# LASKIN GREENHSE/OIL
> **Judicial** · FY1982 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `25188`
- **Case Number:** 05-1982-0076
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** $0
- **Cost recovery:** $1.47M
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- ABEX CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- AMERICAN STAMPING CO.
- ANSON TOOL AND GAGES INC.
- ASHLAND OIL, INC.
- ASHTABULA RUBBER CO.
- ATEC INDUSTRIES INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- ATLANTIC RICHFIELD CO.
- AUTOCLAVE ENGINEERS INC.
- BE-KAN, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- BECKWITH MACHINERY CORPORATION
- BROWNING-FERRIS INDUSTRIES, INC.
- BUFFALO MOLDED PLASTIC, INC.
- CARLISLE CORPORATION
- CHAMPION STEEL COMPANY
- CLEVELAND ELECTRIC ILLUMINATING CO.
- CLIFTON AUTOMATIC SCREW MACHINE PRODS.
- COMBUSTION ENGINEERING, INC.
- COMMERCIAL SHEARING, INC.
- CONSOLIDATED RAIL CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- COPES-VULCAN, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- COPPERWELD STEEL COMPANY
- DAYTON MALLEABLE, INC.
- DENMAN RUBBER MANUFACTURING CO.
- EIGHMY CORPORATION
- ERIE MALLEABLE IRON CO.
- ERIE PRESS SYSTEMS
- ERIEZ MANUFACTURING CO.
- GATX CORPORATION
- GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
- GENERAL MOTORS (complaint) (settlement)
- GENERAL REFRACTORIES CO. (complaint) (settlement)
- GIRARD PLASTICS CO., INC.
- GLAUSE, ELMER SR.
- GRANTHAM, INC.
- GULF & WESTERN INDUSTRIES, INC.
- GULF OIL CORPORATION
- HAMMERMILL PAPER CO.
- IMC CHEMICAL GROUP
- ITEN INDUSTRIES INC.
- KAISER ALUMINUM & CHEMICAL CORPORATION
- KOPPERS COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- LASKIN, ALVIN F. (complaint) (settlement)
- LITTON INDUSTRIES, INC.
- LOCKE MACHINE CO. (complaint) (settlement)
- MATLACK, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- MERCER FORGE (complaint) (settlement)
- MIDWEST RUBBER RECLAIMING CO.
- MORTON-NORWICH PRODUCTS, INC.
- MURRAY CORPORATION
- NATIONAL FORGE CO. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

CASE PLAN:         THIS IS AN NPL SITE                       DEFENDANT ALVIN P. LASKIN GREW TOMATOES FOR COMMERCIAL     DISTRIBUTION IN HIS GREEENHOUSE IN JEFFERSON. THE COMPLAINT  ALLEGES THAT HE HAS ACCEPTED, STORED, AND DISPOSED OF WASTE  OIL BY BURNING, AND BY APPLICATION TO AREA ROADS UNDER       CONTRACT WITH VARIOUS MUNICIPALITIES AND COUNTIES. LASKIN    ACCEPTED APPROXIMATELY 800,000 GALLONS OF WASTES PER YEAR.   200,000 GALLONS OF WHICH WERE BURNED AS BOILER FUEL, AND THE REMAINING 600,000 WHICH WERE APPLIED TO THE ROADS.             SAMPLING OF LASKIN'S STORAGE TANKS SHOWED HIGH CONCENTRA-  TION OF PCB'S AND OTHER HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES IN THE WASTE    OIL.  LASKIN'S BOILERS DO NOT MEET THE PCB REQUIREMENTS      STIPULATED IN 40 CFR PT.761.  THE INEFFICIENT BURNING OF     PCB'S BY HIS BOILERS CAUSES THEM TO VOLATILIZE AND BE        TRANSPORTED INTO THE ENVIRONMENT.                               THE COMPLAINT ALSO ALLEGES THAT LASKIN DEWATERS AND       FILTERS WASTE OILS THAT HE HAS PREVIOUSLY MIXED AND          THEREBY PRODUCES SLUDGES THAT ARE DUMPED ON HIS PROPERTY.    PCB'S AND OTHER POLLUTANTS ARE THEN WASHED INTO THE          DEFENDANT'S COLLECTION POND #20, AND ARE DISCHARGED INTO     CEMETARY CREEK, A U.S. WATERWAY. DEFENDENT MADE APPLICATION  IN JULY 1978 FOR A NATIONAL POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION  SYSTEM (NPDES) PERMIT, BUT IT HAS NOT YET BEEN ISSUED. THESE ACTIVITIES HAVE BEEN OCCURRING AT LEAST SINCE EARLY 1977.         1)COMPLETE REVIEW OF EXISTING REC

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