INFORMATION ABOUT HAZARDOUS WASTE MANAGEMENT FACILITIES
This solid waste management inventory (SW-145)
was compiled by
DONALD FARB
and
S. DANIEL WARD
U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
February 1975
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
User Instructions 1
Matrix of Wastes Accepted vs Hazardous Waste Management Facility 2
The Crago Company, Inc. 8
Chemical Application Company 10
Safety Projects and Engineering, Inc. 12
Silresim Chemical Corporation 14
Astro Pak Corporation 17
Marisol, Inc. 19
National Converters, Inc. 21
Rollins Environmental Services 23
Scientific, Inc. 25
Chem-Trol Pollution Services, Inc. 27
Chemical Waste Disposal Corporation 30
Frontier Chemical Waste Process, Inc. 32
Pollution Abatement Services 34
Recycling Laboratories 35
American Recovery Corporation (Curtis Bay) 37
American Recovery Corporation (Sparrows Point) 39
Chemfix, Inc. 41
Pottstown Disposal Service 43
Sitkin Metal Industry, Inc. 45
Liquid Waste Disposal of Virginia 47
Liquid Waste Disposal, Inc. 48
Nuclear Engineering Company, Inc. 50
Petrolite Corporation 52
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TABLE OF CONTENTS (Continued)
Hyon Waste Management Services, Inc. 54
Nuclear Engineering Company, Inc. 57
Waste Management, Inc. 59
American Recovery Corporation 61
Conservation Chemical Company 63
Seymour Manufacturing Company 65
Approved Chemical Treatment, Inc. 67
Chem-Met Services 69
Environmental Waste Control, Inc. 71
Liquid Disposal Company • 73
Nelson Chemicals Company 75
Pollution Controls, Inc. 77
Erieway Pollution Control, Inc. 78
Koski Construction Company 81
Systems Technology Corporation 82
Rodgers Laboratories, Inc. 84
Waste Research and Reclamation Company, Inc. 86
Rollins Environmental Services 88
U. S. Pollution Control, Inc. 90
Bio-Ecology Systems, Inc. 92
Mai one Service Company 94
Petrolite Corporation 96
Texas Ecologists, Inc. 98
Conservation Chemical Company 100
Casmalia Disposal Site 104
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TABLE OF CONTENTS (Continued)
Chancellor and Ogden, Inc. 105
Environmental Protection Corporation 107
Fresno County Department of Public Works 109
Hollister Disposal Site 110
Industrial Tank, Inc. Ill
County Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County 113
Omar Rendering Company 115
Richmond Sanitary Service 117
San Diego County Refuse Disposal 119
Ventura Regional County Sanitation District 120
Nuclear Engineering Company, Inc. 122
Wes Con, Inc. 124
Chemical Processors, Inc. 125
Resource Recovery Corporation 127
Western Processing, Inc. 129
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Preface^
This document contains information on 64 hazardous waste management
facilities known to EPA as of August 1974. The information is presented
in the form of a standard resume for each facility. The information was
obtained through both telephone interviews with knowledgeable representa-
tives of firms operating hazardous waste management facilities, and facil-
ity site visits. The register is not all inclusive and the comprehensive-
ness of the information on each facility varies depending on the method of
information acquisition that was used. A continuing effort using the same
information acquisition techniques is being made by the Technology Assess-
ment Staff of the Hazardous Waste Management Division, not only to improve
the comprehensiveness of the information in the facility resumes, but also
to expand the register to include other hazardous waste management facil-
ities. Reissuance is anticipated approximately on an annual basis.
The principal use of this document is expected to be as a source of
information for providing guidance to hazardous waste generators who re-
quest assistance concerning proper waste handling procedures. It is an-
ticipated that other uses for this information will be found by regulatory
agency staffs concerned with hazardous waste management since a knowledge
of conditions in the field is an important ingredient in the implementa-
tion of an effective regulatory policy. Little of this type of information
has heretofore been available. By publishing this information, EPA is not
vouching for its accuracy nor of the environmental adequacy of the opera-
tions represented. Most of the information has been listed essentially as
received by telephone interview and as such has not been verified by EPA.
Those wishing to make use of the listed facilities for disposal, are cau-
tioned to satisfy themselves of the environmental suitability of the meth-
ods and processes used. The absence of any particular facility in this doc-
ument does not indicate disapproval of the facility's operation by EPA.
Absence is most frequently indicative of a lack of knowledge of the exist-
ence of a facility on the part of the Technology Assessment Staff, there-
fore, submission of information on existing facilities not included in
this document is solicited. Inclusion in this registry is based solely on
EPA awareness of the existence of the facility and an understanding that
the facility does in fact treat and/or dispose of hazardous type wastes.
The term "hazardous waste" means any waste or combination of wastes which
pose a substantial present or potential hazard to human health or living
organisms because such wastes are lethal, nondegradable, or persistent in
nature; may be biologically magnified; or may otherwise cause or tend to
cause detrimental cumulative effects. General categories of hazardous
waste are toxic chemical, flammable, radioactive, explosive, and biological.
These wastes can take the form of solids, sludges, liquids, or gases. Men-
tion of commercial products in this register does not constitute endorsement
or recommendation for use by EPA. The user is also urged to contact the ap-
propriate state regulatory agency to confirm information pertaining to state
licensing and approval of the facility. It is hoped that publication of
this document at this time will begin to fill an information gap and expedite
the generation of more information concerning existing hazardous waste man-
agement facilities.
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User Instructions
The facility resumes are organized according to location
of the facilities. The resumes for each EPA Region are contained
behind the appropriate tabular divider. The resumes within each
Region are in turn disaggregated according to state.
A matrix of facilities vs. types of waste accepted is pre-
sented in the following pages. The waste categories utilized
conform to the categories currently used by HWMD staff. The
facilities are listed in the matrix by EPA Region and by state
within each Region. With knowledge of the types of waste to
be handled and the geographic location of the generator, the
matrix can be used to identify facilities capable of handling
the wastes. The resume of the selected facility can then be
easily located.
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Ac co
TABLE T
Matrix of Wa.-• t e s
vs Hazardous Waste
Manayeraent Facility
REGION
CITY
hiaine
Crago Co. Inc.
Massachusetts
Chemical Application Co.
Safety Projects &
Engineering
Silresim Chemical Corp.
REGION II
Mew Jersey
Astropak Corp.
Marisol Inc.
National Converters Inc.
Scientific, Inc.
Rollins Environmental
Services
New York
Chem-Trol Pollution
Services
Chemical Waste Disposal
Corporation
Frontier Chemical Waste
.. Incorporated _
Pollution Abatement
Services
Recycling Laboratories
8
10
12
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27
30
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West Quinr.y
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Edison
Middlesex
Union
Scotch Plains
VSSBRhip
Model City
Astoria
Buffalo
Oswego
Syracuse
* HM - Heavy Metals
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TABLE I
Matrix o f: Wastes
vs Hazardous Was
Management Facility
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REGION in / / / / /VV^y /VV VV 7 y.7 CITY
Maryland
American Recovery Corp .
American Recovery Corp.
Pennsylvania
Chem Fix
Pottstown Disposal Servict
Sitkin Metal Industries
Virginia
Liquid Waste Disposal
REGION IV
Kentucky
Liquid Waste Disposal, Inc
Nuclear Engineering Co.
Incorporated
Petrol ite Corp.
REGION V
Illinois
Hyon Waste Treatment
Services
37
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41
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45
47
48
50
52
54
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Louisville
Morehead
Calvert City
Chicago
HM - Heavy Metals
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Matrix of VJastes Accepted
vs Hazardous Waste
Management Facility
Nuclear Engineering Co.
Incorporated
Waste Management, Inc.
Indiana
American Recovery Corp.
Conservation Chemical
Company
Seymour Manufacturing
Michigan
Approved Chemical
Treatment
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Environmental Waste
Control
Liquid Disposal Co.
Nelson Chemical Co.
Minnesota
Pollution Controls Inc.
Ohio
Eriewav Pollution
Control
Koski Construction
57
59
61
63
65
67
69
71
73
75
77
78
81
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Sheffield
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Gary
Seymour
Grand Rapids
Wvandotte
Inkster
Utir.a
Detroit
Shakopee
Cleveland
Ashtabula
* HM - Heavy Metals
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TABLE I
Matrix of Wastes Accept
vs Hazardous Waste
Management Facility
Systems Technology Corp.
Wisconsin
Rogers Laboratories
Waste Research
Recovery
REGION VI
Louisiana
Rollins Environmental Serv
Oklahoma
U.S. Pollution Control
Corporation
Texas
Bioecology Systems Inc.
Malone Service Co.
Petrol ite Corp.
32
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Dayton
Milwaukee
Eau Claire
Baton Rouge
gl^homa
Prairie
Texas City
i-prous
Chrfsti
HM - Heavy Metals
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TABLE I
Matrix of Vvastos Accept
vs Hazardous Waste
Management Facility
Texas Ecologists Co.
REGION VII
Missouri
Conservation Chemical
Company
Conservation Chemical
Company
REGION VIII
REGION IX
California
Casmalia Disposal Site
Chancellor and Ogden
Environmental Protection
Corporation
Fresno Co. Dept. Public
Works
HolHster Disposal Site
jnHijQtTial Tank ro
L.A. CO. Sanitation
District
Omar Rendering Co.
Richmond Sanitary
Service
San Diego Co. Refuse
Division
Ventura Co. Sanitation
District
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Wilmington
Bakersfield
Fresno
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Richngnd
San Dieqo
Ventura
* HM - Heavy Metals
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TABLE I
Matrix of Wastes Accepte
vs Hazardous Waste
Management Facility
Nevada
Nuclear Engineering Co.
Incorporated
REGI68 X
Idaho
Wes Con Incorporated
Washington
Chemical Processors, Inc.
Resource Recovery Corp.
Western Processing Co.
122
124
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Beatty
Grandview
Seattle
Pasco
Kent
* HM - Heavy Metals
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The Crago Company, Inc.
P.O. Box 409
Gray, Maine 04039
(207) 657-4785 (Mr. Brian Preble)
I. BACKGROUND
A. Services provided
0 Collection/hauling
0 Preliminary processing/treatment
B. Service area - Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode
Island, Connecticut, and New York.
, C. Date established - 1961
D. Licenses throughout New England and New York
E. Organizational structure
0 Privately owned corporation
0 Subcontracts final processing
II. WASTE STREAMS
A. Accept - Acids, caustic, halogenated hydrocarbons, heavy metals
in solution, oil waste, paint sludge, pesticides, sludge and
tank bottoms.
B. Exclude - Poisonous and toxic materials
C. Volume - 1 MG/year
III. WASTE HANDLING
A. Collection/hauling
0 Fleet of vacuum trucks
0 Flatbed trucks for drums
0 5 tanker transport trucks
B. Receiving/storage
0 Unloading facilities for trucks only
0 3000,000 gals, of closed tank storage capacity
C. Laboratory analysis
0 Performed upon receipt of waste only
0 Performed by The Crago Co., Inc.
D. Treatment - Crago provides only preliminary waste processing
E. Disposal - Available
IV. ECONOMICS
A. User charges - Negotiable
B. Costs - Negotiable
C. Resource recovery revenues - Negotiable
D. Percent capacity - 1 MG/per year
E. Expansion potential - Unlimited
V. COMMENTS - The non-saleable materials or waste are transferred to
processors in New Jersey because there are no facilities in New
England that are capable of processing these materials. Crago's
operation is actually a hazardous waste disposal operation.
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The Crago Company, Inc. -2
Personal communication. Mr. PreMe, The Craan rn., Inc., with
Dan Ward, Office of ^olid Waste Manaoement Proarams,
July ?, 1Q74.
Personal communication. Mr. Rrian L. Premie, The Craao, Co.,
Inc., to Mr. John P. Lehman, Office of Solid Waste
Manaqement Programs, November 14,
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Chemical Application Co.
116 Water St.
Beverly, Massachusetts 01915
(617) 927-1680 (Mr. Joseph)
I. BACKGROUND
A. Services provided
0 Collection/hauling
0 Preliminary processing/treatment
B. Service area - Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
C. Date established - 1959
D. Licensed by the city of Beverly for a discharge to the
municipal wastewater collection system.
E. Organizational structure
0 Privately owned corporation
0 Subcontracts final processing
II. WASTE STREAMS
A. Accept - Acids, caustics, halogenated hydrocarbons, oil
wastes, solvent/cleaners, still and tank bottoms.
B. Exclude - Not obtained
C. Volume - Not obtained
III. WASTE HANDLING
A. Collection/hauling-11 tanker transport trucks
B. Receiving/storage
0 Unloading facilities for trucks only
0 325,000 gal. of closed tank storage capacity
0 One 50,000 gal. lined tank for acids and caustics
C. Laboratory analysis - None
D. Treatment
0 System 1: Acid and caustic are combined in the lined tank.
When a near-neutral pH is obtained, the liquor is discharged
to the municipal wastewater collection system.
0 System 2: Oil waste, still and tank bottoms, halogenated
hydrocarbons, and solvents are pumped into storage tanks.
Blending is practiced if a more saleable material can be
produced or the waste processing cost can be reduced. When
sufficient quantities for shipping have accumulated, the tank
contents are pumped into the transport trucks. The oil waste
and still and tank bottoms are accepted by Northeastern Main-
tenance Services. The solvents and halogenated hydrocarbons
are accepted by Lewis Chemical Co. Both firms reclaim as much
of the material as is economically feasible and incinerate
the remainder.
E. Disposal - Not applicable
IV. ECONOMICS
A. User charges - Not obtained
B. Costs - Not obtained
C. Resource recovery revenues - Not obtained
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Chemical Application Co. -2
D. Percent capacity - Not applicable
E. Expansion potential - Not obtained
COMMENTS - This facility is similar to a hazardous waste
transfer station.
VI. SOURCE -
Personal communication. Mr. Joseph, Chemical Application Co.,with
Dan Ward, Office of Solid Waste Management
Programs, July 3, 1974.
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Safety Projects and Engineering, Inc.
3 Maiden St.
West Quincy, Massachusetts
(617) 471-1327 (Mr. Vincent Varone)
I. BACKGROUND
A. Services provided
0 Collection/hauling
0 Processing/treatment
0 Disposal
B. Service area - Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts,
Conneticut, Rhode Island.
C. Date established - 1964
D. Licensed by - USEPA, Region I for ocean disposal.
E. Organizational structure - Privately owned corporation.
II. WASTE STREAMS
A. Accept - Mr. Varone would say only that Safety handles all the
types of waste permitted by EPA's Ocean Dumping Regulations. He
would not list the specific wastes handled by Safety. Development
of a list from the Ocean Disposal Regulations is impossible
because most of the wastes are acceptable only when certain
ancillary conditions are met. Determination of the satisfaction
of the ancillary conditions requires data be made available by
Mr. Varone.
B. Exclude - Same as above
C. Volume - 1,700 gal./month
III. WASTE HANDLING
A. Collection/hauling
0 1 truck
0 Drummed waste only
B. Receiving/storage
0 All waste in some type of container upon receipt.
0 Stored in an old incinerator building.
C. Laboratory analysis - Mr. Varone claims that no analysis of the
waste is performed.
D. Treatment - All waste not received in 55 gal. drums is transferred
to such containers. All the drums except those containing
sodium are then encased in concrete.
E. Disposal
0 Ocean dumping 14 miles off Boston Lighthouse
0 Encapsulated drums simply dumped overboard.
0 Drums containing sodium are floated away from the boat and sunk
by rifle fire.
