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MADISON COUNTY SANITARY LANDFILL

Judicial · FY2002 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery · 24822

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Cost recovery
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Compliance action

Case

Case Number
04-2002-9003
Type
Judicial
Lead
EPA
Outcome
Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
DOJ Docket
90-11-3-1053
Multimedia
N
Self-disclosure
N

Defendants (4)

Summary

SUMMARY OF MATTER: THE PAST COSTS WERE $4,675.44. THE REFERRAL IS BEING FILED AGAINST MADISON COUNTY; THE CITY OF MADISON, FL; ITT THOMPSON INDUSTRIES, INC.; AND ITT INDUSTRIES, INC. GROUNDWATER AT THE COUNTY OWNED LANDFILL WAS CONTAMINATED WITH TCE AND ITS BYPRODUCTS. TCE CONTAMINATED WASTES GENERATED BY ITT HAD BEEN BURIED AT THE LANDFILL SINCE THE EARLY 1970'S. NATURE & NUMBER OF DEFENDANTS: MADISON COUNTY, A MUNICIPAL BODY OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA, IS THE CURRENT OWNER OF THE SITE. THE CITY OF MADISON, FL, A MUNICIPAL CORP., ACQUIRED THE SITE BY WARRANTY DEED DATED MAY 7, 1971, AND OPERATED THE SITE FROM APPROX. JUNE 1971 TO MARCH 1980. ITT INDUSTRIES, INC., IS A PRIVATE CORPORATION WHOSE WHOLLY OWNED SUBSIDIARY, ITT THOMPSON INDUSTRIES, INC., SENT TCE CONTAMINATED INDUSTRIAL WASTES TO THE SITE. THE REMEDIAL ACTION IS BEING PERFORMED UNDER A UAO AND INVOLVES PUMPING AND TREATING THE GROUNDWATER BENEATH THE SITE AND MONITORING THE GROUNDWATER QUALITY FOR 25 YEARS.

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