# CHEM RECOVRY SYS INC
> **Judicial** · FY1980 · — · Final Order No Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `25050`
- **Case Number:** 05-1980-0006
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order No Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- CHEMICAL RECOVERY SYSTEM INC. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

CHEMICAL RECOVERY SYSTEMS, INC. - ELYRIA, OH. CHEMICAL       RECOVERY SYSTEMS, INC. (CRS) IS AN OHIO FIRM                 INCORPORATED TO STORE, TREAT, PROCESS & DISPOSE OF HAZD      WSTES. ACCORDING TO COMPLAINT, OPERATIONS AT DEFENDANT'S     LOCUST ST. SITE HAVE CONTAMINATED & POSE A CONTINUED         THREAT OF CONTAMINATION TO THE BLACK RIVER, & HAVE           POLLUTED SOIL AT THE SITE. THE 4 ACRE FACILITY IS 2 1/2      BLOCKS FROM DOWNTOWN ELYRIA, A CITY WITH A POPULATION OF     50,000, & IS BORDERED BY THE BLACK RIVER ON THE N & W.       STORM WATER RUNOFF FROM THE SURROUNDING AREA DRAINS          THROUGH THE SITE & ENTERS THE RIVER. SEVERAL ON-SITE         DITCHES COLLECT RUNOFF & ALSO DRAIN INTO THE RIVER.  SOIL    UNDERLYING THE SITE IS POROUS & HAS A LOW STORAGE CA-        PACITY ALLOWING LIQUIDS TO DRAIN THROUGH RAPIDLY. FROM       1974 TO THE PRESENT, CRS OPERATED A SOLVENTS RECOVERY        FACILITY & STORAGE YARD FOR WASTE SOLVENTS AT THE SITE.      THE CO. OWNS 2 SOLVENTS RECOVERY STILLS, ONE OF WHICH IS     INOPERATIVE, THAT ARE LOCATED INSIDE TWO BUILDINGS ON THE    PROPERTY. THE STILLS HAVE A PROCESS CAPACITY OF 200 TO       300 GALLONS/HOUR.  THE INOPERATIVE STILL IS OBSOLETE,        POORLY MAINTAINED, & POSES A FIRE HAZD. THE 2ND STILL IS     A FIRE RISK IF OPERATED, & REQUIRES SUBSTANTIAL              REPAIRS. APPROX. 800 55-GAL DRUMS OF LIQUID ORG WASTES       ARE ON-SITE. ANOTHER 3200 DRUMS ARE DETERIORATED & ARE       LEAKING THEIR CONTENTS. SOME ARE STA

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