# WHITEWOOD CUSTOM TREATERS SITE
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1986 · — · Final Order No Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `47857`
- **Case Number:** 08-1986-0063
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order No Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- WHITEWOOD CUSTOM TREATERS SITE (complaint)
## Summary

RESPONDENTS GRAVATT, PATINO AND LEONARD WERE OWNERS AND   OPERATORS OF THE WHITEWOOD CUSTOM TREATERS, INC., DURING A   LARGE SPELL OF TREATMENT SOLUTION INTO WHITEWOOD CREEK IN    JANUARY OF 1982.  ADJACENT TO THE 'WCT' SITE ARE A TRAILER   PARK, A RAILROAD, A LUMBER YARD AND A HIGHWAY.  THE SITE     SLOPES TOWARD THE EAST, THUS ANY SURFACE RUNOFF WOULD IMPACT THE AREA SURROUNDING THE HOUSE TRAILERS.  A SOIL BERM HAS    RECENTLY BEEN PLACED IN A POSITION TO INTERUPT SURFACE RUN-  OFF TO THE AKERS' AND ROBERTS' PROPERITES.  A DRY WASH,      WHICH ONCE CARRIED IRRIGATION WATER, RUNS FROM THE SOUTHEAST BOUNDARY OF THE SITE THROUGH THE AKERS' AND ROBERTS'         PROPERTIES.  WCT USED THE SITE TO TREAT WOOD WITH A SOLUTION CONSISTING OF COPPER OXIDE, ARSENIC PENTOXIDE, AND CHROMIC   ACID.  WOOD WAS TREATED WITH THE SOLUTION IN A PRESSURE TANK AND THEN ALLOWED TO DRY ON A DRIP PAD.  A SUMP PUMP COLLECT- ED EXCESS SOLUTION FROM THE PRESSURE TANK AND DRIP PAD AND   SENT IT TO TWO STORAGE TNAKS.  ANY OVERFLOW FROM THESE TANKS WENT TO A DIVERSION VALVE WHICH IS CONNECTED TO THE CITY     SEWER AND LEACH FIELD.  IN JANUARY OF 1982, 9,000 GALLONS OF THE SOLUTION PASSED THROUGHT THE VALVE INTO THE CITY SEWER   SYSTEM.

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