Phoenix-Goodyear enforcement action

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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EPA files $2.8 mil suit over superfund site
Suit claims Unidynamics, Crane Co. dragging their heals with cleanup

by Darryl Henning
West Valley View
July 21, 2004

The U.S. Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit seeking recovery of more
than $2.8 million in costs, penalties and punitive damages for violation of
Environmental Protection Agency orders regarding the Phoenix-Goodyear
Airport North Superfund Site.

The complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court in Arizona on behalf of the
EPA, seeks to establish the liability of both Unidynamics/Phoenix Inc. and
Crane Co. for past and future costs for oversight and work the EPA has been
conducting at the Goodyear site. The EPA also is seeking penalties from
Unidynamics/Phoenix Inc. of $27,500 to $32,500 for each day the company
failed to conduct work required under the EPA orders issued in 1990 and
2003.

"The EPA is seeking to recover superfund money, and to ensure prompt
cleanup of soil and ground-water contamination at the site, which continue
to threaten valuable drinking water resources," said Wayne Nastri, the
EPA?s regional administrator for the Pacific Southwest region. "We are
conserving the superfund by ensuring that those who contributed to the
contamination pay for the cleanup."

The former Unidynamics/Phoenix Inc. plant, on the west side of Litchfield
Road at La Canada Boulevard in Goodyear, was listed on the federal
Superfund cleanup list in 1983. The listing followed the discovery by the
Arizona Department of Health Services of hazardous substances - including
trichloroethylene, also known as TCE, acetone and methyl ethyl ketone, all
industrial solvents called volatile organic compounds - in the soil and
upper groundwater zone.
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for the entire article, see
http://www.westvalleyview.com/WESTVALLEYVIEW/myarticles.asp?P=770359&S=365&P
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