# JMC PLATING SITE
> **Judicial** · FY1989 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `20491`
- **Case Number:** 04-1989-0096
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** $0
- **Cost recovery:** $591K
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- ARANDJELOVIC, MIROSLAV (complaint) (settlement)
- BARBEE, JOSEPH WORTH SR. (complaint) (settlement)
- BENZ CORP. (complaint) (settlement)
- CAROLIN CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- CLINE, DALE K (complaint) (settlement)
- DEFENDANTS W/SETTLEMENT 1-SETTLEMENT 2 (complaint) (settlement)
- GALPAR INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- GOLDSTEIN, EDWIN (complaint) (settlement)
- JMC FURNITURE CO. (complaint) (settlement)
- KLION, HERBERT (complaint) (settlement)
- MILLER TOOL COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- MILLER, NANCY P. (complaint) (settlement)
- NEW AGE FURNITURE (complaint) (settlement)
- PITCHERSKY, LINDA (complaint) (settlement)
- PITCHERSKY, STEVE (complaint) (settlement)
- WALSER, GAITHER (complaint) (settlement)
- ZAGAROLI, DAVID P (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

THE JMC SITE IS A FORMER METAL PLATING FACILITY LOCATED   IN LEXINGTON, NORTH CAROLINA.  THE FACILITY OPERATED FROM    THE EARLY 1960'S UNTIL 1987.  WHILE THE FACILITY OPERATED    UNDER A SERIES OF NAMES ASSOCIATED WITH SEVERAL OWNERS AND   OPERATORS, THE FACILITY PROCESSES REMAINED BASICALLY THE     SAME OVER THE ENTIRE PERIOD.  THE SMALL OPERATION INITIALLY  PLATED ZINC, CADMIUM AND CHROME.  IN APPROXIMATELY 1970,     WHEN THE FACILITY BECAME ASSOCIATED WITH THE FURNITURE       INDUSTRY, CHROME PLATING WAS INCREASED AND NICKEL AND BRASS  PLATING ADDED.  THE PLATING PROCESS PRODUCED A WASTE SLUDGE  CONTAINING HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES, INCLUDING CHROMIUM, NICKEL, CYANIDE, CADMIUM AND LEAD.  THIS SLUDGE SPILLED AND LEAKED   ON THE FACILITY GOUNDS, PARTICULARLY IN AREAS WHERE THE      SLUDGE SPILLED OR WAS DUMPED DOWN A SLOPE BEHIND THE         FACILITY.  DURING THESE SPILLS AND DUMPINGS, THE HAZARDOUS   SUBSTANCES IN THE SLUDGE WERE RELEASED INTO THE SOILS AND    POSSIBLY INTO THE GROUNDWATER.  IN ADDITION, WHEN THE        FACILITY CLOSED DOWN IN 1987, THE OPERATOR ABANDONED         NUMBEROUS DRUMS AND VATS CONTAINING PLATING SOLUTIONS AND    WASTES INSIDE AND OUTSIDE THE FACILITY BUILDING.  SEVERAL    VATS APPEARED NEARLY OVERFLOWING.  ACCESS TO THE WASTES WAS  UNRESTRICTED.

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