# RICHMOND, FREDERICKSBURG & POTOMAC RAILROAD
> **Judicial** · FY1988 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `12778`
- **Case Number:** 03-1988-0844
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $280K
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- RICHMOND, FREDERICKSBURG & POTOMAC R.R. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

THE L.A. CLARKE & SON, INC. SITE IS LOCATED IN FREDERICK- SBURG, VIRGINIA. THE SITE CONSISTS OF PROERTY OWNED BY L.A.  CLARKE & SON, INC. AS WELL AS ADJACENT PROPERTIES WHICH ARE  CURRENTLY OWNED BY THE RICHMOND, FREDERICKSBURG & POTOMAC    RAILROAD COMPANY, SOLITE CORPORATION AND WODDUCK PARTNERS.   L.A. CLARKE HAS OPERATED ON THE SITE A FACILITY FOR TREATING WOOD PRODUCTS WITH CREOSOTE. AS A RESULT OF LEAKS AND SPILLS FROM THE WOOD TREATING OPERATIONS THE SITE HAS BECOME HIGHLY CONTAMINATED WITH CREOSOTE AND CREOSOTE-RELATED WASTES.         THE SITE WAS LISTED ON THE NATIONAL PRIORITIES LIST (NPL) IN SEPTEMBER 1983. AN RI/FS FOR THE SITE WAS COMPLETED IN    FEBRUARY 1988. A RECORD OF DECISION FOR THE FIRST TWO OPER-  ABLE UNITS WAS SIGNED IN MARCH 1988.                            ON JULY 27, 1988, RICHMOND, FREDERICKSBURG & POTOMAC RAIL ROAD COPMANY SIGNED A CONSENT DECREE UNDER WHICH IT AGREED   TO PERFORM 100% OF THE REMDIAL ACTION, REIMBURSE EPA FOR 20% OF EPA'S PAST RESPONSE COSTS, AND REIMBURSE EPA FOR 100% OF  ALL FUTURE RESPONSE COSTS.

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