# WADE LANDFILL
> **Judicial** · FY1979 · — · Litigated With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `9018`
- **Case Number:** 03-1979-0014
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Litigated With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $117K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- ABM DISPOSAL SERVICE CO., INC.
- APOLLO METALS INC.
- CONGOLEUM CORP.
- EASTERN RUBBER RECLAIMING,INC.
- ELLIS BARNHOUSE
- FRANKLIN P. TYSON
- GOULD, INC.
- LARRY H. SLASS
- MELVIN R. WADE (complaint) (settlement)
- SANDVIK STEEL, INC.
## Summary

WADE LANDFILL - CHESTER, PA, FILED 4/20/79, (AMENDED COM-    PLAINT FILED 3/14/80 & 10/26/81), CIVIL ACTION #79-1426      US DISTRICT CT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF PA, THE WADE      SITE WAS USED AS A DISPOSAL & STORAGE SITE PRINCIPALLY BY    ABM DISPOSAL CO. FOR HAZARDOUS & SOLID WSTES. LOCATED ON     THE SITE ARE SEVERAL THOUSAND DRUMS IN DETERIORATING         CONDITION CONTAINING SOLID & HAZARDOUS WASTES, AS WELL       AS 5 TANK TRUCKS IN VARIOUS STATES OF DISREPAIR.             COMPLAINT ALLEGES THAT THE DETERIORATING CONDITION OF THE    DRUMS & TANKS THREATENS CONTAMINATION OF GRND & SURFACE      WTR. THE SITE IS LOCATED W/IN 1 BLK OF A RESIDENTIAL         NGHBRHD, & IS BOUNDED BY THE DELAWARE RIVER ON THE EAST,     THE PHILA ELEC CO ON THE NORTH & THE COMMODORE BARRY         BRIDGE. AN EMPTY TANK OF LIQUIFIED NATURAL GAS OWNED BY      THE UTILITY IS LOCATED SOME 15 FT FROM THE PROPERTY. NO      BARRIER EXISTS TO PREVENT STRM WTR RUNOFF OR LIQUID WSTES    FROM ENTERING THE RIVER. THE NATURE OF THE SITE PRESENTS     A SUBSTANTIAL ENDANGERMNT TO PUBLIC HLTH & SAFETY. WSTES     WERE DISPOSED OF AT THE SITE IN 55 GAL DRUMS, OR WERE        POURED DIRECTLY ONTO THE GRND FROM DRUMS OR TANKERS. A       FIRE IN FEB 1978 BURNED MANY OF THE DRUMS & ACCELERATED      THEIR DETERIORATION. IN ADDIT'N TO THE OWNERS OF THE WADE    SITE & THE ABM DISPOSAL CO, 38 GENERATORS WERE PURSUED AS    POTENTIALLY RESPONSIBLE PARTIES. IN DEC 1981 32 OF THESE     38 GENERATORS AGREED TO A CASH SETTL

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