# CHEMICAL LEAMAN TANK LINES, INC
> **Judicial** · FY1991 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `4290`
- **Case Number:** 02-1991-0301
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $715K
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- CHEMICAL LEAMAN TANK LINES, INC (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

THIS IS A REFERRAL TO THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE REQUESTING THE APPROVAL, SIGNATURE AND SIMULTANEOUS LODGING OF          A COMPLAINT AND A JUDICIAL CONSENT DECREE REGARDING THE      LEAMAN TANK LINES SUPERFUND SITE LOCATED IN LOGAN TOWNSHIP,  NEW JERSEY UNDER CERCLA 106A.                                  THE SITE INCLUDES AN ACTIVE INDUSTRIAL TERMINAL USED FOR   THE DISPATCHING, STORAGE, MAINTENANCE AND CLEANING OF        TANKER TRUCKS AND TRAILERS; AND FALLOW FARMLAND AND THE      WETLANDS ADJACENT THE CHEMICAL LEAMAN TERMINAL.                CHEMICAL LEAMAN TRANSPORTS CHEMICAL COMMODITIES IN BULK    QUANTITIES, SOME OF WHICH ARE CLASSIFIED AS HAZARDOUS.  THE  TERMINAL HAS BEEN IN OPERATION SINCE 1961.  PAST WASTEWATER  HANDLING AND DISPOSAL PRACTICES AT THE SITE RESULTED IN      ORGANIC AND INORGANIC CONTAMINATION OF SOIL, GROUNDWATER     AND THE ADJACENT WETLANDS.                                     THE CONSENT DECREE REQUIRED CHEMICAL LEAMAN TO UNDERTAKE   OPERABLE UNIT I, TREATMENT OF THE GROUNDWATER CONTAMINANT    PLUME AT THE SITE, AT AN ESTIMATED COST OF APPROXIMATELY     $5.4 MILLION.  IN ADDITION, THE CD PROVIDES FOR REIM-        BURSEMENT BY CHEMICAL LEAMAN OF $714,579.05 IN PAST RESPONSE COSTS, AN AMOUNT $100,00 LESS THAN THE TOTAL PAST RESPONSE   COSTS INCURRED BY THE U.S. WITH REGARD TO OPERABLE UNIT I.   THIS SETTLEMENT FOR THE PERFORMANCE OF THE REMEDY AND PAY-   MENT OF $714,579.05 IN PAST RESPONSE COSTS AND ALL FUTURE    OVERSIGHT COSTS, WILL RECOVER OR AVOID

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