# ALCHEMTRON, INC., ET AL
> **Judicial** · FY1986 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `10892`
- **Case Number:** 03-1986-0728
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $245K
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- ALCHEM-TRON, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- APPLIED TECHNOLOGY (complaint) (settlement)
- COLBERT, CHARLES (complaint) (settlement)
- COLBERT, JACK (complaint) (settlement)
- HANDY AND HARMAN (complaint) (settlement)
- HERCULES POWDER COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- MOUNT VERNON GROUP (complaint) (settlement)
- MOUNT VERNON TRADING ASSOCITATION (complaint) (settlement)
- SCI CHEMICALS, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- SCI EQUIPMENT & TECHNOLOGY, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- SIGNO TRADING, INTERNATIONAL, LTD (complaint) (settlement)
- UNIROYAL, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- UNIV. HOSPITAL OF CLEVELAND (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

THIS IS A COST RECOVERY ACTION UNDER CERCLA SEC 107 TO    RECOVER $229,402.08 FROM SCI, ACCEM-TRON, INC., HANDY & HAR- MAN, APPLIED TECHNOLOGY, UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL, UNIROYAL INC., & HERCULES, INC. FOR CERCLA SEC 104 REMOVAL OF HAZARDOUS     SUBSTANCES FROM THE POTTSTOWN ABANDONED TRAILER SITE. AL-    THOUGH THERE IS A CONFUSING & COMPLEX WEB OF FACTS & PRPS,   ALL THE SUBSTANCES CAN BE TRACED TO TWO OF THE DEFS, SCI &   ALCHEM-TRON, & IN ALMOST EVERY INSTANCE, THE ORIGINAL GENER- ATOR OF THE SUBSTANCE IS KNOWN.                                 MR. CHARLES COLBERT SERVED AS PRES OF SCI CHEMICALS INC., SCI EQUIPMENT & TECHNOLOGY INC. & SEVERAL OTHER COMPANIES &  BUSINESS OPERATIONS AND HIS BROTHER, JACK COLBERT SERVED AS  VICE-PRESIDENT. THEY OPERATED SCI & OTHER RELATED COMPANIES  FOR THE SALE & SHIPMENT OF VARIOUS CHEMICALS IN INTERSTATE & FOREIGN COMMERCE AS WELL AS OPERATING A DISPOSAL FACILITY.      WHILE ARRANGING FOR SALES OF WASTE CHEMICALS, SCI STORED  CHEMICALS IN VARIOUS WAREHOUSES PRIMARILY IN NJ & PA. SOME   WERE STORED IN LICENSED TSD FACILITIES WHILE OTHERS WERE     MERELY PLACED IN EMPTY WAREHOUSES W/OUT REFERENCE TO COMPAT- ABILITY, IGNITABILITY, ETC.                                     ACCORDING TO ROBERT LIST, CURRENT PRESIDENT OF BLUE CHIP  TRANSPORTATION CO., IN 10/84, HE WAS A PARTNER OF THE TREN-  TON INTERNATIONAL WAREHOUSE (TIW). ON OR ABOUT 12/12/83,     CHARLES COLBERT ARRANGED TO STORE 15 TRAILORS AT TIW. ONLY   2 LOADS WERE DELIVERED TO TIW THAT EVEN

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