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ARMSTRONG RUBBER COMPANY, ET AL

Judicial · FY1988 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery · 158

Penalty
$1.23M
Cost recovery
Compliance action

Case

Case Number
01-1988-0020
Type
Judicial
Lead
EPA
Outcome
Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
DOJ Docket
90-11-3-132B
Multimedia
N
Self-disclosure
N

Defendants (4)

Summary

THIS IS AN ACTION AGAINST EIGHT PARTIES WHO REFUSED TO ENTER (OR OTHERWISE DID NOT ENTER) THE CONSENT DECREE IN US V. THE B.F. GOODRICH COMPANY ET AL., CIVIL ACTION NO. N-87-286 (PCD) (D. CONN), ENTERED 09/15/87. UNDER THE CONSENT DECREE, THIRTY-TWO ALLEGED GENERATORS AGREED TO PERFORM THE ENTIRE REMEDIAL ACTION FOR THE BEACON HEIGHTS LANDFILL SUPERFUND SITE IN BEACON FALLS, CONNECTICUT, AT AN ESTIMATED COST OF APPROXIMATELY $22 MILLION. THIS REFERRAL SEEKS RECOVERY OF AT LEAST $1,823,169 IN PAST COSTS AND FUTURE OVERSIGHT COSTS THAT THE US WILL NOT RECOVER UNDER THE CONSENT DECREE, PLUS INTEREST AND ENFORCEMENT COSTS. THE BEACON HEIGHTS LANDFILL WAS USED FOR THE DUMPING OF A VARIETY OF MUNICIPAL AND INDUSTRIAL WASTES FROM THE EARLY 1950'S, AND PERHAPS EARLIER, UNTIL IT CLOSED IN JULY 1979. THE MAJOR ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS ARE THE ACTUAL AND POTEN-I TIAL CONTAMINATION OF GROUNDWATER, INCLUDING GROUNDWATER WHICH SUPPLIES RESIDENTIAL WELLS NEAR THE SITE, AND THE PO- TENTIAL FOR DIRECT CONTACT WITH LEACHATE SEEPS AND, POSSIBLY CONTAMINATED SOILS. EPA ITSELF PERFORMED THE RI/FS AND ISSUED THE RECORD OF DECISION ON 09/23/85. THE ROD SPECI- FIED A REMEDY CONSISTING OF EXTENDING THE MUNICIPAL WATER SUPPLY LINE TO 57 HOMES THAT CURRENTLY DEPEND ON PRIVATE WELLS, INSTALLING AN IMPERMEABLE CAP, COLLECTING AND TREAT- ING CONTAMINATED LEACHATE, AND LONG-TERM MONITORING. 10/25/88: ON , THE CASE WAS TRA

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