAY,  INCLUDING PARKS, PLAYGROUNDS AND ROAD SHOULDERS, AS WELL AS  AREAS SIGNIFICANTLY CONTRIBUTING TO BLOWING DUST.              THE FIRST PUBLIC HEALTH SURVEY CONDUCTED BY THE IDAHO      DEPT OF HEALTH AND WELFARE IN 1974 INDICATED THAT EPIDEMIC   PROPORTIONS OF CHILDREN LIVING NEAR THE BUNKER HILL COMPLEX  HAD ELEVATED BLOOD-LEAD LEVELS DUE TO EXPOSURE TO HEAVY      METAL CONTAMINATED DUST AND AIRBORNE PARTICULATES GENERATED  DURING SMELTING OPERATIONS.  HOWEVER, CHILDREN CONTINUED TO  EXHIBIT TOXIC BLOOD-LEAD LEVELS EVEN AFTER THE CLOSURE OF    THE SMELTER IN 1981 DUE TO CONTAMINATED EXPOSURE TO CON-     TAMINATED SOILS.  A 1983 STUDY BY THE CDC, IDHW AND          PANHANDLE HEALTH DIST FOUND MANY AREA CHILDREN TO BE LEAD-   TOXIC.  (UNDER CDC DEFINITIONS A CHILD WITH BOTH ELEVATED    BLOOD-LEAD AND ELEVATED LEVELS OF EURYTHROCYTE PROTOPOR-     PHYRIN, AN ENZYME INDICATIVE OF RED BLOOD CELL PRODUCTION,   IS LEAD TOXIC.)  HIGHER BLOOD-LEAD LEVELS ARE ASSOCIATED     WITH INCREASINGLY SEVERE ADVERSE HEALT

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