# MC CARTY LANDFILL - BALD KNOB
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1987 · — · —
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `26424`
- **Case Number:** 05-1987-0186
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** —
- **Penalty assessed:** $0
- **Cost recovery:** $0
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
## Summary

THE INACTIVE BALD KNOB LANDFILL (AKA MC CARTY'S LAND-   FILL, OWNED BY HERBERT ROWE BUT LEASED BY GE,) LOCATED WEST  OF MT. VERNON, INDIANA ACCEPTED SANITARY AND INDUSTRIAL      WASTE FROM 1970 TO 1979.  THE LANDFILL ACCEPTED MUNICIPAL    WASTE FROM MT. VERNON FROM 1972 TO 1979.  A SEPARATE CHEMI-  CAL/INDUSTRIAL WASTE AREA EXISTED AT THE SITE WHERE HAZARD-  OUS LIQUID WASTES WERE DEPOSITED.  A SEARATE SOLID WASTE     AREA WAS ALSO OPERATED WITHIN THE LANDFILL BOUNDARIES.  GEN- ERAL ELECTRIC WAS THE PRIMARY INDUSTRIAL WASTE CONTRIBUTER   TO THE SITE AND DISPOSED OF INDUSTRIAL WASTE CONTAINING LOW  CONCENTRATIONS OF PHENOL FROM 1970 TO 1978.  THREE AQUIFIERS BELOW THE LANDFILL ARE CONTAMINATED WITH PHENO.  AN ESTIMA-  TED 1000 PEOPLE OBTAINED THEIR DRINKING WATER FROM PRIVATE   WELLS TAPPING INTO THESE AQUIFIERS; THEY NOW RECEIVE THEIR   WATER FROM THE MUNICIPALITY.  BALD KNOB LANDFILL CLOSED IN   1979 AND GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPLETED CLOSURE ACTIVITIES.  THE SITE WAS CAPPED WITH A ONE-FOOT OF CLAY.  IN JANUARY, 1987   THE SITE WAS PROPOSED FOR NPL LISTING.  THIS PLACEMENT IS    BEING CHALLENGED BY GENERAL ELECTRIC (3/19/87).  A PRP       SEARCH HAS BEEN COMPLETED AND AN INFORMATION REQUEST LETTER  HAS BEEN SENT TO THE IDENTIFIED PARTIES.

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