IV. ECONOMICS
A. User charges -
0 $85 per drum of sodium
0 Prices for other wastes vary with the type of waste.
B. Costs - Not obtained
C. Resource recovery revenues - Not applicable
D. Percent capacity - Not applicable
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Safety Projects and Engineering, Inc. -2
E. Expansion potential - Not obtained
V. COMMENTS - A potential source of the types of waste handled by
Safety is EPA, Region I.
VI. SOURCE -
Personal communication. Mr. Varone, Safety Projects and Engineering,
Inc., with Dan Ward, Office of Solid Waste Management
Programs, July 2, 1974.
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Silresim Chemical Corporation
86 Tanner Street
Lowell, Massachusetts 01852
(617) 459-7342
J. Miser!is - President
H. N. Ypsilantis - Plant Manager
C. Johnson - Sales Manager
I. BACKGROUND
A. Services provided
s ° Collection/hauling
0 Processing/treatment
0 Disposal-incineration
0 Custom Refining
0 Solvent Recovery
0 Laboratory Analysis Consulting
B. Service Area - New England, New Jersey, New York
C. Date established - 1970
D. Massachusetts Hazardous Waste Collection License; Division
Water Pollution Control
E, Organizational structure
0 Privately owned corporation
0 subcontracts landfill disposal
II. WASTE STREAMS
A. .flccepted - Oil waste, solvents, lab chemical wastes, sludges
containing heavy metals, plating wastes.
B. Exclude - Explosives, radioactive, biological.
C. Volume - 250,000 gal./month processed.
III. WASTE HANDLING
A. Collection/hauling
0 Fleet of trucks
° Vehicles for handling both bulk and drummed waste
B. Receiving/storage
0 unloading facilities for trucks and rail cars:
0 400,000 gal. of closed tank storage capacity
0 130,000 gal. of storage capacity in stainless steel tanks
C. Laboratory Analysis
0 Perform prior to contract commitment and upon receipt of wastes
0 Performed by Silresim in on-site lab capable of the latest
state-of-the-art analyses including G. C., I. R., U. V. , A. A.,
and many other special tests.
D. Treatment
0 Have four separate recovery systems that can handle wastes
containing the following organic chemicals; Acetone, Methanol.
MEK, MIBK, DMF, DMSO, THF, IPA, Ethyl Acetate, Butyl Acetate,
Styrene Monomer, Acrylonitrile, Ethyl Benzene, Diethyl Benzene,
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Silresim Chemical Corp. -2
>, Mineral Spirits, Mineral Oil,
illation (continuous or batch;
Evaporation (continuous or batch;
addition, there are four other
organic halocarbons such as
•ichlorethane, Methylene Chloride,
ethylene (1,1), Ethylene Dichloride,
"obenzene, Freon TF, Freon TE, and
ontinuous or batch), or Evaporation,
which meet customer specifications
ottoms are subject to additional
-,-, ? wastes into incinerable liquids
which can be landfilled. Silresim
Tipasses an advance of the state-
^egard to bottoms processing.
streams containing small
~«; of inorganic salts which are
„./ pH adjustments and filtered. The solids are
._.,(, to landfill and suitable aqueous filtrates are sent to the
sewer.
0 Suitable concentrated inorganic waste aqueous streams containing
recoverable metal salts are treated by ion exbhange methods to
remove valuable metals and the reagents which remain are suitable
for reuse are recycled.
0 Concentrated inorganic wastes aqueous streams containing non-
recoverable metal salts are treated by oxidative or reductive
reagents, concentrated further, and after pH adjustments are
filtered and the solids are sent to landfill while the aqueous
streams are sent to the sewer.
0 Oil wastes are stored (maintains 50,000 gal. inventory) and used
as fuel to generate steam.
0 Unreusable oil wastes and other wastes that cannot be recovered
are stored and eventually transported to another treatment
facility that can handle these wastes.
0 Silresim will set up a process or adapt a process for a
customer who can gurantee a substantial solvent waste stream
for a sustained period (min. one year).
E. Disposal - to landfill after treatment
IV. ECONOMICS
A. User charges - governed by specific waste stream
B. Cost - governed by specific waste
C. Resource Recovery Revenues - not obtained
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V. COMMENTS - none
VI. SOURCE -
Personal Communication, Chris Johnson, Silresim Chemical
Corporation, to Daniel Moon, EPA Region I, November
7, 1974.
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Astro Pak Corp.
P.O. Box 416
Edison, New Jersey 03817
(201) 549-1788 (Mr. Greenwood)
I. BACKGROUND
A. Services provided
0 Collection/hauling
0 Processing/treatment
B. Service area - Maryland to Massachusetts and Eastern
Pennsylvania to Atlantic Coast (24 hr. emergency service)
C. Date established - March 1, 1959
D. Licensed by Public Utilities Commission
E. Organizational structure - Edison plant is an element in a
world-wide corporation (Astro Pak) which has its main
offices in Downey, California, (213) 773-1029.
II. WASTE STREAMS
A. Accept - Predominantly petro-base wastes including still
and tank bottoms, and organic sludge - also chemical waste
and chemical by-products waste.
B. Exclude - Any product not related to chemicals
C. Volume - Unknown
III. WASTE HANDLING
A. Collection/hauling - Trucks and tankers including glass
lined, stainless steel, rubber lined and black iron lined
trucks, vacuum tanks and portable pumps for spill recovery
are also available.
°- Receiving/storage - Storage tanks lined as above. Storage
volume unknown. Several tanks remain empty in order to handle
emergency situations. Receive bulk and/or drummed wastes
by truck.
C. Laboratory facilities - Tests conducted on samples
and compared to samples taken upon delivery.
D. Treatment - Treatment limited to neutralization of acids
and caustics on-site. All wastes received are forwarded
to state approved landfill. (Landfill not operated by
Astro Pak).
IV. ECONOMICS
A. User charges - Based on waste analysis; charges depend on
hauling distance.
B. Costs - Operating and capital costs unknown.
C. Resource recovery revenues - Not applicable
D. Percent capacity - 90%
E. Expansion potential - Fast growing business, with expansion
very likely.
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Astro Pak Corp. -2
COMMENTS - Non-hazardous materials make up a substantial portion
of firm's business. Such wastes are subcontracted to a licensed
ocean disposal firm.
VI. SOURCE -
Personal Communication. Mr. Greenwood, Astro Pak Corporation,
with Don Farb, Office of Solid Waste Management
Programs, May 31, 1974.
Personal Communication. Mr. Greenwood, Astro Pak Corporation,
to Don Farb, Office of Solid Waste Management
Programs, November 22, 1974.
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Marisol, Inc.
125 Factory Lane
Middlesex, New Jersey 08846
(201) 469-5100 (Mr. H. P. Nerger)
I. BACKGROUND
A. Services provided
0 Collection/hauling
0 Processing/treatment for recovery
B. Service area - Mainly Northeast U.S.A. - Some Midwest and
Southeast accounts
C. Date established - 1962
D. Approved and licensed by the Public Utilities Commission
E. Organizational structure - Wholly owned company. 6 days/week
operation; spill handling service available.
II. WASTE STREAMS
A. Accept - Liquid organic chemicals, cleaners, halogenated hydro-
carbons, and oil wastes for reclamation.
B. Exclude - Inorganics non-pumpable sludges or solids, biological
and radioactive wastes.
C. Volume - 500,000 gal./month
III. WASTE HANDLING
A. Collection/hauling - 4 trucks, 8 bulk tanker trailers, 2 flat
bed trailers.
B. Receiving/storage - Bulk and drum, by truck; 1,000,000 gal.
storage capacity (bulk and drums).
C. Laboratory analysis - Facilities available to analyze samples, ship-
ments, and recovered solvent quality.
D. Treatment - Distillation, settling and necessary chemical treat-
ments. Reclaimed solvents and/or petro-chemicals marketed or
returned to origin for re-use. Residues and still bottoms (drum
or bulk) forwarded to state approved landfill for disposal.
E. Disposal - Not applicable.
IV. ECONOMICS
A. User charges - Based on value of recoverable products. Firm
may charge fee for some wastes processing, while other wastes
are bought from generator.
B. Costs - unknown
C. Resource recovery revenues - Annual sales $1,750,000
D. Percent capacity - 50%
E. Expansion potential - Currently unknown; plan to expand into
service areas that have high potential.
V. COMMENTS - None
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VI. SOURCE -
Personal communication. Mr. Robert Czeropski, Marisol, Inc.,
with Don Farb, Office of Solid Waste Management
Programs, June 27, 1974.
Personal communication. Mr. Robert Czeropski, Marisol, Inc.,
to Mr. John P. Lehman, Office of Solid Waste
Management Programs, November 11, 1974.
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National Converters, Inc.
457 Chestnut
Union, New Jersey
(201) 964-1550 (Mr. Norman Cohen)
I. BACKGROUND
A. Services provided
0 Collection/hauling - Special vacuum equipment available
0 Processing/treatment
B. Service area - New Jersey and surrounding industrial concerns
in New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, West
Virginia, and New England.
C. Service started in the early '50's.
D. Licensed by the State of New Jersey.
E. Organizational structure - Firm is an element of Perk Chemical
Inc., 217 South First St., Elizabeth, Mew Jersey, 07206, where
principal processing facilities are located. (201) 355-5800.
II. WASTE STREAMS
A. Accept - All solvents, acid, alkalis, and other chemicals.
B. Exclude - High sodium and other very reactive wastes. Other
wastes excluded depending on analysis. Service emphasizes
solvents.
C. Volume - Approximately 75,000 gal./week.
III. WASTE HANDLING
A. Collection/handling - Tractor and trailer equipment available
through parent affiliate. Tankers included rubber lined,
stainless steel, lined high capacity vacuum trailers, and
carbon steel trailers.
B. Receiving/storage - Wastes received by truck or rail in bulk
or drums. 60,000 gal. storage capacity.
C. Laboratory analysis - Chemical engineer on staff with sample
analysis and spot check analyses on wastes.
D. Treatment - Distillation with neutralization
0 Organic solvents are reclaimed by distillation.
0 Recovered solvents returned to source or sold to interested
parties.
0 Waste by-products neutralized, drummed and forwarded to licensed
landfills (not company operated).
E. Disposal - As indicated above - wastes forwarded to landfills
or reprocessed for reuse.
IV. ECONOMICS
A. User charges - Charges vary depending on concentration of
waste. Quotations furnished based on sample analysis.
B. Costs - Specific outlays for waste handling unknown - equip-
ment especially designed for handling of spent chemicals.
Estimated cost for small distillation operation - $100,000
(without collection/hauling equipment and land costs).
C. Resource recovery revenues - Unknown
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D. Percent capacity - Currently operating near capacity.
E. Expansion potential - Plan to add distillation columns in
the near future.
COMMENTS - Waste solvent handling and recovery represents a
rapidly growing portion of firm's business, equalling in
importance solvent distribution.
VI. SOURCE -
Personal communication. Mr. Cohen, National Converters, Inc.,
with Don Farb, Office of Solid Waste Management
Programs, July 12, 1974.
Personal communication. Mr. Cohen, National Converters, Inc.,
to Mr. John P. Lehman, Office of Solid Waste
Management Programs, November 13, 1974.
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Rollins Environmental Services Plant Locations:
(Main Offices ) One Rollins Plaza Baton Rouge, LA
Wilmington, Delaware 19803 Bridgeport, NJ
Houston, TX
L BACKGROUND
A. Services provided
0 Collection/hauling
0 Processing/treatment
0 Disposal
B. Service area - Nationwide
C. Date established - Construction completed in New Jersey in
1970; in Louisiana in 1971; in Houston in 1971.
D. Licensed by - Respective state health and environmental agencies.
E. Organizational structure - Rollins Environmental Services is a
part of Rollins International, a diversified corporation with
major interests in highway transportation (Matlack Trucking).
II. WASTE STREAMS
A. Accept - Generally all industrial chemical wastes and limited
explosives or poisons, including: acids, caustics, chlorinated
and non-chlorinated organics, plating and etchant solutions,
paint sludges, pesticides, cyanide, scrubber effluents, etc.
B. Exclude - Only known exception is radioactive wastes.
C. Volume - 250,000 gallons/day at capacity.
III. WASTE HANDLING
A. Collection/hauling - Service provided by RES and Matlack Trucking
subsidiary. Complete line of bulk and drum handling equipment.
B. Receiving/storage - Facilities available for receiving and storing
bulk or drummed wastes, capacity - up to 500,000 gallons.
C. Laboratory analysis - Sample analysis and repeated analysis upon
receipt of shipment.
D. Treatment
1. Chemical degradation
Neutralization of acids and alkalies -- insoluble residues
are landfilled, certain soluble salts receive ocean disposal.
Oxidation or reduction of certain organic compounds and
metals -- non-toxic residues (landfiiled) or recovered
material, (e.g. copper).
Precipitation of dissolved and colloidal materials.
2. Incineration
Rotary kiln (1500° - 2000°F) primarily liquids
Afterburner (2500°F)
17,000 to 20,000 gal./day (24 hr. operation)
Double chambered quench - scrub section up to 800 gal./min.
alkali spray.
Sludges landfilled.
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3. Biological treatment
Flocculation and sludge separation.
Solids are landfilled.
Supernatant - equalization, -- trickling filter -- equaliza-
tion, -- oxidation -- stabilization -- discharge to creek.
E. Disposal (as indicated above)
Stabilized effluents discharged to aquatic environment.
Insoluble salts and inert sludges are landfilled.
Certain soluble salts and brine solution receive ocean disposal.
IV. ECONOMICS
A. User charges
0 Transportation costs - $0.60 cwt. per 100 miles.
0 Disposal charges - 1.0 to 3.0<£ per pound.
B. Costs - Construction costs for 3 plants (Bridgeport, Baton Rouge
and Houston) - 22 million.
C. Resource recovery revenues - Copper recovery, revenues unknown.
D. Percent capacity - Unknown
E. Expansion potential - Investigating Cleveland, Chicago, and Detroit
areas for additional sites.
V. COMMENTS - Houston, Baton Rouge, and Logan Township (New Jersey)
facilities are similar in design and operating characteristics.
VI. SOURCE -
Personal communication. Mr. A. J. D'Lauro, Jr., Rollins International,
Inc., to Mr. Sam Morekas, Office of Solid Waste
Management Programs, November 8, 1974.
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Scientific, Inc.
Edison and South Jersey
(Central Office) 17 East Second St.
Scotch Plains, New Jersey 07076
(201) 322-6767 (Mr. Jim Stroin)
I. BACKGROUND
A. Services provided
0 Collection/hauling
0 Disposal
B. Service area - New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania
C. Date established - 1965
D. Licensed by the State of New Jersey for landfill operations
E. Organizational structure - Publicly owned corporation
II. WASTE STREAMS
A. Accept - Solvents/cleaners, oil, waste waters, high BOD and
COD streams
B. Exclude - Explosives, nuclear waste, pesticides and fungicide
material
C. Volume - 50,000 gal./day
III. WASTE HANDLING
A. Collection/hauling - Trucks for handling liquid waste in
both bulk and drums
B. Receiving/storage - None
C. Laboratory analysis - By Scientific, Inc. upon receipt of waste
D. Treatment - Not applicable
E. Disposal
0 Sanitary landfill utilized at each location
0 Liquids incorporated into municipal solid waste at the
working face
0 Incorporation ratio - 1 "load" liquid waste to 20 "loads"
of municipal solid waste
0 Clay liner in each landfill
0 Leachate monitoring wells
0 Capacity for 20 years at Edison, and 30 years at South
Jersey at present operating levels.
IV. ECONOMICS
A. User charges - Not obtained
B. Costs - Not obtained
C. Resource recovery revenues - Not applicable
D. Percent capacity - Not applicable
E. Expansion potential
0 In the engineering design phase of a hazardous waste
processing facility
0 Objective of facility - resource recovery
0 Location - Scientific's Edison site
° Treatment systems for oils, solvents, copper, chromium,
and cyanide.
