# AUBURN ROAD LANDFILL SITE
> **Judicial** · FY1990 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `208`
- **Case Number:** 01-1990-0037
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $125K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** $8.40M
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- BASF CORP (complaint) (settlement)
- BEMIS COMPANY, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- CHEMICAL PRODUCTS CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- DEBLOIS TRUCKING (complaint) (settlement)
- DISOGRIN INDUSTRIES CORP. (complaint) (settlement)
- EARL'S RUBBISH DISPOSAL (complaint) (settlement)
- GENERAL LATEX AND CHEMICAL CORP. (complaint) (settlement)
- IVES LABORATORIES (MA) (complaint) (settlement)
- IVES LABORATORIES (PA) (complaint) (settlement)
- JOHNSON, PETER (complaint) (settlement)
- LAMONT LABS, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- LAWRENCE PACKAGING CO. (complaint) (settlement)
- LAWRENCE TEXTILE SHRINKING CO. (complaint) (settlement)
- LONDONDERRY, TOWN OF (complaint) (settlement)
- SANDERS ASSOCIATES, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- SCOVILLE, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- STEWART TRUCKING CO., INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- THOMOPOULAS, GEORGE (complaint) (settlement)
- TRIDEX CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- W.R. GRACE CO. - CONN (complaint) (settlement)
- WASTE MANAGEMENT, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- WORKPLACE SYSYTEMS, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- XENTEX CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

THE AUBURN ROAD LANDFILL SITE WAS OPERATED AS A MUNICIPAL    LANDFILL FROM 1964-1980, DURING WHICH TIME INDUSTRIAL WASTE  WAS ALSO DEPOSITED AT THE SITE. THE STATE FIRST BEGAN        INVESTIGATING THE SITE IN 1979, IN REPSONSE TO ALLEGATIONS   THAT BARRELS OF INDUSTRIAL WASTE WERE BEING DISPOSED OF      ONSITE. IN 1983, THE SITE WAS LISTED ON THE NPL. SINCE THAT  TIME, THE SITE HAS BEEN EXTENSIVELY INVESTIGATED AND         APPROXIMATELY 2200 BARRELS REMOVED IN 2 SEPERATE REMOVAL     ACTIONS. IN SEPTEMBER 1989, THE ROD CALLING FOR CAPPING OF   SOURCE AREAS, AND PUMPING AND TREATING OF GROUNDWATER, WAS   SIGNED BY THE ACTING REGIONAL ADMINISTRATOR.                 *                                                            ***SEE REGIONAL COMMENTS RE: CASE CONCLUSION DATA

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