# GENERAL BATTERY CORPORATION, ET AL
> **Judicial** · FY1984 · — · —
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `9650`
- **Case Number:** 03-1984-0021
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** —
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $4.09M
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- AMERICAN SCRAP CO. (complaint) (settlement)
- BEN WEITSMAN & SONS, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- DECKER BROTHERS INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- DECKER SCRAP IRON & METALS, INC (complaint) (settlement)
- DENNIS, ROUMM (complaint) (settlement)
- DIMENICHI, BARBARA, BROWN (complaint) (settlement)
- EFFRON, CHARLES & SON (complaint) (settlement)
- FIRST CAPITAL RECYCLING, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- FULTON IRON & STEEL CO., INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- GENERAL BATTERY CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- GLOSSER, M., & SONS, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- GOULD, INC (complaint) (settlement)
- GRANDE SCRAP METALS, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- H. SAKESPEARE & SONS, INC., (complaint) (settlement)
- HARRY TIDERMAN (complaint) (settlement)
- JULIAN C. COHEN SALVAGE CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- LARAMI METALS COMPANY, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- LEVENE'S SONS, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- LEVIN, WALTER (complaint) (settlement)
- MALCO METALS TRADING, INC. (complaint)
- MIDWAY TRUCK SERVICE (complaint) (settlement)
- MILLENS BARNEY SCRAP & IRON CO (complaint) (settlement)
- MILLENS, B. SONS, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- MILTON ROUMM (complaint) (settlement)
- MINKIN INDUSTRIES, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- MULLER, ANDREW (complaint) (settlement)
- PRICE BATTERY CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- RSM COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- SAAB METALS CORP (complaint) (settlement)
- SHAKESPEARE, H. & SONS, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- SHANER, SUSAN, A. (complaint) (settlement)
- SHANER, TERRY, L. JR. (complaint) (settlement)
- SHANER, TERRY, SR. (complaint) (settlement)
- SHELDON H. LIPSITZ, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- SIGAFOOS, FRANTZ (complaint) (settlement)
- SLAVISNKY, STANLEY (complaint) (settlement)
- SWEET, DAVID & CO., INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- TIDER, HARRY A. (complaint) (settlement)
- WEINER BROKERAGE CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- WEISS SCRAP CO., INC. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

=> BETWEEN 1961 & 1971 ROBERT BROWN OPERATED A FACILITY FOR BREAKING BATTERIES & RECOVERY OF LEAD. INITIALLY PRICE   BATTERY CORP. WAS BROWN'S EXCLUSIVE CUSTOMER. BROWN WOULD    PICK UP THE BATTERIES FROM PRICE, BREAK THEM IN GROUPS,      RECOVER THE LEAD PARTS, WASH & CRUSH THE CASINGS, & DISPOSE  OF LIQUIDS IN THE BATTERIES & CASINGS ON SITE. BROWN WAS     PAID PER BATTERY WHEN THE LEAD WAS RETURNED TO PRICE. THE    CASINGS WAS USED AS FILL MATERIAL & AS A BASE FOR DRIVEWAYS  ON THE PROPERTY.                                                  => ROBERT BROWN DIED IN 1971, AT WHICH TIME OPERATIONS  CEASED. HIS WIFE, BARBARA BROWN, INHERITED THE PROPERTY. SHE SOLD IT TO TERRY & SUSAN SHANER IN 1977. IT WAS TRANSFERRED  TO TERRY SHANER INDIVIDUALLY IN 1980. THREE RESIDENCES & A   GARAGE ARE PRESENTLY LOCATED ON THE PROPERTY.                     => DURING THE SUMMER OF 1983, IT WAS DISCOVERED THAT    CHILDREN LIVING ON THE PROPERTY HAD BLOOD LEAD LEVELS IN     EXCESS OF LEVELS CONSIDERED BY THE CENTER FOR DISEASE TO     POSE A POTENTIAL RISK OF ADVERSE HEALTH EFFECTS.                  => AN EXTENT OF CONTAMINATION STUDY REVEALED THAT AN    ESTIMATED 24,700 CU YRDS. OF LEAD CONTAMINATED BATTERY       CASINGS WERE PRESENT AT THE FACILITY. IN THE PRIMARY DISPOSA L AREA THE SOIL CONTAINED UP TO 70% LEAD.                         => AN IMMEDIATE REMOVAL ACTION WAS COMMENCED IN OCT,    1983 TO ELIMINATE THE THREAT OF DIRECT CONTACT TO LEAD, AN   ACUTELY TOXIC SUBSTANCE, & THE RELEASE OF

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