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0 Construction expected to start in spring of 1975.
COMMENTS - Scientific, Inc. does join ventures with major
corporations, installs and operates collection and recovery
equipment on the property of customers.
VI. SOURCE -
Personal communication. Mr. James Stroin, Scientific, Inc.,
with Dan Ward, Office of Solid Waste Management
Programs, June 27, 1974.
Personal communication. Mr. James Stroin, Scientific, Inc.,
to Mr. John P. Lehman, Office of Solid Waste
Management Programs, December 5, 1974.
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Chem-Trol Pollution Services, Inc.
Subsidiary of SCA Services, Inc.
P.O. Box 200, 1550 Balmer Rd.
Model City, NY 14107
(716) 754-8231 (Edward R. Shuster)
I. BACKGROUND
A. Services provided
0 Collection/hauling
0 Recycling/reclamation
0 Processing/treatment
0 Disposal
0 Chemical cleaning/water jetting
B. Service area - U.S. and Canada
Chiefly 30 eastern states, Ontario, Quebec
C. Date established - 1969
D. Licensed by New York State
Supplemental collection/hauling permits throughout areas served.
E. Organizational structure - Wholly owned subsidiary of SCA
Services, Inc. of Boston (as of October 1973). Originally
located at Blasdell, NY. Relocated to Model City, NY in 1972
to accommodate rapid growth. Operates Regional Sales & Technical
Service Office, Laboratory and Transportation Terminal in New
Jersey. SCA/Chem-Trol Sales Offices throughout U.S. and Ontario.
II. WASTE STREAMS
A. Accept - Most types of chemical-related wastes including
solvents/cleaners, halogenated hydrocarbons, paint & coating
sludges, oils and oily waste, toxic acids, alkalis, plating/
etching wastes, cyanides, heavy metal solutions & residues,
pesticides/PCB's.carcinogens, sludges and solids, arsenic and
mercury wastes.
B. Exclude - Radioactive wastes, shock-sensitive explosives
C. Volume - Capacity in excess of 100 million gallons annually at
Model City facility.
III. WASTE HANDLING
A. Collection/hauling - 30 tractors, 70 assorted bulk tankers, 16
closed van trailers, 29 vacuum trucks available. Two mobile
water-jetting and two chemical cleaning units in service.
B. Receiving/storage - 24 hour operation
0 Receive by truck, common carrier, and rail in bulk or drum
form.
0 2.0 million gallon tank storage.
0 6-7 million gallon lined lagoon storage.
0 50,000 drum storage area.
C. Laboratory analysis
0 Modern well-equipped facility, advanced instrumentation.
0 11 B.S. -M.S. Chemists, 1 PhD, 5 Technicians
0 6 B.S. -M.S. Engineers (Chemical, Environmental)
0 Perform R & D, Quality Control, Process Control, Waste Product
evaluation
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0 Over 14,000 waste materials analyzed/evaluated to date.
0 Pilot plant facility.
D. Treatment - Depending on composition, volume, and economics,
wastes are processed for resource recovery with disposal of
unrecoverables.
1. Chemical detoxification
0 Firm employs a patented neutralization process for
acids and alkalies.
° Company has developed and uses proprietary physical/
chemical detoxification technology.
2. Chemical Fixation - Stabilization and fixation process using
proprietary chemicals with wastes in a reactor vessel.
3. Recovery processes employ distillation, centrifuging,
settling, decanting and/or blending techniques to recover
saleable materials (e.g., solvents, fuels, oil and inorganics).
4. Incineration
0 Liquid injection thermal oxidizer (@ 2700°F or greater)
0 Alkaline gas scrubber removes air contaminants and cools
effluent gas to 180°F.
0 Operates 24 hrs./day for 60 - 120 days then shut down
for maintenance.
E. Disposal - Controlled Landfill
0 Reinforced membrane-lined clay cells that receive solids,
sludges, and chemically fixed wastes.
0 Internal sump within each cell collects leachate for
treatment.
0 3 - dimensional inventories of buried wastes are maintained
for possible recovery at later date.
F. Technical Services - Assistance offered in preparation,
identification, and packaging of wastes for safe shipment, storage,
and processing.
IV. ECONOMICS
A. User costs vary greatly in accordance with recovery values
and processing requirements.
0 Transportation charges stated separately.
0 Company purchases some recoverable wastes.
0 Many bulk liquids disposed in 8-20<£/gal. range.
0 Hazardous/toxic wastes more expensive.
0 Packaged laboratory wastes about $80/drum.
0 Accommodation made for small and large volumes.
B. Costs - Custom facilities were constructed by modifying
available equipment. Company estimates $15 - 20 million
capital costs to duplicate in 1974.
C. Resource recovery revenues - Constitutes over 30% of current
business. Percentage of reclamation expected to be double
within 5 years.
D. Percent capacity - Currently below 50% of available capacity,
growing rapidly.
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E. Expansion potential - Similar facility scheduled to be on
stream in 1-2 years in New Jersey. Actively considering
sites and markets in several industrialized states.
V. COMMENTS - Firm operates total waste handing, disposal, and
resource recovery facility for chemical wastes.
VI. SOURCE -
Personal communication. Mr. Edward R. Shuster, Chem-trol Pollution
Services, Inc., to Mr. John P. Lehman, Office of Solid
Waste Management Programs, November 15, 1974.
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Chemical Waste Disposal Corporation
42-14 19th Avenue
Astoria, New York 11105
(212) 274-3339 (Mr. Levy)
I. BACKGROUND
A. Services provided
0 Separation/collection/transporting
0 Processing/treatment
B, Service area - Tristate; NY, NJ, CT Metropolitan area
not limited
C. Date established - 1964
D, Licensed by the State of New York; Registered with the State of
Connecticut
E,, Organizational structure - Professionally staffed (Chemical &
Engineering oriented). Service, distillation, & recycling of
Chlorinated solvents, and disposal/treatment of waste chemicals
and chemical materials. Dual Companies: Chemical Waste Disposal
Corp., Chemical & Solvent Distillers Co., Inc.
II. WASTE STREAMS
A. Accepted - Recovery/distillation of Chlorinated solvents, and
related solvents
Separation & disposal of laboratory and by-product waste
B. Excluded - Radioactive waste
C. Volume - Unknown
I Hi. WASTE HANDLING
A. Collection/transportation - Provide all laboratories and by-product waste
generators with appropriate separation, collection, arid container!zation
or waste of obsolete chemicals. Packed in 18 guage, 30 or 55
gallon open-head steel drums, state approved. Provide all services
for collection of recoverable solvents, treatment and disposal of
selected acids and caustics.
Equipment - Stills from 500 - 2,000 gallon capacity. Treatment
tanks, glass reactors, trucks.
B. Receiving/storage - Total 25,000 gallon bulk storage, facility for 2,000
drums storage/processing
C. Laboratory analysis - Quality control lab to evaluate all samples of
materials for treatment or recovery
D. Treatment
0 Chemical and Solvent Distillers reclaims industrial solvents.
Residues and waste containerized and forwarded for disposal in
approved landfill. Selected waste forwarded for further recovery or
treatment.
E. Disposal - Not applicable
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IV. ECONOMICS
A. User charges - Furnished upon request, vary with nature
of waste and/or recovery value.
B. Costs - Unknown
C. Resource recovery revenues - Unknown
D. Percent capacity - 80%, single shift basis
E. Expansion potential - Unlimited
V. COMMENTS - Specialized operations
VI. SOURCE -
Personal communication. Mr. Levy, Chemical Waste Disposal
Corp., with Don Farb, Office of Solid Waste
Management Programs, June 21, 1974.
Personal communication. Mr. Morris Levy, Chemical Waste
Disposal Corp., to Mr. John P. Lehman, Office
of Solid Waste Management Programs, November 14,
1974.
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Frontier Chemical Waste Process, Inc.
4626 Royal Ave.
Niagara Falls, NY 14303
(716) 285-8200 (Dr. S.K. Lee, Mr. George Lodick)
I. BACKGROUND
A. Services provided
0 Collection/hauling, technical assistance
0 Processing, treatment, reclamation
0 Consulting, research, laboratory testing
B. Service area - Nationwide
C. Date established - 1958
D. Licensed by the State of New York
E. Organizational structure - Wholly owned private corporation.
Not affiliated with other waste management firms. Staff
includes Ph.D. Chemists, Chemical Engineers, and Physics
and Transportation experts.
F. Facilities - Operate staging and processing separately.
II. WASTE STREAMS
A. Accept - Industrial by-products and wastes of both organic
and inorganic composition and off spec, materials.
Electroplating; metal-finishing waste of heavy metals (Cr, Cu,
Ni, Zn, Cd, Hg, Sn, Sb, Pb, As, etc.), acids, bases,salts, cyanide,
cyanate, carcinogenics, compounds, oil, paints, inks, heterocyclics
and halogenated compounds.
B. Exclude - Non-decontaminated radioactive waste materials.
C. Volume - Not obtained
III. WASTE HANDLING
A. Collection/hauling - Fleet of trucking equipment, rail facilities.
B. Receiving/storage - Receive truck load shipments (drum or bulk),
rail (bulk). Storage capacity - 3,000,000 gallons,
C. Laboratory analysis - Complete environmental laboratory facilities
staffed with Ph.D. Chemists and Chemical Engineers. Monitoring
and close quality control exercised at all points. Safety and
special handling and transportation of material is constantly
controlled.
D. Treatment - Chemical - Utilization of in-house technologies
coupled with state-of-the-art electrochemical, catalytic and
pyrolytic means of oxidation, reduction and coupling reactions
to achieve detoxified products for ultimate disposition.
0 Actively engaged in R & D of economically feasible methods
of treatment.
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0 Developed number of proprietory methods for detoxifying
heavy metals.
0 Utilizes closely monitored environmental landfills.
0 Specialized in detoxification of industrial hazardous
chemicals.
0 Actively involved in high temperature pyrolysis for energy
recovery systems.
IV. ECONOMICS
A. User charges - Costs vary depending upon waste composition and
ultimate disposition.
B. Costs - In line with other industries for state-of-the-art
treatment.
C. Resource recovery revenues - Moderate (R & D Active).
D. Percent capacity - Presently operate full capacities.
E. Expansion potential - Constant expansion of processing capabilities.
V. COMMENTS - Will consider any waste stream for recovery or destruction,
process development, licensing of in-house technology, consulting
research and analytical services offered to customer. Economic
feasibility of doing recovery or destruction work will determine
whether or not waste is accepted. Firm also provides chemical clearing
house service.
VI. SOURCE -
Personal communication. Mr. Lodick and Dr. Lee, Frontier Chemical
Waste Process, Inc., with Don Farb, Office of Solid
Waste Management Programs, June 19 and June 20, 1974.
Personal communication. Dr. Lee, Frontier Chemical Waste
Process, Inc. to Mr. John P. Lehman, Office of Solid
Waste Management Programs, November 13, 1974.
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Pollution Abatement Services
P.O. Box 4065
Oswego, New York
(3115) 343-3356 (Mr. Pierce or Mr. Miller)
I. BACKGROUND
A. Services provided - Processing/treatment
B. Service area - New York, New England, Pennsylvania, and
New Jersey.
C. Date established - 1970
D. Licensed by the State of New York for incinerator emission.
E. Organizational structure - Private corporation
II. WASTE STREAMS
A. Accept - Oil wastes, paint sludges, solvents/cleaners, still and
tank bottoms, and generally any organic or aqueous liquid.
B. Exclude - Organic and inorganic solids.
C. Volume - 7.0 MG/year.
III. WASTE HANDLING
A. Collection/hauling - Transportation arranged by P.A.S. Inc.
B. Receiving/storage
0 Unloading facilities for trucks (tank and flatbed with drums).
0 60,000 gal. of closed tank storage capacity.
C. Laboratory analysis
0 Analysis performed on each waste prior to contract commitment
and again upon receipt.
0 Analysis performed by Pollution Abatement Services
D. Treatment
0 Combustion in vortex liquid waste incinerator.
0 1500 gal./hr. capacity
0 Operating level equivalent to approximately 1000 gal./hr.
0 High energy Venturi scrubbing system
0 No residue for disposal according to Pollution Abatement Services,
E. Disposal - Not applicable
IV. ECONOMICS
A. User charges
0 6.5 - 15<£/gal. in bulk
0 $7 - 14/drum
B. Costs - Not obtained
C. Resource recovery revenues - Not applicable
D. Percent capacity - 50%
E. Expansion potential - 1 MG of additional storage capacity planned
V. COMMENTS - None
VI. SOURCE -
Personal communication. Mr. W. Pierce, Pollution Abatement Services,
to Mr. John P. Lehman, Office of Solid Waste Management
Programs, November 25, 1974.
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Recycling Laboratories
112 Harrison Place
Syracuse, New York 13202
(315) 422-4311 (Mr. Richard Greene)
.1. BACKGROUND
A. Services provided
0 Collection/hauling
0 Treatment/processing
0 Disposal
B. Service area - Upstate New York and Boston
C. Date established - Unknown
D. Licensed by the State of New York
E. Organizational structure - Company founded by Richard Greene
and Robert Andreas. Subsidiary plant available in Boston.
Currently operating 24 hrs./day. Accept materials for
destruction, reclamation and/or return.
II. WASTE STREAMS
A. Accept - Industrial solvents (chlorinated and non-chlorinated),
caustics and acids with heavy metals, oil, vinyl, polyesters,
and pigment sludges. (Under contract to handle General
Electric's wastes).
B. Exclude - Will vary, decision based on laboratory analysis.
C. Volume - Unknown
III. WASTE HANDLING
A. Collection/hauling - Service available
B. Receiving/storage - Handle mostly drummed wastes (bulk wastes
accepted at Syracuse). Job lot or contract arrangements.
C. Laboratory analysis - Sample analysis and quality control
service.
D. Treatment - Distillation
0 250 gal./hr. chlorinated still
0 150 gal./hr. non-chlorinated still
0 Atmospheric still available on subcontract arrangements.
0 Investigating vacuum still to recover mercury
0 Recover solvents for resale, other wastes sold as is.
0 Wastes requiring destruction are forwarded to Pollution
Abatement Services, Oswego, New York for incineration.
E. Disposal - as indicated above (subcontracted to incinerator)
IV. ECONOMICS
A. User charges - Quotations furnished upon analysis.
B. Costs - Unknown
C. Resource recovery revenues - Unknown
D. Percent capacity - Close to capacity. Development schedule
two years ahead of schedule. (24 hr. operation)
E. Expansion potential - Good, company is interested in developing
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landfill liner technology and metal recovery capability.
V. COMMENTS - None
VI. SOURCE -
Personal communication. Mr. Greene, Recycling Laboratories,
with Mr. Don Farb, Office of Solid Waste
Management Programs, May 20, 1974.
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American Recovery Corporation (Curtis Bay Facility)
2001 Benhill Avenue
Baltimore, Maryland
(301) 355-0623 (Mr. John F. Bryan)
I. BACKGROUND
A. Services provided
0 Processing/treatment, including sorting?packing, pick-up,
and disposal of laboratory chemicals
E. Service area - Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania
C. Date established - 1971
D. Organizational structure
0 Subsidiary of Union Corp. of Verona, Pennsylvania,
a publicly owned corporation
0 Subcontracts bulk hauling.
0 Subcontracts landfill disposal.
II. WASTE STREAMS
A. Accept - Acids, heavy metals in solution, mixed laboratory wastes
and chemicals.
