# ROCKY FORD STORAGE, INC.
> **Judicial** · FY1992 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `49441`
- **Case Number:** 08-1992-0538
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $22K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- JIM APODACA              . (complaint) (settlement)
- MICHAEL SKORKA (complaint) (settlement)
- ROCKY FORD STORAGE, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

BETWEEN MAY 1, 1989 AND APRIL 11, 1991, THE ROCKY FORD       SUGAR FACTORY WAS DEMOLISHED BY TWO DIFFERENT DEMOLITION     OPERATORS.  DURING THIS PERIOD, THE PROPERTY CHANGED         OWNERSHIP THREE TIMES.  THE DEMOLITION WAS SUBSTANTIAL,      INVOLVING THE PARTIAL DEMOLITION OF ONE 4 STORY BUILDING     AND THE SALVAGE AND REMOVAL OF LARGE PIECES OF SUGAR         PROCESSING EQUIPMENT FROM SEVERAL BUILDINGS.  THE SALVAGED   EQUIPMENT INCLUDED STAINLESS STEEL AND COPPER BOILERS,       PIPES, TANKS, AND HOPPERS.  MOST, IF NOT ALL, OF THIS        EQUIPMENT WAS ORIGINALLY INSULATED WITH ASBESTOS INSULATION  COVERED BY A FOIL OR CARDBOARD WRAP.  DURING THE DEMOLITION, ASBESTOS INSULATION WAS REMOVED, RESULTING IN VERY LARGE     QUANTITIES OF ASBESTOS WASTE.  THE AMOUNT OF ASBESTOS        INSULATION IN THE RFSF BEFORE DEMOLITION BEGAN WAS ESTIMATED TO BE 105,000 SQUARE FEET; AN ESTIMATED 90 CUBIC YARDS WERE  DISPOSED OF BY DECEMBER 1990.  THE ROCKY FORD STORAGE, INC.  RESPONDENTS VIOLATED NUMEROUS NESHAPS AND CAA REGULATIONS.   THE PROPOSED CIVIL PENALTY IS $8,466,000.

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