# LOWE'S HOME CENTERS, INC
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1998 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `30758`
- **Case Number:** 05-1998-0089
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $5K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** $0
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- LOWE'S HOME CENTER (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

ON JUNE 4, IDNR RESPONDED TO A COMPLAINT FROM A WORKER AT    LOWE'S HOME CENTER THAT OTHER EMPLOYEES WERE DUMPING         DIAZINON ON THE GROUND NEAR A WETLAND.  THE BOTTLES OF       DIAZINON WERE MISLABELED, AND RATHER THAN SENDING THE        BOTTLES BACK TO ORTHO, A SUPERVISOR DECIDED TO DUMP THE      CONTENTS OF THE BOTTLES ON THE GROUND OUTSIDE OF THE         BUILDING.  ONE BOTTLE CONTAINS ENOUGH DIAZINON TO MAKE       1200 GALLONS OF SPRAY.  DIAZINON HAS A 1 POUND REPORTABLE    QUANTITY.  THE DIAZINON DID MIGRATE INTO A MARSH NEAR THE    STORE.  DIAZINON IS TOXIC TO WILDLIFE.  LOWES DID NOT        IMMEDIATELY NOTIFY THE NRC, SERC, OR LEPC OF THE RELEASE.    ADMINISTRATIVE CERCLA COMPLAINT FILED ALLEGING FAILURE TO    IMMEDIATELY NOTIFY NRC OF RELEASE OF HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCE.

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