B. Exclude - Not obtained
C. Volume - 100,000 gal./week.
III. WASTE HANDLING
A, Collection/hauling - 1 truck for handling drummed waste only.
B. Pxeceiving/storage
0 Unloading facilities for trucks only.
0 70,000 gal. of closed tank storage.
C. Laboratory analysis
0 Analysis prior to contract commitment
0 Generator's analysis accepted.
D. Treatment
0 System 1: Lime slurry is added to the solutions containing
heavy petals. Mixing and flocculation induce the formation
of metal hydroxide precipitates, followed by sulfide treatment.
The slurry is then pumped to lagoons where sedimentation of the
solids occurs. The solids are periodically dredged from the
lagoons and placed in a landfill. Some liquid evaporates. The
remainder of the treated liquid is disposed of according to
state regulations.
0 System 2: Mixed laboratory wastes and acids without heavy metals
are treated with the above. Certain other chemicals that
cannot be identified or that cannot be treated in a conventional
Planner are encapsulated in concrete. Chemicals of value are
salvaged and recycled.
E. Disposal - Not applicable
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IV. ECONOMICS
A. User charges - not obtained
B. Costs - not obtained
C. Resource recovery revenues - When possible
D. Percent capacity - 50%
E. Expansion potential
0 The company plans expansion in the form of portable
processing plants. (See American Recovery Corp.; East
Chicago, Indiana).
0 Installation of a solvent and a heavy metals recovery
plant.
V. COMMENTS - None
VI. SOURCE -
Personal communication. Mr. John Bryan, American Recovery
Corp. (Curtis Bay Facility), with Dan Ward,
Office of Solid Waste Management Programs, June
6, 1974.
Personal Communication. Mr. Robert A. Taylor, American Recovery
Corp. , to Mr. John P. Lehman, Office of Solid
Waste Management Programs, November 26, 1974.
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American Recovery Corporation (Sparrows Point)
901 Recovery Road
Baltimore, MD 21219
(301) 388-0830 (Mr. Taylor)
I. BACKGROUND
A. Services provided - Processing/treatment
B. Service area - Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Washington, D.C.
C. Date established - 1971
D. Licenses required
E. Organizational structure
0 Subsidiary of Union Corp. of Verona,
owned corporation.
0 Subcontracts collection/hauling.
0 Subcontracts landfill disposal.
Pennsylvania, a publicly
II. WASTE STREAMS
A. Accept - Oil waste (particularly API Separator Sludge), still
and tank bottoms, and heavy organics not included in the above
categories.
B. Exclude - Inorganics and solvents.
C. Volume - 30,000 gal./day.
III. WASTE HANDLING
A. Collection/hauling - not applicable
B. Receiving/storage
0 Unloading facilities for trucks and barges.
0 Waste also received by pipeline.
0 250,000 gal. of closed tank storage capacity.
C. Laboratory analysis
0 Performed both prior to contract commitment and upon receipt of
waste.
0 Performed by American's Curtis Bay Facility in Baltimore.
D. Treatment - A proprietary process is used to break the oil-water
emulsions and subsequently separate water and solids from the
oil. The oil is harvested and sold to heavy industries. The
water is discharged along with Bethlehem Steel's effluent, and
the solids are collected and sent to landfill.
E. Disposal - not applicable
IV. ECONOMICS
A. User charges - not obtained
B. Costs - not obtained
C. Resource recovery revenues - 15 - 20
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the same proprietary process for the reclamation of oils.
American feels that portable facilities are necessary
because no other areas in the country have adequate quantities
of heavy organic wastes to fully utilize a facility.
V. COMMENTS - This facility is located on Bethlehem Steel Company's
site. American handles all of Bethlehem's oil waste and oil
waste from other generators.
VI. SOURCE -
Personal communication. Mr. Taylor, American Recovery Corp. (Sparrows
Point), with Dan Ward, Office of Solid Waste Management
Programs, July 1, 1974.
Personal communication. Mr. Robert A. Taylor, American Recovery
Corp., to Mr. John P. Lehman, Office of Solid Waste
Management Programs, November 26, 1974.
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Chemfix, Inc.
505 McNeilly Rd.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15226
(412) 343-8611 (Mr. Ralph Wisniewski)
I. BACKGROUND
A. Services provided - Processing and treatment
B. Service area - Nationwide portable treatment facilities
C. Date established - 1971
D. Licensing authority - Interstate service by mobile facilities
requires coordination with appropriate authorities in each
state. Current information indicates that the process has
been used in the states of Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Pennsylvania,
Texas, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, and New Jersey. The
applicable regulatory agency (usually the state) is provided
pertinent laboratory results. If approval is granted by the
regulatory agency, Chemfix transports a treatment van to the
client's plant site.
E. Organizational structure - Chemfix, Inc. is a privately owned
corporation based in Pittsburgh. Other sales offices are
located in Cleveland, Chicago, and Houston.
II. WASTE STREAMS
A. Accept - Primarily inorganic wastes including heavy metals plus
certain refinery and chemical manufacturing wastes. Accept-
ability of waste based on sample analysis and compatibility to
fixation process. Material must be pumpable.
B. Exclude - As indicated above and some oil wastes and pesticides.
C. Volume - 25 million gallons in 1973; estimated 1974 volume
50 million gallons. Processing rate is 100-150,000 gallons per
10 hour day. Jobs of less than 100,000 gallons are rarely
accepted.
III. WASTE HANDLING
A. Collection/hauling - Mobile facilities minimize the need for
collection and hauling. Processing equipment is brought to the
waste generator or other mutually agreeable processing site.
B. Receiving/storage - No storage by Chemfix; waste generators usually
store upwards of 500,000 gallons prior to processing.
C. Laboratory analysis - Service provided through Chemfix laboratories
Each waste's potential for fixation without leachino is dptermined
prior to Company commitment.
D. Treatment - Chemical fixation (4 mobile treatment vans)
0 Agitation and mixing of wastes to be fixed.
Wastes are pumped to a van where reagent chemicals are added.
Depending upon the nature of the wastes it may be necessary
to add pre-treatment chemicals to degrade or detoxify the
wastes.
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0 Fixation process involves a reaction of two proprietary
chemical additives. Fixed wastes are bound in a silicate
complex. Company maintains the reaction is permanent and
not reversible.
0 Resulting mixture is pumped out onto the land where it is
allowed to solidify (24 - 72 hours)
E. Disposal - Treated wastes are allowed to solidify with
resulting solids to be used as fill. Final disposal
responsibility rests with the waste generator.
IV. ECONOMICS
A. User charges - Quotations furnished based on waste analysis.
Quoted charges range from 2-10<£ per gallon with the average
of 4<£ /gallon. (This does not include the cost of removing
the fixed wastes if it can not be filled on site.)
B. Costs - Unknown
C. Resource recovery revenues - Not applicable
D. Percent capacity - Current backlog of 20 million gallons.
Apppear to be operating at or near capacity.
E. Expansion potential - Potential appears to be good.
Operating licenses are located in England and France. Chemfix
operations in Japan are now underway. Backlog of wastes
would indicate stateside expansion is very likely.
V. COMMENTS - Process appears to be successful in converting some
hazardous wastes into forms that are more amenable to conventional
waste disposal techniques. However, much information is lacking
on the long-term behavior of fixed products past the four years
experience obtained to date.
VI. SOURCE
Lindsey, A. & Fields, T. Technology Assessment Summary,
April 3, 1974.
Personal communication. Mr. L. P. Gowman, Chemfix, Inc., to
Mr. John P. Lehman, Office of Solid Waste Management
Programs, November 5, 1974.
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Pottstown Disposal Service
Pottstown, Pennsylvania
(215) 326-6050 (Mr. Clay Rinehart)
I. BACKGROUND
A. Service provided - Disposal
B. Service area - Not obtained
C. Date established - Not obtained
D. Licensed by the State of Pennsylvania for a landfill
operation.
E. Organizational structure - Subsidiary of SCA Services, Inc.
II. WASTE STREAMS - Industrial Wastes including
A. Accept - Sludges containing heavy metals
B. Exclude - Not obtained
C. Volume - Not obtained
III. WASTE HANDLING
A. Collection/hauling - Not applicable
B. Receiving/storage - Not applicable
C. Laboratory analysis
0 Analysis performed by Gilbert Associates, an environmental
engineering consulting firm.
0 Analysis performed both prior to commitment and upon
receipt of waste.
D. Treatment - Not applicable
E. Disposal
0 Sanitary landfill utilized
0 No artificial liner.
0 Natural geologic structure permits collection of over 90"
of leachate into drainage system.
° Leachate collected in open lagoon and transported to
municipal sewerage system.
° Leachate constituents inhibitory to microorganisms in the
municipal wastewater treatment plant controlled by
restricting the types of waste accepted in the landfill.
IV. ECONOMICS
A. User charges - $l/yd.
B. Cost - Not obtained
C. Resource recovery revenues - Not applicable
D. Percent capacity - Not applicable
E. Expansion potential - No expansion planned.
V. COMMENTS - None
VI. SOURCE -
Personal communication. Mr. Clay Rinehart, Pottstown Disposal
Service, with Dan Ward, Office of Solid Waste
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Management Programs, June 24, 1974.
Personal communication. MF. Leslie Rinehart, Pottstown Disposal Service,
to Mr. John P. Lehman, Office of Solid Waste Management
Programs, November 13, 1974.
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Sitkin Metal Industries, Inc.
P.O. Box 708
Lewistown, Pennsylvania
(717) 543-5631 (Mr. Sitkin)
I. BACKGROUND
A. Services provided
0 Collection/hauling
0 Processing/treatment
B. Service area - Continental United States
C. Date established - 1915
D. No licenses required
E. Organizational structure - Publicly owned corp.; affiliated with
a transport firm.
II. WASTE STREAMS
A. Accept - Heavy metals in solution, sludges with heavy metals.
B. Exclude - All wastes with insufficient quantities of metals to
allow profitable reclamation.
C. Volume - Not obtained
III. WASTE HANDLING
A. Collection/hauling - 50 trucks; drummed waste only
B. Receiving/storage - Receiving facilities for drums only; wastes
stored in drums.
C. Laboratory analysis
0 Analysis performed on each waste both prior to contract
commitment and upon receipt.
0 Analysis performed by Sitkin Metal Industries, Inc.
D. Treatment
0 System 1: Gold and silver are recovered in the Precious Metals
Recovery System. Mr. Sitkin was not familiar with the
technology, but the system does produce a solid residue as a
by-product that is stored in drums on the plant site.
0 System 2: Copper and nickel are recovered in the Valuable
Metals Recovery System. (Same comments as for System 1.)
E. Disposal - Mot applicable
IV. ECONOMICS
A. User charges - Not obtained
Costs - Not obtained
Resource Recovery Revenues - Not obtained
D. Percent capacity - Not obtained
E. Expansion potential - A $2.8 million expansion of the plant is
under construction.
V. COMMENTS - Mr. Sitkin was cordial over the phone but was very brief in
his answers, hence, the absence of some of the information. Mr.
Sitkin considers his company to be in the metal recovery business, not
the waste processing business.
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VI. SOURCE -
Personal communication. Mr. Sitkin, Sitkin Metal Industries, Inc.
with Dan Ward, Office of Solid Waste Management
Programs, June 7, 1974.
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Liquid Waste Disposal of Virginia
Richmond, Virginia
(804) 746-0298 (Mr. Brewington)
I. BACKGROUND
A. Services provided
0 Collection/hauling
0 Processing/treatment
B. Service area - Virginia
C. Date established - 1971
D. Licensed by the State of Virginia for incinerator emission
E. Organizational structure - Partnership
II. WASTE STREAMS
A. Accept - Oil waste, paint sludge, solvents/cleaners, tank
bottoms
B. Exclude - Organic and inorganic solids and inorganic liquids
C. Volume - Not obtained
III. WASTE HANDLING
A. Collection/hauling - One tank truck
B. Receiving/storage
0 Unloading facilities for trucks only
0 18,000 gal. of closed tank storage capacity
C. Laboratory analysis - Waste from a new generator sent to a
private laboratory for identification prior to contract
commitment.
D. Treatment - All wastes are burned in a "homemade" liquid waste
incinerator. The incinerator consists of a #10 oil burner,
metal enclosure, induced draft fan, and a stack. The
capacity of the unit is 400 gal./hr. Installation of control
equipment has not been attempted and Mr. Brewington claims no
residue remains after combustion.
E. Disposal - Not applicable
IV. ECONOMICS
A. User charges - 10
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Liquid Waste Disposal, Inc.
P.O. Box 19063
Louisville, Kentucky 40219
(502) 968-6173 (Mr. George M. 0'Bryan)
I. BACKGROUND
A. Services provided
0 Collection/hauling
0 Processing/treatment
0 Disposal
B. Service area - The Louisville-Jefferson County area when using
Liquid Waste Disposal's equipment. We will and do handle
waste liquids outside of this area, provided they are
shipped to us in bulk or 55 gal. drums, when shipped by
common carrier.
C. Date established - 1973
D. Facility monitored by the Jefferson Co. (Kentucky) Air
Pollution Authority.
E. Organizational structure - Affiliated with Liquid Waste
Disposal of Norfolk and Richmond, Virginia.
II. WASTE STREAMS
A. Accept - Primarily organic solvents and cleaners from the
paint industry.
B. Exclude - Non-pumpable wastes, non-combustibles, and
organics containing heavy metals.
C. Volume - Unknown
III. WASTE HANDLING
A. Collection/hauling - 1800 gal. tank truck available in
Louisville area only. Outside this area by common carrier.
B. Receiving storage - 2-15,000 gal. tanks.
C. Laboratory analysis - Not available
D. Treatment - High temperature incineration
0 Incinerator (refractory lined)
0 Temperatures up to 2000°F for 0.5 seconds
0 Pollution control installation planned in near future.
0 No ash or solid waste by-product for disposal
0 Resource recovery being studied
E. Disposal - Incineration as indicated above
IV. ECONOMICS
A. User charges - 10-30
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V. COMMENTS - None
VI. SOURCE -
Personal communication. Mr. George 0'Bryan, Liquid Waste
Disposal, Inc., with Don Farb, Office of Solid
Waste Management Programs, May 31, 1974.
Personal communication. Mr. George M. O'Bryan, Liquid Waste
Disposal, Inc., to Mr. Crews, Office of Solid
Waste Management, November 18, 1974.
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Nuclear Engineering Co., Inc.
Main Offices: West Coast - Box 156
San Ramon, California 94583
(415) 837-1561 (Mr. G. S. Williamson)
East Coast - Box 7246
Louisville, Kentucky 40207
(502) 426-7160 (Mr. A. Crase)
Burial sites - Morehead, Kentucky;
Sheffield, Illinois;
Beatty, Nevada;
Richland, Washington;
Robstown, Texas
I. BACKGROUND
A. Services provided
0 Collection/hauling
0 Disposal
B. Service area - Nationwide
C. Date established - Approximately 1958
D. Licensed by state health and environmental authorities
E. Organizational structure - Primarily radioactive waste (low
level) burial service, firm has developed disposal service
for chemical wastes at Beatty, Nevada and at Sheffield,
Illinois. Owns subsidiary waste disposal firm, Texas
Ecologists, Robstown, Texas, which handles only non-radioactive
hazardous wastes.
II. WASTE STREAMS
A. Accept - Radioactive wastes, pesticides, organic wastes,
misc. toxic chemicals, heavy metals, (solids primarily, liquids
accepted following state review).
B. Exclude - Highly reactive sodium and potassium.
C. Volume - No specific limit - depends on type and
composition.
III. WASTE HANDLING
A. Collection/hauling - Service available
B. Receiving/storage - Warehousing available (18,000 sq. ft.).
Mostly drummed waste.
