# OLIN CORPORATION, INC.
> **Judicial** · FY1988 · — · —
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `12245`
- **Case Number:** 03-1988-0262
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** —
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $874K
- **Compliance action $:** $36.80M
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- OLIN CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- OLIN CORPORATION (OU # 2) (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

FORMER CHLOR-ALKALAI PLANT WHICH PRODUCED MERCURY AS A   WASTE BY-PRODUCT. WASTE WAS STAORED IN PONDS, THE LARGEST OF WHICH WAS POND NUMBER 5. EFFLUENT FROM POND NO. 5 WAS ENTER- ING THE MORTH FORK OF THE HOLSTON RIVER (NFHR). NFHR HAD     CONTAINED HIGH LEVELS OF MERCURY AS A RESULT, AND IT IS BE-  LIEVED THAT SEVER ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE HAS BEEN CAUSED IN    EIGHTY (80) MILES OF THE RIVER. THE CONSENT DECREE CALLS FOR A FULL RI/FS AND AN INTERIM REMEDIAL ACTION TO CURTAIL THE   MERCURY DISCHARGE INTO THE RIVER.

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