# ARLINGTON BLENDING-LAWSUIT
> **Judicial** · FY1985 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `20236`
- **Case Number:** 04-1985-0025
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $3.50M
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- BASF CORPORATION
- BELL, WILLIAM (complaint) (settlement)
- CHEMWOOD CORPORATION
- CIBA-GEIGY CORPORATION
- DREXEL CHEMICAL COMPANY
- MEEKS, ROBERT (complaint) (settlement)
- MONSANTO COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- NO-AM CHEMICAL COMPANY
- TERMINIX INTERNATIONAL, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- VELSICOL CHEMICAL CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- WORMALD AMERICA, INC.
## Summary

NATURE OF THE CASE:  THE GALLAWAY PITS SITE IS LOCATED APPROXIMATELY THIRTY MILES NORTHEAST OF MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE, IN FAYETTE COUNTY.   THE SITE WAS INITIALLY USED FOR SAND AND GRAVEL MINING OPERATIONS, WHICH CREATED LARGE OPEN PITS.  SINCE ABOUT      1972, THE SITE HAS BEEN USED FOR THE UNREGULATED DUMPING  OF ASSORTED HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES.   ABPC HAS SINCE GONE OUT OF BUSINESS.  ANALYSIS OF WATER SAMPLES OBTAINED FROM THE PITS ON THE SITE REVEALED HIGH LEVELS OF VARIOUS PESTICIDES.  ACCORDING- LY, REMOVAL ACTIONS WERE COMMENCED ON OCTOBER 4, 1983 AT THE PIT WHICH CONTAINED THE MOST SERIOUS CONTAMINATION.          CONTAMINATED WATER WAS REMOVED FROM THE PIT, TREATED TO      REDUCE THE PESTICIDE CONTAMINATION TO LEVELS CONSISTENT WITH STATE WATER POLLUTION LAW, AND DISCHARGED INTO A NEARBY      CREEK.  WASTE-FILLED DRUMS AND CONTAMINATED SLUDGE WERE      THEN REMOVED FROM THE PIT AND TRANSPORTED TO A DISPOSAL      FACILITY.  FINALLY, TWO FEET OF FILL WERE PLACED OVER THE    BOTTOM OF THE PIT.  REMOVAL ACTIVITIES WERE COMPLETED ON     OCTOBER 23, 1983.  TOTAL REMOVAL COSTS THROUGH APRIL 1985    WERE DOCUMENTED AT $314,244.48.  EPA IS CURRENTLY TAKING     REMEDIAL ACTION AT THE SITE.  THE SITE HAS BEEN ON THE       NATIONAL PRIORITIES LIST SINCE DECEMBER 1982.   THE  SITE IS LOCATED APROXIMATELY 24 MILES NORTHWEST OF MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE, IN SHELBY COUNTY.     FROM THE 1950S THROUGH 1978, THE ARLINGTON BLENDING & PACK-  AGING COMPANY (ABPC) OPERATED A PESTICIDES BLENDING BUSINESS

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