# VESTAL ASPHALT, INC & NEIL GUILES, EXCAVATING AND PAVING INC
> **Judicial** · FY1988 · — · Litigated No Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `3004`
- **Case Number:** 02-1988-0383
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Litigated No Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- VESTAL ASPHALT, INC & NEIL GUILES, EXCAV (complaint)
## Summary

NATURE OF THE CASE:  IN 1978, A SPILL OF CHLORINATED       SOLVENTS AT AN IBM PLANT IN NEIGHBORING ENDICOTT, N.Y.       RESULTED IN AN AREA-WIDE TESTING PROGRAM OF POTABLE WATER    SUPPLIES.  THE VESTAL DISTRICT 1 WELLFIELD LOCATED TO THE    SOUTH OF ENDICOTT WAS TESTED AND WELL NO. 1-1 WAS FOUND TO   BE CONTAMINATED WITH SEVERAL CHLORINATED ORGANICS INCLUDING  1, 1, 1-TRICHLOROETHANE, TRICHLORETHYLENE, 1,1 DICHLOROETHAN AND 1, 2 DICHLOROETHYLENE.                                     THE VESTAL 1-1 SITE WAS INCLUDED ON THE NATIONAL PRIORIT-  IES LIST IN DECEMBER, 1982.  THE NYSDEC COMMENCED AN INVES-  TIGATION OF THE SITE PURSUANT TO A COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT     ENTERED INTO WITH EPA IN APRIL, 1985.  THE RI/FS WAS COMPLE- TED IN MAY, 1986 AND INDICATED INTER ALIA, THAT AN AREA      BORDERING VESTAL ASPHALT, INC. AND NEIL GUILES EXCAVATING &  PAVING, INC., HAS SOILS CONTAMINATED WITH AROMATIC ORGANICS  INCLUDING BENZENE, TOLUENE, AND ZYLENE.                        THIS CAUSE OF ACTION SEEKS TO ENFORCE THE PRESIDENT'S      AUTHORITY PURSUANT TO SECTION 104(E) (3) (D) OF CERCLA, AS   DELEGATED TO USEPA, TO COMPEL COMPLIANCE WITH EPA REQUEST    FOR ACCESS TO PROPERTY WHERE THERE MAY BE RELEASE OR THREAT  OF RELEASE OF A HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCE OR POLLUTANT OR CONTAM-  INANT.  THE PROPERTIES EPA SEEKS ACCESS TO ARE:  ALL THAT    PIECE OR PARCEL OF LAND SITUATED IN THE TOWN OF VESTAL,      COUNTY OF BROOM AND STATE OF N.Y., AS SHOWN ON A MAP  MAP    NO. 5-C PARCEL NO. 367, VESTAL STATE H

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