# WHEELING DISPOSAL SERVICE COMPANY, INC.
> **Judicial** · FY1990 · — · Litigated With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `43943`
- **Case Number:** 07-1990-0445
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Litigated With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** $0
- **Cost recovery:** $0
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- A T & T
- BEAZER WEST, INC.
- BERKSHIRE TANNING CORP. (BLUESIDES CO.) (complaint) (settlement)
- CHEVRON
- CONSERVATION CHEMICAL CO., INC.
- FARMLAND INDUSTRIES, INC (TECHNE CO, MO)
- FI AEROSPACE CORP (MIDLAND-ROSS)
- FMC CORP.
- HELENA COMPANY
- HENKEL CORP.
- MADGET & GRIFFIN, INC.
- MISSOURI HIGHWAYS & TRANSPORTATION COMM (complaint) (settlement)
- MODINE MFG. COMPANY
- NORRIS & SON, INC.
- OLIN CORP.
- PEACHTREE DOORS, INC.
- PLATTE CHEMICAL (DALE ALLEY)
- QUAKER OATS
- RALSTON PURINA (EVEREADY BATTERY) (complaint) (settlement)
- SOLID STATE CIRCUITS
- SPRINGFIELD PARK BOARD
- UNION CARBIDE
- UNIROYAL CHEMICAL COMPANY
- WHEELING DISPOSAL SERVICE COMPANY, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- WIRE ROPE CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

THE WHEELING DISPOSAL SERVICE COMPANY LANDFILL SITE (THE     SITE) IS LOCATED IN RURAL MISSOURI, APPROXIMATELY 65 MILES   NORTH OF KANSAS CITY. THE SITE IS A FORMER INDUSTRIAL        LANDFILL WHICH OPERATED FROM THE EARLY 1970S UNTIL 1986.  IT CONSISTS OF TWO CONTIGUOUS PARCELS OF LAND COVERING          APPROXIMATELY 200 ACRES.                                     PRIOR TO 1975, DISPOSAL ACTIVITIES OCCURRED WITH             APPROXIMATELY A 35 ACRE PORTION OF THE SITE.  IN 1975 THE    MISSOURI DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES (MDNR) ISSUED A     PERMIT TO THE OWNER OF THE SITE, WHEELING DISPOSAL SERVICE   (WDS), LIMITING INDUSTRIAL WASTE DISPOSAL TO A 10 ACRE       PORTION.  UNDER THE TERMS OF THIS PERMIT, WDS RECEIVED       AGRICULTURAL CHEMICALS, WASTE SLUDGES FROM TANNING           OPERATIONS, PAINT SLUDGES, BATTERY WASTES, ASBESTOS, SYANIDE WASTES, NEUTRALIZED PICKLE LIQUOR, AND OTHER INDUSTRIAL      WASTES.  WDS KEPT LOGS OF THE WASTES THAT WERE RECEIVED AT   THE SITE.  APPROXIMATELY 96,000 CUBIC YARDS OF WASTES WERE   DISPOSED AT THE SITE.                                                           THIS CASE HAD ORIGINALLY BEEN A STATE     LEAD SITE, BUT IN 1986, THE STATE ASKED EPA TO ASSUME LEAD.  THE STATE HAS CONTINUED TO SHOW INTEREST IN THE SITE AND HAS BEEN PRESENT AT MOST OF THE MEETINGS WITH PRPS.  THE STATE   HAS NOT BEEN CONTACTED YET ABOUT THE POSSIBLE NEED FOR A 10% MATCH.  IT IS, HOWEVER, UNLIKELY THAT THE 10% MATCH WOULD BE NECESSARY BECAUSE VIABLE LIABLE PRPS

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