# FIKE CHEMICALS ET AL
> **Judicial** · FY1980 · — · Final Order No Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `9041`
- **Case Number:** 03-1980-0021
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order No Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $0
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- C.S.T., INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- FIKE CHEMICALS, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

FIKE CHEM, INC., C.S.T., INC. & COASTAL TANK LINES, INC.     NITRO, WV, FILED 12/5/80, CIVIL ACTION #80-2429, US          DIST CT FOR THE SOUTHERN DIST OF WV, FIKE OPERATES A CHEM    MANUFACTURING PLNT IN NITRO, WV. CST OPERATES A WSTE         TRMNT PLNT & COASTAL OPERATES A TRUCK RINSING FACILITY,      BOTH OF WHICH ARE LOCATED ADJACENT TO FIKE. OPERATIONS OF    THE DEFENDANTS HAVE RELEASED HAZARDOUS WSTES INTO THE        SOIL, SURFACEWTR & GRNDWTR IN THE VICINITY OF THE 3          FACILITIES. COASTAL & FIKE FORMED CST AS A JOINT VENTURE     FOR TREATING COASTAL'S RINSEWATER, & WSTES GENERATED BY      FIKE. CST IS LOCATED ON FIKE- OWNED PROPERTY, USES           FIKE-OWNED EQUIPMNT & IS OPERATED BY EMPLOYEES. COASTAL      SOLD ITS INTEREST IN CST TO FILE IN 1978. THE 3              FACILITIES ARE LOCATED ON THE BANK OF THE KANAWHA RIVER &    ARE UNDERLAIN BY HIGHLY PERMEABLE ALLUVIAL DEPOSITS OF       SILT & SAND. THIS ALLUVIAL FORMAT'N CONSTITUTES MAJ          GRNDWTR AQUIFER IN THE AREA. THE KANAWHA RIVER IS USED       FOR FISHING & RECREATION & FLOWS INTO THE OH RIVER, THE      DRINKING WATER SOURCE FOR A LARGE POPULATION. AS OF JAN      1980, FIKE PRODUCED APPROX. 41 DIFFERENT SPECIALTY CHEM      BY MEANS OF BATCH REACTION PROCESSES. 24 OF THESE            PROCESSES GENERATED WSTES & AT LEAST 13 OF THE CHEM          PRODUCED OR UTILIZED BY FIKE ARE ON EPA'S PRIORITY           POLLUTANT LIST. RELIEF IS SOUGHT PURSUANT TO SEC 7003 OF     RCRA (THE WSTES ARE HAZARDOUS & PRES

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