# REUTGERS-NEASE CHEMICAL CO., INC.
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1993 · — · Final Order No Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `28467`
- **Case Number:** 05-1993-1103
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order No Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $0
- **Cost recovery:** $0
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
## Summary

THE SITE (ALSO KNOWN AS NEASE CHEMICAL) IS LOCATED           APPROXIMATELY ONE MILE NORTH OF THE CITY OF SALEM, OHIO.  IT IS APPROXIMATELY 44 ACRES IN SIZE AND BORDERED BY ROUTE 14A  ON THE SOUTH, RESIDENCES TO THE SOUTHWEST OF THE SITE, AND   WOODED AREAS AND PASTURE TO THE NORTH.  ALONG THE            NORTH-EASTERN BOUNDARY ARE LIGHT INDUSTRIAL OPERATIONS,      INCLUDING CRANE-DEMMING WHICH FRONT ALLEN ROAD.              CONTAMINATION HAS SPREAD INTO SOME OF THESE BORDERING AREAS. THE SITE IS INTERSECTED BY RAILROAD TRACKS OWNED BY CONRAIL.  A  FEEDER CREEK  DRAINS THROUGH THE SITE TO THE NORTH-EAST  AND THEN ENTERS THE MIDDLE FORK LITTLE BEAVER CREEK NEAR     ALLEN ROAD, APPROXIMATELY A QUARTER OF A MILE BEYOND THE     NEASE CHEMICAL PROPERTY.                                     NEASE CHEMICAL COMPANY PRODUCED CHEMICALS AT THE SITE FROM   1961 UNTIL 1973.  CHEMICALS INCLUDED HOUSEHOLD CLEANING      COMPOUNDS, PESTICIDES, FIRE RETARDANTS, INCLUDING MIREX, AND CHEMICAL INTERMEDIATES WHICH WERE PRODUCED THROUGH BATCH     PROCESSES.  WASTE HANDLING FACILITIES INCLUDED: AIR          SCRUBBERS, MULTIPLE POND/SETTLING TANK SYSTEM TO NEUTRALIZE  AND TREAT ACIDIC WASTE; 5 UNLINED LAGOONS FOR TREATMENT OF   ACIDIC OR LIME SLURRIES; A PIPELINE TO SEND WASTE TO THE     SALEM WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT (POTW); AND DISPOSAL AREAS  FOR 55 GALLON BARREL DRUMS.  NEASE DISCONTINUED DISCHARGE TO THE SALEM POTW AFTER ENFORCEMENT ACTION BY THE STATE OF OHIO IN 1973.                            

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