# ENDICOTT, VILLAGE OF
> **Judicial** · FY1991 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `4111`
- **Case Number:** 02-1991-0119
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $1
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- ENDICOTT JOHNSON CORP (complaint) (settlement)
- ENDICOTT, VILLAGE OF (complaint) (settlement)
- GEORGE INDUSTRIES (complaint) (settlement)
- UNION, TOWN OF (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

THE ENDICOTT WELLFIELD SUPERFUND SITE (THE  SITE ) IS A    NATIONAL PRIORITIES LIST SITE LOCATED NEAR THE SOUTHWESTERN  BOUNDARY OF THE VILLAGE OF ENDICOTT, BROOME COUNTY, NEW      YORK.  MOST OF THE SITE IS LOCATED ON LAND OWNED BY THE      VILLAGE OF ENDICOTT (THE  VILLAGE ).                           IN APRIL 1983, THE NEW YORK STATE DEPT. OF ENVIRONMENTAL   CONSERVATION ( NYSDEC ) PERFORMED A STUDY AT THE SITE.       THE RESULTS INDICATED THAT THE SOURCE OF CONTAMINATION IN    THE RANNEY WELL WAS LOCATED WEST OR NORTHWEST OF THE WELL.   BECAUSE OF THIS INVESTIGATION A PURGE WELL WAS INSTALLED     TO INTERCEPT AND CAPTURE THE CONTAMINATION PLUME AFFECTING   THE WELL.                                                      BETWEEN MARCH 1986, AND JULY 1987, NYSDEC CONDUCTED A      REMEDIAL INVESTIGATION AND FEASIBILITY STUDY ( RI/FS ) TO    DETERMINE THE SOURCE OF CHEMICALS ENTERING THE RANNEY WELL.  A RECORD OF DECISION WHICH DOCUMENTED THE SELECTED REMEDIAL  ACTION FOR THE SITE WAS ISSUED BY EPA ON 9/25/87.  THE       REMEDIAL ACTION IN THE ROD INCLUDED THE INSTALLATION OF AN   AIR STRIPPING TOWER ON THE RANNEY WELL DISCHARGE AND         CONTINUATION OF THE USE OF THE EXISTING PURGE WELL.  SINCE   THE ISSUANCE OF THE 1987 ROD, EPA HAS HAD LEAD RESPONSIBILI- ITY FOR THE SITE.                                              THE RI/FS CONCLUDED THAT THE INFORMATION TO DATE WAS       INADEQUATE TO DETERMINE THE SOURCE FOR THE VOCS IN THE       GROUND WATER.  IN THE ROD, EPA INDICAT

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