# FAIRFAX STREET WOOD TREATERS SITE
> **Judicial** · FY2011 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `2200036290`
- **Case Number:** 04-2011-9001
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** —
## Defendants
- FAIRFAX LAND MANAGEMENT, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- WOOD TREATERS, LLC (SB) (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

11/23/10 - The Fairfax Street Wood Treater Site (the Site) is located generally at 2610 Fairfax Street in Jacksonville, Florida, situated within an economically challenged residential neighborhood, adjacent to an elementary school.  The Site is the location of an inactive wood treating facility which treated wood with a solution of copper, chromium, and arsenic (CCA).  In late July 2010, the facility ceased operations amid Chapter 7 bankruptcy proceedings of the Site operator Wood Treaters, LLC (Wood Treaters).  EPA was requested to take an emergency response action at the Site on August 10, 2010 by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP).  EPA mobilized to the Site to find process chemicals and wood treating wastes abandoned on-site in seven above ground storage tanks.  Wood treating wastes in the former wood treating area were left exposed to the elements.  Consequently, contaminated storm water that had been formerly managed and utilized by the facility had accumulated in the process area, overwhelming the on-site containment system.  The contaminated storm water flowed through a drainage system to an on-site lagoon, which EPA found filled to capacity, and brimming over to the outfall of a nearby creek.  Sampling results taken of the contents of the above ground storage tanks, secondary containment system, lagoon, and outfall have confirmed the presence of high levels CERCLA hazardous substances.  Given the emergency nature of this removal action, and the

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