# LEONARD CHEMICAL SUPERFUND SITE
> **Judicial** · FY2002 · — · Litigated With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `24820`
- **Case Number:** 04-2002-9001
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Litigated With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- ANTHONY INDUSTRIES, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- AQUACOVE INDUSTRIES
- BASF CORP. (complaint) (settlement)
- BREMEN GLASS
- COLEMAN CABLE, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- CORL CORP.
- DMC, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- GLASS-TEC
- HARLEY CORP.
- HYTEC CORP.
- INGERSOLL-RAND COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- INMONT CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- K2, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- LAMBDA, INC.
- LEONARD CHEMICAL CO. (complaint) (settlement)
- LEONARD, LAWRENCE K. (complaint) (settlement)
- PLASTIC LAMINATED SYSTEMS
- REXHAM CORP. (settlement)
- RIBLET PRODUCTS CO.
- SHAKEPEARE CO. (complaint) (settlement)
- SPRINGS INDUSTRIES, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- STANLEY WORKS, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- STATE PRINTING CO., INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- TARTAN MARINE COMPANY
- TEXTRON, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- TORRINGTON COMPANY (complaint)
- TRANSFER FASHION PRINT DIVISION
- TRANSFER FASHION PRINT, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- UNION CARBIDE CORP.
## Summary

PRN SUMMARY:  THE LEONARD CHEMICAL SITE CONSISTS OF APPROX. 6.5 ACRES      OF LAND IN AN INDUSTRIAL AREA LOCATED ABOUT A HALF MILE      EAST OF CATAWBA, SC, AND 9 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ROCK HILL,     SC.            THE COMPANY WAS FORMED ON JANUARY 13, 1966, BY MR. LAWRENCE  K. LEONARD AND MRS. TEIBELLE W. LEONARD.  THE LEONARDS CONVEYED THE SITE PROPERTY TO LCC IN MAY 1966.  LCC          BEGAN OPERATIONS SHORTLY THEREAFTER AND CONTINUED            THROUGH THE EARLY 1980'S WHEN THE SOUTH CAROLINA             DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL ORDERED       THE COMPANY TO STOP ACCEPTING AND PROCESSING WASTE           MATERIALS.  LCC PROVIDED WASTE SOLVENT TREATMENT,            STORAGE, AND DISPOSAL SERVICES TO ITS CUSTOMERS.  LCC        EMPLOYED CLEANING PROCESSESS THAT GENERATED WASTE            SOLVENTS CONTAINING ALCOHOLS, KETONES, AND CHLORINATED       HYDROCARBONS.  THE GENERATORS OF THE WASTES WERE NC AND      SC MANUFACTURERS OF PAINT AND INK, USERS OF THESE MATERIALS  AND PRINTERS.  SEVERAL OF THE GENERATOR COMPANIES FOR        A GENERATOR GROUPAND SIGNED AN AOC UNDER WHICH THEY          AGREED TO DO A RI/FS OF THE SITE.  THE RI/FS RESULTS         REVEALED PRESENCE OF VOC'S IN THE SURFACE AND                SUBSURFACE SOILS, AND IN THE GROUNDWATER.  THE RI/FS WAS     COMPLETED IN 12/00, WHICH CONFIRMED CONTAMINATION BOTH ONSITE SOILS AND GROUNDWATER.                                ON AUGUST 20, 2001, A ROD WAS ISSUED.  THE SELECTED          REMEDY INCLUDES EXC

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