# BOSTON AND MAINE CORPORATION ET AL
> **Judicial** · FY1990 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `207`
- **Case Number:** 01-1990-0034
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** $0
- **Cost recovery:** $1.70M
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- BOSTON AND MAINE CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- GENERAL LATEX AND CHEMICAL CORPORATION
- GRAYPOND REALTY CORPORATION
- MANVILLE SALES CORPORATION
- MASS BAY TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY
- MIDDLESEX DISPOSAL SERVICES, INC.
- SUFFOLK SERVICES, INC.
## Summary

SITE HISTORY:  THE SITE WAS PLACED ON THE NATIONAL           PRIORITIES LIST IN SEPTEMBER 1984. BETWEEN 1985 AND 1987,    EPA CONDUCTED THE PHASE 1A REMEDIAL INVESTIGATION TO         EVALUATE THE NATURE AND EXTENT OF THE CONTAMINATION          STATEWIDE. AS A RESULT EPA CONCLUDED THAT THE SITE           NECESSITATED A PHASE STUDY APPROACH.                         EPA CONDUCTED A REMEDIAL INVESTIGATION AND FEASIBILITY STUDY OF THE LAGOON OPERABLE UNIT IN 1987-1988. EPA ALSO CONDUCTED A REMOVAL ACTION IN 1984 WHICH COVERED PILES OF ASBESTOS AT  THE SITE ON PROPERTY OWNED BY MANVILLE. IN 1985 THE UNITED   STATES FILED COST RECOVERY ACTIONS REGARDING THIS REMOVAL    ACTION AGAINST MANVILLE AND B&M.                DESCRIPTION  OF THE SITE: THE SITE CONTAINS A COMPLEX OF MANUFACTURING    AND RAILROAD MAINTENENACE FACILITIES. A SERIES OF LAGOONS    EXIST WHICH RECEIVE UNTREATED INDUSTRIAL AND UNSANITARY      WASTEWATER WITH A TIE-IN TO THE LOCAL SEWERAGE TREATMENT     PLANT (TIE-IN PURSUANT TO A STATE ORDER). THE DISCHARGES     OVER THE YEARS RESULTED IN THE CONTAMINATION BY HAZARDOUS    SUBSTANCES OF THE SLUDGE AND OIL IN THE LAGOONS AND IN PILES OF SOIL AND SLUDGE DREDGED FROM THE LAGOON.

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