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the Singletons, will bear the cost of the cleanup.
Mr. Laimbeer said his understanding was that Singleton’s son acquired the barrels believing they contained anti-freeze which he could resell.
Mr. Laimbeer also said he had been told the barrels came from Commonwealth Park outside Culpeper. He said that when the investigation started, agents from the State Police interviewed him for three hours, but that then the matter seemed to have been “dropped completely.”
He said in the meantime, the barrels continued rusting.
Observation at the site indicates that at least one barrel has rusted away. Only a top or bottom and a network of lacy rust remains. The barrels are a variety of colors including rust. Several are blue and yellow and are labeled “ZEP Manufacturing Company; a division of National Service Industries, Atlanta, Georgia.”
None of the barrels appears to have labels indicating their contents, but most were spray painted by the EPA with large numbers.
Several have labels indicating they are empty, but something appears to be leaking from one of those. Mr. Laimbeer said that tests were made last fall and he was told most of the ban-els were found to contain “industrial soap.”
County Administrator John McCarthy said his understanding was that not all the barrels had been tested, but of those that were, all contained malathion.
He said that when he learned that the county had qualified for a pesticide cleanup program for farmers, he asked if the barrels at the
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