# CALDWELL SYSTEMS - BANKRUPTCY
> **Judicial** · FY1997 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `22073`
- **Case Number:** 04-1997-0180
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $6K
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- HICKORY MANUFACTURING (complaint) (settlement)
- HICKORY WHITE UPHOLSTERY (complaint) (settlement)
- HWC LIQUIDATING COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- KAYLYN (complaint) (settlement)
- WHITE FURNITURE (complaint) (settlement)
- WHITE OF MEBANE (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

FOUR PREDECESSORS OF THE HICKORY WHITE COMPANY (HICKORY)     SENT HAZARDOUS                                               SUBSTANCES TO THE CALDWELL SYSTEMS SITE IN LENOIR, NC.  EPA  HAS INCURRED                                                 $5.2 MILLION IN CERCLA COSTS AT THE SITE.  HICKORY HAS FILED BANKRUPTCY.                                                   EPA SEEKS TO RECOVER PAST COSTS FROM HICKORY.               RCRIS ID NUMBER - NCD086871282 / FINDS ID NUMBER -           NCD980557870

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