C. Laboratory analysis - Spot checks as required.
D. Treatment - No pre-treatment prior to burial
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IV,
E. Disposal - Land burial
0 Burial sites, clay strata, low permeability, clay liners.
0 30 ft. trenches, drums lowered in by crane and
surrounded by 3x their volume of dry clay.
0 Beatty site 350 ft. to groundwater, 150 ft. of clay below
trenches - 2-4 in. of rain per year (unlimited capacity).
0 Monitoring wells checked every 2 weeks.
ECONOMICS
A. User charges - Transportation cost - Approximately $1.00/mile
per 40,000 Ib. truck. Burial charges $1.25 to $1.75 per ft. .
Costs - unknown
Resource recovery revenues - Not applicable
Percent capacity - Sheffield site newly opened. Beatty site
capacity unlimited.
Expansion potential - Ample land available.
V,
VI,
COMMENTS - None
SOURCE -
Personal communication. Mr. Williamson, Nuclear Engineering, Co.,
Inc., with Don Farb, Office of Solid Waste
Management Programs, June 20, 1974.
Personal communication. Mr. Williamson, Nuclear Engineering, Co.,
Inc., to Mr. John P. Lehman, Office of Solid Waste
Management Programs, November 8, 1974.
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Petrolite Corporation Subsidiary: International Pollution
Box 2546 Control, Inc.
Houston, Texas 77001 Corpus Christi, Texas
(713) 923-9781 (Mr. Ralph Shoberg)
I. BACKGROUND
A. Services provided - Treatment and disposal
B. Service area - Defined by availability of licensed carriers.
Plant sites at Calvert City, Kentucky, and Corpus Christi, Texas.
C. Date established - unknown
D. Licensed to operate under Kentucky and Texas state health and
environmental authorities.
E. Organizational structure - Parent firm ($100 million/year corpora-
tion) with expertise in petroleum and waste treatment engineering.
Corpus Christi subsidiary - International Pollution Control
($10 million per year operation).
II. WASTE STREAMS
A. Accept - Oily wastes, tetra ethyl lead sludges, plating wastes,
and cyanide.
B. Exclude - Chlorinated hydrocarbons
C. Volume - 200 gal./hr.
III. WASTE HANDLING
A. Collection/hauling - not applicable
B. Receiving/storage
0 Truck only
0 Receive bulk or drummed wastes
0 Storage facilities available
C. Laboratory analysis - Complete laboratory facilities
D. Treatment
0 Calvert City, Kentucky - Integrated treatment involving
biological, chemical and thermal treatment.
. Incinerator - Fixed horizontal kiln - designed for liquids
"(1800 - 2000°F for 0.7 seconds). Waste heat acts as an unfired
afterburner. Natural gas used as support fuel. No ash disposal
and no air pollution control (stack gases controlled by regulating
feed rate). Planned expansion will triple residence time and
increase temperature range by 300°F.
Biological treatment - (Planned) Conventional treatment (screening
sedimentation, - microbial digestion with effluent discharged
and sludges forwarded to municipal landfill.)
Chemical treatment - (Planned) Limited to detoxifying and/or
neutralizing chemicals, 200 gallon/hour capacity.
0 Corpus Christi, Texas - Oil recovery by electrostatic precipita-
tion. Chemical reduction and degradation to inert by-products,
• waste residues are deep well injected or landfilled on site (small
amounts). 20,000 barrels per month capacity.
E. Disposal
0 Landfill - All Calvert City wastes incinerated or detoxified to
inert form for municipal landfill. Corpus Christi - 35 acre
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landfill area receives detoxified waste treatment by-products.
0 Deep well injection - Corpus Christi facilities - COD/BOD of
injected wastes are within secondary (sewage) treatment
parameters, 5000 ft. well with an 850 ft. unconsolidated
injection zone, (capacity unknown). Sedimentary rock strata
above and below injection zone.
0 Operate a landfill for Calvert City and nonputrescible solids
from area industry.
IV. ECONOMICS
A. User charges
0 Calvert City cost range up to 25<£/gallon
0 Corpus Christi cost is approximately one-third of Calvert City.
0 Deep well injection charges are less than Calvert City charges.
B. Costs
0 Corpus Christi - $1.6 million capital investment
0 Operating costs - unknown
C. Resource recovery revenues - unknown
D. Percent capacity - 60% of capacity due to lack of licensed carriers.
Corpus Christi facility initially lost $25,000 per month, increased
costs eliminated the small profit from the Corpus Christi plant to
approximately break-even.
E. Expansion potential - Favorable based on regulatory structure to
prohibit open dumps.
V. COMMENTS - User charges consistently lower than those projected by
Arthur D. Little.
VI. SOURCE -
Personal communication. Mr. Shoberg, Petrolite Corporation, with Don
Farb, Office of Solid Waste Management Programs, June 6,
1974.
Personal communication. Mr. Ralph A. Shoberg, Petrolite Corporation,
to Mr. John P. Lehman, Office of Solid Waste Management
Programs, November 5, 1974.
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Hyon Waste Management Services, Inc.
11700 Stony Island Ave,
Chicago, Illinois 60617
(312) 646-0016 (Mr. E.R, Ackerson)
I. BACKGROUND
A. Services provided
0 Processing/treatment
0 Disposal
B. Service area - Unlimited, but most wastes come from Illinois,
Ohio, Indiana, Wisconsin, Michigan,
C. Date established - 1970
D. Facility operates under city and state approval,
E. Organizational structure - Wholly owned subsidiary of Inter-
national Hydronics, Princeton, New Jersey, an engineering
firm specializing in waste treatment engineering/consulting/
laboratory analysis/equipment development. 30 employees at
Hyon plant include general manager, operations manager,
technical manager, and marketing personnel.
II. WASTE STREAMS
A. Accept -
1) Inorganic acids and etchants containing dissolved heavy
metals.
2) Alkalies containing metal salts and dissolved organics.
3) Neutral aqueous salt solutions with suspended and dissolved
organics.
4) Inorganic sludges and precipitates of heavy metals; copper,
zinc, arsenic, etc.
5) Monomers and polymers in concentrated organic-water solu-
tions.
6) Liquid and solid alkaline cyanides.
7) Phenol and phenolic derivatives in aqueous solutions.
8) Chlorinated, nitrated phosphonated and sulfonated liquid
hydrocarbons.
9) Organic tars, solids and powders.
10) Liquid and solid insecticides and pesticides.
11) Over-age Pharmaceuticals, off spec, and proprietary products.
Note: All wastes are essentially concentrated materials with a
high pollution potential from the entire spectrum of in-
dustry: chemical, petrochemical, petroleum, automotive,
food, pharmaceutical, metal finishing, etc.
B. Exclude -
1) Radioactive wastes
2) Known explosives
3) Any material for which a treatment method is not known or
the residues or products of treatment cannot reasonably be
anticipated.
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C. Volume - Daily volumes vary from 50,000 to 75,000 gallons.
Maximum capacity of plant 250,000 gals.
III. WASTE HANDLING
A. Collection/hauling available by subcontract to established
carriers.
B. Receiving/storage
0 Facilities available for bulk and/or drummed delivery by
truck, barge, or rail.
0 250,000 gallon storage in tanks and lined basins.
C. Laboratory analysis - Facilities available at Chicago and
Princeton to do sample analysis, treatability tests, and
quality control.
D. Treatment
1. Incineration
0 12 ft. 0 x 17 ft. Bartlett-Snow rotary kiln (1800°F)
and 5 ft. diameter Babcock and Wilcox cyclone furnace
(0.3 seconds @ 3000°F) with an unfired afterburner (53 ft.
long x 17 ft. diameter with 1 second retention) common to
both fireboxes.
0 Pollution control devices including primary and secondary
condensation impingement scrubbers with an 80 ft. stack.
0 Auxiliary incinerator, 20 million BTU/hr. capacity includes ver-
tical Peabody Engineering Co. furnace and associated aux-
iliaries with 3 stage gas scrubbing.
0 A portion of quench and scrubber water supplied from
bio-treatment unit. Waste heat used to warm activated
sludge units.
0 System's capacity - 155 million BTU/hour.
0 Evaporation capacity 250,000 gallons/day.
2. Bio-treatment
0 Wastes receive pre-treatment to adjust pH in 3 (60,000
gal.) fiberglass lined receiving basins.
0 Bio-chemical treatment beds provide a retention sink
for heavy metals and refractory organics. Cultured or-
ganisms degrade aqueous organics and convert heavy metals
to insoluble salts and metal oxides. Organic ash is sim-
ilar to peat moss. 10 beds (350 ft. x 50 ft. x 4 ft.)
0 Activated sludge plant provides further biological de-
gradation. 15 hours retention in 3 tanks - one 24' x 48'
x 11' and two 24' x 24' x IT. Effluent is stabilized
and clarified (activated carbon assist).
3. Chemical treatment
0 Chemical treatment processes currently rely on acid/
base neutralization. Future facilities include specialized
chemical treatments, particularly electrochemical oxida-
tions, separations, and chemical recovery.
°'Some interest in recovering incinerator scrubber HCl
if economically feasible.
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IV. ECONOMICS
A. User charges - Objective is to provide waste disposal at
3-30£ per gallon for most material.
B. Costs - Operating cost $1 million/year. Capital costs -
3 1/2 million, including $500,000 for engineering and
$1,700,000 for kiln, and incinerator.
C. Resource recovery revenues - not applicable.
D. Percent capacity - Supply of wastes currently about 25%
capacity, principally limited by general availability of
alternative land disposal practice.
E. Expansion potential - Favorable based on growing incentive
to generators to utilize safer disposal methods.
V. COMMENTS - Site located on 59 acres in Lake Calumet Basin,
(access to Lake Michigan). Parent firm was instrumental in
developing disposal sites for Rollins International in 1968-70.
VI. SOURCE -
Personal Communication. Robert Bruns and Albert Mindler,
International Hydronics to Arch Scurlock and
Donald Farb, Office of Solid Waste Management
Programs, June 4, 1974.
Personal Communication. E. R. Ackerson, Hyon Waste
Management Services, Inc. to John Lehman,
Office of Solid Waste Management Programs,
November 12, 1974.
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Nuclear Engineering Co., Inc.
Main Offices: West Coast - Box 156
San Ramon, California 94583
(415) 837-1561 (Mr. G. S. Williamson)
East Coast - Box 7246
Louisville, Kentucky 40207
(502) 426-7360 (Mr. A. Crase)
Burial sites - Morehead, Kentucky;
Sheffield, Illinois;
Beatty, Nevada;
Richland, Washington;
Robstown, Texas
I. BACKGROUND
A. Services provided
0 Collection/hauling
0 Disposal
B. Service area - Nationwide
C. Date established - Approximately T958
D. Licensed by state health and environmental authorities
E. Organizational structure - Primarily radioactive waste (low
level) burial service, firm has developed disposal service
for chemical wastes at Beatty, Nevada and at Sheffield,
Illinois. Owns subsidiary waste disposal firm, Texas
Ecologists, Robstown, Texas, whidfn handles only non-radioactive
hazardous wastes.
II. WASTE STREAMS
A. Accept - Radioactive wastes, pesticides, organic wastes,
misc. toxic chemicals, heavy metals, (solids primarily, liquids
accepted following state review).
B. Exclude - Highly reactive sodium and potassium.
C. Volume - No specific limit - depends on type and
composition.
s
III. WASTE HANDLING
A. Collection/hauling - Service available
B. Receiving/storage - Warehousing available (18,000 sq. ft.).
Mostly drummed waste.
C. Laboratory analysis - Spot checks as required.
D. Treatment - No pre-treatment prior to burial
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E. Disposal - Land burial
0 Burial sites, clay strata, low permeability, clay liners.
0 30 ft. trenches, drums lowered in by crane and
surrounded by 3x their volume of dry clay.
0 Beatty site 350 ft. to groundwater, 150 ft. of clay below
trenches - 2-4 in. of rain per year (unlimited capacity).
0 Monitoring wells checked every 2 weeks.
IV. ECONOMICS
A. User charges - Transportation cost - Approximately $1.00/mile
per 40,000 Ib. truck. Burial charges $1.25 to $1.75 per ft.
B. Costs - unknown
C. Resource recovery revenues - Not applicable
D. Percent capacity - Sheffield site newly opened. Beatty site
capacity unlimited.
E. Expansion potential - Ample land available.
V. COMMENTS - None
VI. SOURCE -
Personal communication. Mr. Williamson, Nuclear Engineering, Co.
Inc., with Don Farb, Office of Solid Waste
Management Programs, June 20, 1974.
Personal communication. Mr. Williamson, Nuclear Engineering, Co.
Inc., to Mr. John P. Lehman, Office of Solid Waste
Management Programs, November 8, 1974.
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Waste Management, Inc.
900 Jorie Blvd.
Oak Brook, 111. 60521
(312) 891-1500 (Mr. Peter Miller)
I. BACKGROUND
A. Services provided
0 Col lection/haul ing/redistribution
0 Processing/treatment
0 Disposal
B. Service area - Midwest; Florida
C. Date established - Unknown
D. Licensed by - Unknown
E. Organizational structure - Waste Management, Inc. is primarily
a solid waste firm (90 divisions around country; 59
landfills) which is branching into hazardous waste
management.
II. WASTE STREAMS
A. Accept - Acids, caustics, solvents, heavy metals
B. Exclude - Cyanides, pesticides, herbicides
C. Volume - Joliet - 60,000 gal. storage; Chicago - 650,000
gal. (lagoon storage)
III. WASTE HANDLING
A. Collection/hauling - Line of drum handling and bulk tanker
trucks.
B. Receiving/storage - Facilities available
C. Laboratory analysis - Complete process development lab
for chemical wastes. (Chicago)
D. Treatment
1. Chemical process (starting November 1974)
0 Recovery of some heavy metals as hydroxides
0 Precipitation of dissolved and colloidal materials
2. Incineration
0 Incinerators, primarily for solids. Small capacity
burner available.
3. Biologic process - Pending completion November 1974.
E. Disposal
0 Sludges (refinery) for sludge farming practices in So.111.
0 Sanitary landfill - Limed and certain areas isolated from
municipal wastes.
IV. ECONOMICS
A. User charges - Available on request
B. Costs - Unknown
C. Resource recovery revenues - Cu, Ni, unknown
D. Percent capacity - Unknown
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E. Expansion potential - Unknown
V. COMMENTS - Engaged in expansion of chemical waste
facilities and services.
VI. SOURCE -
Personal communication. Mr. Peter Miller, Waste Management, Inc.,
with Tom Leshendok, Office of Solid Waste Management
Programs, November 23, 1974.
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American Recovery Corporation
Riley Road
East Chicago, Indiana 46312
(219) 397-1131 (Mr. Loren Hoboy)
I. BACKGROUND
A. Services provided - Processing/treatment
B. Service area - Industrial complex at the southern end of Lake
Michigan; Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Missouri
C. Date established - 1971
D. License required
E. Organizational structure
0 Subsidiary of Union Corporation of Verona, Pennsylvania, a publicly
owned corporation.
0 Subcontracts collection/hauling. •
0 Subcontracts landfill disposal.
II. WASTE STREAMS
A. Accept - Oil waste (particularly API Separator Sludge), still and
tank bottoms, and heavy organics (not included in the above categories)
generated by the steel mills at the southern end of Lake Michigan.
B. Exclude - Inorganics and solvents.
C. Volume - 50,000 gal./day.
III. WASTE HANDLING
A. Collection/hauling - not applicable
B. Receiving/storage
0 Unloading facilities for trucks, railroad cars, and barges.
0 5,000,000 gallons of closed tank storage capacity.
