“The Ford Road Landfill Site is a 15-acre inactive facility located on the Black River in Elyria, Ohio. The landfill was originally a ravine which has been filled to the same level as Ford Road. There are approximately 2500 people living within a 1-mile radius of the Site.

The landfill accepted municipal and various industrial wastes in drums and in bulk including, but not limited to, the following wastes: 700 tons of hazardous materials including heavy metals, other inorganic substances, and miscellaneous catalysts and insecticides from Harshaw Chemicals, a division of Gulf Oil Chemical Company; 3.3 million pounds of chemical wastes including organics, solvents, resins, oils and sludges, elastomers, acrylates, and latex emulsions from B.F. Goodrich Company’s Chemical Group; and 32,000 gallons of sludge per day from 1963 to 1970 from General Motors. Some of the wastes were burned on the Site.”

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