# KERR MCGEE CHEMICAL CORPORATION, FOREST PRODUCTS DIVISION
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1986 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `42711`
- **Case Number:** 07-1986-0116
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $25K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- KERR MCGEE CHEMICAL CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

KERR MCGEE OWNS AND OPERATES A FACILITY ENGAGED IN CREOSOTE  WOOD PRESERVING PROCESSES.  THE WOOD TREATING PROCESS YIELDS WASTEWATER THAT IS PRETREATED AND DISCHARGED INTO THE CITY   OF SPRINGFIELD POTW.  THE COMPANY'S COLLECTION AND PRETREAT- MENT SYSTEM INCLUDES 3 SURFACE IMPOUNDMENTS, EACH OF WHICH   GENERATES A LISTED HAZARDOUS WASTE, K001, (40 C.F.R. SECTION 261.32).  IN NOVEMBER, 1979, THE COMPANY ESTABLISHED A ONE-  ACRE EXPERIMENTAL LANDFARM TO DEGRADE CREOSOTE SLUDGE FROM   ITS TREATMENT WASTEWATER.  CREOSOTE SLUDGE WAS APPLIED ANNU- ALLY AND ALLOWED TO DEGRADE NATURALLY.  CREOSOTE SLUDGE WAS  LAST APPLIED TO THE LAND FARM ON 11/13/81.                        A STATISTICALLY SIGNIFCANT INCREASE IN SPECIFIC CONDUCT ANCE FOR ONE OF THE FACILITY'S GW MONITORING WELLS WAS CON-  FIRMED BY DATA OBTAINED BY THE COMPANY DURING SEMI-ANNUAL GW MONITORING SAMPLING ON 05/13/83.  THE COMPANY REPORTED THE   INCREASE ON 07/26/83, AND, ON 11/16/83, SUBMITTED A GW       QUALITY ASSESSMENT PLAN.  THE COMPANY IMPLEMENTED THE PLAN   (AS APPROVED BY MDNR ON 03/15/85) IN FEBRUARY-MARCH, 1984.   A WRITTEN REPORT OF THE ASSESSMENT OF THE GW QUALITY DATA    WAS SUBMITTED ON 10/23/84.                                        REMEDIES/RELIEF SOUGHT:  SUBMISSION OF GW QUALITY       ASSESSMENT PLAN ?SECTION 265.93 (D)(3), (D)(4)?; IMPLEMENTA- TION OF EPA APPROVED GW QUALITY ASSESSMENT PLAN; SUBMISSION  OF GW QUALITY REPORT; CIVIL PENALTY $48,950.

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