C. Laboratory analysis
0 Performed both prior to contract commitment and upon receipt.
0 Performed by either a private laboratory or American's Curtis Bay
Facility in Baltimore.
D. Treatment - A proprietary process is used to break the oil-water
emulsions and subsequently separate water and solids from the oil. The
oil is recovered and sold back to the steel mills as #6 fuel oil. The
water is discharged to the city sewerage system, and the solids are
collected and sent to landfill. The capacity of the process is 100,000
gal./day.
E. Disposal - not applicable
IV. ECONOMICS
A. User charges - not obtained
B. Costs - not obtained
C. Resource recovery revenues - Reclaimed oil sold at approximately the
market price of #6 fuel oil.
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D. Percent capacity - 50%
E. Expansion potential - Expansion of the existing facility
to include reclamation of crankcase oil is planned.
In addition, the company is planning to build portable
plants utilizing the same proprietary process for reclamation
oils. American feels that portable facilities are necessary
because no other areas in the country have adequate
quantities of heavy organic wastes to fully utilize a facility.
COMMENTS - Although the oil reclamation process is proprietary,
Mr. Hoboy said that access to technical data on the process
could be arranged by requesting clearance from American's
central office. Mr. Hoboy offered to obtain the required
approval and to arrange a site visit.
VI. SOURCE -
Personal communication. Mr. Hoboy, American Recovery Corp.,
with Dan Ward, Office of Solid Waste Management
Programs, July 1, 1974.
Personal communication. Mr. Robert A. Taylor, American
Recovery Corp., to Mr. John P. Lehman, Office
of Solid Waste Management Programs, November
20, 1974.
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Conservation Chemical Co. (3 locations)
215 West Pershing Rd., Suite 703, Kansas City, Mo. (816) 421-8494
Box 5472 St. Louis, MO 63160 (314) 241-7095
Box 6066 Gary, Indiana 46406 (219) 949-8229
Main Office (Chicago, Illinois) (312) 734-2741
I. BACKGROUND
A. Service provided - Processing/treatment
B. Service area - Extensive service area, wastes received
from distances in excess of 1000 miles
C. Date established - 1959 by Norman Hjersted
D. Licensed by - state environmental and health agencies
E. Organizational structure - No financial affiliations. Six
degreed professional people
II. WASTE STREAMS
A. Accept - Metal ion solutions, acids, caustics, arsenicals,
cyanide, phenols, various sludges.
B. Exclude - Based on tests and sample analyses
C. Volume - Monthly reports available from local environmental
agencies.
III. WASTE HANDLING
A. Collection/hauling - Complete line of lined tanker trucks and
trailers available. Fleet of tank cars also available.
B. Receiving/storage - Facilities at Kansas City (8 million gal.),
St. Louis, Gary, and Greensboro, N.C. 5 million gallons in
storage in total. Drum and bulk wastes.
C. Laboratory analysis - Sample and batch analysis done on each
waste stream (facilities .available in Gary, Indiana; another
laboratory being opened in Kansas City. A number of outside
labs used to supplement our own facilities.)
D. Treatment
0 Volume reduction (distillation/evaporation)
0 Neutralization of acids,caustics
0 Detoxification by chemical recombination
0 Ferric chloride, copper oxide, potassium fluoride, ferrous
chloride, ferric sulfate, and hydrogen fluoride recovery
(large supplier of ferric chloride to municipal waste treat-
ment facilities).
0 700,000 gal. per week
0 Sludge wastes (inert) landfilled
0 Other effluents deep well injected
E. Disposal
0 K.C. operations - Detoxified waste liquids and sludges allowed
to separate.
0 Supernatant evaporates.
0 Solidified sludges are landfilled on site. ^_
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IV. ECONOMICS
A. User charges - Most inorganic wastes charged between 3c and 12<£
per gallon. Specific charges determined on individual basis,
recognizing volume, concentration, complexity, etc. Some
materials of good organic value of high metals concentration,
taken in at no charge or paid.
B. Costs - Gross $3 million per year.
C. Resource recovery revenues - Unknown
D. Percent capacity - Ferric chloride recovery at 50%
capacity (1973). Other capacity levels unknown.
E. Expansion potential - Examining sites in Tennessee, Colorado,
and North Carolina. Pursuing landfill permit for K.C.
operations.
V. COMMENTS - Management maintains that operating costs and
capital costs must be minimal in order to provide a competitive
service. Management has achieved this objective by acquiring ob-
solete chemical plants and facilities.
VI. SOURCE
Anonymous. Making Waste Treatment Pay Off. Chemical Week,
113:55-56, April 3, 1973.
Personal communication. Norman B. Hjersted, Conservation Chemical
Company, to John P. Lehman, Office of Solid Waste
Management Programs, November 11, 1974
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Seymour Manufacturing Co.
500 N. Broadway
Seymour, Indiana 47274
(812) 522-4051 (Mr. John Gregory)
I. BACKGROUND
A. Services provided
0 Collection/hauling
. ° Processing/treatment
0 Disposal
B. Service area - Indiana, Illinois, West Virginia, Wisconsin,
Tennessee, and Michigan.
C. Date established - 1969
D. Licensed by the State of Indiana
E. Organizational structure - Parent firm, Seymour Manufacturing,
is an established hardware manufacturer, (e.g., hand tools).
Five traveling salesmen employed to find potential waste
sources and reclaimed products users.
II. WASTE STREAMS
A. Accept - Solvents, still and tank bottoms (all waste for
disposal must be pumpable)
B. Exclude - Heavy metals, acids, pesticides
C. Volume - 40,000 barrels currently on hand
III. WASTE HANDLING
A. Collection/hauling - 5 box trailers for drums and 4 tank trailers.
B. Receiving/storage - Receive drum or bulk wastes on contract
or job lot basis. Drum and bulk storage available.
C. Laboratory analysis - Available but not used on wastes
destined for incineration.
D. Treatment - Distillation
0 Solvents and/or other hydrocarbons (chlorinated and non-
chlorinated) are steam distilled and recovered.
0 Residues and other non-recoverable high BTU organics forwarded
to incinerator.
E. Disposal - Incineration
0 2 hydro combustion burners (100 and 250 gal./hr.)
@ 2500-3000°F.
0 Fire chambers 6ft. in diameter and 25 or 28ft. long. Each
maintain a 20ft. flame.
0 Liquids and other high BTU pumpables are atomized into the
fire chamber through two nozzles (no support fuel required).
0 25ft. stack with no air pollution control equipment (maintain
air quality by regulating proper air/fuel ratio).
IV. ECONOMICS
A. User charges - Disposal costs vary from $7.00 to $20.00 per
55 gal. drum (depends upon water content, hauling distance, and
potential for resource recovery).
B. Costs - Operating costs over first 3 1/2 yrs. ranged up to
$750,000 (no profits during this period).
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C. Resource recovery revenues - Potentially a million dollar
per year operation, past 1 1/2 years of operations have
shown profit. (Revenues for May 1974 were $83,000).
D. Percent capacity - Currently operating at capacity. Salesmen
have been taken off the road to reduce the flow of incoming
wastes.
E. Expansion potential - Plan to install two more burners and
raise incinerator capacity to 850 gal./hr.
V. COMMENTS - Recent unsatisfactory stack gas analysis caused state
to revoke permit. Hearing held on June 14, 1974, allowed permit
to be reinstated under provisions that monthly inspections are
satisfactory and meterials control log and documentation is
maintained. Browning-Ferris, Inc., is interested in this
operation.
VI. SOURCE -
Personal Communication. Mr. John Gregory, Seymour Mfg. Co.,
with Mr. Don Farb, Office of Solid Waste Management
Programs, June 18, 1974.
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Approved Chemical Treatment, Inc.
3755 Linden, S.E.
Grand Rapids, Michigan 49608
(616) 452-6021 (Mr. G. M. Allison)
I. BACKGROUND
A. Services provided
0 Collection/hauling
0 Processing/treatment
0 Disposal
Service area - Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois
C. Date established - 1969
D. Licensed by the State of Michigan for operation of a landfill.
E. Organizational structure
0 Partnership
0 Affiliated with Approved Industrial Removal, Inc. (a transport firm)
0 Subcontracts all incineration to Berlin and Parrel 1.
II. WASTE STREAMS
A. Accept - Acids, caustics, cyanide, heavy metals in solution, oil
wastes, solvents/cleaners.
B. Exclude - Not obtained
C. Volume - 1 million gals/month of acids, caustics, and heavy
metals in solution.
III. WASTE HANDLING
A. Collection/hauling - 34 tank trucks; steel, aluminum, stainless
steel, and rubber lined tanks.
B. Receiving/storage
0 Unloading facilities for trucks only.
0 50,000 gal. of closed tank storage capacity
C. Laboratory analysis
° Analysis performed on each waste prior to contract commitment
and again upon receipt.
0 Analysis performed by Approved Chemical Treatment Inc. in their
on-site laboratory.
D. Treatment
0 System 1: Acids and caustics that do not contain heavy metals are
blended in a storage tank. The neutralized liquor is pumped
to the lime slaker where it is added to the CaO to form C
0 System 2: Lime slurry is added to the solutions containing
heavy metals. Mixing and flocculation induce the formation of
metal hydroxide precipitates. The slurry is then pumped to sand
drying beds where the liquid phase either evaporates or
percolates into the soil and the remaining solids are removed
for landfill disposal.
0 System 3: Chromate solutions are first treated with FeSO^ to
reduce Cr+6 to Cr+ . Lime slurry addition, mixing, and flocculation
follow which results in the formation of Cr(OH)n
precipitate. The slurry is then pumped to sand drying beds
where the liquid phase either evaporates or percolates into
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the soil and the remaining solids are removed for landfill ..disposal.
0 System 4: Oils and solvents are segregated and stored.
Solvents of greater than 60% purity are sold to a reclamation firm.
The remaining solvents and oils are transported to Berlin and Parrel!'s
facility for incineration in a Garber-Davis Liquid Waste unit.
0 System 5: Cyanide wastes are stored and transported to Berlin and
Parrel! for processing. Mr. Allison did not know the type of
processing used.
E. Disposal
0 Sanitary landfill
0 No further information obtained
IV. ECONOMICS
A. User charges
0 Acids and caustics - 10-20<£/gal.
0 Solutions containing heavy metals - 10-15<£/lb. of metal in solution
0 Chromate solutions - 10-15<£/lb. of chromium.
0 Solvents - 15-20<£/gal.
0 Oils - 15-20<£/gal.
0 Cyanide solutions - 40
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Chem-Met Services
18550 Allen Rd.
Wyandotte, Michigan 48192
(313) 282-9250 (Mr. W. Labadie, Pres., or Mr. W. Hartman, Vice Pres.)
I. BACKGROUND
A. Services provided
0 Collection/hauling
0 Processing/treatment
0 Disposal (incinerator when operational)
B. Service area - Midwest, primarily Michigan. State restrictions
on what wastes may be brought into Michigan has limited out of
state service with regard to certain wastes.
C. Date established - 1966
D. Licensed and chartered by the State of Michigan.
E. Organizational structure - Disposal service initiated by
Messrs. Hartman and Labadie; subsequent success has allowed firm
to develop chemical sales and common carrier interests.
II. WASTE STREAMS
A. Accept - Willing to accept the challenge of any liquid waste
disposal problem, except as noted below.
B. Exclude - Radioactive wastes, arsenic.
C. Volume - 50 million gals./year, (40 million gallons resold to
municipal and industrial concerns, 10 million gallons disposed).
III. WASTE HANDLING
A. Collection/hauling - Service available through common carrier
affiliation.
B. Receiving/storage - 8,000,000 gallon reservoir available.
Primarily bulk truck shipments.
C. Laboratory analysis - No lab service or facility available,
rely on generator's analysis
D. Treatment
1. Incineration - (currently inoperative)
0 Fixed fire box, liquids only
0 2600°F
0 500 gal./hour
0 Currently not operating due to land use zoning restrictions.
2. Chemical detoxification - Neutralization and detoxification
of acids and cyanide wastes with lime and sodium hypochlorite
(1:4), respectively. Effluent discharged to Detroit
Municipal Sewage Treatment Facility.
3. Chemical fixation
0 Liquid wastes are combined with lime fines (calcium base)
in a 1 to 1 ratio. Mass solidifies with 50% of liquid
being evaporated.
0 Process is amenable to oily wastes. Firm feels process may
be adequate for arsenic wastes.
0 Fixed wastes withstand acid Teachings.
0 Fixed wastes disposed of in approved landfill.
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E. Disposal - Currently no disposal on-site. Material hauled
to state approved landfill.
IV. ECONOMICS
A. User charges - 3-10tf/gal. (cyanide $1.50/lb.)
B. Costs - Unknown, annual revenues, $1.5 million (gross)
C. Resource recovery revenues - Approximately 80% of $1.5 million/yr.
D. Percent capacity - Unlimited
E. Expansion potential - Excellent
V. COMMENTS - None
VI. SOURCE -
Personal Communication. Mr. Hartman, Chem-Met Services, with
Don Farb, Office of Solid Waste Management Programs,
June 21, 1974.
Personal Communication. Mr. William R. Hartman, Chem-Met Services,
to Mr. John P. Lehman, Office of Solid Waste Management
Programs, November 4, 1974.
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Environmental Waste Control, Inc.
26705 Michigan Avenue
Inkster, Michigan 48141
(313) 357-5680 or 561-1400 (Mr. Hornby)
I,
BACKGROUND
A
metropolitan centers of the
Services provided
0 Collection/hauling
0 Processing/treatment
B. Service area - Michigan,
midwest, and Ontario
C. Date established - 1971
D. Licensed by - the state of Michigan
E. Organizational structure - Public stock corporation.
Provides 24 hour service for emergency spill recovery.
Regular hours of operation - 7 a. m. to 12 midnight
(2 shifts). Other affiliations - unknown.
II. WASTE STREAMS
A. Accepted - Acids, caustics, oil wastes
B. Excluded - Pesticides, cyanide, chromic acid,
chlorinated solvents (all subcontracted to another
firm)
C. Volume - 5 million gallons per month
III. WASTE HANDLING
A. Collection/handling - Firm owns a fleet of trucks
for waste pickup and transfer. Equipment includes rubber
lined, black iron, stainless steel, pressure and
vacuum tankers. Oil absorbing and skimming equipment
also available.
B. Receiving/storage - Wastes received by truck or rail
(bulk loads primarily). 1 1/2 million gallons storage
capacity.
C. Laboratory analusis - Testing services and laboratories
available to analyze waste. Acceptability of wastes
based on lab analysis.
D. Treatment
0 Neutralization of acids and caustics
0 Oil reclamation by centrifuging and diatomaceous
earth filtering
0 Water effluents, pre-treated on-site, and discharged
to Detroit municipal sewage treatment facility.
0 Non-toxic sludges sent to state approved landfill
(clay lined).
0 Non-landfillable wastes sent to incinerator facility.
E. Disposal - as indicated above
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IV. ECONOMICS
A. User charges - Determined following laboratory analysis
of waste.
B. Costs - unknown
C. Resource recovery revenues - unknown
D. Percent capacity - unknown
E. Expansion potential - Planning $100,000.00 upgrading
and enlarging program at Inkster. Anticipating future
facility expansion to Jackson, Mississippi.
V. COMMENTS - none
VI. SOURCE -
Personnel communication. Carl Hornby, Environmental Waste
Control, Inc., to Donald Farb, Office of Solid
Waste Management Programs, May 31, 1974.
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Liquid Disposal Co.
