# AIDEX CORPORATION
> **Judicial** · FY1980 · — · Voluntarily Dismissed After Filing
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `42258`
- **Case Number:** 07-1980-0025
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Voluntarily Dismissed After Filing
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- AIDEX CORPORATION (complaint)
## Summary

AIDEX CORP - COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA, FILED 6/22/81 CIVIL         ACTION #81-33-W, US DIST CT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF     IA, AIDEX OPERATED A FORMULATION, PACKAGING & DISTRIBUT'N    BUSINESS FOR INDUSTRIAL & AGRICULTURAL CHEM AT ITS           FACILITY NEAR COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA. THE CO HAS DISPOSED OF     WASTES IN DRUMS, & AN UNDERGROUND 12,000 GAL STORAGE TANK    LOCATED IN AN ALLUVIAL AQUIFER. THE TANK IS                  DETERIORATING & CHEM ARE IN DANGER OF MIGRATING INTO SOIL    & GRNDWTR. IN ADDITION WASTES HAVE SPILLED IN VARIOUS AREAS  OF THE SITE & ARE MIGRATING OFF PROPERTY, ALLEGEDLY          AFFECTING SURFACE WATER. AIDEX HAS FILED FOR BANKRUPTCY.     A NOV, 1976 FIRE DESTROYED 1 BUILDING ON-SITE AND CONSUMED   VARIOUS DRUMS CONTAINING CHEM. WATER USED TO EXTINGUISH      FIRE CAUSED CHEM TO SPILL OUT ONTO THE GRND & SPREAD OVER    SURFACE OF SITE, CONTAMINATING SOIL. CHEM ARE LEACHING       FROM SURFACE THRU SOIL TOWARD SHALLOW WATER TABLE.           CONTAMINANTS IN SOIL HAVE BEEN CARRIED OFF-SITE BY WIND &    WATER. RELIEF IS SOUGHT PURSUANT TO SEC 7003 OF RCRA.             THIS CASE ORIGINATED AS A BANKRUPTCY ACTION, WHICH WAS  DROPPED.  A CIVIL REFERRAL ADDING THE CERCLA COUNTS WAS SENT IN LATER.

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