# FORD MOTOR COMPANY
> **Judicial** · FY1991 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `230`
- **Case Number:** 01-1991-0010
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $1.17M
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- FORD MOTOR COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

THE SUBJECT REFERRAL RECOMMENDS THE FILING OF A COST         RECOVERY ACTION AGAINST FORD MOTOR COMPANY TO REIMBURSE THE  U.S. FOR RESPONSE COSTS PLUS INTEREST TOTALING $3,231,272.08 ASSOCIATED WITH A REMOVAL ACTION UNDERTAKEN AT THE TIBBETTS  ROAD SUPERFUND SITE IN BARRINGTON, NEW HAMPSHIRE. THIS       ACTION WILL ALSO SEEK A DECLARATORY JUDGEMENT AS TO FORD'S   LIABILITY AT THIS SITE FOR ANY FUTURE RESPONSE COSTS.        THE SITE CONTAINS A SINGLE FAMILY DWELLING AND IS LOCATED ON A PARTIALLY WOODED 1.91 ACRE LOT ON TIBBETTS ROAD IN         BARRINGTON N.H. IT WAS PURCHASED AS PART OF A LARGER PARCEL  BY ALEXANDER AND MARION JOHNSON ON JANUARY 27, 1944.         THEREAFTER, MR. JOHNSON USED THE PROPERTY AS THE STORAGE     LOCATION FOR AT LEAST THIRTY-SEVEN (37) DRUMS CONTAINING     VARIOUS CHEMICALS WHICH HE TRANSPORTED FROM HIS PLACE OF     EMPLOYMENT, THE FORD MOTOR COMPANY'S SOMERVILLE,             MASSACHUSETTS FACILITY.                                      THE DRUMS WERE FIRST DISCOVERED BY THE STATE OF NEW          HAMPSHIRE IN MAY 1982. HIGH CONCENTRATIONS OF VOLATILE       ORGANIC COMPOUNDS (VOCS) WERE THEN FOUND IN LOCAL DRINKING   WATER SUPPLIES. IN AUGUST, 1982, THE STATE ISSUED AN ORDER   TO MR. JOHNSON REQUIRING THE REMOVAL OF ALL HAZARDOUS        SUBSTANCES FROM HIS PROPERTY. IN MARCH, 1984, A STATE        INSPECTION REVEALED THAT MANY OF THE DRUMS HAD BEEN          OVERTURNED AND WERE LEAKING. NEW HAMPSHIRE THEN FORMALLY     REQUESTED EPA TO UNDERTAKE EMERGENCY

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