# LARRY'S POST & TREATING COMPANY/M5
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1991 · — · Final Order No Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `48988`
- **Case Number:** 08-1991-0189
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order No Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- JERALD R. WILSON (complaint)
- LARRY D. WILSON (complaint)
- LARRY'S POST & TREATING COMPANY/M5 (complaint)
- LARRY'S POST COMPANY, INC. (complaint)
## Summary

06/19/92:  THE ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER ON CONSENT FOR REMOVAL ACTION WAS ISSUED ON 11/05/91.  A SUBSEQUENT ADMINISTRATIVE  ORDER ON CONSENT WAS ISSUED 12/02/91 AGAINST LARRY'S POST &  TREATING COMPANY/SITE M5.  LPC IS LOCATED APPROXIMATELY TWO  AND ONE-HALF MILES FROM COLUMBIA FALLS, MONTANA, IN COLUMBIA HEIGHTS, MONTANA, ON HIGHWAY 206, ONE HALF MILE FROM THE     INTERSECTION OF HIGHWAY 40.  LPC IS AN OPERATING WOOD        TREATING FACILITY WHICH HAS BEEN TREATING WOOD WITH          PENTACHLOROPHENOL (PCP) FOR APPROXIMATELY NINE MONTHS OF     EACH YEAR SINCE 1973.  THE WOOD TREATMENT OPERATION CONSISTS OF DIPPING POSTS AND POLES IN VATS (DIP TANKS) OF 3-5% PCP   IN A SOLUTION WITH CARRIER OIL.  ONCE THE WOOD IS SATURATED, THE POLES ARE REMOVED AND ALLOWED TO DRIP.  THE LACK OF      WASTE CONTAINMENT MEASURES AT THE SITE HAS RESULTED IN       SIGNIFICANT PCP CONTAMINATION IN THE SOIL AROUND THE DIP     TANKS AND POLE DRYING AREAS, AND LOW-LEVEL DIOXIN CONTAMINA- TION IN THE AREA OF THE DIP TANKS.  THE TREATING AREAS ARE   STAINED, AND AFTER HEAVY RAINS, SHEENS CAN BE OBSERVED IN    STANDING WATER AT THE SITE.

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