# HERCULES, INC.- VERTAC
> **Judicial** · FY1991 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `35190`
- **Case Number:** 06-1991-0001
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $3.50M
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- DOW CHEMICAL COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- HERCULES, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- UNIROYAL LTD (complaint) (settlement)
- VERTAC, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

12/31/90:  SYNOPSIS OF CASE:  THE VERTAC CHEMICAL CORP.   JACKSONVILLE PLANT, IS LOCATED ON THE WEST SIDE OF MARSHALL  ROAD, NEAR US HIGHWAY 67 IN JACKSONVILLE, AR.  THE PLANT IS  IN CLOSE PROXIMITY TO DOWNTOWN JACKSONVILLE.  JACKSONVILLE   IS APPROXIMATELY 12 MILES NORTH OF LITTLE ROCK, AR THE STATE CAPITOL.  THE EAST AND WEST BRANCHES OF ROCKY BRANCH CREEK   FLOW SOUTH ACROSS THE VERTAC PROPERTY, AND JOIN BEFORE FLOW- ING INTO BAYOU METO.  5OCKY BRANCH CREEK & BAYOU METO HAVE   BEEN USED FOR FISHIG AND RECREATION.  THE VERTAC PLANT PRO-  PERTY WAS FIRST USED AS A FEDERAL MUNITIONS FACTORY DURING   THE 1930'S.  REASOR-HILL COMPANY, A NOW DEFUNCT COMPANY,     PURCHASED THE PROPERTY IN 1948.  REASOR-HILL BUILT MANUFACT- URING FACILITIES FOR THE PRODUCTION OF INSECTICIDES & HERB-  ICIDES, AND BEGAN PRODUCTION OF THESE TYPES OF MATERIALS.    HECRULES POWDER COMPANY, NOW HERCULES, INC., PURCHASED THE   PROPERTY IN 1961, AND CONTINUED PRODUCTION OF HERBICIDES,    INCLUDING 2,4-DICHLOROPENOXYACETIC ACID (2,4-D), 2,4,5-TRICH LOROPHEBOXYACETIC ACID (2,4,5-T) & 2,4,5-TRICHLOROPHENOXYPRO ACID (2,4,5-TP OR  SILVEX ). HERCULES ALSO MANUFACTURED      AGENT ORANGE  FOR THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT DURING THE LATE     1960S.  AGENT ORANGE WAS AN APPROXIMATELY ONE-TO-ONE MIXTURE OF 2,4,D, AND PRODUCED, FORMULATE AND /OR MARKETED THIS AND  OTHER PRODUCTS UNTIL 1987.

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