# SHEBOYGAN HARBOR & RIVER CONSENT DECREE (CERCLA)
> **Judicial** · FY2003 · — · —
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `96079`
- **Case Number:** 05-2003-0426
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** —
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** —
## Defendants
- POLLUTION RISK SERVICES, LLC (complaint) (settlement)
- TECUMSEH PRODUCTS COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

BRIEF DESCRIPTION:
�  PRP for this portion of River is Tecumseh Products, Inc. (Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin).
�  Site extends ~14 miles through Sheboygan Falls, Kohler, and Sheboygan, Wisconsin.
�  Technically complicated river PCB site.
�  Host of complicating factors: issuance of new model CD during moratorium, National Academy of Sciences/National Research Counsel report on river PCB sites, and difficulties resolving issues with State.
�  Includes Sheboygan Harbor, and lower Sheboygan River, which discharges into Sheboygan Harbor.
�  Sheboygan River drains into Lake Michigan; source of drinking water for ~58,000 people within Sheboygan/Sheboygan Falls/Kohler metropolitan area.
�  Sediments are contaminated with PCBs and a wide variety of heavy metals.
�  Soils & surface H2O contaminated with PCBs and heavy metals (As, Chr, Cu, Pb, & Zn).
�  Fish and wildlife contaminated with PCBs.

BACKGROUND:
�  1977: State of Wisconsin detected PCBs during routine sampling of fish.
�  Since then, PCBs have been detected in fish, wildlife, surface water, sediments in harbor and river, and in flood plain soils.
�  Highest concentrations of PCBs detected in sediments immediately downstream from die-casting plant in Sheboygan Falls. Concentrations decline farther downstream from plant.
�  1978: PRP excavated PCB-contaminated soils from its property and disposed off-site.
�  1978: State advised residents not to eat fish from the Sheboygan River and 

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