# DUTCHTOWN OIL TREATMENT FACILITY
> **Judicial** · FY1989 · — · —
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `34689`
- **Case Number:** 06-1989-0140
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** —
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- AVONDALE INDUSTRIES INC. (complaint)
- BASF CORPORATION (complaint)
- BETHLEHEM STEEL CORPORATION (complaint)
- BP EXPLORATION (complaint)
- BROWN & ROOT, INC (complaint)
- BROWNING-FERRIS INDUSTRIES CHEMICAL SERV (complaint)
- CENA TOWING COMPANY INC /OILFILLED LUB (complaint)
- CIBA-GEIGY CORP. (complaint)
- CIS-MAR COMPANY/FINA OIL AND CHEMICAL CO (complaint)
- DUTCHTOWN OIL TREATMENT FACILITY (complaint)
## Summary

SYNOPSIS:  THE DUTCHTOWN OIL TREATMENT FACILITY SITE IS    LOCATED IN DUTCHTOWN LOUISIANA AT THE INTERSECTION OF INTER- STATE 10 AN STATE HIGHWAY 74.  THE SITE IS THE LOCATION OF A FORMER REFINERY OPERATION WHICH  SPECIALIZED IN THE REFINING OF WASTE OIL.  THE SITE IS APPROXIMATELY FIVE ACRES IN SIZE  AND IS LOCATED ADJACENT TO SEVERAL RESIDENCES AND WITHIN ONE HALF OF A MILE OF AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.  ON JULY 22, 1987,   THE SITE WAS PLACED ON THE NATIONAL PRIORITIES LIST. FROM    DECEMBER 1987 TO FEB 88, EPA CONDUCTED AN ENGINEERING EVALU- ATION/COST ANALYSIS TO EVALUATE POSSIBLE SHORT TERM REMEDIAL ACTIONS FOR THE SITE.  ON MAY 20, 1988, EPA ISSUED AN ACTION MEMORANDUM THAT CALLED FOR THE REMOVAL AND THERMAL DESTRUCT- ION OF THE ON-SITE WASTES.

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