# BAIRD & MCGUIRE INC.
> **Judicial** · FY1983 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `67`
- **Case Number:** 01-1983-0010
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** $0
- **Cost recovery:** $900K
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- BAIRD & MCGUIRE, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- BAIRD REALTY CO., INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- BAIRD, CAMERON (complaint) (settlement)
- BAIRD, GORDON (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

NATURE OF CASE                                               THE BAIRD AND MCGUIRE FACILITY, LOCATED IN HOLBROOK, MA,   HAS OPERATED AS A CHEMICAL COMPANY SINCE THE EARLY 1900'S.   DURING PART OF THIS PERIOD THE COMPANY MANUFACTURED PESTI-   CIDES, FLOOR WAXES, DISINFECTANTS AND OTHER CHEMICALS.  IT   IS NOT KNOWN WHEN THE CHEMICAL MANUFACTURING OPERATION TER-  MINATED.  THE FACILITY HAS IN RECENT TIMES OPERATED AS A     CHEMICAL BATCHING PLANT, MIXING AND PACKAGING PESTICIDES,    HERBICIDES, EMULSIFIERS, FLOOR WAXES, STRIPPERS, DISINFEC-   TANTS, COAL TAR EMULSIFIERS, AND ASSOCIATED PRODUCTS.  BAIRD AND MCGUIRE WAS LISTED ON THE NATIONAL PRIORITY LIST (NPL)   ON 12/30/82; THE SITE RANKED 18 ON THE NPL.                    WITH REGARD TO PHYSICAL LAYOUT, THE FACILITY IS LOCATED ON A HILLSIDE WITH THE CHEMICAL BATCHING OPERATION SITUATED     NEAR THE TOP OF THE HILL.  THIS OPERATION INCLUDES A TANK    FARM (APPROXIMATELY 30 TANKS OF VARIOUS TYPES), A MIXING VAT BUILDING, A LAB BUILDING, A WAREHOUSE SITUATED AT THE BOTTOM OF THE HILL AND AN OFFICE.                                     TO THE EAST OF AND DOWNHILL FROM THE BATCHING OPERATION IS A DISTURBED AREA WHICH APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN A SAND & GRAVEL  PIT AT ONE TIME.  AT THE BASE OF THE HILL IS A 'SEEP' WHERE  GROUNDWATER LADEN W/ CREOSOTEAND OTHER CONTAMINANTS DIS-     CHARGES TO THE GROUND SURFACE.  THIS SEEP IS CAUSED BY THE   INTERSECTION OF THE WATER TABLE W/ THE GROUND SURFACE OF THE SITE DURING PERIODS OF HEAVY RAINFALL.

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