3901 Hamblin Rd.
Utica, Michigan
(313) 739-2727 (Mr. Brinkman)
I. BACKGROUND
A. Services provided - Processing/treatment
B. Service area - Michigan, Ohio, Indiana
C. Date established - 1968
D. Licensed by the State of Michigan for incinerator emission
E. Organizational structure
0 Privately owned corporation
0 Affiliated with a transport company
0 Disposal of processing residue subcontracted
II. WASTE STREAMS
A. Accept - Solvents/cleaners, oil, paint sludge
B. Exclude - Not obtained
C. Volume - 400,000 gal./month
III. WASTE HANDLING
A. Collection/hauling - Not applicable
B. Receiving/storage
0 Unloading facilities for trucks only
0 250,000 gal. of closed tank storage capacity
C. Laboratory analysis
0 Analysis performed on waste from new potential customers
only
0 Analysis performed by private laboratory
D. Treatment - Wastes are fed into two liquid waste incinerators
which have a total capacity of 1000 gal./hr. There are no
emission control devices on the units. The slag is put in
drums and stored on-site. The incinerators do not operate on
a continuous schedule since adequate quantities of waste are
not available.
E. Disposal - Not only incinerator slag, but also unincineratible
residue received from customers must be disposed of. This
material was being handled on a subcontract basis in a state
approved landfill. Recently the state withdrew its approval and
revoked the landfill's permit. Liquid Disposal has attempted
to gain acceptance of their processing waste at other state
approved landfills, but has not been successful. The waste
is currently being stored in drums on Liquid Disposal's plant
s i te.
IV. ECONOMICS
A. User charges - 5-10
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E. Expansion potential - Modifications to the incinerator
are planned so that heat can be recovered
COMMENTS - Liquid Disposal has agreed under duress from the State
of Michigan to install a scrubber for stack gases.
VI. SOURCE -
Personal communication. Mr. Brinkman, Liquid Disposal Co., with
Dan Ward, Office of Solid Waste Management
Programs, June 12, 1974
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Nelson Chemicals Company
12345 Schaefer Highway
Detroit, Michigan 48227
(313) 933-1500 (Richard Hammerstein - Mgr., Environmental Services)
I. BACKGROUND
A. Services provided
0 Collection/hauling
0 Processing/treatment
B. Service area - Mainly the upper midwest, including Pennsylvania,
Alabama, Missouri ,and included area (10 states).
C. Date established - Started receiving and processing chemical
wastes in the mid 40's.
D. Licensed yearly by the Department of Natural Resources (WRC),
Lansing, Michigan.
E. Organizational structure - Nelson Chemicals primarily a chemical
specialties manufacturing firm with an expanding Industrial Waste
Services Dept.
II. WASTE STREAMS
A. Accept - Cyanides, Chromic acids, waste metal working, finishing
and plating chemicals, other mineral acids, oils and solvents
which may be incinerated. Pesticides accepted only if our lab-
oratory finds acceptable method for destruction, otherwise
rejected.
B. Exclude - Limited to those wastes listed above. Other wastes
not accepted.
C. Volume - Receive 4-5 million gallons/year 75-80% cyanide wastes.
III. WASTE HANDLING
A. Collection/hauling - Maintain large fleet of bulk trailers
including stainless steel and rubber lined tanks (part of
manufactured chemicals trucking business).
B. Storage/receiving - Drums - We have enough storage capacity to
handle approximately 3 days of average business. Bulk capacity
about 2 days, but bulk loads are spaced to be handled immediately.
C. Laboratory analysis - Facilities available.
D. Treatment - Chemical processing
0 Acid neutralization with lime
0 Oxidation of cyanide with hypochlorite
0 Chromic acid reduction
0 Pesticide samples are treated with alkaline chlorination,
in presence of lime with continuous injection of air. If
they respond to treatment the shipment will be accepted.
0 All by-products are liquids discharged to Detroit Sewage
Treatment facility (dilution, decanting, and filtering prior
to discharge).
E. Disposal - as noted above.
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IV. ECONOMICS
A. User charges - Destruction only - Cyanide charges will go
up to $1.50/lb. as CN (approx. $.75 as Sodium Cyanide);
increase due to much higher Chlorine and Caustic Soda
costs. The charge per 100% Chromic Acid will remain
$.16/1b. of CR03; other acids $.03 to $.15 depending
upon free acids and presence of metals. Incineration
charges are $.08 to $.12/gallon.
B. Costs - Variable due to destruction methods used.
C. Resource recovery revenues - Will be approximately one
million for 1974 for the waste services department.
D. Percent capacity - Operate at or near capacity in summer
months.
E. Expansion potential - Retained a consultant to study
expansion possibilities, no decision thus far. Increased
storage/receiving capacity very likely.
V. COMMENTS
0 Nelson Chemicals can accept plating and metal working
chemicals (Cyanides, Chromic and other acids) in nearly all
quantities except pick-ups and shipments must be coordinated
by Mr. Hammerstein.
0 Nelson Chemicals has a complete laboratory service to analyze
incoming and discharged waste and all the charges are based
on the chemical content of the waste.
0 Nelson Chemicals recently made an agreement with the WRC in
Lansing, Michigan concerning unusual, seldom encountered
wastes.
0 Before receiving any shipments, our laboratory will try to
work out a suitable process providing an effluent with the
perimeters of the limits set by the City of Detroit. In
case of a successful process, we will submit the treated and
untreated samples and the proposed process to the WRC in
Lansing and only upon their approval will we accept and
process the waste.
VI. SOURCE
Personal communication. Mr. Tom Neuthmer, Nelson Chemicals
Company, with Don Farb, Office of Solid Waste
Management Programs, July 3, 1974.
Personal communication. Mr. Richard Hammerstein, Nelson
Chemicals Company, to Mr. John P. Lehman,
Office of Solid Waste Management Programs, November
19, 1974.
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Pollution Controls, Inc.
(Plant) R. R. 1, Box 238
Shakopee, Minnesota 55379
(612) 445-1086 (Mr. G. M.
Fell or Dr. G. Combs)
I. BACKGROUND
II.
IV,
V.
VI.
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
Services provided - disposal
Service area - Minnesota, Iowa,
Illinois, North and South Dakota
Date established - 1962
Licensed by the Minnesota
Organizational structure
Nisconsin, Missouri
Pollution Control Agency
Public firm which has been in business
for twelve years.
in early 1973.
Management and majority ownership changed
WASTE STREAMS
A. Accept - Oils, solvents, paint sludges (solids and liquids)
B. Exclude - Pesticides, cyanides, mercury, cadium and arsenic
C. Volume - Twelve to fifteen million gal. annually
III. WASTE HANDLING
A. Collection/hauling - Bulk tankers and van (company owned) and
Contract haulers.
B. Receiving/storage - Initial receiving in 55 gal. drums and tankers,
430,000 gal. bulk storage tank recently installed to minimize
drum storage.
C. Laboratory analysis - No continuous stack analysis. Testing
incoming wastes performed by chemists and chemical engineer.
D. Treatment - Incineration
0 Two identical rotary kilns (2200°F for 2-3 seconds)
0 Individual afterburner, venturi scrubber, cyclone demister
and common stack.
0 Projected modifications include automatic fuel feed cut-off,
additional instrumentation.
0 Routine testing of stack gases.
0 Ashes forwarded to landfill for burial.
E. Disposal - As indicated above.
of
ECONOMICS
A. User charges - Upon request
B. Costs - Upon request
C. Resource recovery revenues - Not applicable
D. Percent capacity - 25% capacity, firm is making money
E. Expansion potential - Recent addition of storage and waste
mixing tank and storage tank farm, as well as proprietary
improvements in feeding fuel have increased capacity by 30%.
COMMENTS - None
SOURCE -
Personal
communication. Mr. Melvyn L. Bell, Pollution Controls
Inc., to Mr. John P. Lehman, Office of Solid Waste
Management Programs, November 22, 1974.
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Erieway Pollution Control, Inc.
33 Industry Drive
Bedford, Ohio 44146
(216) 439-2955 (Mr. J.M. Golombek, P.E.)
I. BACKGROUND
A. Services provided
0 Collection/hauling
0 Processing/treatment
0 Final disposal
B. Service area - Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky, West
Virginia, Pennsylvania, and New York
C. Date established - 1972
D. Licensed by the State of Ohio for the disposal of
hazardous liquid waste materials.
E. Organizational structure
0 Privately owned corporation
0 Subcontracts incineration of liquid wastes
Mr. Golombek's consulting firm, Inviron, Inc. is on a
retainer for process development and all other technical
work, including new facilities, expansion and construction.
II. WASTE STREAMS
A. Accept - Acids, cyanides, heavy metals in solution, oily
wastes, solvents/cleaners
B. Exclude - Not obtained
C. Volume - 3-4 MG/month
III. WASTE HANDLING
A. Collection/hauling
0 14 tanker transports
0 2 flatbed trailers for drummed waste
0 1 small tank truck (1600 gal. cap.)
B. Receiving/storage
0 Unloading facilities for tank trucks, railroad cars, and
flatbed trailers.
0 350,000 gals, of underground storage capacity
0 Fiberglass and epoxy lined tanks
C. Laboratory analysis
0 Performed both prior to contract commitment, upon receipt,
and checked periodically during contract life.
0 All analytical laboratory work performed by Inviron, Inc.
D. Treatment
0 System 1: Chromate solutions are first treated with a reducing
agent to convert Cr+3. Caustic addition, mixing, and floc-
culation follow which results in the formation of Cr(OH)3
precipitate. The precipitate is separated from the liquid
phase by sedimentation. The sludge is chemically solidified
and sent to landfill. The supernatant which has a high pH, is
used to neutralize acids.
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0 System 2: A caustic material is added to the solutions
containing heavy metals. Mixing and flocculation induces
the formation of metal hydroxide precipitates. The slurry
(liquid and solid phases) is then chemically fixed and sent
to landfill.
0 System 3: Acids not containing heavy metals are neutralized
by the addition of the alkaline supernatant from the chromate
treatment system.
0 System 4: The pH of cyanide waste is raised by caustic
addition. The waste is then subjected to continuous
chlorination and agitation. Nitrogen is liberated and
a carbonate sludge is formed which is chemically fixed along
with the liquid phase and sent to landfill.
0 System 5: A proprietary process is used to reclaim oil. The
influent waste oil contains 80% water and acid; the effluent
reclaimed oil contains only 0.5% water. The byproducts of
the process are chemically fixed and sent to landfill.
0 System 6: Solvents are short term stored and transported to
an incineration facility for combustion by a subcontractor.
E. Disposal
0 Sanitary landfill
0 Clay lined
0 Wells for capturing leachate, if necessary, and equipment
for pumping it back to the processing facility.
0 Daily groundwater samples submitted to the state.
IV. ECONOMICS
A. User charges - Varies with waste handled
B. Costs - Varies with waste handled
C. Resource recovery revenues - Not obtained
D. Percent capacity - Not obtained
E. Expansion potential
0 Plans to increase capacity to 12MG/month
0 Plans to expand storage to 0.5 MG
0 Plans to expand heavy metal waste treatment system
0 Plans to add phenol treatment system
0 Plans to add incineration capability
0 Plans to add oil reprocessing capability
V. COMMENTS
0 The facilities described above are actually located on two different
sites about 10 miles apart. One site is, of course, in Bedford
and the other is in Cleveland. Mr. Golombek did not specify how the
facilities were divided between the sites because he considered the
sites close enough geographically and integrated enough to be
synonymous.
0 Waste treatment processes were designed for heavy metals, cyanides,
and oily wastes to conform to the premise of no liquid discharge
after treatment, thus all influents except recoverable oils are
chemically solidified add the need for a liquid discharge permit
is negated.
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0 The chemically solidified material has been approved
by the Ohio EPA for intermediate cover material in
landfills.
VI. SOURCE -
Personal communication. Mr. Golombek, Erieway Pollution
Control, Inc., with Dan Ward, June 26 and July
12, 1974.
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Koski Construction Co.
5841 Woodman Ave.
Ashtabula, OH
(216) 997-5337 (Mr. Koski)
I. BACKGROUND
A. Services provided
0 Collection/hauling
0 Processing/treatment
0 Disposal
B. Service area - Ohio
C. Date established - 1964
D. Licensed by - Ohio EPA for a landfill operation
£. Organizational structure - Individual owner
II. WASTE STREAMS
A. Accept - Acids, caustics, sludge with heavy metals, solvents/cleaners
B. Exclude - Mot obtained
C. Volume - 500,000 gal./month
III. WASTE HANDLING
A. Collection/hauling
0 Equipment for dredging lagoons
0 Tank trucks
0 Roll-off containers modified to prevent leakage of liquids
B. Receiving/storage
"Dry" sludge to a diked area.
0 All other sludges and liquids to a clay-lined lagoon
C. Laboratory Analysis
0 Performed prior to contract commitment by Koski
0 Performed upon receipt of waste by both Koski and the waste
generator
D. Treatment - Solids - liquid separation occurs in the lagoon. The
liquid fraction is discharged to a receiving water whenever a near
neutral pH is obtained in the lagoon. The solids are periodically
dredged out of the lagoon and placed in a diked area.
E. Disposal
0 In the diked area
° No cover material applied
0 3 year life expectancy
IV. ECONOMICS
A. User charges - Not obtained
B. Costs - Not obtained
C. Resource recovery revenues - Not applicable
D. Percent capacity - Not applicable
E. Expansion potential - Not obtained
V. COMMENTS - None
VI. SOURCE -
Personal communication. Mr. Koski, Koski Construction Co., with
Dan Ward, Office of Solid Waste Management Programs^
June 27, 1974.
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Systems Technology Corporation
Systech Waste Treatment Center
Baxter Rd. at Route 73
Franklin, Ohio 45005
(513) 746-8100 (For Dayton callers - 228-3780)
Mr. A. H. Kohnen, Mr. Ken Cates
I. BACKGROUND
A. Services provided - Physical, chemical, biological treatment,
and thermal destruction using a fluidized bed incinerator.
B. Service area - 150 mile radius (greater in special cases).
C. Date established - January 1974, with operation beginning
May 1974.
D. No specific licenses are required although approval was required
and obtained at several regulative levels.
E. Organizational structure
0 Subsidiary of Systems Research Laboratories, Inc.
0 Subcontract with the Miami Conservancy District for discharge
of pre-treated wastes into regional wastewater treatment
plants.
II. WASTE STREAMS
A. Accept
0 Non-combustibles - acids, caustics, plating wastes, and
other compatible wastes.
0 Combustibles - Most liquids that can be disposed of by
thermal destruction including very viscious materials and
materials with high solids content.
B. Exclude - Determined on a case by case basis.
C. Volume - Wastes are accepted in volumes ranging from drum to
tank truck quantities.
III. WASTE HANDLING
A. Collection/hauling - By others.
B. Receiving/storage
0 Unloading facilities for trucks and potential capability for
railroad cars.
0 One million gallons of storage capacity in concrete and steel
tanks, some of which have special chemical resistant coatings.
C. Laboratory analysis
0 Analysis of wastes performed before contract and upon receipt
of wastes.
0 Performed by Systech Waste Treatment Center.
D. Treatment
0 Non-combustible materials - All treatment is performed on a
batch basis. The specific treatment process used is dependent
upon the nature of the waste. Pre-treated wastes are discharged
to the regional wastewater treatment plant for final treatment.
0 Combustible materials - All combustibles are stored, blended,
and then pumped into a large fluidized bed incinerator, which
is equipped with a high energy Venturi-Scrubber.
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IV. ECONOMICS
A. User charges - By quotation
B. Costs - Proprietary
C. Resource recovery revenues - Proprietary
D. Percent capacity - Proprietary
E. Expansion potential - The operating capacity of this site
is capable of being doubled.
V. COMMENTS - This facility has been visited by members of the
Hazardous Waste Management Division staff.
