# ELBURN ABANDONED DRUMS
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2000 · — · —
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `32261`
- **Case Number:** 05-2000-0224
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** —
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- ELBURN ABANDONED DRUMS (settlement)
- JIM POPP (settlement)
- NORMAN PORTER (settlement)
## Summary

THIS ILLEGAL DUMPING WAS REPORTED BY THE ELBURN POLICE       DEPARTMENT (EPD) ON FEBRUARY 4, 2000.  A TRAILER WAS LOCATED ON FS PROPERTY THAT WAS NOT THE PROPERTY OF FS, ON THE NORTH SIDE OF THE UNION PACIFIC RAIL TRACKS WEST OF GATES ST.  THE TRAILER CONTAINS 44 SEALED DRUMS, MOST OF THEM RUSTED AND    UNLABELED.  ONE DRUM INDICATED THAT ITS CONTENT WERE  BEN-   ZENE  WHILE TWO DRUMS HAD LABELS ON THEM FROM CROWN COATINGS WHICH IS OWNED BY JIM POPP.  ACCORDING TO THE EPD REPORT,    NORMAN L. PORTER WHO POSSIBLY LEFT THE TRAILER AT THE SITE   DENIES RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE TRAILER.  HE STATED THAT JIM   POPP GAVE HIM THE TRAILER A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO BUT IT WAS   SUPPOSED TO BE EMPTY, INSTEAD IT WAS LOADED WITH WASTES FOR  WHICH HE HAD NO MEANS OF DISPOSAL.  WHILE J. POPP MAINTAINS  THAT THE TRAILER BELONGS TO N. PORTER AND HE IS NOT RESPON-  SIBLE FOR ITS REMOVAL.  AT THIS TIME, THE TRAILER HAS BEEN   LOCKED AND SEALED TO PREVENT ANY CONTAMINATION.  LEN ZINTAC, OSC, IS GOING TO ACCESS THIS PROPERTY ON THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 2000, WITH EPD.  L. ZINTAC MAY BE CONTACTED AT 886-4246.

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