# ARMSTRONG RUBBER COMPANY, ET AL
> **Judicial** · FY1988 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `158`
- **Case Number:** 01-1988-0020
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $1.23M
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- ARMSTRONG RUBBER COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- EASTERN COMPANY
- KERITE COMPANY
- \RIMERICA CORP.
## 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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