# INTERNATIONAL PAPER INC
> **Judicial** · FY1991 · — · Final Order With Penalty & Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `4179`
- **Case Number:** 02-1991-0187
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty & Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** $263K
- **Cost recovery:** $2.13M
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- AVON PRODUCTS, INC. (settlement)
- FORD MOTOR COMPANY (settlement)
- GEORGIA-PACIFIC CORP (settlement)
- IBM (settlement)
- INTERNATIONAL PAPER COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- ISA IN NEW JERESY, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- LIGHTRON CORP (settlement)
- NEPERA INC (complaint) (settlement)
- ORANGE AND ROCKLAND UTILITIES, INC. (settlement)
- REICHHOLD CHEMICALS INC (settlement)
- REVERE SMELTING & REFINING CORP., OF NJ (complaint) (settlement)
- ROUND LAKE SANITATION CORP. (complaint) (settlement)
- UNION CARBIDE CORP (settlement)
- WARWICK, TOWN OF (settlement)
## Summary

THE WARWICK LANDFILL SUPERFUND SITE (THE  SITE ) IS        LOCATED APPROXIMATELY ONE AND ONE-HALF MILES NORTHEAST OF    THE VILLAGE OF GREENWOOD LAKE IN THE TOWN OF WARWICK, ORANGE COUNTY, NY.  THE LANDFILL MOUND TRANSECTS A SMALL VALLEY AND OCCUPIES APPROXIMATELY 13 ACRES OF A 25 ACRE LEASEHOLD       PARCEL.                                                        THE SITE WAS OWNED AND FARMED BY THE PENALUNA FAMILY FROM  1898 TO THE MID-1950S, WHEN THE TOWN OF WARWICK LEASED THE   PROPERTY FROM THE PENALUNA FAMILY AND UTILIZED IT AS A RE-   FUSE DISPOSAL AREA.  THE FACILITY ACCEPTED MUNICIPAL WASTES  FROM THE SURROUNDING TOWNS IN ORANGE COUNTY.  RECENT         EVIDENCE INDICATES THAT SOME INDUSTRIAL WASTE CONTAINING     HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES WAS ALSO SENT TO THE SITE DURING THE    TOWN OF WARWICK'S OPERATION.  THE TOWN OF WARWICK OPERATED   THE LANDFILL UNTIL 1977.  THE LANDFILL WAS REGULATED BY THE  ORANGE COUNTY DEPT. OF HEALTH ( OCDOH ) DURING THIS TIME.      IN APRIL 1977, THE SITE WAS LEASED FROM THE PROPERTY OWNER MRS. MILLIE MAE PENALUNA, BY GRACE DISPOSAL AND LEASING,     LTD. ( GRACE DISPOSAL ), HARRIMAN, NY.  ON JULY 15, 1977,    GRACE DISPOSAL WAS GRANTED A PERMIT TO OPERATE THE REFUSE    DISPOSAL AREA BY OCDOH.  REGULATION OF SANITARY LANDFILLS    WAS THEN TAKEN OVER BY THE NYSDEC.  GRACE DISPOSAL APPLIED   FOR A SANITARY LANDFILL PERMIT WITH NYSDEC ON FEB. 28, 1978  AND OPERATED UNDER A TEMPORARY PERMIT BASED ON THE TIMELY    COMPLETION OF ITS PERMIT APPLICATION. 

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