# ENVIRONMENTAL DYNAMICS, INC.
> **Judicial** · FY1983 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `25230`
- **Case Number:** 05-1983-0051
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** $0
- **Cost recovery:** $159K
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- ACCUTRONICS (complaint) (settlement)
- ACME GALVANIZING (complaint) (settlement)
- ALLIED TUBE & CONDUIT, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- AMERICAN WASTE PROCESSING, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- ASHLAND CHEMICAL COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- BRIGHTLY GALVANIZED (complaint) (settlement)
- CHICAGO TRIBUNE CO. (complaint) (settlement)
- COPPERWELD TUBING, REGAL TUBE CO (complaint) (settlement)
- GENERAL TUBE CO. (complaint) (settlement)
- HOWARD, H. H. CORP (complaint) (settlement)
- KAISER ALUMINUM COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- MID-WEST COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- OMC JOHNSON (complaint) (settlement)
- PANDUIT CORP (complaint) (settlement)
- ROLLINS LEASING COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- VERSON ALLSTEEL COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- WAYNE CIRCUITS INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- ZENITH, RAULAND DIVISION (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

BACKGROUND AND NATURE OF CASE                                   THIS IS A PROPOSED COST RECOVERY ACTION UNDER SECTION   107 OF CERCLA.  LIQUID DYNAMICS, LOCATED AT 655 EAST 114TH   STREET, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, OPERATED AN INDUSTRIAL LIQUID     WASTE TREATMENT PLANT FOR THE PERIOD SEPTEMBER 1980 THROUGH  OCTOBER 1982.  THE FACILITY TREATED CHEMICAL WASTES GENERA-  TED BY PAINT, COATINGS, ADHESIVES, FOOD, HEALTH AND BEAUTY   CARE, CHEMICAL PROCESSING, METAL FINISHING AND RELATED IN-   DUSTRIES.  TREATMENT CAPACITY AT THE FACILITY WAS 100,000    GALLONS PER DAY.                                                  IN JULY 1981 LIQUID DYNAMICS FILED FOR REORGANIZATION   UNDER CHAPTER 11 OF THE BANKRUPTCY CODE.  IN OCTOBER 1982    THE CHAPTER 11 PROCEEDING WAS CONVERTED TO AN INVOLUNTARY    CHAPTER 7 LIQUIDATION PROCEEDING.  LIQUID DYNAMICS ABANDON-  ED THE FACILITY IN OCTOBER 1982.  AT THE TIME OF ABANDON-    MENT SEVERAL THOUSAND GALLONS OF HAZARDOUS WASTES (FLAM-     MABLE, CORROSIVE AND TOXIC WASTES) WERE LEFT ON THE PREMISES      IN JANUARY 1983 VANDALS GAINED ENTRANCE TO ONE OF THE   FACILITY'S BUILDINGS, OPENED PROCESS EQUIPMENT AND CAUSED    THE RELEASE OF THOUSANDS OF GALLONS OF SLUDGE-LIKE TOXIC     WASTE ONTO THE FLOOR OF THE BUILDING.  SEVERAL HUNDRED GAL-  LONS OF THE WASTE SEEPED OUT OF THE BUILDING AND WERE RE-    LEASED TO THE ENVIRONMENT.  THE ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL PRO-  TECTION AGENCY TOOK RESPONSIVE ACTION TO CLEAN UP THE SPILL.  IN EARLY APRIL 1983 THE SITE WAS AGAI

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