# Superior Barrel and Drum Co., Inc. et al.
> **Judicial** · FY2017 · — · Default Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `3601099742`
- **Case Number:** 02-2017-0013
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Default Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** —
## Defendants
- Cassidy Painting Inc. (settlement)
- Cleveland Steel Container Corporation (settlement)
- Coating Development Group, Inc. (settlement)
- Congoleum Corporation (settlement)
- Courtaulds Aerospace Coatings, Inc.
- Courtaulds Aerospace, Inc.
- DeSoto Aerospace Coatings, Inc.
- Durand Glass Manufacturing Company LLC (settlement)
- Engineered Polymer Solutions, Inc.
- Expert Management Inc. (settlement)
- Glenn Springs Holdings, Inc.
- Hibrett Puratex (settlement)
- Incineration Recycling Services Inc. (settlement)
- Johnson Matthey Inc.
- LCR Electronics, Inc. (settlement)
- LCR Embedded Systems, Inc. (settlement)
- LCRES Holdings, Inc. (settlement)
- Lilly Coatings, Inc.
- Mahogany Company of Mays Landing, Inc (settlement)
- Martin Corp. (settlement)
- Melva Toy (complaint) (settlement)
- National Casein of New Jersey (settlement)
- National Chemical Laboratories of PA, Inc. (settlement)
- National Chemical Laboratories, Inc.
- Occidental Chemical Corporation (settlement)
- Ocean Yachts Inc. (settlement)
- PPG Industries, Inc.
- PRC-DeSoto International, Inc.
- PRC-Desoto International, Inc. (settlement)
- Polymeric Systems Inc. (settlement)
- Puritan Products, Inc. (settlement)
- R.H. Sheppard Co., Inc. (settlement)
- Recycle Inc. East
- Richland Glass Co., Inc. (settlement)
- Rodel, Inc.
- Rohm and Haas Company (settlement)
- Rohm and Haas Electronic Materials CMP Inc.
- Stem Brothers, Inc. (settlement)
- Straight Arrow Products, Inc. (settlement)
- Superior Barrel and Drum Co., Inc. (complaint) (settlement)
- The Sherwin-Williams Company (settlement)
- The Worthington Steel Company (settlement)
- Thermoseal Industries, LLC (settlement)
- Thomas Toy (complaint) (settlement)
- Trex Properties LLC (settlement)
- United Asphalt Co. (settlement)
- VP Racing Fuels, Inc.
## Summary

Cost recovery action pursuant to Section 107(a) of CERCLA, relating to the Superior Barrel and Drum Superfund Site in Elk Township, New Jersey.  EPA has incurred approximately $6.3 million in removal action costs addressing contamination at this abandoned container reconditioning plant. During its removal action, EPA removed and properly disposed of thousands of containers of hazardous substances, pollutants, or contaminants such as benzene, toluene, trichloroethylene, ethylbenzene, xylenes, PCBs and lead. The containers had been leaking, void of tops, exposed to weather elements, rusted, damaged due to gunshots, stored improperly, and lying on their sides. 

U.S. District Court entered a Default Judgment against the Defendants for $6,370,093 in cost recovery.

On November 22, 2019, the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey entered two consent decrees. These two consent decrees, one with a group of 30 arrangers (the Group) and one with an arranger that has a limited ability to pay, resolve the United States� claims against these 31 parties who arranged for the treatment or disposal of hazardous substances at the Site. The Settling Defendants will pay EPA $3,775,000.  In addition to settling with these PRPs, EPA has pursued cost recovery from the former owners and operators of the facility. In April 2018, the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey granted EPA�s Motion for Entry of Default Judgment for all Site costs against the owner/operators.

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