# MAPLE LAKE DRUMS
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1999 · — · Final Order No Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `31460`
- **Case Number:** 05-1999-0078
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order No Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- JOHN SCHIAVONE (settlement)
- MAPLE LAKE DRUMS (settlement)
## Summary

THE SUSPECT JOHN SCHIAVONE WAS SEEN BY AN ANONYMOUS WITNESS  DUMPING 22 DRUMS CONTAINING PAINT WASTE ONTO THE BOAT        LAUNCH AREA OF THE MAPLE LAKE FOREST PRESERVE ON DECEMBER    23, 1998.  WITNESS OBTAINED A LICENSE PLATE # FROM A 1999    CADILLAC AND IT WAS TRACED TO JOHN SCHIAVONE.  EPA CRIMINAL  PEOPLE ARE INVOLVED.  12 OF THE 22 DRUMS WERE SAMPLED AND    FOUND TO CONTAIN IGNITABLE WASTE.  THE DRUMS WERE OVERPACKED BY EPA AND ARE AT A COOK COUNTY FOREST PRESERVE DIST.        MAINTENANCE PLANT.  WOULD LIKE TO GIVE VERBAL NOTICE TO PRPS ATTORNEY ADAM STELLO (630) 261-0250.

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