# WASTE INDUSTRIES (FLEMINGTON LANDFILL)
> **Judicial** · FY1979 · — · Final Order No Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `20099`
- **Case Number:** 04-1979-0019
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order No Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $0
- **Cost recovery:** $0
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- A-1 SANITATION SERVICES, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- AA& M SANITATION (complaint) (settlement)
- ARMSTEAD, HARVEY (complaint) (settlement)
- BUTLER, CARMEN (complaint) (settlement)
- BUTLER, CARMEN M/EXECUTOR BUTLER ESTATE (complaint) (settlement)
- CHRIS MCKEITHAN (complaint) (settlement)
- COMMUNITY DEVELPOMENT & ITS SECRETARY (complaint) (settlement)
- EICHORN, E JR. & JAUNITA (complaint) (settlement)
- FALES, WILLIAM (complaint) (settlement)
- FLEMING, MILDRED (complaint) (settlement)
- FLEMINGTON RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION (complaint) (settlement)
- GOTTOVI, KAREN (complaint) (settlement)
- HALES, HARVEY D. & WIFE (complaint) (settlement)
- HALES, KAREN L. (complaint) (settlement)
- HENDERSON, HELEN L. (complaint) (settlement)
- JOINER, JAMES V. JR. (complaint) (settlement)
- JOINER, RITA FAYE (complaint) (settlement)
- JONES, WILLIE & KATHLEEN (complaint) (settlement)
- LEE, HOWARD N. (complaint) (settlement)
- LITEM, ANNIE M. PARKER (complaint) (settlement)
- MALPASS, DANIEL A & J C (complaint) (settlement)
- MALPASS, DANIEL J & ADA C (complaint) (settlement)
- MALPASS, JACK & NANCY (complaint) (settlement)
- MEMBERS OF NEW HANOVER BOARD OF COMM (complaint) (settlement)
- MORROW, SARAH T. (complaint) (settlement)
- N.C. DEPT OF HUMAN RESOURCES & SECRETARY (complaint) (settlement)
- N.C. DEPT OF NATURAL RESOURCES (complaint) (settlement)
- NEW HANOVER CNTY BD OF COMMISSIONERS (complaint) (settlement)
- NEW HANOVER COUNTY (complaint) (settlement)
- O'SHIELDS, CLAUD (complaint) (settlement)
- PARKER, ANNIE (complaint) (settlement)
- PEIXOTTO, ELLIOT R. (complaint) (settlement)
- PEIXOTTO, ELOISE R (complaint) (settlement)
- ROYAL, A. D. (complaint) (settlement)
- ROYAL, CATHERINE G. (complaint) (settlement)
- ROYAL, CHARLES A. JR. (complaint) (settlement)
- ROYAL, FAYE (complaint) (settlement)
- ROYAL, PATRICIA V. (complaint) (settlement)
- ROYAL, STEPHEN D. (complaint) (settlement)
- RURAL ENTERPRISES (complaint) (settlement)
- SAUNDERS, JERRY (complaint) (settlement)
- SHOAF, JOYNER KATHY (complaint) (settlement)
- SIMPSON, MILDRED R. (complaint) (settlement)
- WASTE INDUSTRIES OF NEW HANOVER, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- WASTE INDUSTRIES, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- WATTS, BABARA W. (complaint) (settlement)
- WATTS, JOSEPH & WIFE (complaint) (settlement)
- WILLIAMS, ELLEN (complaint) (settlement)
- WILMINGTON, CITY OF (complaint) (settlement)
- WRIGHT, VIVIAN (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

CONSENT DECREE NUMBERS:   04-87-C015; 04-96-C013.            THE PRESENTLY INACTIVE FLEMINGTON LANDFILL PREVIOUSLY        OPERATED BY WASTE INDUSTRIES INC., IS LOCATED ON 70          ACRES IN CLOSE PROXIMITY TO 33 RESIDENTIAL WELLS & 10        COMMERCIAL WELLS. WASTE MATERAL DEPOSITED AT THE SITE HAS    LEACHED INTO UNDERLYING GROUNDWATER & CONTAMINATED THE       WELLS OF SEVERAL AREA RESIDENCES. OTHER AREA WELLS ARE IN    IMMINENT DANGER OF CONTAMINATION. TETRACHLOROETHYLENE,       BENZENE, TRICHLOROETHYLENE, 1 2 DICHLOROETHANE, VINYL        CHLORIDE & LEAD ARE AMONG THE CONTAMINANTS DETECTED.

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