# VELSICOL CHEMICAL CORP. - MARSHALL SITE
> **Judicial** · FY1989 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `27139`
- **Case Number:** 05-1989-0079
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** $0
- **Cost recovery:** $1.20M
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- VELSICOL CHEMICAL CORP (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

THE VELSICOL SITE IS A FORMER CHEMICAL MANUFACTURING FACI- LITY THAT HAS BEEN OWNED AND OPERATED BY VELSICOL CHEMICAL   CORPORATION FROM THE 1930'S TO PRESENT.  THE ILLINOIS EPA,   PURSUANT TO A COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT WITH THE U.S. EPA,       COMPLETED A REMEDIAL INVESTIGATION/FEASIBILITY STUDY IN      FEBRUARY, 1988 AND THE TWO AGENCIES JOINTLY ISSUED A ROD FOR THE SITE ON SEPTEMBER 30, 1988.  THE ROD CALLS FOR EXCAVA-   TION OF CONTAMINATED SOILS AND SEDIMENTS FROM THE PLANT      PRODUCTION AREA, AND A CREEK RUNNING THROUGH THE PROPERTY;   CONSOLIDATION AND IN-PLACE STABILIZATION OF THE WASTES IN    AN EXISTING HAZARDOUS WASTE LANDFILL ON-SITE; PLACING A RE-  SOURCE CONSERVATION AND RECOVERY ACT MULTIMEDIA CAP OVER THE LANDFILL CONTENTS; AND REMEDIATING CONTAMINATED GROUND WATER THE ESTIMATED CLEANUP COST IN THE ROD IS $9.1 MILLION.         ON JULY 15, 1988, THE U.S. EPA ISSUED A SPECIAL NOTICE     PURSUANT TO SECTION 122(E) OF CERCLA.  ON DECEMBER 29, 1988  VELSICOL CHEMICAL CORPORATION SIGNED THE CONSENT DECREE TO   PERFORM THE REMEDIAL ACTION DESCRIBED IN THE ROD.

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