HIPPS ROAD SETTLEMENT

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@igc.org>]

HIPPS ROAD SETTLEMENT
The principal responsible party at Hipps Road, one of the nation's most 
notorious Superfund sites, has settled with nearly 700 plaintiffs. WMX 
(Waste Management), which bought the operator of the Hipps Road 
Landfill, in Jacksonville, Florida after it ceased operations there, has 
agreed to pay $18 million to at least 671 neighbors of the highly 
contaminated site, and it has also agreed to spend $250,000 connecting 
affected homes to municipal water lines. 
Though the metals, PCBs, and other contaminants were hauled from 
Jacksonville area Navy facilities, the Navy was not a party to the 
settlement.
(Florida Times-Union, February 10, 1996)
Lenny Siegel