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Cortese Landfill NPL Site

This location is an approximately 5-acre site bordered by wetland to the south, a steep rock escarpment to the northeast, and a railroad embankment to the southwest.

  • Date/Time Frame
  • 1970–1981
  • Statute
  • CERCLA
  • State
  • New York
  • Substances
  • various waste materials 
  • Injury
  • Birds, Fish, Soil, Vegetation, Wetlands
Consent Decrees:

1996.01.19 Related Document

  • Federal Trustees:
  • Department of the Interior (DOI)/Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), National Park Service
  • State Trustees:
  • New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC)
  • Potentially Responsible Parties:
  • Allied-Signal Inc. (as successor to The Bendix Co.), Cellu-Craft Inc., Consolidated Edison Company of New York Inc., Continental Holdings Inc. (as successor to Continental Can Co. Inc.), Cortese Construction Corp., Custom Chemical Co. Inc., E.I. DuPont De Nemours & Co., Falstrom Co., Flexabar Corp. Inc., Ganes Chemicals Inc., Halocarbon Products Corp., Huls America Inc. (as successor to Kay Fries Chemicals Inc.), ICI Americas Inc., Inmont Corp., INX Printing Ink Corp. (as successor to Carlson Ink), Keuffel & Esser Co., Marisol Inc., National Starch and Chemical Corp., Nicholas Enterprises Inc. (as successor to Nicholas Sanitation), Occidental Chemical Corp., The Okonite Co., Pacquet Oneida Inc. (as successor to Oneida Packaging Products), Radiac Research Corp., Rhone-Poulenc Inc., R&R Sanitation, SCA Services Inc., Stepan Chemical, Town of Tusten