# TAYLOR RD LANDFILL
> **Judicial** · FY1980 · — · Final Order No Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `20124`
- **Case Number:** 04-1980-0027
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order No Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- TAYLOR RD LANDFILL (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

COUNTY OF HILLSBOROUGH (TAYLOR RD LANDFILL) - SEFFNER, FL    FILED 10/9/80, CIVIL ACTION #80-1128, US DIST CT FOR THE     MIDDLE DIST OF FL, LEAVE TO AMEND COMPLAINT TO ADD CERCLA    COUNTS FILED WITH COURT ON 6/15/82.  THE SECOND AMENDED      COMPLAINT WAS FILED ON 3/18/82.  THE TAYLOR RD LANDFILL IS A 272 ACRE WSTE DISPOSAL SITE IN SEFFNER, FL OWNED &           OPERATED BY HILLSBORO CNTY. THE LANDFILL IS COMPOSED OF 3    SEPARATE AREAS, A 42 ACRE SITE(TAYLOR ROAD), A 10.6 ACRE     SITE(BORROW PIT EXPANSION) & THE STILL ACTIVE 64 ACRE        SITE(HILLSBORO HEIGHTS). DISPOSAL OPER AT LANDFILL HAVE      CONTAMINATED SOIL & CRNDWTR & THREATEN CONTAMINATION OF A    PUBLIC WTR SRC. THE SITE OVERLIES THE FL AQUIFER, A SRC      OF WTR FOR MUCH OF THE SW US & A PRINCIPAL WTR SRC FOR       HILLSBORO. SOME 580 PRIVATE WELLS ARE W/I 1 MILE OF THE      SITE. THE 42 ACRE SITE IS ALLEGED TO HAVE BEEN DISIGNED, CON ST & OPERATED IMPROPERLY. NO GEO ANALYSIS WAS PERFORMED      BEFORE CONST & SITE IS UNLINED. IT CONTAINS MANY SINKHOL-    ES WHICH SERVE AS SRC'S OF RECHRG FOR THE AQUIFER & ALSO     PROVIDE CONDUITS FOR CONTAMINANTS TO PERCOLATE FROM THE      SURFACE TO THE GRNDWTR. IN OCT '79 EPA SAMPLED THE POT-      ABLE WTR SUPPLY & MONITORED WELLS AT OR NEAR THE 42 ACRE     SITE. ANALYSIS OF SAMPLES COMPLTD IN DEC '79 REVEALED        CONTAMINAT'N OF MONITORED WELLS W/ORGANIC COMPDS & METALS    . CONCENTRAT'N INDICATED MIGRATION OF CONTAMAINANTS AWAY     FROM CENTER OF SITE AMONG THE COMPDS

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