# STOLLER CHEMICAL/PELHAM PHOSPHATE
> **Judicial** · FY2001 · — · —
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `24684`
- **Case Number:** 04-2001-9049
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** —
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- AGRI-BUSINESS SUPPLY
- AMERICAN CYANAMID (complaint) (settlement)
- ATLANTIC STEEL
- BLACKMAN UHLER CHEMICAL CORP (complaint) (settlement)
- BRENNTAG MID-SOUTH, INC. (fka PB&S CHEMICAL CO. (complaint) (settlement)
- CLARIANT CORP. (complaint) (settlement)
- COLGATE-PALMOLIVE CO. (complaint) (settlement)
- CYTEC INDUSTRIES
- DIAL CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- GEORGETOWN STEEL CO.
- GERDAU AMERISTEEL (complaint) (settlement)
- HARCROS CHEMICALS
- INTERTRADE HOLDINGS COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- KOCH SULFUR PRODUCTS COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES (complaint) (settlement)
- MICHIGAN STANDARD ALLOYS
- MID CONTINENT COMMODITY EXCHANGE (complaint) (settlement)
- MSA INDUSTRIAL CORP.
- NUCOR CORP.
- NUCOR-TAMATO STEEL
- OLIN CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- OVS CHEMICAL SOLUTIONS
- PAGA CHEMICAL
- PB&S CHEMICAL (complaint)
- PB&S CHEMICAL SOLUTIONS (nka BRENNTAG MID-SOUTH (complaint) (settlement)
- PVS CHEMICAL SOLUTIONS, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- ROANOKE ELECTRIC STEEL COMPANY
- SANDOZ CHEMICAL CORP (complaint) (settlement)
- SMI-SC
- SOUTHWIRE COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- SYNALLOY CORP. (complaint) (settlement)
- TENNESSEE CHEMICAL COMPANY
- THOMPSON-HEYWARD
- US STEEL
- USX CORP.
- WINN-DIXIE STORES (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

BRIEF SUMMARY:  STOLLER CHEMICAL CO./PELHAM PHOSPHATE        WORKS SUPERFUND SITE, IN PELHAM, MITCHELL COUNTY, GA,        WAS A FERTILIZER MANUFACTURING FACILITY.  IT OPERATED        FROM 1910 UNTIL IT WAS ABANDONED IN 1992.  THE SITE          WAS THE SUBJECT OF A FUND-LEAD REMOVAL ACTION FROM           JULY OF 1992 THROUGH NOVEMBER OF 1998.  THE PRIMARY          SOURCES OF CONTAMINATION WERE ACID AND LEAD.  THE ACID       DROVE THE LEAD BOTH LATERALLY AND VERTICALLY ACROSS THE      SITE, SO THE SOIL HAD TO BE EXCAVATED AND ALL SURFACE        WATER TREATED FOR ACIDITY.                                   NATURE AND NUMBER OF DEFENDANTS:  THE PRP'S ARE ALL          LIABLE FOR ARRANGING FOR DISPOSAL OF A HAZARDOUS             WASTE (CERCLA 107(A)(3)); THERE ARE 3 GROUPS; THE            ACID GROUP, THE SLAG GROUP, AND THE DUST GROUP, FOR A        TOTAL OF 26 PRP'S.  THE ACID GROUP IS LIABLE FOR             SELLING SPENT SURFURIC ACID TO THE SITE, THE SLAG GROUP      SOLD SLAG, AND THE DUST GROUP SENT EMISSION CONTROL          DUST, OR RCRA WASTE CODE KO-61 TO THE SITE.  THE LEAD        FROM THE SLAG AND DUST, AND THE ACID WERE MAJOR              CONTRIBUTORS TO THE CONTAMINATION AT THE SITE.               RELIEF REQUESTED:  THIS IS A COST RECOVERY REFERRAL          PURSUANT TO CERCLA 107, WHICH ALSO INCLUDES THE              POSSIBLITY OF FUTURE WORK TO BE PERFORMED AT THE SITE        PURSUANT TO CERCLA SECTION 106.                              SPECIAL FACTS OR CIRCUMSTANCES:  IMP

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