# BRISTOL LABS/SOLVENT SAVERS SITE
> **Judicial** · FY1990 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `3916`
- **Case Number:** 02-1990-0191
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $4.12M
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- ALLIED CORPORATION
- AMERICAN LOCKER GROUP (complaint) (settlement)
- BRISTOL-MYERS SQUIBB CO INC (complaint) (settlement)
- CARRIER CORPORATION
- DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE
- GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION
- INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORP (complaint) (settlement)
- PASS AND SEYMOUR, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- SOLVENTS & PETROLEUM SERVICES, INC.
- STAUFFER CHEMICAL COMPANY
- UNISYS CORPORATION
## Summary

THE SOLVENT SAVERS, INC. SITE (HEREINAFTER, THE  SITE )    COVERS ABOUT 13 ACRES AND IS LOCATED IN THE TOWN OF          LINCKLAEN IN THE NORTHWESTERN SECTION OF CHENANGO COUNTY,    NEW YORK.  THE SITE IS LOCATED IN A RURAL AREA, WITH A       POPULATION OF APPROXIMATELY 500 PEOPLE.  THERE ARE THREE     RESIDENCES WITHIN THREE-HUNDRED FEET OF THE SITE THAT        UTILIZE PRIVATE WELLS AS THE SOURCE OF DRINKING WATER.         THE SOLVENT SAVERS BUSINESS WAS INCORPORATED BY DR. HAROLD FREDIANI IN 1962.  AT FIRST, THE BUSINESS WAS OPERATED IN    POMPEY, NEW YORK.  IN DECEMBER, 1964, IT WAS SOLD TO DALE    HOUGH, MR. FREDIANI'S BROTHER-IN-LAW, WHO MOVED THE          BUSINESS TO LINCKLAEN, NEW YORK.  A THIRD SOLVENT SAVERS     FACILITY, NOVAK FARM, IN PHARSALIA, NEW YORK, WAS USED BY    HOUGH MAINLY FOR THE DISPOSAL OF SLUDGE.  DALE HOUGH OWNED   AND OPERATED A CHEMICAL WASTE RECOVERY FACILITY AT THE       LINCKLAEN SITE BETWEEN APPROXIMATELY 1967 AND 1974.  WASTE   SOLVENTS WERE HAULED FROM NUMEROUS INDUSTRIAL FACILITIES     IN THE BINGHAMPTON AND SYRACUSE AREAS TO THE SITE.  AT THE   SITE, A DISTILLATION PROCESS WAS USED TO RECOVER SOLVENTS    FOR REUSE.  IN ADDITION, MR. HOUGH OWNED AND OPERATED A      DRUM RECONDITIONING BUSINESS (CASH BARREL, INC.) AT THE      SAME LOCATION WHICH RECONDITIONED AND SOLD MANY OF THE DRUMS BROUGHT TO THE SITE CONTAINING WASTE SOLVENTS.  IT IS        SUSPECTED THAT WASTES FROM THE DISTILLATION PROCESS WERE     DISPOSED OF ON THE SITE.  OPERATIONS C

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