# KOPPERS (BEAZER EAST), CARBONDALE
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1994 · — · Final Order No Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `29048`
- **Case Number:** 05-1994-0464
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order No Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $0
- **Cost recovery:** $0
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- BEAZER EAST, INC. (complaint)
## Summary

KOPPERS COMPANY, INC., NOW BEAZOR EAST, INC., ENTERED INTO   ANADMINISTRATIVE ORDER ON CONSENT TO PERFORM NECESSARY       CORRECTIVE ACTIONUNDER SECTION 3008(H) OF RCRA.  THE STATE   OF ILLINOIS ALSO ENTERED INTOA SEPARATE AGREEMENT IN THE     JACKSON COUNTY STATE COURT.                                  THE RAILROAD TIE AND WOOD TREATMENT FACILITY COVERS ABOUT    136 ACRESLOCATED IN THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF CARBONDALE,      JACKSON COUNTY, ILLINOIS.WASTEWATER GENERATED FROM THE       TREATMENT PROCESS WAS DISCHARGED INTO ASYSTEM INCLUDING 4    LAGOONS, AN ACTIVATED SLUDGE TREATMENT UNIT AND ASPRAY       IRRIGATION FIELD.  ALSO, WASTEWATER HAD BEEN DISCHARGED TO   A NORTH CONTAINMENT DITCH  THAT FLOWED TO A LOCATION CALLED  THE  OLDLAGOON AREA  WHICH CONSISTS OF 4 ACRES THAT WERE     FILLED IN 1977. CONTAMINANTS, INCLUDING PAH'S AND            PENTACHOROPHENOL HAVE BEEN RELEASED TONEARBY GLADE CREEK.    TWO CATTLE DIED NEAR THE CREEK IN 1981 AND ANAUTOPSY FOUND   INGESTION OF CREOSOTE CONTMINATED MATERIAL.                  THE CRAB ORCHARD NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE IS LOCATED 2.75    MILES AWAY.                                                  A STATE COURT CONSENT DECREE WAS ENTERED ON THE SAME DAY     (JUNE 4, 1986)AS THIS ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER WHICH ORDERS THE  SAME ACTION AS THE SCOPEOF WORK REQUIRED IN THIS ORDER.      THE CONSENT ORDER REQUIRES KOPPER'S MAINTENANCE OF THE       LAGOONS TOPREVENT OVERFLOWS AND THE CONDUCTING OF AN  RI/FS  AND CORRECTIVEACTION APPROVED BY EPA

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