# GENERAL REFINING
> **Judicial** · FY1989 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `20525`
- **Case Number:** 04-1989-0132
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $2.15M
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- AKINS & BOBB MOTORS, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- ALL-IN-ONE GARAGE (complaint) (settlement)
- AMERICAN CYANAMID COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- AUTOHAUS OF SAVANNAH (complaint) (settlement)
- BACKUS CADILLAC-PONTIAC, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- BO-MARK TRANSPORT, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- BOB MADDOX CHRYSLER-PLYMOUTH, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- BRADLEY PLYWOOD CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- BUILDERS TRANSPORT, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- BULLOCH TRACTOR CO., INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- CARLTON COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- CENTRAL OF GEORGIA RAILROAD COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- CHATHAM COUNTY AREA TRANSIT (complaint) (settlement)
- CHATHAM COUNTY POLICE (complaint) (settlement)
- CLANTON MOTORS (complaint) (settlement)
- COASTAL MACK, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- COLONIAL OIL INDUSTRIES, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- COMET OIL COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- CRITZ, INC (complaint) (settlement)
- DIXIE POWER SYSTEMS, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- FERNADEZ (D/B/A DEAN WILKES BODY SHOP) (complaint) (settlement)
- FLAV-O-RICH, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- FT. STEWART (complaint) (settlement)
- FULLER OLDSMOBILE, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- GENERAL REFINING COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- GEORGE WILLIAMS CHEVROLET-OLDS, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- GOODYEAR TIRE & RUBBER COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- GULFSTREAM AMERICAN CORP. (complaint) (settlement)
- HENDRIX FORD TRACTOR (complaint) (settlement)
- J.C. LEWIS MOTOR COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- JACKSON BROTHERS ENTERPRISES, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- JIMMY FANKLIN CHEVROLET (complaint) (settlement)
- JONES EQUIPMENT COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- KARP MOTORS, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- KEA'S AUTO SALES (complaint) (settlement)
- LEASEWAY TRANSPORTATION, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- LEE'S COMPLETE DIESEL SERVICE (complaint) (settlement)
- LOVE'S TIRE & AUTO (complaint) (settlement)
- M.C. ANDERSON EQUIPMENT RENTAL (complaint) (settlement)
- MABBETT TRANSPORT CO. (complaint) (settlement)
- MATERIALS HANDLING & ENGINEERING (complaint) (settlement)
- MIDTOWN GARAGE (complaint) (settlement)
- MORGAN'S INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- NESMITH, MARTIN W. (complaint) (settlement)
- ROZIER FORD LINCOLN MERCURY, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- SAVANNAH POWER & ELECTRIC COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- SAVANNAH TIRE & RUBBER CO., INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- SOUTHEAST TECHNICAL COATING, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE & TELEGRAPH CO. (complaint) (settlement)
- STEPHENS GARAGE (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

THIS IS A CIVIL REFERRAL SEEKING REIMBURSEMENT OF COSTS   INCURRED BY EPA BETWEEN 1986 AND 1989 IN CONDUCTING A        REMOVAL ACTION AT THE GENERAL REFINING SITE, A SEDOIL RE-    REFINERY WHICH CEASED DOING BUSINESS IN 1978.  USED OIL      FROM A VARIETY OF SOURCES WAS BROUGHT TO THE SITE IN GENERAL REFINING TRICKS AND PROCESSED.  THE PROCESS RESULTED IN THE  CREATION OF AN ACIDED OILY SLUDGE CONTAMINATED WITH LEAD,    CHROMIUM, CADMIUM AND PCBS.  THE SLUDGE WAS DISPOSED OF ON-  SITE IN VALLINED LAPOONS.  IN 1988 EPA DETERMINED THAT RE-   LEASE OF HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES HAD OCCURRED AND FURTHER       RELEASES WERE POSSIBLE IF IMMEDIATE RESPONSES ACTION WAS NOT TAKEN.  THE SITE WAS NOT FENCED AND WAY EASILY ACCESSIBLE.   GROUNDWATER AND SOILS WERE THREATENED WITH CONTAMINATION.       IN 1986 EPA INITIATED A REMOVAL ACTION WHICH CONSISTED    OF REMOVING AND TREATING THE SLUDGES AND LIQUIDS FROM THE    LAGOON, AND TREATING CONTAMINATED SOILS.  THE RESULTING      SOLIDS REMAINING AFTER THE TREATMENT PROCESS WERE SOLIDIFIED AND BURNED ON SITE.  A SOIL COVER WAS PLACED OVER THE        SOLIDIFIED MATERIAL.                                            EPA HAS IDENTIFIED GENERATOR FROM SITE RECORDS AND HAS    SENT DEMAND LETTERS TO 59 PRPS.  THE LETTERS REQUEST THE     PRPS TO REIMBURSE EPA FOR AT LEAST $2.75MILLION IN COSTS     EPA INCURRED.  IN OCTOBER 1988, EPA ISSUED AN UNILATERAL     CERCLA SECTION 106 ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER TO 24 PRPS ORDERING  THEM TO CONDUCT PHASE 2 OF THE REMOVAL 

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