# ZELLWOOD GROUNDWATER CONTAMINATION -
> **Judicial** · FY1998 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `22696`
- **Case Number:** 04-1998-0341
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $4.49M
- **Compliance action $:** $1.10M
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- ALEXANDER, JULIA A. (complaint) (settlement)
- ALEXANDER, PAUL L. (complaint) (settlement)
- BROOKS, JOSEPH P. (complaint) (settlement)
- CHEMICAL SYSTEMS OF FLORIDA, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- COATINGS APPLICATION & WATERPROOFING CO. (complaint) (settlement)
- CSXT (settlement)
- DOUGLASS FERTILIZER & CHEMICAL, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- DOUGLASS, SPENCER (complaint) (settlement)
- DRUM SERVICE CO. OF FLORIDA (complaint) (settlement)
- FEINBERG, IRVING (ESTATE OF) (complaint) (settlement)
- KLEIN, BERNARD (ESTATE OF) (settlement)
- KLEIN, IRVING (ESTATE OF) (settlement)
- MALLORY CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- MOLINERI, JERRY (ESTATE OF) (settlement)
- MURPHY, JOHN MICHAEL (settlement)
- NAPA PROPERTIES (complaint) (settlement)
- NATIONAL AERONAUTICS & SPACE ADMINISTRAT (settlement)
- PORT DRUM COMPANY (settlement)
- SMITH, BERNARD (ESTATE OF) (settlement)
- TUREEN, BETTY JANE (settlement)
- TUREEN, BORIS (ESTATE OF) (settlement)
- TUREEN, NATHAN (ESTATE OF) (settlement)
- U.S. DEFENSE REUTILIZATION & MARKETING S (settlement)
- U.S. DEPARTMENT GENERAL SERVICES AGENCY (settlement)
- U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY (settlement)
- U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE (settlement)
- U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY (settlement)
- U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY (settlement)
- W.R. GRACE & CO.-CONN (complaint) (settlement)
- ZELLWIN FARMS COMPANY, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

THE GROUNDWATER CONTAMINATION SITE IS A 57 ACRES SITE        ROUGHTLY 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF ORLANDO, FL.  FROM 1963 TO    THE PRESENT, THE SITE HAS BEEN CONTAMINATED WITH ORGANIC     COMPOUNDS, METALS, AND PESTICIDES BY THE OPERATION OF        SEVERAL INDUSTRIAL AND AGRICULTURAL MANUFACTURING AND        PROCESSING FACILITIES.  THESE FACILITIES INCLUDE, BUT ARE    NOT LIMITED TO THE DRUM SERVICE CO. OF FLORIDA (DSCF),       SOUTHERN LIQUID FERTILIZER COMPANY, DOUGLASS FERTILIZER AND  CHEMICAL COMPANY, NAPA PROPERTIES, AND ZELLWIN FARMS         COMPANY, INC.                                                THE DSCF PROPERTY CONTAINS AN ONGOING USING STEEL DRUM       RECONDITIONING PLANT THAT COMMENCED OPERATION ROUGHLY 35     YEARS AGO.  MILLIONS OF USED DRUMS CONTAINING VARIOUS        AMOUNTS OF CERCLA HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES HAVE BEEN PROCESSED   AT THE DSCF FACILITY AND HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO THE SITE SOIL   AND GROUNDWATER CONTAMINATION.  DSCF'S DRUM RECONDITIONING   PROCESS TREATED THE REMAINING RESIDUAL MATERIALS CONTAINED   IN THE DRUMS THROUGH A CAUSTIC WASHING AND/OR INCINERATION   PROCESS.  BETWEEN THE EARLY 1970S AND THE EARLY 1980S, THE   WASTE WATER FROM THIS PROCESS WAS SENT TO TWO UNLINED        EVAPORATION AND PERCOLATION PONDS FOR TREATMENT OR DISPOSAL.  ADDITIONAL SITE CONTAMINATION ORIGINATED FROM THE STORAGE   AND DISPOSAL OF SEVERAL THOUSAND USED DRUMS IN THE ABANDONED DRUM AREA TO TEH NORTH OF TEH DSCF FACILITY ON PROPERTY      OWNED BY NAPA, INC./NAPA PROPERTIES.

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