# PRICE CHARLES, ET AL (PRICE'S LANDFILL)
> **Judicial** · FY1980 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `1825`
- **Case Number:** 02-1980-0007
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $17.45M
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- ABRAMOFF, BERNARD (complaint) (settlement)
- ABRAMOFF, FRANK (complaint) (settlement)
- AGA PARTNERSHIP
- AMOCO CHEMICALS CORP. (complaint) (settlement)
- ASTROPAK CORP. (complaint) (settlement)
- BAKER, J.T. (complaint) (settlement)
- BROOKS, HARVEY
- CARRICINO, WILLIAM
- CHEMICAL CONTROL CORP.
- CHEMQUID DISPOSAL INC.
- COLLETON, MICHAEL
- DAY, ROBERT
- DEVINE, HARRY T. (complaint) (settlement)
- ENGELS, HENRY
- ESSEX CHEMICAL CORP. (complaint) (settlement)
- EVOR PHILLIPS LEASING CO. (complaint) (settlement)
- GARRELL, LEE (complaint) (settlement)
- HAMBY, CAROL
- HAMBY, WAYNE
- HAUSLOHNER, ROBERT A. (complaint) (settlement)
- HOFFMAN - LA ROCHE, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- HONEYWELL INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- JACKSON, DANIEL F. (complaint) (settlement)
- JONES, SAMUEL H. (complaint) (settlement)
- KALBACH, HARRISON L. (complaint) (settlement)
- KING OF PRUSSIA TECH CO. (complaint) (settlement)
- KRYLON CORP. (complaint) (settlement)
- MARVIN JONAS, INC.
- PETROLEUM TANK C & D, INC.
- PHILLIPS, EVOR R.
- PRESTO, DOMINICK
- PRICE TRUCKING CO. (complaint) (settlement)
- PRICE, CARL (complaint) (settlement)
- PRICE, CHARLES (complaint) (settlement)
- PRICE, VIRGINIA (complaint) (settlement)
- PRINCETON CHEMICAL RESEARCH (complaint) (settlement)
- PROCTOR AND GAMBLE CO. (complaint) (settlement)
- ROLLINS ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES (complaint) (settlement)
- ROTH, ERNEST R. (complaint) (settlement)
- S-J TRANSPORTATION CO. (complaint) (settlement)
- SCIENTIFIC CHEM. PROCESSING
- SIEGMOND, LIEF
- STRAWBRIDGE, GEORGE (complaint) (settlement)
- TRIANGLE PWC, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- UNION CARBIDE CORP. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

CHARLES PRICE ET AL., (PRICES LANDFILL) FILED CIVIL ACTION #80-4104, ON 12/22/80 IN THE U.S. DIST CT FOR N.J.  THE 22   ACRE PRICES LANDFILL IS LOCATED 6 MILES NW OF ATLANTIC CITY, NJ.  THE SITE IS ON THE PROPOSED NPL.  ACCORDING TO THE      COMPLAINT, WASTES DISPOSED OF AT THE LANDFILL HAVE LEACHED   THRU UNDERLYING SAND DEPOSITS INTO GROUNNDWATER, & ARE       CONTAMINATING NEARBY RESIDENTIAL DRINKING WATER WELLS.       ADDITIONALLY, WASTES ARE LIKELY TO ENTER THE PUBLIC WATER    SUPPLY WELLS OF ATLANTIC CITY LOCATED DOWN GRADIENT FROM     THE LANDFILL.  THE CURRENTLY INACTIVE SITE IS RECTANGULAR    IN SHAPE & WAS FORMED BY SAND & GRAVEL MINING.                 SURROUNDING GEOLOGY IS HIGHLY PERMEABLE UNCONSOLIDATED     SAND, & GROUNDWATER IS GENERALLY 10-20 FT BELOW THE SURFACE. THE AREA IS DEVOID OF VEGETATION, & A NUMBER OF LEACHATE     SEEPS EMIT EASILY DETECTED CHEMICAL & GARBAGE ODORS.  89     PEOPLE LIVE W/IN 1 MILE OF THE LANDFILL. THESE PERSONS       OBTAIN THEIR DRINKING WATER FROM 37 20-?0?0100 FT DEEP       PRIVATE WELLS.  TO THE NE & EAST OF THE LANDFILL IS THE      ATLANTIC CITY WELL FIELD. THE FIELD CONSISTS OF 12 WELLS     FROM 60-600 FT IN DEPTH, W/ THE CLOSEST WELL BEING 3400      FT FROM PRICE'S.  ACCORDING TO THE COMPLAINT, THESE PRIVATE  WELLS HAVE BEEN CONTAMINATED & THE ATLANTIC CITY WELL        FIELD IS THREATENED BY CONTAMINATION. WASTES DISPOSED OF     AT THE LANDFILL INCLUDE INDUSTRIAL CHEMICALS, SEPTIC TANK &  SEWER WASTES, SLUDGE, GREASE & OIL.  S

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