# CHRYSLER CORPORATION
> **Judicial** · FY1998 · — · Final Order With Unspecified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `46158`
- **Case Number:** 07-1998-0319
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Unspecified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- ALLIED SERVICES, LLC (complaint) (settlement)
- ALLIED WASTE SYSTEMS, INC. (LAIDLAW WAST (complaint) (settlement)
- CHRYSLER CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- EVELYN K & CLARENCE J. CHOTT (complaint) (settlement)
- ROY ENGLISH D/B/A ROY ENGLISH TRUCKING (settlement)
- THE KIESEL COMPANY (settlement)
## Summary

10/9/98:                                                     THE FENTON CREEK DUMP SITE IS LOCATED IN FENTON, MISSOURI, I N A RESIDENTIAL AREA OUTSIDE OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, AND ADJ ACENT TO GEORGE C. WINTER PARK, OWNED BY ST. LOUIS COUNTY.   THE SITE WAS DISCOVERED IN 1991 WHEN A HOME OWNER NEXT TO TH E SITE CONTACTED THE MISSOURI DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCE S (MDNR) REGARDING DISPOSAL OF PAINT SLUDGE ON THE PARCEL OF  LAND ADJOINING HIS PROPERTY.  MDNRS INVESTIGATION REVEALED  THAT CLARENCE CHOTT HAD OPERATED A LANDFILL ON HIS PROPERTY  FROM APPROXIMATELY 1957 TO 1967, DURING WHICH TIME SEVERAL  HAULING COMPANIES BROUGHT TRASH AND PAINT WASTE FROM THE FEN TON, MISSOURI, CHRYSLER PLANT FOR DISPOSAL.  THE TRASH WAS B URNED, AND THE PAINT WASTE WAS DUMPED IN A DRY STREAM BED.   TWO SITE INVESTIGATIONS PERFORMED BY MDNR IN 1993 AND A SUBS EQUENT REMOVAL ASSESSMENT PERFORMED BY EPA IN 1994 REVEALED  THAT THE PAINT WASTE IS A CERCLA HAZARDOUS WASTE IN THAT IT  EXHIBITED THE RCRA CHARACTERISTICS OF TOXICITY FOR LEAD AND  IGNITABILITY.  FINDINGS BY THE STATE AND EPA WERE ALSO SUBST

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