# DEENA PRODUCTS CO.
> **Judicial** · FY1990 · — · Default Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `20646`
- **Case Number:** 04-1990-0136
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Default Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $421K
- **Cost recovery:** $0
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- DEENA PRODUCTS CO. (complaint) (settlement)
- LEVERETT, HAROLD (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

THE SITE IS LOCATED IN ARLINGTON, KENTUCKY AND WAS USED FROM 1948 TO 1987 AS A LAMP MANUFACTURING AND ASSEMBLY FACILITY.  AS PART OF THE MANUFACTURING PROCESS, METAL LAMP COMPONENTS WERE ELECTROPLATING OPERATION, WAS LOCATED INSIDE A LARGE BUILDING ON THE SITE.  THE SITE IS CURRENTLY  OWNED BY DEENA PRODUCTS COMPANY, WHICH PRUCHASED THE SITE IN OCTOBER, 1982.  IN APPROXIMATELY MARCH, 1984 DEENA TERMINATED THE ELECTROPLATING OPERATIONS, VARIOUS PLATING SOLUTIONS AND SLUDGES REMAINED IN THE ELECTROPLATING BATHS.  DESPITE MAKING SOME ATTEMPTS TO ARRANGE FOR THE DISPOSAL OF THE PLATING WASTES, DEENA NEVER DID DISPOSE OF THOSE WASTES.   AFTER TERMINATING THE ELECTROPLATING OPERATIONS, DEENA  EVENTUALLY PHASED OUT THE REMAINDER OF THE OPERATIONS AT THE SITE.  THE SITE IS CURRENTLY UNUSED AND VACANT.

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