# SONDEY PAINT
> **Judicial** · FY1988 · — · Litigated No Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `3012`
- **Case Number:** 02-1988-0391
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Litigated No Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- SONDEY PAINT (complaint)
## Summary

THE SONDEY PAINT AND SUPPLY COMPANY, OWNED BY STANLEY      SONDEY, CONSISTS OF A ONE AND ONE-HALF ACRE TRACT OF LAND    LOCATED AT 2 MIDLAND AVE, WALLINGTON, NEW JERSEY.  THE SITE  IS UNFENCED AND IMMEDIATELY ADJACENT TO AN ACTIVE LUMBER     BUSINESS AND IT IS WITHIN 300 FEET OF RESIDENCES.  THE       PROPERTY IS LOCATED AT THE CONFLUENCE OF THE PASSAIC RIVER   AND THE SADDLE BROOK RIVER.  DEF SONDEY MANUFACTURED PAINT   PRODUCTS AND PAINT SUPPLIES AT THE SITE UNTIL APPROXIMATELY  1970.  NO MANUFACTURING HAS TAKEN PLACE AT THE SITE FOR      NEARLY TWENTY YEARS.  THE MATERIALS USED IN THE MANUFACTUR-  ING PROCESS WERE LEFT IN THREE BUILDINGS ON THE SITE.          IN MAY 1986 THE NJDEP ENTERED THE SITE AND SAMPLED THE     CONTENTS OF NUMEROUS CONTAINERS.  ANALYSES OF THE SAMPLES    INDICATED THE PRESENCE OF THE FOLLOWING CERCLA HAZ SUB'S:    ACETONE, METHYLENE CHLORIDE, TOLUENE, ETHYLBENZENE, XYLENE,  ARSENIC AND LEAD.  IN JULY 1986, AND AGAIN IN SEPT 1986,     NJDEP ISSUED A DIRECTIVE TO DEF PURSUANT TO THE NEW JERSEY   SPILL COMPENSATION AND CONTROL ACT, N.J.S.A. 58: 10-23.11    ET SEQ.  THE DIRECTIVE REQUIRED SONDEY TO INVESTIGATE THE    SITE AND REMOVE ALL HAZ SUB'S.  SONDEY FAILED TO COMPLY      WITH DIRECTIVE.                                                AT THE REQUEST OF NJDEP, EPA ATTEMPTED TO BEGIN A SITE     INVESTIGATION IN SPRING, 1987.  SONDEY DENIED EPA OFFICIALS  ACCESS TO THE SITE IN APRIL AND MAY 1987.  EPA OBTAINED A    30 DAY WARRANT FOR ENTRY, INSPECTION A

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