THIS SITE IS LOCATED IN SYCAMORE, GA. THE SITE CONSISTS OF (3) THREE ADJACENT BUILDINGS (NOW DEMOLISHED) AND A NONCON- TIGUOUS WAREHOUSE USED FOR STORAGE OF MATERIALS, INCLUDING PESTICIDES, HERBICIDES AND FUNGICIDES FOR A BUSINESS KNOWN AS ONE-STOP DENHAM HARDWARE STORE. SINCE APPROXIMATELY THE 1960'S. THE LATE ALVA REY DENHAM WAS THE ORIGINAL OWNER/OP- ERATOR OF THE SITE. HE ALSO OWNED AND OPERATED ONE-STOP DEN- HAM. UPON MR. DENHAM'S DEATH IN 1983, DE ALVA DENHAM FREMAN AND REBA C DENHAM INHERITED THE SITE AND BECAME OWNERS OF ONE- THIRD AND TWO-THIRDS OF THE SITE, RESPECTIVELY. IN 1988, A LOCAL FIREFIGHTER AND POLICE OFFICER DISCOVERED THE STORAGE OF PESTICDES IN THE THREE ADJACENT BUILDINGS AND NOTIFIED MS. FREEMAN AND MS. DENHAM OF THE CONDITIONS OF THE BUILDING, THE STORAGE OF CHEMICALS AND THEIR CONDITION. A WEEK LATER, A FIRE MARSHALL INSPECTED THE BUILDINGS AND CONFIRMED THE PRESENCE OF PESTICIDES. HE NOTIFIED MS. FREEMAN ABOUT THE CHEMICALS STORED AT THE SITE. IN MARCH 1990, MS. FREEMAN CONTRACTED A LOCAL DEMOLITION CREW TO DEMOLISH THE BUILDINGS. DURING THE DEMOLITION THE CREW MOVED DRUMS AND BAGS CONTAINING PESTICIDES TO THE WARE- HOUSE AND PLACED A PALLET CONTAINING BROKEN BAGS OF PESTI- CIDES, UNPROTECTED IN AN ALLEY BEHIND THE BUILDINGS. THE DEMOLITION ALSO EXPOSED BROKEN BAGS OF PESTICIDES TO WEATHER CONDITIONS.