# CHARLES GEORGE TRUCKING COMPANY, ET AL.
> **Judicial** · FY1982 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `49`
- **Case Number:** 01-1982-0014
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $38.60M
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- AMSTAR SUGAR CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- ANALOG DEVICES, INC (complaint) (settlement)
- BFI (complaint) (settlement)
- BORDEN (complaint) (settlement)
- CHARLES GEORGE TRUCKING COMPANY, ET AL (complaint) (settlement)
- CLEAN HARBORS (complaint) (settlement)
- COURIER CITIZEN COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- DENNISON (complaint) (settlement)
- DIXON, ERNEST R. JR. (complaint) (settlement)
- DYMEC, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- ECKEL INDUSTRIES, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- FEDERAL METAL FINISHING (complaint) (settlement)
- GENERAL ELECTRIC (complaint) (settlement)
- GEORGE, CHARLES SR. (complaint) (settlement)
- GEORGE, CHARLES, JR. (complaint) (settlement)
- GEORGE, DOROTHY (complaint) (settlement)
- GEORGE, JAMES (complaint) (settlement)
- GILLETTE (complaint) (settlement)
- HUSSEY PLASTICS COMPANY, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- JENIKE & JOHNSON, INC (complaint) (settlement)
- KARRAS, KAREN (complaint) (settlement)
- LACERTE, DOROTHY G. (complaint) (settlement)
- LAM, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- MILLIPORE CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- NATIONAL ALUMINUM CORPORATION (NAC) (complaint) (settlement)
- POLAROID CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- PPG INDUSTRIES, INC (complaint) (settlement)
- PRIDE PRINTERS (complaint) (settlement)
- RAYTHEON (complaint) (settlement)
- SPINCRAFT, DIVISION OF STANDEX INTERNATI (complaint) (settlement)
- STEPAN (complaint) (settlement)
- W.R. GRACE & CO (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

THIS IS A CIVIL ACTION FOR COST RECOVERY UNDER SECTION  107 OF CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. SECTION 9601 ET SEQ., AGAINST THE   CHARLES GEORGE TRUCKING CO., & ITS TRUSTEES.                 SYNOPSIS:                                                         THE CASE INVOLVES A 70-ACRE LANDFILL IN TYNGSBORO &     DUNSTABLE, MA (THE SITE), WHICH IS ESTIMATED TO BE THE 2ND   LARGEST PRIVATELY OWNED LANDFILL IN MASS & HAS BEEN LISTED   ON THE NPL SINCE 12/82.  IT HAS BEEN OWNED & OPERATED BY THE CHARLES GEORGE LAND RECLAMATION TRUST (CGLRT) SINCE 1971.    DOROTHY & CHARLES GEORGE SR. NAMED THEMSELVES AS TRUSTEES OF THE CGLRT & OPERATED THE LANDFILL IN THE STYLE OF A FAMILY   BUSINESS -- I.E., W/THEIR CHILDREN, JAMES GEORGE, CHARLES    GEORGE JR., & KAREN KARRAS PARTICIPATING IN THE DAY-TO-DAY   OPERATIONS.                                                       PURSUANT TO PERMITS ISSUED BY MASS, THE SITE WAS OPER-  ATED AS A HAZARDOUS WASTE DISPOSAL FACILITY FROM 1973-JAN    1976.  IN 1979 DOROTHY & CHARLES, SR. RESIGNED AS TRUSTEES,  & JAMES GEORGE BECAME SOLE TRUSTEE OF THE CGLRT.  DESPITE    SIZEABLE REVENUES PRODUCED BY THE CGLRT FROM 1971-1983, THE  CGLRT FILED A PETITION FOR BANKRUPTCY IN APR '83 & ABANDONED THE SITE SHORTLY THEREAFTER.  BANKRUPTCY COURT DISMISSED THE PETITION & AN APPEAL TO U.S. DIST. COURT IS PENDING.              IN NOV 1983, EPA'S CONTRACTORS BEGAN INVESTIGATING THE  RELEASE OF HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES AT THE SITE.  PURSUANT TO    SECT 104 OF CERCLA, EPA HAS CONDUCTED SEV

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