# ACUSHNET COMPANY
> **Judicial** · FY1990 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `198`
- **Case Number:** 01-1990-0007
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $620K
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- ACUSHNET COMPANY, INC
- AMCA INTERNATIONAL CORP., (complaint) (settlement)
- AMTEL, INC (complaint) (settlement)
- AVX CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY, INC (complaint) (settlement)
- BRIDGESTONE/FIRESTONE, INC., (complaint) (settlement)
- BRITTANY DYEING & PRINTING CORP (complaint) (settlement)
- CHAMBERLAIN MANUFACTURING (complaint) (settlement)
- COMMONWEALTH ELECTRIC COMAPNY (complaint) (settlement)
- COMMONWEALTH GAS COMPANY
- EMHART CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- GULF & WESTERN, INC., (complaint) (settlement)
- TELEDYNE INDUSTRIES, INC., (complaint) (settlement)
- THE GOODYEAR TIRE AND RUBBER CO., (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

THIS IS A PRE-REFERRAL NEGOTIATION WITH APPROXIMATELY 22     PRPS FOR PERFORMANCE OF THE REMEDIAL DESIGN/REMEDIAL ACTION  OF THE FIRST OPERABLE UNIT AT THIS SITE (COST APPROXIMATELY  $10.1 MILLION) AND RECOVERY OF APPROXIMATELY $3.2 MILLION    IN PAST COSTS. SULLIVANS LEDGE IS A FORMER QUARRY AREA IN    NEW BEDFORD. FROM THE 1930'S UNTIL THE 1970'S IT OPERATED    AS A DISPOSAL SITE FOR INDUSTRIAL WASTES. THE SITE WAS       PLACED ON THE NPL IN 1985. SITE SOILS ARE CONTAMINATED       WITH PCBS AND PAHS, WHILE GROUNDWATER IS CONTAMINATED WITH   VOCS. THE ROD WAS ISSUED ON 6/29/89.

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