# HINSON SUPERFUND SITE
> **Judicial** · FY1995 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `21443`
- **Case Number:** 04-1995-0428
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $4.94M
- **Compliance action $:** $1.59M
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- 3M CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- AAF MCQUAY, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- AKZO NOBEL COATINGS, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- ALLIEDSIGNAL, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- AMERIWOOD INDUSTRIES INTERNATIONAL CORP. (complaint) (settlement)
- AMPEX RECORDING MEDIA CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- ATHOL CORP. (complaint) (settlement)
- ATLANTIC ENVELOPE COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- B.B. WALKER CO. (complaint) (settlement)
- CELANESE PLASTICS & FIBER INDUSTRIES (complaint) (settlement)
- COLLINS & AIKMAN PRODUCT CO (complaint) (settlement)
- CORNING GLASS WORKS (complaint)
- CORNING, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- EMPIRE ENDUSTRIES, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- ENGRAPH, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- GAF CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- GTE OPERATIONS SUPPORT INCORPORATED (complaint) (settlement)
- HOECHST CELANESE CORP. (complaint) (settlement)
- LANCE, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- LYON-SHAW, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- MOBIL OIL CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- MONSANTO CO. (complaint) (settlement)
- NATIONAL SERVICE INDUSTRIES, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- NATIONAL SERVICES INDUSTRIES (complaint)
- PNEUMAFIL CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- QUANTEGY INC. (complaint)
- QUANTEGY, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- RELIANCE UNIVERSAL, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- REXAM, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- SHERWIN WILLIAMS COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- SINGER COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- STORK SCREENS AMERICA, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- W.R. GRACE & CO. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

THE COMPLAINT NAMES FIFTEEN CORPORATE DEFENDANTS THAT WERE   FOUND TO BE GENERATORS AT THE SITE.  DOJ WILL FILE THE       COMPLAINT WITHIN THE NEXT TWO MONTHS.                        BACKGROUND:  THE HINSON CHEMICAL SITE ALSO KNOWN AS THE      HINSON CLOVER SITE (HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO COLLECTIVLY AS   THE SITE) IS LOCATED ON HIGHWAY 49, APPROXIMATELY ONE MILE   WEST OF LAKE WYLIE, YORK COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA.  LAKE WYLIE FORMS THE BORDER WITH NORTH CAROLINA, APPROXIMATELY 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CHARLOTTE.  THE 2.8 ACRE SITE IS BORDERED BY    THE RIVER HILLS COMMUNITY TO THE SOUTH WITH RESIDENCES TO    THE EAST AND WEST, AND STATE HIGHWAY 49 TO THE NORTH.        DURING AUGUST 1967, THE SITE WAS PURCHASED BY BON HINSON,    THE PRESIDENT OF HINSON CHEMICAL SPECIALTIES.  THE SITE WAS  OPERATED AS A SOLVENT RECLAMATION FACILITY.  IN FEBRUARY     1971, SEPCO WAS INCORPORATED AND THEREAFTER MERGED WITH      HINSON CHEMICAL SPECIALTIES.  SUBSEQUENTLY, SEPCO OPENED     ANOTHER FACILITY IN FORT LAWN, S.C., KNOWN AS THE CAROLAWN   SITE.  THE NEW FACILITY WAS PRIMARILY USED AS A STORAGE      HOLDING FACILITY WHILE RECYCLING AND DISPOSAL ACTIVITIES     CONTINUED AT THE HINSON, CLOVER SITE.                        PURSUANT TO A SHOW CAUSE HEARING, SEPCO WAS ORDERED TO CEASE OPERATION OF ITS SOLVENT RECOVERY FACILITY IN HINSON, CLOVER (THE SITE) UNTIL PROPER PERMITS WERE OBTAINED FROM THE       STATE.  IN 1973, SEPCO FILED FOR BANKRUPTCY AND IN OCTOBER   1974, THE SITE WAS OFFICIALLY ABANDO

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