# DIXIANA - MONSANTO COMPANY
> **Judicial** · FY1989 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `20488`
- **Case Number:** 04-1989-0093
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $3.95M
- **Compliance action $:** $2.00M
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- AT&T TECHNOLOGIES, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- MONSANTO COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- THERM-O-DISC, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

THE SCRDI DIXIANA SITE CONSISTS OF TWO ACRE LOT AND       WAREHOUSE LOCATED IN LEXINGTON COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA,       APPROXIMATELY TWO MILES SOURTH OF COLUMBIA.  THE SITE HAS    BEEN FOUND TO BE CONTAMINATED WITH A NUMBER OF HAZARDOUS     SUBSTANCES, INCLUDING METHYLENE CHLORIDE, TOLUENE, CARBON    TETRACHLORIDE, TRICHLOROETHENE, AND TETRACHLOROETHENE.       EPA'S CHIEF INVOLVEMENT WITH THE SITE COMMENCED FOLLOWING    THE SURFACE CLEANUP OF THE SITE PURSUANT TO THE ORDER OF A   COUNTY COURT.  EPA INVESTIGATED THE SITE AND DIRECTED        ADDITIONAL INVESTIGATIONS AND STUDIES.  THE RESULTS OF THESE INVESTIGATIONS AND STUDIES INCLUDED THE REMEDIAL INVESTIGA-  TION REPORT WHICH WAS COMPLETED IN SEPTEMBER OF 1986.  THE   REMEDIAL INVESTIGATION CONFIRMED CONTAMINATION OF THE SITE   BY HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES.  IN SEPTEMBER OF 1986 THE RECORD OF DECISION (ROD) WAS SIGNED.  THE ROD SPECIFIED GOUNDWATER     REMEDIATION BY MEANS OF THE EXTRATION, TREATMENT BY AIR      STRIPPING AND CARBON ABSORPTION, AND SURFACE DISCHARGE OF    THE TREATED WATER.  FOLLOWING SELECTION OF THE REMEDY, EPA   PROCEEDED WITH THE REMEDIAL DESIGN.  THE REMEDIAL DESIGN WAS COMPLETED IN SEPTEMBER OF 1988.  ON-SITE CONSTRUCTION IS     EXPECTED TO BEGIN IN THE FALL OF 1989.

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