# HAVILAND PRODUCTS COMPANY
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1992 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `28064`
- **Case Number:** 05-1992-0236
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $11K
- **Cost recovery:** $0
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- HAVILAND PRODUCTS COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

HAVILAND IS LOCATED IN GRAND RAPIDS, MI.  ON 7/8/91 AT ABOUT 7:15 P.M. THERE WAS A RELEASE OF APPROX. 1750 LBS. OF        CHLORINE.  THE RELEASE OCCURRED WHEN 16,000 LBS OF LITHIUM   HYPOCHLORITE AND APPROX 200 LBS OF SODIUM                    DICHLORO-S-TRIAZINETRIONE WERE DESTROYED IN A FIRE AT THE    FACILITY.  THE 2 CHLORINE CONTAINING COMPOUNDS ARE WATER AND HEAR REACTIVE.   THE  FIRE DEPT. WAS PUMPING WATER AT A RATE OF APPROX 5,000 GALLAONS/MINUTE ONTO THE BURNING BUILDING.   AS A RESULT ALMOST 1,750 LBS OF CHLORINE WAS RELEASED INTO   THE ENVIRONMENT.  HAVILAND FAILED TO NOTIFY THE NRC, THE     SERC AND THE LEPC AS FAILED TO PROVIDE A WRITTEN FOLLOW-UP   TO THE SERC.  CONSEQUENTLY, A PENALTY OF $100,000 WAS        ASSESSED.

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