# TRIANGLE PETROLEUM SITE #P5
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1995 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `50233`
- **Case Number:** 08-1995-0083
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $139K
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- BIG AND LITTLE TRACTOR REPAIR (complaint) (settlement)
- BROWNING-FERRIS INDUSTRIES_OF CO.
- CITY OF DELTA
- CLYMER'S RANCH AND LIVESTOCK
- CYPRUS ORCHARD VALLEY COAL MINE
- EIMCO COAL MACHINERY, INC.
- ESTATE OF RUSSELL T. LUND
- FRUITA CONSUMERS COOPERATIVE
- GROENDYKE TRANSPORT INC.
- HOLSUM BAKERY INTERSTATE BRANDS CORP.
- J.C. THOMPSON
- J.W. BREWER TIRE CO.
- LUCAS INDUSTRIAL REPAIR
- MASTER PETROLEUM CO.
- MOUNTAIN WEST
- PAUL'S TRUCK AND WASH SERVICE
- PEPSI COLA WEST
- RED HAT PRODUCE, INC.
- RIGGLE OIL CO.
- RUSSELL T. LUND
- RYDER TURCK RENTAL
- SAN JUAN COUNTY
- TOWN OF HOTCHKISS
- TRIANGLE PETROLEUM SITE #P5 (complaint) (settlement)
- UNITED COMPANIES OF MESA COUNTY
- VALLEY FARMS, INC.
- VAN WATERS & ROGERS INC
- WAGNER EQUIPMENT CO.
- WESTERN IMPLEMENT CO.
## Summary

FROM 1987 TO 1991, TRIANGLE PETROLEUM OPERATED A STORAGE     FACILITY AT THE SITE.  WASTE OIL AND CHEMICALS WERE TRUCKED  TO THE SITE BY TRIANGLE PETROLEUM, BOTH IN 55 GALLON DRUMS   AND IN BULK FORM.  SOME OF THE WASTE OIL AND CHEMICALS WERE  PUMPED INTO TANKS AT THE SITE FOR STORAGE, THE REST WAS      STORED IN 55-GALLON DRUMS. SOME OF THE WASTE OIL WAS TRANS-  PORTED OFF SITE FOR USE IN DUST SUPPRESSION IN COAL MINES.   AT LEAST 4 OF THE ABOVE GROUND STORAGE TANKS AND 250 DRUMS   CONTAINING WASTE OIL AND CHEMICALS WERE LEFT ON SITE WHEN    TRIANGLE PETROLEUM CEASED OPERATIONS AT THE STORAGE FACILITY SMALL SPILLS OF WASTE OIL OCCURRED DURING RESPONDENTS OPERA- TIONS.  CURRENTLY, SOME OF THE DRUMS ARE OPEN AND PRODUCT    OVERFLOWS FROM THOSE DRUMS DURING RAIN EVENTS.  SOIL STAIN   ING IS APPARENT AROUND MANY OF THE DRUMS AND THE STORAGE     TANKS, AND THERE IS LITTLE VEGETATION GROWING AT THE SITE.

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