# BH - UPSTREAM MINING COMPANIES RD/RA CD
> **Judicial** · FY1994 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `55045`
- **Case Number:** 10-1994-0210
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $8.00M
- **Compliance action $:** $40.00M
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- ASARCO INCORPORATED (complaint) (settlement)
- CALLAHAN MINING COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- COEUR D'ALENE MINING CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- HECLA MINING COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- SUNSHINE MINING COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- SUNSHINE PRECIOUS METALS (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

THE BUNKER HILL SUPERFUND SITE IS A TWENTY-ONE SQUARE   MILE AREA IN NORTHERN IDAHO.  THE SITE INCLUDES THE INACTIVE BUNKER HILL MINING AND METALLURGICAL COMPLEX AND THE CITIES  OF KELLOGG, PINEHURST, SMELTERVILLE, AND WARDNER WITH A      TOTAL POPULATION OF APPROXIMATELY 5000. THIS SITE HAS        WIDESPREAD CONTAMINATION FROM MINE TAILINGS, EMISSIONS FROM  THE SMELTER COMPLEX OPERATIONS, AND BLOWING DUST FROM        TAILINGS PILES AND OTHER BARE AREAS.                              THIS RD/RA CONSENT DECREE PROVIDES FINAL SETTLEMENT OF  THE OBLIGATIONS OF ONE GROUP OF POTENTIALLY RESPONSIBLE      PARTIES (PRPS) FOR THE SITE.  THIS GROUP ( THE UPSTREAM      MINING COMPANIES ), INCLUDES HECLA MINING COMPANY, ASARCO    INCORPORATED, SUNSHINE MINING COMPANY, SUNSHINE PRECIOUS     METALS, COEUR D'ALENE MINING CORPORATION AND CALLAHAN MINING CORPORATION.  THESE AND OTHER UPSTREAM MINING COMPANIES      CONTRIBUTED TAILINGS TO THE SOUTH FORK OF THE COEUR D'ALENE  RIVER WHICH HAVE COME TO BE LOCATED THROUGHOUT THE VALLEY    FLOOR WITHIN THE SITE.                                            THE SETTLEMENT REQUIRES THE UPSTREAM MINING COMPANIES   TO: 1) REMEDIATE ALL CONTAMINATED RESIDENTIAL YARDS,         COMMERCIAL PROPERTIES, AND RIGHTS-OF-WAY LOCATED WITHIN THE  RESIDENTIAL AREAS OF THE SITE, 2) CLOSE ALL CONTAMINATED     WELLS WITHIN THE RESIDENTIAL AREAS AND, IF NECESSARY, ATTACH USERS TO A MUNICIPAL WATER SYSTEM, 3) CLOSE THE PAGE PONDS   TAILINGS IMPOUNDMENT AND REMEDIATE THE WE

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