# MEMPHIS CONTAINER DRUM SITE
> **Judicial** · FY1998 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `22706`
- **Case Number:** 04-1998-0353
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $655K
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- BUCKMAN LABORATORIES, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- CHAPMAN CHEMICAL (settlement)
- CRODA INKS CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- DREXEL CHEMICAL (settlement)
- EASON, MICHAEL P. (complaint) (settlement)
- EZON (settlement)
- IBC MANUFACTURING COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- MEMPHIS LIGHT GAS WATER DIVISION (complaint) (settlement)
- P.C.S. NITROGEN (settlement)
- PERMA-FIX OF MEMPHIS, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- PRO-SERVE (settlement)
- RYAN, LUCILLE (complaint) (settlement)
- W.R. GRACE (settlement)
## Summary

MEMPHIS CONTAINER, ALSO KNOWN AS TRI-STATE DRUM, WAS A DRUM  RECYCLING CUSINESS OWNED BY LUCILLE RYAN AND OPERATED BY     MICHAEL P. EASON.  MEMPHIS CONTAINER WAS IN THE BUSINESS OF  ACCEPTING 55-GALLON DRUMS FROM VARIOUS COMPANIES IN THE      MEMPHIS AREA.  MANY OF THESE DRUMS HELD PRODUCTS RANGING     FROM CHEMICALS, HERBICIDES, PAINTS, INKS, SOLVENTS, OIL, PRIMERS AND GLUE.  ONCE THE DRUMS WERE RECEIVED BY THE  OPERATOR THE CONTENTS AND RESIDUES WERE DISPOSED OF IN VATS ON SITE, THE DRUMS WERE RINSED, PAINTED, AND THEN SOLD.  IN  1991, AFTER BEING ON SITE SINCE 1985, MR. EASON WAS EVICTED  BY THE LANDOWNER, MRS. RYAN.  MR. EASON LEFT BEHIND 9,000 DRUMS IN VARYING STAGES OF DETERIORATION.  EPA WAS NOTIFIED AND DETERMINED THAT THERE WAS A THREAT OF A RELEASE OF HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES.  A REMOVAL WAS CONDUCTED WHICH ENDED IN MARCH 95.

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