# CHEM-SPRAY, INC.
> **Judicial** · FY1998 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `22426`
- **Case Number:** 04-1998-0040
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $523K
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- BOOTS COMPANY (USA), INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- CHEM-SPRAY, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- GLADES FORMULATING CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- HATTON, JOHN C. (complaint) (settlement)
- HERCULES INCORPORATED (complaint) (settlement)
- HILL, ANNIE P. (complaint) (settlement)
- HILL, DAVID E. (complaint) (settlement)
- KNOLL PHARMACEUTICALS (complaint) (settlement)
- MONTALVO, JUAN F. (complaint) (settlement)
- NOR-AM CHEMICAL COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- SCHWERMAN TRUCKING COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

ON 11/18/97, REGION 4 APPROVED A CERCLA, SECTION 107(A) COST RECOVERY REFERRAL FOR THE CHEMSPRAY, INC., SITE, PAHOKEE,    FL.  THE REFERRAL WAS SENT TO DOJ REQEUSTING THAT DOJ        INITIATE CIVIL ACTION TO RECOVER APPROX. $865,583.24 IN      COSTS INCURRED BY REGION IV IN THE REMOVAL ACTION AT THE     SITE.  THE REFERRAL REQUESTS THAT DOJ FILE CIVIL ACTION      AGAINST THE FORMER SITE OWNERS:  MR. JOHN C. HATTON;         OPERATORS/GENERATORS: CHEMSPRAY, INC., MR. JUAN MONTALVO,    HERCULES, INC., AND NOR-AM CHEMICAL COMPANY; AND PRESENT     SITE OWNERS:  MR. DAVID E. HILL AND MRS. ANNIE P. HILL; FOR  RECOVERY OF SITE REMOVAL ACTION COSTS.                       FROM 1965 UNTIL 1983, CHEMSPRAY, INC OPERATED A PESTICIDES   BUSINESS ON SITE.  CHEMSPRAY MIXED, BLENDED, STORED AND      DISTRIBUTED PESTICIDES FROM THE SITE.  IN 1983, CHEMSPRAY    CEASED OPERATION IN PAHOKEE, FL, AND MOVED TO ANOTHER        LOCATION.  INVESTIGATION OF THE SITE BY THE FLORIDA DEPT. OF ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION IN 1982 NOTED POSSIBLE SPILLS AND   LEAKS OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS ONTO THE GROUND THAT COULD      RESULT IN THE CONTAMINATION OF GROUNDWATER, SURFACE WATER    AND AIR.  REGION 4 INVESTIGATIONS AND STUDIES BEGINNING IN   1985, FOUND THE PRESENCE OF HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES IN THE      SOIL, SUBSTANCES WHICH WERE CONSISTENT WITH A PESTICIDE      OPERATION.  SOIL CONTAMINANTS FOUND ON SITE WERE:  ENDRIN,   ALDRIN, DIELDRIN, TOXAPHENE, ATRAZINE, PARATHION, DDT, DDD,  AND 2,4,5-T.                        

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