# DU PONT - CIRCLEVILLE PLANT
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1988 · — · Litigated With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `26934`
- **Case Number:** 05-1988-0237
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Litigated With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $40K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- E.I. DUPONT (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

IN 1981, THERE WAS A SPILL OF VINYLIDINE CHLORIDE (VCL2)     AT DU PONT'S CIRCLEVILLE, OHIO PLANT.  DUPONT, WITH THE      CONCURRENCE OF OHIO EPA, RESPONDED TO THE SPILL BY PUMPING   CONTAMINATED GROUNDWATER INTO THE PLANT'S WASTE WATER        TREATMENT SYSTEM.  OHIO EPA AND U.S. EPA CONDUCTED SEVERAL   INSPECTIONS OF THE DU PONT FACILITY IN 1986 AND 1987.        THESE INSPECTIONS REVEALED VIOLATIONS OF GROUNDWATER MONI-   TORING AND CLOSURE REQUIREMENTS.  ON MARCH 30, 1988, U.S.    EPA ISSUED A COMPLAINT, FINDINGS OF VIOLATION AND COMPLI-    ANCE ORDER.

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