# SHERIDAN
> **Judicial** · FY1990 · — · Final Order With Unspecified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `34985`
- **Case Number:** 06-1990-0005
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Unspecified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- ARCO CHEMICAL COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- ARMCO, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- AUSTIN AMERCIAN-STATESMAN (complaint) (settlement)
- AZTEC MANUFACTURING CO. (complaint) (settlement)
- BAKER HUGHES, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- BAROID CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE (complaint) (settlement)
- BERWIND RAILWAY SERVICE CO. (complaint) (settlement)
- BEST INDUSTRIES, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- BETZ LABORATORIES (complaint) (settlement)
- BORDEN, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- BORING SPECIALITIES INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- BRINER PAINT MFG CO., INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- BROWN & ROOT, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- C&H TRANSPORTAION CO., INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- CAMERON FORGE CO. (complaint) (settlement)
- CHAMPION INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- CHARTER INTERNATIONAL OIL CO. (complaint) (settlement)
- CHEMICAL EXCHANGE INDUSTRIES, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- CHEMICAL LEAMAN TANK LINES, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- CINTAS CORPORTION (complaint) (settlement)
- CROWN CENTRAL PETROLEUM CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- DAILEY PETROLEUM SEERVICES CORP. (complaint) (settlement)
- DIXIE CHEMICAL CO., INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- DRESSER INDUSTRIES (complaint) (settlement)
- DSI TRANSPORTS, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- DUANE C. SHERIDAN (complaint) (settlement)
- E.I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS & CO., INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- ENTERPRISE TRANSPORTATION COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- ETHYL CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- EVANS COOPERAGE (complaint) (settlement)
- EXXON CHEMICAL AMERICAS (complaint) (settlement)
- FMC CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- FRENCH LTD. INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- GALVESTON-HOUSTON COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- GAMMOLY, LTD. (complaint) (settlement)
- GENERAL WELDING WORKS, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- GRACE WOOLEVER SHERIDAN (complaint) (settlement)
- GRANT OIL COUNTRY TUBULAR CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- GULF FORGE CO.
- HERCULES INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- HOECHST CELANESE CORP. AND CHEM GRP, INC (complaint) (settlement)
- HOMCO INT'L. INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- HOUSTON LIGHTING & POWER CO. (complaint) (settlement)
- HUDSON PRODUCTS (complaint) (settlement)
- HYDRIL CO. (complaint) (settlement)
- ICI AMERICAS INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- JACOB STERN & SONS, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- JETCO CHMICALS, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- KEYSTONE/ANDERSON, GREENWOOD & CO. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

THE SHERIDAN DISPOSAL SERVICES SITE IS LOCATED APPROXIMATLEY NNE MILES NORTH-NORTHWEST OF THE CITY OF HEMPSTEAD IN WALLER COUNTY, TEXAS.  THE SITE COVERS ABOUT 110 ACRESS OF A 696.5  -ACRE TRACT TJAT OS BPRDERED TO THE NORTH BY THE BRAZOS      RIVER.  THE SITE CONSISTS OF A LAGOON (12 TO 22 ACRES DEPEN- DING ON THE WATER LEVELS), A 17-ACRE DIKE SURROUNDING THE    LAGON, & A 42-ACRE EVAPORATION/LAND IRRIGATION SYSTEM.  AN   INCINERATOR AND A GROUP OF NINE STORAGE TANKS THTA WERE USED FOR WASTE STORAGE AND TREATMENT ARE LOCATED ON THE LAGOON    DIKES.  SDS OPERATED THE SITE AS A STATE PERMITTED, COMMER-  CIAL WASTE DISPOSAL FACILITY FROM AROUND 1958 UNTIL 1984,    ACCEPTING VARIOUS ORGANIC AND INORGANIC CHEMICAL AND SOLID   WASTES FOR DISPOSAL.  THESE WASTES WERE TREATED BY STEAM     DISTILLATION, OPEN BURNING, AND INCINERATION.  IN ADDITION,  THE LAGOON WAS DEVELOPED IN A LOW-LYING AREA OF THE SITE AND USED AS A HOLDING POND AND A DISPOSAL SITE FOR  OVERFLOW     WASTES AND WASTE TREATMENT RESIDUES.

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