# BAILEY WASTE DISPOSAL SITE
> **Judicial** · FY1992 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `35384`
- **Case Number:** 06-1992-0037
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $2.60M
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- ALLIED-SIGNAL, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- ATLANTIC RICHFIELD COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- DOW CHEMICAL COMPANY, THE (complaint) (settlement)
- FIRESTONE TIRE AND RUBBER COMPANY, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- GOODYEAR TIRE AND RUBBER COMPANY, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- MOBIL OIL CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- OLIN CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- PPG INDUSTRIES (complaint) (settlement)
- UNION OIL OF CALIFORNIA (UNOCAL) (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

THE BAILEY WASTE DISPOSAL SITE IS A CLOSED INDUSTRIAL      WASTE FACILITY AND IS PART OF SALTWATER MARSHLANDS NEAR      THE CONFLUENCE OF THE NECHES RIVER AND SABINE LAKE.          THE SITE LIES WITHIN A 100-YEAR FLOOD PLAIN.  THE BAILEY     WASTE DISPOSAL SITE ENCOMPASSES APPROX 280 ACRES LOCATED     3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BRIDGE CITY IN ORANGE COUNTY, TEXAS.    THE SITE IS WEST OF TEXAS HIGHWAY 87 AND IS ONLY AC-         CESSIBLE VIA A SHORT BRIDGE SPANNING A DRAINAGE CHANNEL,     ADJACENT AND PARALLEL TO THE HIGHWAY.  THE SITE ITSELF       IS UNDEVELOPED EXCEPT FOR THE PRESENCE OF A DILAPIDATED      SHACK.  IT IS BOUNDED BY UNDEVELOPED LANDS AND AGRICUL-      TURE TRACTS AND IS APPROX 2 MILES FROM THE NEAREST           RESIDENTIAL AREA.  THE NEAREST DEVELOPED PROPERTY IS         ACROSS THE NECHES RIVER AND IS INDUSTRIAL IN NATURE.  THE    SITE ENCOMPASSES TWO PONDS REFERRED TO AS POND A AND         POND B AND THEIR PERIMETER LEVEES.                             THE SITE WAS CONSTRUCTED BY MR. JOE BAILEY IN THE 1950'S   AS A FISHING CAMP.  A HURRICANE DESTROYED THE CAMP IN        THE 1960'S BY INUNDATING THE FRESHWATER PONDS WITH           SALINE WATER.  THE SITE ALSO OPERATED AS A DISPOSAL          FACILITY FOR INDUSTRIAL MUNICIPAL AND OTHER WASTES           DURING THIS PERIOD.  THE SITE WAS CLOSED IN 1971.              THE RI IDENTIFIED FOUR MAJOR WASTE AREAS:  THE WASTE       CHANNEL, AREA EAST OF POND A, DRUM DISPOSAL AREA AND         THE WASTE PITS.  THE WASTE AREAS CONTA

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