# CANNONS(I) ENGINEERING CORP
> **Judicial** · FY1986 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `120`
- **Case Number:** 01-1986-0022
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** $0
- **Cost recovery:** $16.00M
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- CANNONS ENG. CORP - 2 (complaint) (settlement)
- CANNONS ENGINEERING CORP (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

THIS CASE INVOLVES 4 NPL SITES:  THE CANNONS BRIDGEWATER     SITE IN BRIDGWATER, MA, CANNONS PLYMOUTH SITE IN PLYMOUTH,MA THE GILSON RD SITE IN NASHUA, NH, & THE TINKHAM'S GARAGE     SITE IN LONDONDERRY, NH.                                     THIS IS AN ACTION UNDER SECT 107 OF CERCLA TO RECOVER PAST   COSTS AND TO ESTABLISH LIABILITY AS TO FUTURE COSTS TO BE    INCURRED UNDER SECT 104.                                     EPA SEEKS TO RECOVER THE APPR. $16,000,000 IT HAS INCURRED   IN RESPONSE COSTS TO DATE; IT ALSO SEEKS TO ESTABLISH LI-    ABILITY FOR ANY FUTURE RESPONSE COSTS THAT EPA INCURS AT THE 4 SITES. THE CURRENT ESTIMATE FOR TOTAL PAST AND FUTURE RE-  SPONSE COSTS AT THE 4 SITES IS $47,800,000.                  2 SIGNIFICANT LEGAL ISSUES ARE PRESENT IN THIS CASE: 1. LI-  ABILITY FOR THE REMOTE SITES IS ASSERTED AGAINST THE BRIDGE- WATER GENERATORS LIABLE EVEN THOUGH THEY DID NOT SELECT      THESE SITES AS THEIR DISPOSAL LOCATION; AND 2. THIS CASE     SEEKS TO ESTABLISH THAT GENERATORS WHO SENT THEIR WASTE TO A CENTRAL SITE, WHERE IT WAS COMMINGLED W/OTHER GENERATORS'    WASTE AND THEN SENT TO VARIOUS REMOTE SITES, ARE LIABLE FOR  THE REMOTE SITES EVEN IF EPA CANNOT PROVE, DUE TO THE COM-   MINGLING, THAT A PARTICULAR GENERATOR'S WASTE WAS SENT TO A  GIVEN REMOTE SITE.                                           ALTHOUGH THE LIT REPORT ONLY PROPOSES NAMING APPROX. 40      CORE DEFENDANTS,  THE AGENCY HAS IDENTIFIED CLOSE TO 600 PO- TENTIALLY RESPONSIBLE PARTIES (PRPS)

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