# CLEVE REBER SUPERFUND SITE
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1997 · — · —
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `37437`
- **Case Number:** 06-1997-0609
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** —
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- CIBA GEIGY CORPORATION (complaint)
- MONOCHEM, INC. (complaint)
- RHONE-POULENC, INC. (complaint)
- UNIROYAL CHEMICAL COMPANY, INC. (complaint)
- VULCAN MATERIALS COMPANY (complaint)
## Summary

1. SECTION 122(H)(1) OF THE COMPREHENSIVE ENVIRONMENTAL RE-     SPONSE COMPENSATION, AND LIABILITY ACT ( CERCLA ).        2. CLEVE REBER SUPERFUND SITE                                   SORRENTO, ASCENSION PARISH, LOUISIANA                        RESPONDENTS: 1. CIBA GEIGY CORPORATION                                    2. MONOCHEM, INC.                                            3. RHONE-POULENC, INC.                                       4. UNIROYAL CHEMICAL COMPANY, INC.                           5. VULCAN MATERIALS COMPANY                  3. THE SITE CONTAINS PITS THAT WERE ORIGINALLY USED AS A        SOURCE OF BORROW MATERIAL FOR ROAD AND BRIDGE CONSTRUCT-     ION. FROM 1968 UNTIL 1974, THE SITE WAS OWNED BY ASCENS-     ION PARISH AND OPERATED AS A LANDFILL. FROM 1970 TO 1974,    CLEVE REBER, PRESIDENT, AND SOLE PROPRIETOR OF ENVIRON-      MENTAL CONTROLS COMPANY OF LOUISIANA, OPERATED THE SITE      AS A LANDFILL. MR. REBER ACCEPTED THE HAZARDOUS SUB-         STANCES FOR DISPOSAL IN THE LANDFILL.                        THE PRINCIPAL CONTAMINANTS OF CONCERN AT THE SITE WERE       THE HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES HEXACHLOROBENZENE (HEX OR HCB),     HEXACHLOROBUTADIENE (HCBD), N-NITROSODIPHENYLAMINE, HEXA-    CHLOROETHENE (HCE), AND TETRACHLOROETHENE, ALL CONSIDERED    CARCINOGENS. THE PRIMARY HAZARDS TO HUMAN HELATH WERE I-     DENTIFIED AS DIRECT CONTACT OR INGESTION OF ON-SITE SUR-     FACE SOIL, SEDIMENT, SURFACE WATER, LEACHATE, AND GROUND-    WATER WITHIN THE ACQUIFER BENEATH

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