# INLAND-ROME INC. (GEORGIA KRAFT, COMPANY INC.)
> **Judicial** · FY1988 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `20356`
- **Case Number:** 04-1988-0054
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $30K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- GEORGIA KRAFT, COMPANY, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

GEORGIA KRAFT COMPANY, INC. MANUFACTURES UNBLEACHED CON-   TAINER BOARDS.  ON APRIL 27, 1987, AT APPROXIMATELY          4:30 P.M., A HEAVY BLACK LIQUOR HOLDING TANK LOCATED IN      ROME, GEORGIA, RUPTURED ALONG A DEFECTIVE WELD.  HEAVY BLACK LIQUOR IS A PULPING BY-PRODUCT CONTAINING SODIUM SULFIDE,    SODIUM HYDROXIDE (A LISTED HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCE), ORGANIC AND INORGANIC WOOD SOLIDS AND WATER.  THE ONE MILLION GALLON     TANK CONTAINED APPROXIMATELY 900,000 GALLONS OF BLACK LIQUOR AT THE TIME OR THE SPILL; THE ENTIRE CONTENTS WERE LOST AND  THE CONTAINMENT DIKE SURROUNDING THE TANK WAS UNABLE TO      CONTAIN THE SPILL.  A LARGE AMOUNT OF LIQUOR WASHED OVER     INTO A DRAINAGE DITCH ON THE NORTH SIDE OF THE CONTAINMENT   DIKE AND FROM THERE INTO CABIN SMITH CREEK, A TRIBUTARY OF   THE COOSA RIVER.  THIS IS AN UNPERMITTED DISCHARGE AND IS    PROHIBITED BY SECTION 311(B) OF THE CLEAN WATER ACT, 33      U.S.C. SECTION 1321(B).                                        ALSO DAMAGE BY THE SPILL WAS A 500,000 GALLON TANK OF      NUMBER 6 FUEL OIL THAT WAS ABOUT HALF FULL AT THE TIME OF    THE ACCIDENT.  COMPANY OFFICIALS WERE UNABLE TO DETERMINE    HOW MUCH FUEL WAS ACTUALLY SPILLED.  ALL FUEL OIL THAT DID   LEAK WAS CONTAINED WITHIN THE DIKED AREA.

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