# PUBLIC SERVICE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE-I
> **Judicial** · FY1989 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `179`
- **Case Number:** 01-1989-0016
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** $0
- **Cost recovery:** $610K
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

08/23/89:  THE PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE     ( PSCNH ) FILED FOR CHAPTER 11 REORGANIZATION PROCEEDINGS ON JANUARY 28, 1988.  EPA HAS CLAIMS AGAINST PSCNH, PURSUANT TO THE COMPREHENSIVE ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSE, COMPENSATION, AND  LIABILITY ACT, 42 U.S.C. S 9601 ET SEQ., AS A PARTY          RESPONSIBLE FOR GENERATING HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES WHICH WERE   DISPOSED OF AT THE FOLLOWING NATIONAL PRIORITIES LIST (NPL)  SITES IN REGION I: THE DOVER LANDFILL SITE, LOCATED IN DOVER NEW HAMPSHIRE; THECOAKLEY LANDFILL SITE, LOCATED IN GREEN-   LAND AND NORTH HAMPTON, NEW HAMPSHIRE; AND THE SOMERSWORTH   LANDFILL SITE, LOCATED IN SOMERSWORTH, NEW HAMPSHIRE.        EPA FILED A PROOF OF CLAIM TO PRESERVER THE UNITED STATES'   CLAIMS FOR MONIES SPENT OR TO BE SPENT AS A RESULT OF        RESPONSE ACTIONS PERFORMED OR TO BE PERFORMED BY EPA AT THE  AFOREMENTIONED SITES. EPA HAS SPENT APPROXIMATELY $1.5       MILLION ON RESPONSE ACTIONS AT THE COAKLEY SITE, AND EXPECTS THAT THE COST OF THE OVERALL CLEANUP WILL BE BETWEEN $10-$15 MILLION. AT THE DOVER LANDFILL, PSCNH IS RESPONSIBLE (ALONG  WITH WITH EIGHT OTHER PRPS) FOR PAYMENTOF $405,000 IN PAST   COSTS, AND FOR PERFORMING THE SITE RI AND ULTIMATELY FOR THE CLEANUP OF THE SITE. AT THE SOMERSWORTH LANDFILL SITE, EPA   HAS EXPENDED APPROXIAMTELY $750,000 IN RESPONSE COSTS AND    ESTIMATES THAT THE COST OF THE CLEANUP WILL BE OVER $10      MILLION.

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