# MOOR-FITE CORPORATION
> **Judicial** · FY1984 · — · Final Order With Penalty & Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `9636`
- **Case Number:** 03-1984-0004
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty & Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** $10K
- **Cost recovery:** $200K
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- CERTIFIED TESTING, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- MOOR-FITE CORP. OF VA. (complaint) (settlement)
- MOORE, B. (complaint) (settlement)
- MOORE, G. (complaint) (settlement)
- MOORE, G.L. (complaint) (settlement)
- O'BRIEN, PATRICK (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

ON 5/1/83, ~3,750 METAL CYLINDERS AND 17 DRUMS WERE PLACED ON PROPERTY OF G.L. & B. MOORE IN HAMPTON, VA.  CYLINDERS    WERE OWNED BY MR. MOORE, HAVING BEEN BOUGHT FROM THE DEPART- MENT OF DEFENSE.  CYLINDERS & DRUMS CONTAINED VARIOUS        CHEMICALS, INCLUDING 24 GASES & OTHER LIQUIDS.  NUMBER OF    GASES WERE FLAMMABLE, & SEVERAL SUBSTANCES IN CYLINDERS WERE INCOMPATIBLE WITH EACH OTHER.  SOME OF CYLINDERS WERE UNDER  HIGH PRESSURE, AND SOME WERE DETERIORATING.  ADDITIONALLY,   SEVERAL OF CYLINDERS CONTAINED HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES, SUCH AS AMMONIA, PROPANE AND CHLORINE, WHICH WERE LEAKING.             MR. MOORE HAD PLACED CYLINDERS IN COMMERCIAL & RESIDENTIAL AREA, AND A NEIGHBOR NOTICED ONE OF CYLINDERS WAS HISSING.   ON 6/7/83, CITY OF HAMPTON ISSUED NOTICE TO MR. MOORE TO     REMOVE CYLINDERS AND CLEANUP LOTS, BASED ON CITY'S DETERMIN- ATION THAT CYLINDERS WERE STORED IMPROPERLY & POSED THREAT   TO PUBLIC HEALTH.  A FEW DAYS LATER, HAMPTON FIRE DEPT       ORDERED MR. MOORE TO REMOVE CYLINDERS FROM SITE W/IN 48 HRS. MR MOORE TOOK NO ACTION TO CLEAN UP SITE; COMMONWEALTH OF VA REQUESTED EPA ASSISTANCE.                                      EPA RESPONSE TEAM ARRIVED ON SITE ON 5/16 & DETERMINED     THAT IMMENENT HAZARD EXISTED.  DETERMINATION WAS BASED ON    ANALYSIS OF CONTENTS OF SOME OF CYLINDERS, WH/ SHOWED FLAM-  MABLE AND INCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS, & OBSERVATION THAT SOME OF CYLINDERS WERE LEAKING.  THIS POSED IMMEDIATE THREAT TO      NEARBY RESIDENTS, BUSINESSES AND BUSIN

---
*Source: [EPA ECHO](https://echo.epa.gov/) · AI Analytics · CC0 1.0*