# RAYMARK CORPORATION, ET AL
> **Judicial** · FY1982 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `9589`
- **Case Number:** 03-1982-0074
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $513K
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- PENN-FASTENERS, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- RAYMARK CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- RAYMARK FORMED PRODUCTS COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- RAYMARK INDUSTRIES, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- WALKER, JUDITH A. (complaint) (settlement)
- WALKER, RICHARD J. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

MILFORD RIVET AND MACHINE CO. ( MILFORD  OR  CO ) OPERATED A MANUFACTURING FACILITY FROM 1948 TO LATE 1980 WHICH        PRODUCED SPECIALTY RIVETS AND FASTENERS IN HATBORO TWNSHP,   PA.  MILFORD IS A SUBSIDIARY OF THE RAYMARK CORP. OF TRUM-   BULL, CT.  IN LATE 1980, THE PENN FASTENER CORP. SUCCEEDED   MILFORD AS THE OPERATOR OF THE FACILITY.                       IN OCT OF 1979, THE EPA BEGAN AN INVESTIGATION OF THE      WATER SUPPLY CONTAMINATION BY TRICHLOROETHYLENE (TCE) IN     HATBORO.  SAMPLE ANALYSES OF PUBLIC DRINKING WATER WELLS IN  THE AREA REVEALED TCE CONCENTRATIONS RANGING FROM 0 TO 500   PARTS PER BILLION (PPB).  AS A RESULT OF HYDROGEOLOGIC AND   AND SAMPLING STUDIES, POTENTIAL SOURCES OF TCE WERE FOUND.   ON OCT 8, 1980, EPA FILED SUIT AGAINST ONE OF THE ALLEGED    SOURCES, THE FISHER AND PORTER CO., SEEKING RELIEF FROM THE  ALLEGED GROUNDWATER CONTAMINATION.                             AS A RESULT OF FURTHER INVESTIGATION, THE MILFORD SITE WAS IDENTIFIED AS AN ADDITIONAL SOURCE OF TCE CONTAMINATION. EPA AND DOJ REPRESENTATIVES ATTEMPTED TO NEGOTIATE A SAMPLING    PROGRAM AND CLEAN-UP PROPOSAL WITH MILFORD AND ITS PARENT    COMPANY, RAYMARK.  NEGOTIATIONS ARE AT A STANDSTILL AS OF    1/20/83.                                                       THE BASIS FOR EPA'S BELIEF THAT MILFORD IS A SOURCE OF     CONTAMINATION IS THE RESULTS OF SAMPLING ANALYSES AND THE    HYDROGEOLOGY OF THE AREA.  ANALYSES OF SAMPLES FROM MILFORD  WELLS SHOWED TCE CONCENTRATIONS IN EXC

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