# NEW CASTLE, COUNTY OF ET AL
> **Judicial** · FY1980 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `9046`
- **Case Number:** 03-1980-0028
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $545K
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** Y
## Defendants
- DUPONT (complaint) (settlement)
- ICI AMERICAS, INC (complaint) (settlement)
- NEWCASTLE COUNTY, DELAWARE (complaint) (settlement)
- STAUFFER CHEMICAL CO. (complaint) (settlement)
- WILLIAM C. WARD (complaint) (settlement)
- WITCO (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

NEW CASTLE COUNTY; WILLIAM C. WARD ET AL (TYBOUTS            LANDFILL) NEW CASTLE COUNTY, DE, FILED 10/8/80, CIVIL        ACTION #80-489 US DIST CT FOR THE DISTRICT DE, THE 50        ACRE TYBOUTS LANDFILL WAS OPERATED AS A MUNICIPAL            LANDFILL BY NEW CASTLE COUNTY FROM JAN 1969 UNTIL JUL        1971. ACCRDNG TO THE COMPLAINT, WSTES FROM THE NEW           CASTLE COUNTY SITE HAVE CONTAMINATED PORTIONS OF THE         COLUMBIA & POTOMAC AQUIFERS & AT LEAST 1 PRIVATE DRINKING    WTR WELL. TYBOUTS IS LOCATED ON 76 ACRES OF PROPERTY         OWNED BY WM AND ELIZABETH WARD. NEW CASTLE LEASED 50         ACRES FROM THE WARDS FOR USAGE AS A MUNICIPAL LANDFILL,      & THE WARDS AGREED TO ASSUME JOINT RESPONSIBILITY FOR        ITS OPERATION. THE LANDFILL IS SOUTH OF THE INTERSECTION     OF US 13 & DELAWARE 71, & IS ABOUT 4 MILES NORTH OF THE      CHESAPEAKE & DELAWARE CANAL. THE WESTERN BOUNDARY IS         FORMED BY PIDGEON RIVER, A TRIBUTARY STRM OF RED LION        CREEK WHICH CROSSES UNDER RTE 13 AT THE SW CORNER OF THE     LANDFILL. THE NORTHERN PORTION OF THE LANDFILL ABUTS RTE     71. PORTIONS OF THE COLUMBIA & POTOMAC AQUIFERS ARE          DIRECTLY BENEATH THE SITE. THE COLUMBIA AQUIFER OVERLIES     THE POTOMAC AQUIFER & CONSISTS OF SEDIMENTS OF SILTY         SANDS THAT DISPLAY WIDE VARIATIONS IN TEXTURE, SORTING &     PERMEABILITY. THE GRNDWTR FLOW DIRECTION OF THE              COLUMBIA AQUIFER IS W/SW WHILE THE FLOW DIRECTION OF         THE POTOMAC AQUIFER IS IN A SOUTHERN

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