# NEWSOM BROTHERS/REICHHOLD SITE
> **Judicial** · FY1988 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `20363`
- **Case Number:** 04-1988-0064
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** $0
- **Cost recovery:** $3.63M
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- REICHHOLD CHEMICALS, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

THIS REFERRAL REQUESTS THAT A CIVIL ACTION BE FILED        PURSUANT TO SECTION 107 OF THE COMPREHENSIVE ENVIRONMENTAL   RESPONSE, COMPENSATION, AND LIABILITY ACT (CERCLA), 42       U.S.C. SECTION 9601, AS AMENEDE BY THE SUPERFUND AMENDMENTS  AND REAUTHORIZATION ACT OF 1986 (SARA), PUB. L. NO. 99-499,  FOR REIMBURSEMENT OF IMMEDIATE REMOVAL COSTS INCURRED IN     RESPONDING TO THE RELEASE AND THREATENED RELEASE OF HAZAR-   DOUS SUBSTANCES AT THE NEWSOM BROTHERS SITE (SITE) IN        COLUMBIA, MS, IN MARCH 1984, AND NOVEMBER 2, 1987 THROUGH    FEBRUARY 7, 1988.  THE POTENTIAL DEFENDANTS ARE:  REICHHOLD  CHEMICALS, INC., A FORMER OWNER/OPERATOR OF A CHEMICAL       PLANT WHO DISPOSED OF, AND RELEASED THE HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES AT THE SITE; AND R.R. NEWSOM JR., R.R. NEWSOM, SR., AND      WILLIAM E. STOGNER, THE CURRENT LANDOWNERS OF THE SITE.      THE SITE WAS INCLUDED ON THE NATIONAL PRIORITY LIST IN 1986.   THE NEWSOM BROTHERS SITE IS AN APPROXIMATELY 81-ACRE       PARCEL LOCATED AT WADE AND PEARL STREETS, IN MARION COUNTY,  COLUMBIA, MS.  FROM 1936 - 1974, THE SITE WAS USED BY        SEVERAL OWNER/OPERATORS TO MANUFACTURE WHAT IS REFERRED TO   AS  STUMP JUICE , ALSO KNOWN AS NAVAL STORES PRODUCTS,       ( A PRODUCT OR PRODUCTS DERIVED FROM PINEWOOD AND STUMPS,    INCLUDING ROSIN, TURPENTINE, PINE OIL, TALL OIL AND ITS      DERIVATIVES ).

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