# KELLOGG DEERING WELL FIELD SUPERFUND SITE
> **Judicial** · FY1990 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `215`
- **Case Number:** 01-1990-0046
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** $0
- **Cost recovery:** $10.80M
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- BONEFANT, LEANDRE
- BONEFANT, THERESE
- BOWES, PITNEY (complaint) (settlement)
- DINARDO DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
- EDO CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- ELECTRIC INDICATOR CORPORATION
- ELINCO ASSOCIATES
- LEO'S AUTOBODY
- NORWALK FIRST TAXING DISTRICT
- VERITRON WEST (A.B. DICK CORP.) (complaint) (settlement)
- VERNITRON CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- YOUNG, SOL
## Summary

THE KELLOGG-DEERING WELL FIELD SUPERFUND SITE INCLUDES A 10  ACRE PUBLIC SUPPLY WELL FIELD ALONG THE WESTERN BANK OF THE  NORWALK RIVER IN NORWALK, CONNECTICUT, AND AN UPGRADIENT     SOURCE AREA LOCATED ON THE EAST BANK OF THE NORWALK RIVER.   THE WELL FIELD IS OWNED AND OPERATED BY THE NORWALK FIRST    TAXING DISTRICT WATER DEPARTMENT AND CONSISTS OF FOUR        MUNICIPAL WATER SUPPLY WELLS THAT SUPPLY APPROXIMATELY FOR   THE 45,000 RESIDENTS IN THE CITY OF NORWALK.                 TCE WAS FIRST DETECTED IN THE WELL FIELD DURING ROUTINE      SAMPLING IN 1975. SINCE THAT TIME, OTHER CHEMICALS,          INCLUDING TO 1,2 DICHLOROETHENE, METHYLENE CHLORIDE AND      BENEZENE HAVE BEEN DETECTED. THE SITE WAS PLACED ON THE      NATIONAL PRIORITIES LIST IN 1984.                            THE INITIAL RI/FS SUPPORTED THE FIRST OPERABLE UNIT RECORD   OF DECISION ISSUED IN IN SEPTEMBER 1986. THIS ROD REQUIRED   THE CONSTRUCTION AND OPERATION OF A NEW AIR STRIPPING        FACILITY AT THE WELL FIELD.                                  TO PROVIDE FURTHER INFORMATION REGARDING THE SOURCE AND      EXTENT OF GROUNDWATER CONTAMINATION AT THE SITE, EPA BEGAN   SUPPLEMENTAL RI/FS IN 1987. DURING THE SUPPLEMENTAL RI,      EXTREMELY HIGH LEVELS OF TCE WERE FOUND IN THE AREA OF       270-280 MAIN AVE. ON THE EAST SIDE OF THE NORWALK RIVER.     EPA ISSUED A RECORD OF DECISION FOR THE SECOND OPERABLE UNIT IN SEPTEMBER 1989.                                           THE REMEDIAL ACTION REQUIRED BY THE 

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