# GRAYPOND REALTY CORPORATION
> **Judicial** · FY1994 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `295`
- **Case Number:** 01-1994-0017
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $1.59M
- **Compliance action $:** $19.00M
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- ACME PRINTNG COMPANY (settlement)
- ALLIED WASTE SYSTEMS (settlement)
- AMERICAN CAN\PRIMERCIAN CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- AMRAY INC (settlement)
- BIXBY INTERNATIONAL CORP (settlement)
- BOSTON EDISON (settlement)
- BROWNING-FERRIS INDUSTRIES INC (settlement)
- BURTON SHAFFER (settlement)
- CAMBRIDGE TOOL AND MANUFACTURING CO INC (settlement)
- COMMONWEALTH GAS CO (settlement)
- COMPUTER VISION COMPANY (settlement)
- CONGRESS TECHNICAL SPRAY CO (settlement)
- CRIMSON PRINTING CO (settlement)
- DEHAART INC (settlement)
- FEDERAL METAL FINISHING INC (settlement)
- FISONS CORPORATION (settlement)
- GENERAL ELECTRIC CO (settlement)
- GENERAL LATEX & CHEMICAL CO (settlement)
- GENERAL SIGNAL TECHNOLOGY CORP (settlement)
- GILLETTE CO ON BEHALF OF COQUI LIGHTER (settlement)
- GRAPHIC ARTS FINISHERS (settlement)
- GRAYPOND REALTY CORPORATION (settlement)
- GTE OPERATONS SUPPORT INC (settlement)
- IRVING SHAFFER (settlement)
- MASSACHUSETTS BAY TRANSPORTATION AUTH. (settlement)
- MILTON SHAFFER (settlement)
- MIT LINCOLN LABS (settlement)
- MONSANTO CO (BY SOLUTIA MANANGEMENT CO) (settlement)
- MRC HOLDING SUCCESSOR TO AMERICAN CAN CO (settlement)
- NATIONAL GYPSUM CO (settlement)
- NORTON COMPANY (settlement)
- OPTRONICS (settlement)
- POLAROID CORPORATION (settlement)
- POPE INDUSTRIES INC (settlement)
- RATHEON COMPANY (settlement)
- ROGERS FOAM CORP (settlement)
- ROY BROTHERS INC (settlement)
- SCREENPRINT/DOW INDUSTRIES (settlement)
- SHERWIN-WILLIAMS CO (settlement)
- STANDEX CORPORATION FOR SPINCRAFT CORP (settlement)
- STERLING CLARK LURTON CORP (settlement)
- SUFFOLK SERVICES INC (settlement)
- TERADYNE INC (settlement)
- VOLKSWAGON OF AMERICA INC (settlement)
- W.E. ANDREWS CO INC (settlement)
- W.R. GRACE & CO (settlement)
- WASTE MANAGEMENT INC (settlement)
## Summary

THE LANDFILL COMPRISES UNIT TWO OF THE IRON HORSE PART SUPER FUND SITE ( THE IHP SITE ). THE IHP SITE CONSISTS OF APPROX- IMATELY 553 ACRES OF LAND IN NORTH BILLERICA, MASSACHUSETTS, NEAR THE TEWKSBURY TOWN LINE. THE IHP SITE, AN ACTIVE        INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX AND RAIL YARD IN USE SINCE 1913, HAS A    LONG HISTORY OF ACTIVITIES THAT HAVE RESULTED IN CONTAMINA-  TION OF SOILS, GROUNDWATER AND SURFACE WATER. THE IHP SITE   INCLUDES OPEN STORAGE AREAS, LANDFILLS, AND LAGOONS.         THIS ACTION IS FOR COST RECOVERY UNDER CERCLA SECTION 107(A) 42 U.S.C. SECTION 9670(A), FOR RECOVERY OF COSTS INCURRED BY THE UNITED STATES. THE CLAIMS FOR PENALTIES FOR THE          VIOLATION OF THE UAO ARE UNDER CERCLA SECTION 106(B), AND    THE CLAIMS FOR PUNITIVE DAMAGES ARE UNDER CERCLA SECTION     107(C)(3).                                                   THE PROPOSED SUIT SEEKS RECOVERY OF $2.9 MILLION FOR PAST    COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH THE SHAFFER LANDFILL OPERABLE UNIT OF  THE IRON HORSE PARK SUPERFUND SITE. THE UNITED STATES MUST   FILE A COST RECOVERY SUIT FOR THESE COSTS BY NOV. 21, 1994   OR BE FACED WITH POSSIBLE STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS PROBLEMS    IN RECOVERING PART OF THESE COSTS. FURTHERMORE, SOME OF THE  PRPS DID NOT SIGN RELATED ROLLING AGREEMENTS AND THEREFORE   MAY NOT BE LIABLE FOR COSTS INCURRED PRIOR TO JANUARY 15, 19 91. HOWEVER, ALL PRPS ARE ELIGIBLE FOR COST RECOVERY OF      COSTS INCURRED AFTER JANUARY 15, 1991.

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