# STAUFFER CHEMICAL - LEMOYNE PLANT
> **Judicial** · FY1999 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `22945`
- **Case Number:** 04-1999-0018
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $77K
- **Compliance action $:** $501K
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- AKZO NOBEL CHEMICALS, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- CK WITCO CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

DURING THE DESIGN PROCES FOR THE GROUNDWATER REMEDY          CONTEMPLATED IN THE ROD FOR OU1, REGION 4 HAD PRELIMINARILY  IDENTIFIED 14 AREAS OF SOIL CONTAMINATION THAT WERE          POTENTIAL SOURCES OF GROUNDWATER CONTAMINATION.  HOWEVER,    DURING THE RI/FS PROCESS FOR OU2 AT THE LEMOYNE SITE THE REG ION CAME TO THE CONCLUSION THAT ONLY A SINGLE SOURCE, KNOWN  AS THE HALBY AREA, MERITED REMEDIATION.  THE REMEDY CONTAINE D IN THE ROD FOR OU2 FOR THE LEMOYNE SITE IS EXPECTED TO     CONSIST OF IN-SITU FLUSHING OF THE CONTAMINANTS OF CONCERN   (PRIMARILY THIOCYANATES) IN THE SUBSURFACE SOIL FOR          CAPTURE AND TREATMENT BY A PORTION OF THE GROUNDWATER        EXTRACTION SYSTEM CURRENTLY IN OPERATION AS OU #1.           CURRENT OWNER/OPERATOR:  AKZO NOBEL CHEMICALS, INC.          OWNER/OPERATOR AT TIME OF DISPOSAL:  WITCO CORP.             EPA INTENDS OF ATTEMPT TO NEGOTIATE A CD WITH AKZO AND WITCO  THAT WILL REQUIRE TEM TO PERFORM THE RD/RA FOR OU 2 AND TO  PAY ALL PAST AND FUTURE RESPONSE COSTS FOR THE OU2 REMEDY    AT THE SITE.  IF UNSUCCESSFUL, EPA ANTICIPATES, EPA          ANTICIPATES ISSUANCE OF A UAO AS OPPOSED TO USING FUND       MONEY.                                                       NO SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES.                                    5/5/00 - REFERRAL SENT TO DOJ.  THE SITE CONTAINS            APPROX. 40,000 CY OF SUBSURFACE SOIL CONTAMINATED WITH       THIOCYANATE AND CYANIDE.  THE THREAT IS TO GROUNDWATER.      DEFENDANTS WILL BUILD AND OPERATE AN

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