EPA REGION II SEEKS TO RECOVER MONIES SPENT AT THE IMPERIAL OIL CO.,INC./CHAMPION CHEMICAL SUPERFUND SITE LOCATED IN MARLBORO TOWNSHIP, MONMOUTH COUNTY, NEW JERSEY. THE REPONSE COSTS INCURRED BY EPA INCLUDE A REMEDIAL INVESTIGATION, TWO FEASIBILITY STUDIES AND FOUR REMOVAL ACTIONS. IN ADDITION, PENALTIES FOR VIOLATION OF TWO UNILATERAL ADMINISTRATIVE ORDERS AND A DECLARATORY JUDGMENT FOR FUTURE COSTS WILL ALSO BE SOUGHT. CONTAMINATION AT THE SITE INCLUDES PCBS, ARSENIC, LEAD AND CHROMIUM WHICH IS FOUND IN THE SOILS, SEDIMENT AND GROUNDWATER. THERE ARE FOUR PRPS AT THE SITE THAT INCLUDE THREE OWNERS AND AN OPERATOR.
The 2010 CD is a settlement of an action to enforce violations of a 2001 CD in which the Defendants failed to pay the cash amounts required in the 2001 CD. This 2010 CD supersedes the 2001 CD and the Court Order issued regarding the Defendant in their entirety. Settling Defendants shall pay response costs and provide EPA with the net proceeds from 1) any insurance recoveries and 2) the sale of the property.
This CD, entered on September 14, 2010, resolves this action, EA# 02-2007-0007 and EA# 02-2007-0010.