# ROUSE STEEL DRUM SUPERFUND SITE
> **Judicial** · FY2000 · — · Litigated With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `23520`
- **Case Number:** 04-2000-0115
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Litigated With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $583K
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- ALLIED BENDIX, INC.
- CASTROL OILS, INC.
- CONTAINER CORP. OF AMERICA
- CORONADO PAINT CO.
- GATEWAY CHEMICAL, INC.
- INTERNATIONAL PAPER CO.
- JACK BECKER DISTRIBUTORS, INC.
- JOHNS MANVILLE CORP.
- KERR MCGHEE
- MILLENNIUM SPECIALTY CHEMICALS INC.
- MOBIL OIL CORP.
- REICHHOLD CHEMICAL
- ROUSE STEEL DRUM GROUP
- SHELL OIL CO.
- SUNOCO, INC.
- SW FOREST INDUSTRIES
- UNION CAMP
- WELDEN PROPERTIES (complaint) (settlement)
- WELDEN, JACKIE B. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

ACTION AT THE ROUSE STEEL DRUM SUPERFUND SITE  TO OBTAIN REIMBURSEMENT OF APPROX. $1,051,271.16 IN PAST RESPONSE COSTS.  THE SITE IS LOCATED IN A LIGHT INDUSTRIAL AREA IN JACKSONVILLE, DUVAL COUNTY, FLORIDA.  THE SITE IS BORDERED TO THE EAST BY RESIDENTIAL HOMES AND TO THE WEST BY A RAILROAD RIGHT-OF-WAY.  THE SITE IS BORDERED TO THE NORTH BY 13TH STREET AND 11TH STREET TO THE SOUTH.  THE SITE IS DIVIDED INTO 2 TRACTS OF PROPERTY BY 12TH STREET.  FROM 1965 TO ROUGHLY 1989, THE ROUSE STEEL DRUM CO., INC.  AND/OR ITS CORPORATE PREDECESSOR/SUCCESSOR, OPERATED A DRUM RECLAMATION FACILITY AT THE SITE.  DURING ITS PERIOD OF OPERATIONS, ROUSE ACCEPTED USED 55-GALLON STEEL OR PLASTIC DRUMS FROM PULP/PAPER MILLS, AND CHEMICAL AND PETROLEUM MANUFACTURERS FOR RECONDITIONING.     THESE DRUMS WERE RINSED AND CLEANED ON-SITE.  EACH DRUM WAS SANDBLASTED TO REMOVE ANY RESIDUAL RUST AND THEN SPRAY PAINTED FOR RESALE AND RE-USE.  WASTE WATER GENERATED FROM THIS RECLAMATION PROCESS WAS COLLECTED IN CONCRETE PITS.  AFTER THE WASTE HAD GONE THROUGH AN OIL-WATER SEPARATION PROCESS IT WAS PUMPED INTO STORAGE TANKS FOR DISPOSAL BY LOCAL SEPTIC TANK  COMPANIES.  THE REGION BECAME AWARE OF THE SITE IN SEPTEMBER 1993, IN RESPONSE TO A REQUEST FROM THE FLORIDA DEPT. OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION TO CONDUCT A REMOVAL SITE EVALUATION.  AS A RESULT OF THIS EVALUATION, THE REGION DETERMINATED THAT THE SITE POSED AN IMMINENT AND SUBSTANTIAL ENDANGERMENT TO THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE AND THE ENVIRONMENT.  AS

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