# BAYOU BONFOUCA SUPERFUND SITE
> **Judicial** · FY1995 · — · —
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `36291`
- **Case Number:** 06-1995-0422
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** —
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $23.60M
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- ALABAMA GREAT SOUTHERN RAILROAD COMPANY (complaint)
- AMERICAN CREOSOTE WORKS, INC. (complaint)
- AMERICAN FLEMING INVESTMENT TRUST (complaint) (settlement)
- BRASELMAN CORPORATION (complaint)
- KERR-MCGEE CHEMICAL CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- MR. SHIRLEY BRASELMAN (complaint)
- UNION CAMP CORPORATION (complaint)
## Summary

1. SECTION 107 OF THE COMPREHENSIVE ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSE,     COMPENSATION, AND LIABILITY ACT ( CERCLA ), 42 U.S.C.        SEC. 9607, AND SECTION 113(G)(2) OF CERCLA, 42 U.S.C.        SEC. 9613(G)(2).                                          2. BAYOU BONFOUCA SUPERFUND SITE                                SECTION 10, T9S, R14E,                                       SW OF THE INTERSECTION OF WEST HALL AVENUE AND BAYOU LANE    SLIDELL, ST. TAMMANY PARISH, LOUISIANA                    3. THE BAYOU BONFOUCA SUPERFUND SITE ( SITE ) IS AN ABANDON-    ED WOOD TREATING FACILITY ON THE BANKS OF BAYOU BONFOUCA     THAT BEGAN OPERATIONS IN 1879 IN SLIDELL, LA., LOCATED ON    THE NORTH EDGE OF LAKE PONTCHARTRAIN, OPPOSITE THE CITY      OF NEW ORLEANS. OPERATIONS AT THE FACILITY CONTINUED,        WITH A BRIEF PERIOD OF CLOSURE IN THE LATE 19TH CENTURY,     UNTIL 1972. WHILE THE FACILITY WAS BEING DISMANTLED IN       1972 A FIRE OCCURRED THAT HAS BEEN ERRONEOUSLY CREDITED      WITH CAUSING AN EXTENSIVE CREOSOTE SPILL INTO BAYOU BON-     FOUCA WHEN A HOLDING TANK ALLEGEDLY RUPTURED. ALTHOUGH       EVIDENCE EXISTS THAT A CREOSOTE RELEASE DID IN FACT OCCUR    WHEN THE TANK RUPTURED, THE ANECDOTAL EVIDENCE ATTRIBUT-     ING A LARGE PORTION OF EXISTING CONTAMINATION TO THAT        FIRE HAS NOT BEEN VERIFIED.                                  THE 55-ACRE SITE IS COMPRISED OF SEVERAL PARCELS THAT        WERE OF A LARGE TRACT OF LAND CONVEYED BY THE U.S. TO        PIERRE ROBERT IN 1853. 1893, THE 

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