# PEPSI COLA GENERAL BOTTLERS, INC.
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1999 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `31722`
- **Case Number:** 05-1999-0399
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $12K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** Y
## Defendants
- PEPSI COLA GENERAL BOTTLERS, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

FACILITY FAILED TO IMMEDIATELY NOTIFY THE NRC, SERC, AND     LEPC OF A RELEASE OF 38,030 POUNDS OF FERRIC SULFATE.        ON SEPTEMBER 23, 1998 THERE WAS A RELEASE OF 38,050 POUNDS   OF FERRIC SULFATE AT THIS FACILITY.  THE RELEASE OCCURRED    WHEN A FORK LIFT DRIVER ACCIDENTALLY HIT THE SUPPLY LINE     TO A FERRIC SULFATE TANK, CAUSING THE RELEASE ON FERRIC      SULFATE ONTO ASPHALT, THAT THEN MIGRATED TO A STORM SEWER    AND INTO A TRIBUTARY OF MILL CREEK.  PEPSI DID NOT REPORT    THE RELEASE TO THE NRC, SERC, AND LEPC UNTIL APPROXIMATELY   50 HOURS AFTER THE RELEASE.

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