# HERCULES, INC. - ROGERS ROAD MUNICIPAL LANDFILL
> **Judicial** · FY1991 · — · —
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `35220`
- **Case Number:** 06-1991-0036
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** —
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- CHEMTURA CANADA (FORMERLY UNIROYAL CHEM) (complaint) (settlement)
- HERCULES, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- JACKSONVILLE LANDFILL (complaint) (settlement)
- ROGERS ROAD LANDFILL (complaint) (settlement)
- VERTAC (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

THIS IS A REFERRAL (LITIGATION REPORT) PURSUANT TO         SECTION 107 OF THE COMPREHENSIVE ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSE,     COMPENSATION, AND LIABILITYL ACT OF 1980, AS AMENDED BY      THE SUPERFUND AMENDMENTS AND REQUTHORIZATION ACT OF 1986,    PUB. L. NO. 99-499 (CERCLA), 42 U.S.C. SECTION 9607, FOR     RECOUPMENT OF $1,344,159.81 PLUS INTEREST EXPENDED ON        RESPONSE MEASURES UNDERTAKEN AT THE ROGERS ROAD MUNICIPAL    LANDFILL LOCATED IN JACKSONVILLE, ARKANSAS.                    THE PROPERTY WAS ACQUIRED BY THE CITY OF JACKSONVILLE ON   SEPTEMBER 16, 1953.  APPROXIMATELY HALF OF THE SITE WAS      USED INTERMITTENTLY AS A MUNICIPAL WASTE DISPOSAL FACILITY,  IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE JACKSONVILLE LANDFILL, UNTIL         OCTOBER 1974.  RECORDS INDICATE THAT OPEN BURNING AND        TRENCHING WITH BUCKET AND DRAGLINE WERE THE WASTE HANDLING   METHODS USED UNTIL 1974, ALONG WITH OPEN DUMPING AND         LANDFILLING.  WASTES APPEAR TO HAVE BEEN DISPOSED OF IN ONE  LONG EXCAVATED TRENCH, AND IN SEVERAL SURFACE PILES,         ACCOMPANIED BY OPEN DUMPING IN NUMEROUS AREAS FOUND AROUND   THE SITE.  AFTER WASTE DISPOSAL, THE TRENCH, SOME OF THE     SURFACE PILES, AND POSSIBLY OTHER OBJECTS APPEAR TO HAVE     BEEN COVERED WITH A LAYER OF SOIL.                             IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE REMIDIAL INVESTIGATION/FEASIBILITY  STUDY, THE PRIMARY SOURCE OF ORGANIC CONTAMINATION AT THE    ROGERS ROAD LANDFILL DERIVED FROM THE CONTAMINATED DRUM      DISPOSAL AREA AND NEARBY MOUNDS LOCATE

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