# SOUTH 8TH STREET LANDFILL (AKA WEST MEMPHIS LANDFILL)
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1992 · — · —
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `35429`
- **Case Number:** 06-1992-0083
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** —
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- GURLEY, W.M. (complaint)
## Summary

THE SOUTH 8TH STREET LANDFILL SITE ( SITE ) IS LOCATED AD-   JACENT TO THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER IN WEST MEMPHIS, CRITTENDEN  COUNTY, ARKANSAS. THE SITE IS APPROXIMATELY 30 ACRES, SITUA- TED IN THE MISSISSIPPI FLOOD PLAIN BETWEEN THE RIVER AND THE ST. FRANCIS LEVEE AND IS SUB-DIVIDED INTO 3 SEPARATE DISPOS- AL AREAS, INCLUDING ONE AREA CONTAINING AN OILY SLUDGE PIT.  AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS INDICATE THAT THE SITE WAS USED FIRST AS  A SERIES OF BORROW PITS AND SUBSEQUENTLY FOR THE DISPOSAL OF WASTE AND/OR OTHER MATERIALS. MOST OF THE EARLY DISPOSAL AC- TIVITIES AT THE SITE APPEAR TO HAVE BEEN CONDUCTED ON AN AP- PROXIMATELY 2.61 ACRE PARCEL. THE WASTE IN THE OILY SLUDGE   PIT HAS PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL PROPERTIES WHICH ARE CONSIST-  ENT WITH WASTE ASSOCIATED WITH WASTE OIL RECLAMATION PRO-    CESSES.                                                      AFFIDAVITS AND DEPOSITIONS TESTIMONY OF FORMER GURLEY REFIN- ING COMPANY (GRC) EMPLOYEES INDICATE THAT GRC USED THE SITE  FOR THE DISPOSAL OF WASTE SLUDGES GENERATED DURING THE USED  OIL RE-FINING PROCESS CONDUCTED AT THE GRC FACILITY LOCATED  ON THE LAND SITE OF THE ST. FRANCIS LEVEE JUST WEST OF THE   SITE. GRC'S RE-FINING OPERATION USED WASTE OIL (SOMETIMES    MIXED WITH OTHER SUBSTANCES) IT OBTAINED FROM VARIOUS ENTIT- IES LOCATED IN THE TRI-STATE AREA (ARK., MS., & TN).         GRC'S RE-FINING PROCESS UTILIZED AN ACID/CLAY RECLAMATION    PROCESS THAT INVOLVED ADDING ACID TO THE WASTE OIL BEING RE- FINED. THE ACID CAUSED THE  HEAVY EN

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