# SILCO DISTRIBUTING COMPANY
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1993 · — · Dismissed By Tribunal
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `49614`
- **Case Number:** 08-1993-0172
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Dismissed By Tribunal
- **Penalty assessed:** $10K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- SILCO DISTRIBUTING COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

ON 08/03/91, A SEVERE STORM CAUSED RUNOFF TO TAKE A          SUBTERRANEAN ROUTE, UNDERMINING THE ASPHALT PAD WHERE 14     ABOVE GROUND 12,000 GALLON STORAGE TANKS WERE LOCATED.  ONE  OF THE TANKS CONTAINING WING DE-ICING FLUID, FELL AGAINST    THE CONCRETE WALL SURROUNDING THE TANKS, BREAKING A PIPE     AND CAUSING 2,857 GALLONS OF 24% ETHYLENE GLYCOL TO SPILL    INTO A DRAINAGE DITCH 200 FEET SOUTH OF SAND CREEK.  THE     DISCHARGE WAS NOT PERMITTED.  THE PROPOSED CIVIL PENALTY     IN THIS ACTION IS $10,000.

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