# MARYLAND BANK & TRUST COMPANY
> **Judicial** · FY1984 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `9643`
- **Case Number:** 03-1984-0013
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $400K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- MARYLAND BANK AND TRUST COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

THIS IS A PROPOSED ACTION TO RECOVER $581,250.85 +      ENFORCEMENT COSTS EXPENDED AT CALIFORNIA MARYLAND DRUM SITE. US HAS AUTHORITY TO BRING ACTION UNDERS EC 107 OF CERCLA.         MARYLAND BANK AND TRUST CO IS OWNER OF PROPERTY KNOWN   AS THE CALIFORNIA, MARYLAND DRUM SITE (CMD SITE), A 117 ACRE FARM LOCATED ON ST RD #4 1 MI S OF JUNCTION W/ST RD #235,    NEAR TWN OF CALIFORNIA IN ST. MARY'S CNTY, MD.                    ON 06/20/84, MARK WAYNE MCLEOD, SON OF NOW-DECEASED     HERSCHEL MCLEOD, SR., OWNER/OPERATOR OF SITE DURING PERIOD   OF DUMPING, NOTIFIED CNTY HEALTH DEPT ABOUT DUMPING AT CMD   SITE.  CNTY, IN TURN, CONTACTED MD DEPT OFHEALTH & HYGIENE,  WHICH CONTACTED EPA.                                              INSPECT OF SITE REVEALED LARGE NUMBER OF DRUMS, ON      SURFACE AND BURIED.  MANY DRUMS RUSTED, PUNCTURED, OR DETER- IORATED AND LEAKING.  LEAKAGE EVIDENT ON GROUND.  ALSO EVID- ENCE OF LIQUID DUMPING.  PRELIM SAMPLING REVEALED VERY HIGH  LEVELS OF SEVERAL HAZ SUBSTSANCES, INCL CHROMIUM, LEAD, ZINC , XYLENES, TOLUENE, ETHYLBENZENE, AND CYANIDE.  POTENTIAL    FOR RELEASE OF HYDROGEN CYANIDE EXISTED DUE TO CLOSE PROX-IM ITY OF CYANIDE IN SOIL AND DETERIORATING DRUMS W/ACIDS.           EPA DETERMINED RISK TO HUMAN HEALTH INVOLVED AND A      RESPONSE/REMOVAL ACTION UNDERTAKEN TO SAMPLE, EXCAVATE, AND  REMOVE DRUMS AND CONTAMINATED SOIL.                               DEF, MARYLAND BANK AND TRUST, GIVEN OPPORTUNITY TO DO   CLEANUP AND DECLINED.  DEMAND FOR PAYMENT

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