# WARE SHOALS DYEING AND PRINTING
> **Judicial** · FY1999 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `23001`
- **Case Number:** 04-1999-0083
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $55K
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- BENTON, L.O.
- BENTON, NANCY (complaint) (settlement)
- MOUNT VERNON MILLS
- WARE SHOALS POWER AND WATER (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

THE SITE WAS A TEXTILE MANUFACTURING FACILITY FROM EARLY     1900'S 0 1980'S.  IT HAS NOT OPERATED AS A TEXTILE           MANUFACTURER SINCE 1985.  EPA'S EMERGENCY REMOVAL AND        RESPONSE BRANCH WAS CONTACTED IN 1995 AND PERFORMED A        REMOVAL ACTION.  OVER 150 DRUMS OF CAUSTICS, ACIDS, DYES, ET C; 24 ABOVEGROUND STORAGE TANKS, PCB OILS AND TRANSFORMERS,  AND CHRONIC ACID CONTAMINATED DEBRIS AND SOILS WERE REMOVED. THERE ARE 4 PRPS AT THE SITE:                                (1) MOUNT VERNON MILLS - OPERATOR/OWNER, SETTLED FOR         $310,000.                                                    (2) WARE SHOALS POWER AND WATER - OWNER, RECOMMEND FILING    AGAINST PARTY.                                               (3) BENTON, NANCY - OWNER/OPERATOR, RECOMMEND FILING SUIT    AGAINST.                                                     (4) BENTON, L.O. - OPERATOR, RECOMMEND FILING SUIT AGAINST.

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