# VOLNEY LANDFILL
> **Judicial** · FY1987 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `2681`
- **Case Number:** 02-1987-0517
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $1.80M
- **Compliance action $:** $8.50M
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- ALCAN ALUMINUM CORP (complaint) (settlement)
- ALLIEDSIGNAL INC (complaint) (settlement)
- AMERICAN CAN COMPANY, PRIMERICA CORP
- AMERICAN NATIONAL CAN COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- AMERICAN STANDARD INC (complaint) (settlement)
- AMF INC (complaint) (settlement)
- ARMSTRONG WORLD INDUSTRIES INC (complaint) (settlement)
- ASHLAND CHEMICAL CO., DIV ASHLAND INC (complaint) (settlement)
- BCE/CH HOLDINGS CORP FKA CASE-HOYT CORP (complaint) (settlement)
- BLACK CLAWSON COMPANY (THE) (complaint) (settlement)
- BOISE CASCADE CORP (complaint) (settlement)
- BRISTOL-MYERS SQUIBB COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- CHAMPION INTERNATIONAL CORP (complaint) (settlement)
- CHARLES W. BRENEMAN COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- COLUMBIA MILLS INC
- E.I. DUPONT DE NEMOURS AND CO (complaint) (settlement)
- FLOQUIL POLLY S COLOR CORP (complaint) (settlement)
- FULTON, CITY OF (complaint) (settlement)
- GAF CORP &ITS PRESENT/FORMER SUBSID'RIES (complaint) (settlement)
- GENERAL ELECTRIC CO (complaint) (settlement)
- GRANBY, TOWN OF (complaint) (settlement)
- HASBRO INC (complaint) (settlement)
- INTERNATIONAL PAPER COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- JONES CHEMICALS INC (complaint) (settlement)
- MASONITE CORP (complaint) (settlement)
- MILLER BREWING COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- MILTON BRADLEY DIV HASBRO INC
- MONSANTO COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- NIAGARA MOHAWK POWER CORP (complaint) (settlement)
- OSWEGO VALLEY SOLID REFUSE DISPOSAL DIST (complaint) (settlement)
- OSWEGO, COUNTY OF (complaint) (settlement)
- OWENS-BROCKWAY GLASS CONTAINER INC (complaint) (settlement)
- PFIZER INC (complaint) (settlement)
- PHOENIX, VILLAGE OF (complaint) (settlement)
- REVERE WARE CORP (complaint) (settlement)
- ROTRON INC (complaint) (settlement)
- SCHENECTADY CHEMICALS INC
- SCHENECTADY INTERNATIONAL INC (complaint) (settlement)
- SCHROEPPEL, TOWN OF (complaint) (settlement)
- SEALRIGHT CO INC
- SEALRIGHT MANUFACTURING FULTON INC (complaint) (settlement)
- SHELL OIL COMPANY (settlement)
- SONOCO FLEXIBLE PKG INC AKA MORRILL PRES (complaint) (settlement)
- SONOCO FLEXIBLE PKG INC FKA ENGRAPH INC (complaint) (settlement)
- STATE UNIVERSITEY OF NEW YORK (complaint) (settlement)
- UPSTATE MEDICAL CENTER
- VOLNEY, TOWN OF (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

THIS ACTION IS BASED ON HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES WHICH WERE SENT BY MOST OF THE PROPOSED GENERATOR DEFENDANTS TO THE PAS SITE FOR DISPOSAL.  APPROXIMATELY 8,000 DRUMS (SOME, BUT NOT ALL OF WHICH MAY HAVE BEEN 'EMPTY') WERE SHIPPED FROM    THE PAS SITE TO THE VOLNEY SITE.  NO RECORDS WERE KEPT OF THESE SHIPMENTS.  SUBSTANCES OF THE TYPE KNOWN TO HAVE BEEN SENT BY THE PROPOSED GENERATOR DEFENDANTS TO THE PAS SITE ARE KNOWN TO BE PRESENT AT THE VOLNEY SITE.  EPA HAS IN    CURRED COSTS IN CONDUCTING REMEDIAL ACTIONS, INCLUDING A REMEDIAL INVESTIGATION/FEASIBILITYSTUDY (RI/FS) AT THE     VOLNEY SITE.  EPA'S THEORY HOLDING THE PROPOSED GENERATOR DEFENDANTS LIABLE FOR THE CONDITIONS AT THE VOLNEY SITE HAS  BEEN CONSIDERED & ACCEPTED BY SEVERAL COURTS.  THE PROPOSED ACTION AGAINST THOSE GENERATORS WHO HAD NO ASSOCIATION WITH  THE PAS SITE IS BASED UPON THEIR SHIPMENTS OF HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES DIRECTLY TO THE VOLNEY SITE.  THE PROPOSED ACTION AGAINST THE OWNERS AND OPERATORS OF THE VOLNEY SITE IS BASED UPON THE PAST AND CURRENT OWNERSHIP OF THE SITE BY THOSE PARTIES.  THE PROPOSED RELIEF EPA SEEKS;  1) RECOVERY OF ALL COSTS WHICH HAVE BEEN INCURRED BY EPA IN CONNECTION WITH THE SITE, AS WELL AS INTEREST; AND 2) A DECLARATORY JUDGMENT AS TO THE PROPOSED DEFENDANTS' LIABILITY OF         FUTURE EXPENSES TO BE INCURRED BY EPA AT THE SITE.

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