# OUTBOARD MARINE CORP
> **Judicial** · FY1978 · — · Voluntarily Dismissed After Filing
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `24898`
- **Case Number:** 05-1978-0005
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Voluntarily Dismissed After Filing
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- MONSANTO COMPANY (complaint)
- OUTBOARD MARINE CORPORATION (complaint)
## Summary

(SITE IS ON NPL LIST)                              IN THE US DIST COURT FOR THE N DIST OF IL, E DIV. USA VS.    OUTBOARD MARINE CORP VS. MONSANTO CO. NO. 78 C 1004. OMC     OWNS & OPERATES THE JOHNSON OUTBOARDS DIV FACILITY, WHICH    MANUFACTURES OB MOTORS & THEIR COMPONENT PARTS IN            WAUKEGAN, IL, WITHIN THE N DIST OF IL. FROM APPROX. 1959     UNTIL 1972, OMC EMPLOYED IN ITS JOHNSON OUTBOARDS            FACILITY A HYDRAULIC FLUID COMPOSED OF VARYING               PERCENTAGES OF PCB'S, TOXIC CHEM MIXTURES WHICH ARE HEAT     & FLAME RESISTANT. LRG PORTIONS OF THE LEAKS & SPILLS        INCIDENT TO THE USE OF THESE CHEMICALS IN A NON-ENCLOSED     HYDRAULIC SYSTEM WERE ROUTED TO OMC'S WASTEWATER             COLLECTION & DISCHARGE SYS. AS A RESULT, THE EFFLUENT        DISCHARGED FROM OMC'S FACILITY CARRIED LRG AMTS OF PCB'S     INTO NORTH DITCH, WAUKEGAN HARBOR, & LAKE MICHIGAN.  FROM    AT LEAST 1959 UNTIL AT LEAST 1972, MONSANTO MANUFACTURED     & SOLD TO OMC FOR USE AT ITS WAUKEGAN FAC HYDRAULIC          FLUIDS WHICH IT KNEW WERE COMPOSED OF VARYING PERCENTAGES    OF PCB'S. BASED UPON INFO & BELIEF, MONSANTO WAS THE SOLE    SOURCE OF ALL PCB-BEARING HYDRAULIC FLUIDS PRCHSED BY OMC    FOR USE AT ITS WAUKEGAN, IL, FACILITY. DISCHARGE OF THESE    LRG AMNTS OF PCB'S FROM AT LEAST 1959/PRESENT IN THE OMC     WAUKEGAN FAC WASTE & STORM WATER EFFLUENT HAS RESULTED IN    SEVERE CONTAM OF WATERS, BIOTA, & SED IN N DITCH,            WAUKEGAN HARBOR, & LAKE MICHIGAN, AS WELL AS G

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