# GREAT LAKES CHEMICAL CORP.
> **Judicial** · FY1989 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `34668`
- **Case Number:** 06-1989-0118
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $190K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- GREAT LAKES CHEMICAL CORP. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

GREAT LAKES CHEMICAL CORPORATION (HEREINAFTER 'GLCC')   OWNS AND OPERATES A FACILITY IN EL DORADO, AR WHICH EXTRACTS BROMINE FROM SUBSURFACE BRINE AND PRODUCES BROMINE AND BRO-  MINATED COMPOUNDS SUCH AS ETHYLENE DIBROMIDE (EDB) FOR COM-  MERCIAL USE.                                                      GLCC HAS BEEN DISCHARGING PROCESS WASTEWATER FROM THE   SODIUM HYDROGEN SULFIDE UNIT THROUGH OUTFALL 001 WHICH IS    PERMITTED FOR UNONTAMINATED ONCE-THROUGH COOLING.  40 CFR    415.292 PROHIBITS THE DISCHARGE OF PROCESS WASTEWATERS TO    NAVIGABLE WATERS AS WELL.  A SAMPLE TAKEN BY THE ADPCE,      INDICATED DIMETHYL DISULFIDE, MOLECULAR SULFUR, 2,4,6 -      TRIBROMOPHENOL, AND 3,4 - DIBROMOPHENOL WERE BEING DIS-      CHARGED.  IN ADDITION, SAMPLES TAKEN BY GLCC, EPA AND ADPCE  VERIFIED THAT THE DISCHARGE WAS CONTAMINATED BY VARIOUS      ORGANICS AND EDB.                                                 ON MAY 2, 1988, A BREAK IN THE 001 DISCHARGE LINE OC-   CURRED AND WAS NOT REPAIRED BY GLCC UNTIL MAY 4, 1988.  THIS INCIDENT RESULTED IN A DISCHARGE TO BAYOU D'LOUTRE FROM AN   UNAUTHORIZED POINT AND WAS OBSERVED BY EPA PERSONNEL.        SAMPLES WERE ALSO TAKEN AND ANALYZED FOR ORGANICS, PESTI-    CIDES, PCB AND EDB.                                               SINCE 1983, GLCC HAS BEEN IN THE PROCESS OF CONTESTING  CERTAIN TERMS OF ITS PERMIT WHICH WAS REISSUED ON SEPT 23,   1983 (EXHIBIT A) TO REPLACE A PRIOR PERMIT EXPIRED MARCH     31, 1981.  PURSUANT TO THE JUDICIAL REVIE

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