# MOTTOLO, RICHARD, ET AL.
> **Judicial** · FY1982 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `53`
- **Case Number:** 01-1982-0022
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** $0
- **Cost recovery:** $1.50M
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- K.J. QUINN CHEMICAL CO. (complaint) (settlement)
- LEWIS CHEMICAL CO. (complaint) (settlement)
- MOTTOLO, RICHARD (complaint) (settlement)
- SERVICE PUMPING & DRAIN CO., INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- SUTERA, CARL (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

SYNOPSIS:                                                         RICHARD A. MOTTOLO OWNS PROPERTY ON BLUEBERRY HILL RD   IN RAYMOND, NH. IT IS APPROX. 50 ACRES OF UNDEVELOPED, WOOD- ED LAND.  OVER 1600 55-GAL DRUMS & 5-GAL PAILS WERE BURIED   IN A QUARTER ACRE SITE IN A CLEARED AREA FORMERLY USED AS A  PIGGERY.                                                          BETWEEN 1975 & 1978 MR. MOTTOLO TRANSPORTED & DISPOSED  OF HAZARDOUS WASTE FROM K.J. QUINN CO. AT THE MOTTOLO SITE.  BETWEEN 1977 & 1978 MR. MOTTOLO ALSO TRANSPORTED & DISPOSED  OF HAZARDOUS WASTES FROM LEWIS CHEMICAL CO. AT THE SITE.          IN JUNE 1980 NHWS&PCC REQUESTED THAT EPA ACT TO PREVENT RELEASE OF HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES FROM THE MOTTOLO SITE. PUR-  SUANT TO SECT. 311 OF THE CWA, 33 U.S.C. SECT 1231, EPA BE-  GAN AN EMERGENCY ACTION AT THE SITE ON SEPT. 9, 1980.  DRUMS WERE EXCAVATED & STORED IN NEARBY SHED; THIS INITIAL WORK    WAS COMPLETED BY 12/4/80.  NO FUNDS WERE AVAILABLE TO COM-   PLETE THE REMOVAL & SITE WAS SECURED UNTIL PLANNED REMOVAL   COULD BE FUNDED.  SUBSEQUENT TO PASSAGE OF CERCLA , SITE WAS LISTED ON INTERIM PRIORITY LIST IN 10/81 & REMOVAL WAS FUND- ED BY CERCLA.  REMOVAL BEGAN ON 11/30/81 & WAS COMPLETED ON  1/22/82.  EPA REMOVED 1616 DRUMS & PAILS FROM THE SITE & RE- GRADED & RESEEDED THE AREA.  APPROX. $354,000 WAS SPENT FROM SECT. 311 FUNDS & APPROX $390,000 FROM CERCLA FUNDS.              NH'S ATTY GEN FILED SUIT IN ROCKINGHAM SUPERIOR CT. ON  MAY 31, 1979 (NO. E-952-79) AGAINST 

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