A search of the plant’s records revealed that it had used at least four 55-gallon drums of TCE, considerably more than the single drum that Grace had reported to the Environmental Protection Agency. Cheeseman also learned that the plant manager had ordered workers to bury six drums that had contained toxic waste solvents, including TCE, in a trench behind the plant more than a decade ago.

Jonathan Harr, A Civil Action, loc. 697