# REILLY TAR & CHEMICAL (DOVER) > **Administrative - Formal** · FY1993 · — · Final Order No Penalty ## Case - **Activity ID:** `28474` - **Case Number:** 05-1993-1199 - **Type:** Administrative - Formal - **Lead:** EPA - **Outcome:** Final Order No Penalty - **Penalty assessed:** $0 - **Cost recovery:** $0 - **Compliance action $:** — - **Multimedia (multi-env):** N ## Defendants - REILLY TAR & CHEMICAL CORPORATION (complaint) - RONALD AND LOIS QUILLIN (complaint) ## Summary THE SITE IS LOCATED ON 3.66 ACRES OF LAND SITUATED ON THIRD STREET IN AND AT THE SOUTHWEST EDGE OF DOVER, (TUSCARAWAS COUNTY) OHIO, SOUTHEAST OF THE JUNCTION OF STATE ROUTE 211 AND STATE ROUTE 39 AND THREE-QUARTERS OF A MILE FROM THE JUNCTION OF SUGAR CREEK AND THE TUSCARAWAS RIVER. ON THE NORTHEAST, THE SITE IS BORDERED BY THE TURNING BASIN OF THE ABANDONED OHIO CANAL WHICH NOW FUNCTIONS AS A DRAINAGE DITCH FOR STORMWATER FROM THE CITY. CURRENT LAND USE IN THE SITE'S VICINITY IS MAINLY COMMERCIAL AND RESIDENTIAL NORTH OF THE SITE (TOWARDS DOWNTOWN DOVER) AND INDUSTRIAL TO THE WEST AND SOUTHWEST. PUBLIC POWER AND SEWERAGE FACILITIES ARE DIRECTLY EAST OF THE SITE. THE SITE IS CURRENTLY USED FOR FILL AND BORROW DISPOSAL. MOLTEN BLAST FURNACE SLAG WAS DISPOSED ON THE SOUTH AREA OF THE SITE. THE AREA HAS ABANDONED RAILROAD TRACKS. THE SITE BEGAN ITS INDUSTRIAL HISTORY IN THE MID-1800S. IT HAS BEEN USED AS A PIG IRON BLAST FURNACE SITE, A COKING PLANT AND FOUNDRY, AND A COAL TAR REFINERY. A BLAST FURNACE OPERATION WAS AT THE SITE FROM ABOUT 185-1927 (LAST OPERATOR KNOWN AS HANNA FURNACE COMPANY OF CLEVELAND). DOVER COKE BY-PRODUCTS CO., ESTABLISHED A PLANT NEXT TO THE HANNA BLAST FURNACE AROUND 1916. THIS OPERATION ALSO WOULD HAVE PRODUCED COAL TAR AS A BY PRODUCT. AT THE TIME THE COKE OVENS WERE BUILT F.J. LEWIS MANUFACTURING ESTABLISHED A CHEMICAL PLANT FOR THE USE OF THE COAL TAR BY-PRODU --- *Source: [EPA ECHO](https://echo.epa.gov/) · AI Analytics · CC0 1.0*