# HERCULES, INC. - JACKSONVILLE CRANE
> **Judicial** · FY1991 · — · Unknown
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `35276`
- **Case Number:** 06-1991-0093
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Unknown
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- HERCULES (complaint)
## Summary

09/25/91:  THIS IS A REFERRAL UNDER CERCLA SEC. 107 FOR    THE RECOUPMENT OF $24,870.22 PLUS INTEREST SPENT ON          RESPONSE MEASURES UNDERTAKEN AT ADAMS FOREIGN CAR REPAIR     LOCATED IN JACKSONVILLE, ARKANSAS.  MR. JOHN JAMES PURCHASED A CRANE FROM TRANSVAAL/VERTAC CORPORATION IN THE EARLY 1980S AND MOVED ITTO HIS PROPERTY.  THE CRANE WAS PLACED IN AN     UNSECURED OPEN YARD BEHIND ADAMS FOREIGN CAR REPAIR.  THE    DOWNTOWN BUSINESS DISTRICT, RESTAURANTS, CITY HALL, PUBLIC   LIBRARY, SEVERAL RESIDENCES, CHURCHES, AND AN ELEMENTARY     SCHOOL ARE LOCATED WITHIN ONE-HALF MILE OF THE SITE.         ANALYSIS SHOWED THAT ONLY THE CRANE AND NOT SURROUNDING      SOIL WAS CONTAMINATED WITH DIOXIN.  EPA INITIATED AN         IMMEDIATE REMOVAL ACTION.  BETWEEN APRIL 21, 1989 AND        MAY 6, 1989, EPA DIRECTED A REMOVAL ACTION WHICH INCLUDED    COLLECTING WIPE, SOIL, AND AIR SAMPLES; WRAPPING THE CRANE   IN 20-MIL PLASTIC; AND TRANSPORTING IT TO THE VERTAC         FACILITY IN JACKSONVILL FOR LATER DISPOSAL.  ALL COSTS OF    REMOVAL OR REMEDIAL ACTION INCURRED BY US GOVERNMENT ARE     RECOVERABLE FROM THE LIABLE PARTY.  EPA WILL EXPEND          ADDITIONAL GOVERNMENT MONIES TO DECONTAMINATE THE CRANE AT   THE VERTAC SUPERFUND SITE.  TO PROTECT PUBLIC HEALTH AND     THE ENVIRONMENT, ON APRIL 20, 1989, EPA AUTHORIZED THE       REMOVAL OF CONTAMINATED EQUIPMENT FROM THE JACKSONVILLE      CRANE SITE.  THE TOTAL CEILING ESTIMATE FOR THIS PROJECT     WAS $109,625.  WHEN THE PROJECT WAS CO

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