# RHODE ISLAND SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT CORPORATION
> **Judicial** · FY1993 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `270`
- **Case Number:** 01-1993-0019
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $250K
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- RHODE ISLAND SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT CORP (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

ACTIVE SOLID WASTE LANDFILL WHICH ACCEPTED HAZARDOUS WASTES  AT LEAST IN THE LATE 1970'S. OPENED AND OPERATED BY RHODE    ISLAND SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT CORPORATION (RISWMC) WHICH WAS CREATED BY STATE STATUTE TO ADDRESS SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT   FOR THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND.                                    CONTAMINENTS INCLUDE VOLATIVE, SEMI-VOLATIVES, AND      METALS FROM BOTH GENERAL LANDFILL AND HOT SPOT LOCATED ON    EASTERN SECTION OF LANDFILL. CONTAMINATION HAS MIGRATED OFF- SITE VIA GROUNDWATER. ROD EXPECTED TO BE ISSUED BY 3/30/94   FOR SOURCE CONTROL OPERABLE UNIT ONE. MANAGEMENT OF          MIGRATION WILL BE SUBJECT OF OPERABLE UNIT TWO ROD.              RISWMC PERFORMING RI/FS FOR ALL OPERABLE UNITS PURSUANT  TO A 1987 AOC.

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