# BAILEY WASTE DISPOSAL - NPL SITE
> **Judicial** · FY1989 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `34658`
- **Case Number:** 06-1989-0108
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $1.31M
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- BROWNING-FERRIS CHEMICAL SERVICES, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- CHEVRON CHEMICAL COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- DUPONT (complaint) (settlement)
- E.I. DUPONT DE NEMOURS (complaint) (settlement)
- FRENCH LIMITED OF HOUSTON, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- FRENCH LTD., INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- GEORGE WHITTEN & LUTHER HENDON, INDIVIDU (complaint) (settlement)
- GULF STATES UTILITIES (complaint) (settlement)
- OWENS- ILLINOIS, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- PHILLIPS PETROLEUM COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- SUN REFINING AND MARKETING COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- TEXACO BUTADIENE COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- UNIROYAL GOODRICH TIRE COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

CASE SUMMARY:                                                *                                                            THE BAILEY WASTE DISPOSAL SITE IS A CLOSED INDUSTRIAL        WASTE FACILITY AND IS PART OF SALTWATER MARSHLANDS           NEAR THE CONFLUENCE OF THE NECHES RIVER AND SABINE           LAKE.  THE SITE LIES WITHIN A 100-YEAR FLOOD PLAIN.          THE BAILEY WASTE DISPOSAL SITE ENCOMPASSES APPROX 280 ACRES  LOCATED 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BRIDGE CITY IN ORANGE COUNTY,   TEXAS.  THE SITE IS WEST OF TEXAS HIGHWAY 87 AND IS ONLY     ACCESSIBLE VIA A SHORT BRIDGE SPANNING A DRAINAGE CHANNEL,   ADJACENT AND PARALLEL TO THE HIGHWAY.  THE SITE ITSELF IS    UNDEVELOPED EXCEPT FOR THE PRESENCE OF A DILAPIDATED SHACK.  IT IS BOUNDED BY UNDEVELOPED LANDS AND AGRICULTURAL TRACTS   AND IS APPROX 2 MILES FROM THE NEAREST RESIDENTIAL AREA.     THE NEAREST DEVELOPED PROPERTY IS ACROSS THE NECHES RIVER    AND IS INDUSTRIAL IN NATURE.  THE SITE ENCOMPASSES TWO PONDS REFERRED TO AS POND A AND POND B AND THEIR PERIMETER LEVEES. *                                                            THE SITE WAS CONSTRUCTED BY MR. JOE BAILEY IN THE 1950'S     AS A FISHING CAMP.  A HURRICANE DESTROYED THE CAMP IN THE    1960'S BY INUNDATING THE FRESHWATER PONDS WITH SALINE WATER. THE SITE ALSO OPERATED AS A DISPOSAL FACILITY FOR INDUSTRIAL MUNICIPAL AND OTHER WASTES DURING THIS PERIOD.  THE SITE     WAS CLOSED IN 1971.                                          *                                   

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