# SOLVENTS RECOVERY SV > **Judicial** · FY1979 · — · Final Order With Penalty ## Case - **Activity ID:** `35` - **Case Number:** 01-1979-0002 - **Type:** Judicial - **Lead:** EPA - **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty - **Penalty assessed:** $70K - **Cost recovery:** $0 - **Compliance action $:** — - **Multimedia (multi-env):** N ## Defendants - LORI ENGINEERING COMPANY (complaint) (settlement) - SOLVENTS RECOVERY SERVICE OF NEW ENGLAND (complaint) (settlement) ## Summary SOLVENTS RECOVERY SERVICES OF NEW ENGLAND, INC AND LORI ENGNRNG CO - SOUTHINGTON, CT FILED 12/17/79, CIVIL ACTION #H79-704, US DISTRICT CT FOR THE DISTRICT OF CT COMPLAINT ALLEGES THAT ACTIVITIES OF SOLVNTS RECOVRY SERVICE OF NEW ENG, INC. HAVE RESULTED IN CONTAMINAT'N OF AN AQUIFER USED AS A PUBLIC DRINKING WATER SUPPLY. SOLVNTS RECOVERY ACCEPTS WASTE PRODUCTS FROM NEW ENG. INDUSTRIES, DISTILLS THE WASTES, RECOVERS THE USABLE CHEM, AND RETURNS THE CHEM TO INDUSTRY FOR REUSE. SINCE 1955, SOLVNTS RECOVRY HAS TEMPORARILY STORED DISTILLED & UNDISTILLED CHEM WSTES IN DRUMS ON ITS PROPERTY. THESE DRUMS,PLACED ON BARE GRND UNTIL 1979 HAVE LEAKED WSTES ONTO & INTO THE GRND. SOLVNTS RECOVRY HAS DIRECTLY DISPOSED OF MIL OF GAL OF CHEM WSTS DIRECTLY ONTO THE GRND & INTO UNLINED LAGOONS. THE LAGOONS WERE DRAINED IN 1967, BUT SUBSTANTIAL AMNTS OF POLLUTANTS MAY REMAIN IN THE SOIL. COMPLAINT ALLEGES THAT THESE ACTIONS HAVE RESULTED IN PERCOLATION OF WSTES THRU SOIL, CONTAMINATING UNDERLYING GRNDWTR. THE GRNDWTR MIGRATES SOUTHEASTERLY IN THE DIRECTION OF THE CONTAMINATED WTR SUPPLY. COMPLAINT ALLEGES THAT WSTE MIGRATION FROM SOLVNTS RECOVERY OPERAT'NS HAS RESULTED IN POLLUTANT DISCHARGES VIA A STORM DRAIN INTO A TRIBUTARY OF THE QUINNIPIAC RIVER. SOLVNTS RECOVRY DOESN'T HAVE A NPDES PERMIT (APPLICAT'N WAS MADE IN 1979) --- *Source: [EPA ECHO](https://echo.epa.gov/) · AI Analytics · CC0 1.0*