The Nation - News from Aug. 23, 1987

General Electric and two other companies have agreed to pay nearly $2.7 million, 60% of cleanup costs at a New Hampshire toxic waste dump, in a partial settlement in one of the first Superfund cleanup cases to go to trial. The agreement by GE, Solvents Recovery Service of New England Inc. and Lilly Industrial Coatings Inc. follows more than four years of litigation and 10 months of federal court trial in two phases on liability and damages for the 1-acre Ottati and Goss site and the adjacent 5.8-acre Kingston Steel Drum dump in Kingston. It has not been decided who will pay the remaining 40% of cleanup costs.