# FRENCH LTD DISPOSAL SITE
> **Judicial** · FY1984 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `33793`
- **Case Number:** 06-1984-0007
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $976K
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- ARMCO, INC (complaint) (settlement)
- ATLANTIC RICHFILED CORP (complaint) (settlement)
- COASTAL VACUUM TANK SERVICE, INC (complaint) (settlement)
- E.I. DUPONT DE NEMOURS AND CO, INC (complaint) (settlement)
- FRENCH LTD (complaint) (settlement)
- GEORGE A. WHITTEN (complaint) (settlement)
- NL INDUSTRIES (complaint) (settlement)
- PARKER BROTHERS AND CO, INC (complaint) (settlement)
- PENNWALT CORP (complaint) (settlement)
- TENNECO POLYMERS, INC (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

SUMMARY                                                           DEF IS ON NATL PRIORITY LIST.  SITE RANKED ON NPL ON    12/30/82 AND SCORED 50.9 ON MITRE.                                DEF SITE IS ABANDONED HAZ WSTE SITE.  SITE WAS IN OPERA TION FR MID-60'S UNTIL 1972.  WAS KNOWN AS BURTON PITS THEN  AS FRENCH LIMITED DISPOSAL AFTER AQUIRED BY FRENCH LIMITED   OF HOUSTON IN 1967.                                               SITE INITIALLY EXCAVATED FOR SAND FOUND THERE.  WASTE   DUMPING IN PITS BEGAN IN 1965.  THE SITE WAS USED BETWEEN    1965 AND 1971.  SITE USED BY VACUUM TANK TRUCKS WHICH PUMPED WSTE INTO FIFTEEN ACRE UNLINED LAGOON.  SITE OWNED BY DEF FR 1967 TO 1973.  DUMPING HALTED IN 1971 BY ST OF TX.  DEF MADE SOME REPAIRS TO DIKES DUE TO ST ENFORCE ACTION.  ALSO ADJUST ED PH BY ADD OF CAUSTICS AND TREATED PIT W/BACTERIA AS DIREC TED BY THE ST.  OWNER WENT BANKRUPT AND STATE TOOK OVER THE  SITE.                                                             FLOODING IN 1973 AND 1979 DAMAGED DIKES AND SPREAD CON- TAMINATED MATERIALS (PCB, ORGANIC/INORGANIC) INTO WETLAND    SURROUNDING WASTE LAGOON.  DIKES WERE REPAIRED TO PREVENT    FURTHER DAMAGE.  WORK DONE AS EMERGENCY ACTION DONE IN THREE STAGES. DIKES FIRST REPAIRED AS HURRICANE ALLEN APPROACHED.  IN 01/81, SLUDGE REMOVED AND FURTHER DIKE REPAIR DONE.  IN   01/82, THIRD PHASE COMPLETED.  SLUDGES AND FLOATING OILS     REMOVED FR SURROUNDING SLOUGHS AND PLACED IN LAGOON.  DIKE   WORK WAS ALSO DONE.  311 COSTS WERE 

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