# CLARIANT LSM (AMERICA), INC. (WEYLCHEM)
> **Judicial** · FY2005 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `150915`
- **Case Number:** 04-2005-9013
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** —
## Defendants
- CLARIANT LSM (AMERICA), INC.
- WEYLCHEM US, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

U.S. Attorney Bill Nettles, the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency settled with Weylchem US, Inc. resolving alleged violations of federal and state air, water, and solid waste pollution laws at Weylchem�s specialty chemical manufacturing facility in Elgin and its wastewater treatment plant in Lugoff.  Under the settlement, Weylchem agreed to pay a civil penalty of $500,000, of which $175,000 will be paid to the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control, and to perform corrective action measures. 
The alleged violations include the mismanagement of hazardous waste under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act and South Carolina regulations, and standards for hazardous air pollutant emissions under the Clean Air Act.  Alleged violations at the Lugoff facility include discharges to the Wateree River that exceeded permitted limits for many of these contaminants of concern under the Clean Water Act.  Contaminants of concern include benzene, benzoyl chloride, chlorine, ethyl chloride, ethylene glycol, methanol, methylene chloride, phenol, toluene, and xylene. 
Under the terms of the settlement, Weylchem will no longer be allowed to send wastewater from the Elgin facility to the Lugoff facility and by the end of 2013 will be prohibited from discharging any wastewater into the Wateree River at the Lugoff facility.  In addition to eliminating discharge into the Wateree River, the settlement will also result in the elimina

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