# DRAKE CHEMICALS, INC, IN RE
> **Judicial** · FY1982 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `9560`
- **Case Number:** 03-1982-0028
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $18K
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- DION, ERNEST (complaint) (settlement)
- DRAKE CHEMICALS (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

ON EXPANDED 115 SUPERFUND LIST. DRAKE CHEMICALS. DRAKE CHEM- ICALS, INC. (DRAKE), OWNED &                                 OPERATED A FACILITY IN LOCK HAVEN, PA, WHICH MANUFACTURED    CHEM INTERMEDIATES. LOCATED WITHIN A FEW THOUS. YDS OF A     HEAVILY POPULATED RESIDENTIAL & COMMERCIAL AREA, DRAKE       CONDUCTED BUSINESS FROM 1966 TO JAN 8, 1982, WHEN IT         FILED IN BANKRUPTCY PURSUANT TO CHAPTER 7 (LIQUIDATION).     DRAKE'S WASTE DISPOSAL PRACTICES & ON-SITE STORAGE           PROBLEMS WERE KNOWN TO THE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL       RESOURCES OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA (DER) FOR      YRS. THE STATE ENTERED A CONSENT ORDER WITH DRAKE ON         APRIL 4, 1979. IN 1981, DRAKE FILED A PETITION FOR           BANKRUPTCY UNDER CHAP. 11 (REORGANIZATION). ON JAN 5,        1982, DER ISSUED A CLEANUP ORDER BASED ON VIOLATION OF       THE EARLIER ISSUED CONSENT ORDER.  DRAKE TOOK NO             CORRECTIVE ACTION, BUT IMMEDIATELY CONVERTED THE EXISTING    CHAP. 11 BANKRUPTCY PETITION (REORGANIZATION) TO A CHAP.     7 BANKRUPTCY PETITION. ON FEB. 23, 1982, WHEN REGION III     INSPECTORS ENTERED THE DRAKE FACILITY, AT THE REQUEST OF     DER, THEY OBSERVED APPROX. 1,700 LEAKING, DECAYING           DRUMS OF PROCESS WASTE WATER & SLUDGES. EPA & DER OFFI-      CIALS ACTIVATED SUPERFUND FOR AN EMERGENCY REMOVAL           ACTION, AFTER ORAL NOTIFICATION TO DRAKE'S PRES., ERNEST     DION. APPROX $850,000 HAS BEEN EXPENDED BY SUPERFUND         FOR CLEANUP AT DRAKE FACILITY. REGIO

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