# CAROLINA STEEL DRUM SUPERFUND SITE
> **Judicial** · FY2002 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `24821`
- **Case Number:** 04-2002-9002
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- ABB, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- ABCO INDUSTRIES, INC.
- AIR PRODUCTS AND CHEMICALS, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- AKZO NOBEL AEROSPACE COATINGS, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- AKZO NOBEL COATINGS, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- B.F. GOODRICH
- BAYER CROPSCIENCE, INC. fka RHONE-POULENC, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- BLACKMAN UHLER CHEMICAL (complaint) (settlement)
- BOEHME FILATEX PRODUCTS (complaint) (settlement)
- BOWATER, INC.
- BULLINGTON FAMILY PARTNERSHIP (complaint) (settlement)
- CELANESE FIBERS OPERATIONS (complaint) (settlement)
- CHAMPION INTERNATIONAL CORP.
- CHEM-TEX LABORATORIES, INC.
- CNA HOLDING (complaint) (settlement)
- COGNIS CORP (SUCCESSOR TO HENKEL CORP.) (complaint) (settlement)
- CROWN METRO, INC. (settlement)
- CUSTOM DRUM SERVICES, INC.
- DEXTER CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- EASTMAN CHEMICAL COMPANY (settlement)
- FISHER INDUSTRIAL SERVICE, INC.
- FTR LP (complaint) (settlement)
- GEORGIA-PACIFIC
- GOODRICH CORP. (complaint) (settlement)
- HENKEL CORP. (complaint)
- HENRY COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- INTERNATIONAL PAPER
- INVITROGEN CORP. (complaint) (settlement)
- MCMANUS & SON DRUM CO.
- MONSEY PRODUCTS COMPANY
- PARA-CHEM SOUTHERN, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- PIEDMONT CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- REEVES BROTHERS, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- RHODIA, INC.
- RHONE-POULENC, INC. (nka BAYER CROPSCIENCE, INC.) (complaint) (settlement)
- RUTLAND PLASTIC TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
- SEQUA CORP. (complaint) (settlement)
- SPRINGS INDUSTRIES (complaint) (settlement)
- STANDARD CHEMICAL PRODUCT DIVISION
- TALLENT DRUM CO.
- UNITED MERCHANTS AND MANUFACTURERS, INC.
- WEST DRUM COMPANY
- WIKOFF COLOR CORP. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

THE CAROLINA STEEL DRUM SUPERFUND SITE WAS OPERATED AS A DRUM RECONDITIONING FACILITY FOR OVER 30 YEARS.  ON 4/9/97, SCDHEC REQUESTED THAT EPA EVALUATE SITE FOR A POSSIBLE CERCLA REMOVAL ACTION.  EPA BEGAN A REMOVAL  ACTION AT THE SITE ON 2/3/98, DURING WHICH 10,000 DRUMS & 60,000 TONS OF CONTAMINATED SOIL WERE REMOVED.  EPA OBTAINED A LARGE AMOUNT OF EVIDENCE FROM THE FACILITY, INCLUDING INVOICES & RECEIPTS OF DRUM SHIPMENTS.  ALL DOCUMENTATION PERTAINING TO     POSSIBLE GENERATORS & TRANSPORTERS HAS BEEN ORGANIZED & SUMMARIZED.  EPA SENT OVER 200 104(E) INFO REQUESTS TO POSSIBLE GENERATORS & TRANSPORTERS.  BASED ON THE DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE, INFO REQUEST RESPONSES, & OPERATOR INTERVIEW STATEMENTS, EPA HAS IDENTIFIED 17 VIABLE PRP'S.  A PRELIMINARY VOLUMETRIC ALLOCATION REPORT WAS COMPLETED.  AS OF 1/15/02, EPA HAS INCURRED APPROX. $6,242,552.08 IN RESPONSE COSTS AT THE SITE.

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