# BARRIER INDUSTRIES, INC.
> **Judicial** · FY1995 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `5350`
- **Case Number:** 02-1995-0150
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $3.71M
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- BARRIER INDUSTRIES, INC. (complaint)
- BARRIER SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
- HARVEY WASSERMAN (settlement)
- KURT WASSERMAN (complaint) (settlement)
- LINDA WASSERMAN (settlement)
- MILDRED WASSERMAN (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

BARRIER INDUSTRIES SITE IS APPROXIMATELY 1000 FT. FROM A   RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOOD AND SENIOR CITIZENS COMPLEX, AND IS ADJACENT TO THE NEVERSINK RIVER, WHICH DEFINES THE SOUTHWEST BORDER OF THE PROPERTY.                                        ON JAN. 28, 1994, THE EMERGENCY AND REMEDIAL RESPONSE DIV. OF EPA REGION II RECEIVED A REQUEST FROM THE NYSDEC FOR      PERFORMANCE OF A REMOVAL ACTION AT THE SITE UNDER CERCLA/AS  AMENDED, 42 U.S.C. SECTION 9601, ET SEQ.  THE REMOVAL ACTION WAS REQUIRED TO STABILIZE, SECURE, AND DISPOSE OF THE        HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES AT THE SITE.                              AFTER RECEIVING NYSDEC'S REQUEST, EPA CONDUCTED A SITE     ASSESSMENT WHICH DETERMINED THAT AN ESTIMATED 5,000 DRUMS    AND 10.000 OTHER CONTAINERS OF HAZARDUS MATERIALS, PRODUCT   PRECURSORS, & PRODUCTS WERE STORED THROUGHOUT THE FACILITY.  AN ESTIMATED 200 LARGE STROAGE TANKS AND REACTOR VESSELS     CONTAINING POTENTIALLY HAZARDOUS RAW MATERIALS AND PRODUCT   PRECURSORS WERE WITHIN THE PRODUCTION BUILDING.  EPA FOUND   THAT EIGHT TRACTOR TRAILERS FILLED WITH DRUMS WERE ALSO      STORED OUTSIDE OF THE FACILITY.  MANY OF THE DRUMS HAD BEEN  EXPOSED TO FREEZING CONDITIONS AND HAD BURST AND SPILLED     THEIR CONTENTS THROUGHOUT THE BUILDING OR WERE EXPANDING OUT OF THEIR BUNGS.                                                IN JULY 1995, EPA COMPLETED THE PERFORMANCE OF THE REMOVAL ACTION, CONSISTING OF, AMOUNT OTHER THINGS, THE OVERPACKING  OF ALL DETERIORATED DRUMS CONTAINING L

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