VI. SOURCE -
Personal communication. Mr. Gates, Systems Technology Corp.,
with Dan Ward, Office of Solid Waste Management
Programs, July 12, 1974.
Personal communication. Mr. Thomas J. Wittmann, Systems
Technology Corp., to Mr. John P. Lehman, Office of
Solid Waste Management Programs, November 25, 1974.
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Rodgers Laboratories, Inc.
4135 S. 6th St.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53221
(414) 483-3000 (Mr. Tom Rodgers)
I. BACKGROUND
A. Services provided
0 Collection/hauling
0 Processing
B. Service area - Wisconsin, Illinois
D. Date established - 1947
D. Licensed by Milwaukee Sewerage Commission for waste water
discharge to the sewerage system
E. Organizational structure
0 Family owned company
0 Subcontracts disposal to Sanitary Transfer Landfill, Inc.
II. WASTE STREAMS
A. Accept - Solvents and acids with heavy metals
B. Exclude - Unknown
C. Volume - 3000 gal./day
III. WASTE HANDLING
A. Collection/hauling
0 One flat-bed truck for hauling drummed waste
0 Operates 8 hr/day, 6 days/week
0 One 2000 gal. tank wagon
B. Receiving/storage
0 Unloading facilities for drums and bulk (2000 gal.)
0 Wastes stored in closed tanks with total capacity of 14,000
gallons
C. Laboratory analysis - Not available
D. Treatment
0 System 1: Solvents are fed into three batch stills with
capacities of 500,1000, and 1,500 gal./day. Then purified
solvents that are recovered are sold to the paper, printing,
paint, and electronics industries while the still bottoms are
drummed and sent to landfill.
° System 2: Silver in solution is precipitated as a chloride
and the precipitate is settled. The supernatant is discharged
to the municipal sewerage system and the sludge is stored in
drums. When a sufficient quantity of sludge has accumulated,
the silver is extracted from the sludge as a nitrate.
System 3: Metals in solution are precipitated as sulfides
and the precipitate is settled. The supernatant is discharged
to the municipal sewerage system and the sludge is stored in
drums if the entrapped metals are marketable, otherwise, the
sludge is landfilled. When a sufficient quantity of sludge
has accumulated, the marketable metals are extracted.
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E. Disposal
0 Landfill - Process residuals are sent to a landfill, operated
by Sanitary Landfill and Transportation Co., Inc.
IV. ECONOMICS
A. User charges - Unknown
B. Costs - Unknown
C. Resource recovery revenues - Solvents are sold for $0.30
- $1.00 per gal.
D. Expansion potential - About six years ago, demonstration
funds were sought from state and federal sources
for expansion of the existing facility by addition of an
incinerator. The effort was unsuccessful, so the plans
were dropped.
V. COMMENTS - None
VI. SOURCE -
Personal communication. Mr. Tom Rodgers, Rodgers Laboratories,
Inc., with Dan Ward, Office of Solid Waste
Management Programs, June 6, 1974.
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Waste Research and Reclamation Co., Inc.
Route 3
Eau Claire, Wisconsin 54701
(715) 834-9624 (Dr. She)
I. BACKGROUND
A. Services provided
0 Collection/hauling
0 Processing/treatment
B. Service area - Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan,
Missouri, Nebraska
C. Date established - 1970
D. Current reclamation practices preclude the need for waste
disposal permits, but firm does maintain close liaison with
state authorities
E. Organizational structure - Private firm with no other known affili-
ations.
II. WASTE STREAMS
A. Accept - Copper in solution, solvents, and oils
B. Exclude - Highly toxic, highly volatile, and explosive wastes.
Wastes with acute or chronic toxicity are not accepted.
C. Volume - Unknown
III. WASTE HANDLING
A. Collection/handling - Tank truck pickup available. 500
mile operating radius.
B. Receiving/storage - Receive bulk or drum. 150,000 gal. storage
capacity available.
C. Laboratory analysis - Available
D. Treatment
0 Evaporation and distillation recovery
0 Recover oil, solvents and some copper (aluminum replacement)
0 Waste by products either used as boiler fuel or drummed and
shipped to an approved landfill.
E. Disposal - no disposal by company, only recovery and shipment to
landfill at present. Will have incineration facility in a few
months.
IV. ECONOMICS
A. User charges - Charges based on waste analysis and potential for
recovery and resale.
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B. Costs - Unknown
C. Resource recovery revenues - Unknown
D. Percent capacity - Treating enough wastes to maintain small profit
but not operating at capacity.
E. Expansion potential - Planning to develop a small incinerator
facility in near future. Will eventually expand to 3 - 4x current
size.
v- COMMENTS - None
VI. SOURCE
Personal communication. Dr. She, Waste Research and Reclamation Co.,
Inc., with Don Farb, Office of Solid Waste Management
Programs, June 17, 1974.
Personal communication. Dr. She, Waste Research and Reclamation Co.,
Inc., to Mr. John P. Lehman, Office of Solid Waste
Management Programs, November 18, 1974.
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Rollins Environmental Services Plant Locations:
(Main Offices ) One Rollins Plaza Baton Rouge, LA
Wilmington, Delaware 19803 Bridgeport, NJ
Houston, TX
*• BACKGROUND
A. Services provided
0 Collection/hauling
0 Processing/treatment
0 Disposal
B. Service area - Nationwide
C. Date established - Construction completed in New Jersey in
1970; in Louisiana in 1971; in Houston in 1971.
D. Licensed by - Respective state health and environmental agencies.
E. Organizational structure - Rollins Environmental Services is a
part of Rollins International, a diversified corporation with
major interests in highway transportation (Matlack Trucking).
II. WASTE STREAMS
A. Accept - Generally all industrial chemical wastes and limited
explosives or poisons, including: acids, caustics, chlorinated
and non-chlorinated organics, plating and etchant solutions,
paint sludges, pesticides, cyanide, scrubber effluents, etc.
B. Exclude - Only known exception is radioactive wastes.
C. Volume - 250,000 gallons/day at capacity.
III. WASTE HANDLING
A. Collection/hauling - Service provided by RES and Matlack Trucking
subsidiary. Complete line of bulk and drum handling equipment.
B. Receiving/storage - Facilities available for receiving and storing
bulk or drummed wastes, capacity - up to 500,000 gallons.
C. Laboratory analysis - Sample analysis and repeated analysis upon
receipt of shipment.
D. Treatment
1. Chemical degradation
Neutralization of acids and alkalies -- insoluble residues
are landfilled, certain soluble salts receive ocean disposal.
Oxidation or reduction of certain organic compounds and
metals -- non-toxic residues (landfilled) or recovered
material, (e.g. copper).
Precipitation of dissolved and colloidal materials.
2. Incineration
Rotary kiln (1500° - 2000°F) primarily liquids
Afterburner (2500°F)
17,000 to 20,000 gal./day (24 hr. operation)
Double chambered quench - scrub section up to 800 gal./min.
alkali spray.
Sludges landfilled.
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3. Biological treatment
Flocculation and sludge separation.
Solids are landfilled.
Supernatant - equalization, — trickling filter — equaliza-
tion, -- oxidation -- stabilization -- discharge to creek.
E. Disposal (as indicated above)
Stabilized effluents discharged to aquatic environment.
Insoluble salts and inert sludges are landfilled.
Certain soluble salts and brine solution receive ocean disposal.
IV. ECONOMICS
A. User charges
0 Transportation costs - $0.60 cwt. per 100 miles.
0 Disposal charges - 1.0 to 3.0
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U,,S. Pollution Control, Inc.
2000 Classen Center, Suite 224 So.
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73106
(405) 528-8371 (Mr. Wesley W. Smith, Mr. Harry A. Hansen)
Branch Office:
101 West 71st St. South
Tulsa, Oklahoma 74132
(918) 743-3038 (Mr. Wayne A. Hale)
I. BACKGROUND
A. Services provided
0 Collection/hauling
0 Processing/treatment
0 Disposal
0 Consultant Pollution Engineering
B. Service area - Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas
C. Date established - 1968
D. Licensed by the State of Oklahoma
E. Organizational structure - Management has had previous experience
with State Health Dept. in developing criteria for solid waste
management rules and regulations. Also, has had previous
experience with the Oklahoma Water Resources Board in
developing criteria for Deep-Well disposal and the
formulation of present rules and regulations.
II. WASTE STREAMS
A. Accept - Plating wastes, oily water, solvents,dilute cyanide
B. Exclude - Radioactive materials
C. Volume - 100,000 - 250,000 gal./month
III. WASTE HANDLING
A. Collection/hauling - Small fleet of vacuum and pump transport
and tank trucks (additional vehicles available from subcontractors)
Some USPCI units are lined with stainless steel.
B. Receiving/storage - 250,000 gal.
C. Laboratory analysis - Subcontractors
D. Treatment - Limited to pH adjustment (pH 4) and gravity and
filter separation of undesirable solids.
E. Disposal
1. Deep Well - Two deep wells (30001 and 7000')
3000 ft. well under vacuum.
Both wells inject into a confined consolidated limestone
strata - 500 to 1300 ft. thick.
Wells sanctioned by the Oklahoma Water Resource Board
and the Oklahoma Corp. Commission (oil reserve protection).
2- Landfill - Currently in the process of establishing a land-
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fill, should be operational in fall of 1974; 110
acres, 20 year life.
0 Permeability 10 '° in./hr., clay strata
0 Evaporation exceeds precipitation
0 400 ft. to groundwater (saline and sulfur)
0 Monitoring wells as required
0 Also, plan to spread liquid waste on soil and allow
soil microbe degradation.
IV. ECONOMICS
A. User charges - 2.25
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BioEcology Systems, Inc.
4100 East Jefferson
Grand Prairie, Texas 75050
(214) 264-4281 (Dr. W.E. Brown)
I. BACKGROUND
A. Services provided
0 Processing/treatment
0 Disposal
B. Service area - Dallas and northern Texas.
C. Date established - 1972
D. Licensed by the Texas Water Quality Board
E. Organizational structure - Unknown
II. WASTE STREAMS
A. Accept - Grease/oil wastes and trappings, solvents (non-halogenated),
heavy metals in acid, cyanide, caustics.
B. Exclude - Halogenated hydrocarbons, radioactive wastes.
C. Volume - Unknown
III. WASTE HANDLING
A. Col lection/haul ing - Subcontracted by firm
B. Receiving/storage - Unknown
C. Laboratory analysis - Laboratory analysis provided to assure
quality control.
D. Treatment
1. Incineration
0 40ft. x 8ft. fixed cylindrical kiln (20-60 seconds @ 1500 -
2000°F).
0 No air pollution control equipment, air quality maintained by
regulating waste feed rate.
0 Natural gas assist.
0 All wastes (pumpable liquids) atomized in kiln.
0 Inert slag and fly ash landfilled on site.
2. Biological treatment
0 Screening — sedimentation — activated sludge — clarifer.
0 Effluent COD reduced to sewer discharge quality (Trinity
River Authority).
0 Sludges landfilled (Toxic substances tied up).
3. Chemical Treatment
0 Neutralization of acids and caustics.
0 Hexavalent chromium reduction by S03.
0 Cyanide oxidation with chlorine.
0 Effluents discharged to Trinity River Waste Treatment
Authority on a batch basis (pre-analysis by BioEcology).
0 Recover copper, cadmium silver, and oil.
E. Disposal - Landfill
° Non-toxic sludges and slag disposed of on site.
0 Clay soil with little to no permeability. Texas Water Quality
Board has advised that monitoring wells are unnecessary.
(Groundwater level undetermined, never found).
0 Estimated lifetime - 6-7 years.
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IV. ECONOMICS
A. User charges
0 Grease and oil - 7-14<£/gal.
0 Non-halogenated solvents - 9-12<£/gal.
0 Chromate wastes - 20-30<£/gal.
0 Cyanide Alkalis - $0.48 - $1.51/gal.
0 Toxic metals - 17-20$/gal.
0 Disposal charges for other wastes available upon request.
B. Costs - Capital outlay - $400,000; operating costs unknown.
C. Resource recovery revenues - Unknown
D- Percent capacity - Below current capacity due to:
0 Energy crisis reducing supply of organic wastes.
0 Competition from three licensed open pit operations.
E. Expansion potential - Unknown
V. COMMENTS - None
VI. SOURCE -
Personal communication. Dr. Brown, BioEcology Systems, Inc., with
Don Farb, Office of Solid Waste Management Programs,
June 5, 1974.
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Mai one Service Co.
P.O. Box 709
Texas City, Texas 77590
(713) 488-3463 (Mr. Paul Malone)
I. BACKGROUND
A. Services provided
0 Collection/hauling
0 Processing/treatment
0 Disposal
B. Service area - Texas and coastal area
C. Date established - Established vacuum trucking and disposal
service in 1954.
D. Licensed by the Texas Water Quality Board
E. Organizational structure - Diversified, family operated business
with interests and activity in waste chemical resale, oil
reclamation, trucking and oil wells. Marine Pollution Control
interest handles Gulf Coast spill clean up.
II. WASTE STREAMS
A. Accept - Petroleum industry wastes including wastes from
Monsanto, Texas City Petroleum, Marathon Oil, GAP, American Oil,
and Gulf Oil.
B. Exclude - Unknown
C. Volume - Unknown
III. WASTE HANDLING
A. Collection/hauling - Trucks, (flat bed and vacuum tank) 3
dredges, and several skimming barges.
B. Receiving/storage - Truck receiving currently, will establish
barge receiving facilities in the near future. 150,000
barrels storage (bulk) capacity.
C. Laboratory analysis - Unknown
D. Treatment - Resource recovery and chemical degradation
0 Oil reclamation process includes heat treatment and separation.
Reclaimed oils used for road oil, fuel, and road beds. Cap-
acity 200,000 gal./day.
0 Pre-treatment of deep well injected wastes includes
neutralization and filtration. Injected effluent considered
to be "treated quality." Other by-products subcontracted to
approved landfill.
E. Disposal - Deep well injection
0 Treated effluents injected into 5260ft. deep well
0 Injection strata 150ft. of sand with consolidated strata above
0 License permits 250,000 gal./day to be injected.
IV. ECONOMICS
A. User charges - 4-6
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E. Expansion potential - Currently operate on 75A (Texas City).
Plan to expand to 200 acres and add total waste handling
capability. Also projecting barge receiving facility.
V. COMMENTS - None
VI. SOURCE -
Personal communication. Mr. Paul Malone, Malone Service Co.,
with Mr. Don Farb, Office of Solid Waste Management
Programs, June 6, 1974.
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Petrolite Corporation Subsidiary: International Pollution
Box 2546 Control, Inc.
Houston, Texas 77001 Corpus Christi, Texas
(713) 923-9781 (Mr. Ralph Shoberg)
I. BACKGROUND
A. Services provided - Treatment and disposal
B. Service area - Defined by availability of licensed carriers.
Plant sites at Calvert City, Kentucky, and Corpus Christi, Texas.
C. Date established - unknown
D. Licensed to operate under Kentucky and Texas state health and
environmental authorities.
E. Organizational structure - Parent firm ($100 million/year corpora-
tion) with expertise in petroleum and waste treatment engineering.
Corpus Christi subsidiary - International Pollution Control
($10 million per year operation).
II. WASTE STREAMS
A. Accept - Oily wastes, tetra ethyl lead sludges, plating wastes,
and cyanide.
B. Exclude - Chlorinated hydrocarbons
C. Volume - 200 gal./hr.
III. WASTE HANDLING
A. Collection/hauling - not applicable
B. Receiving/storage
0 Truck only
0 Receive bulk or drummed wastes
0 Storage facilities available
C. Laboratory analysis - Complete laboratory facilities
D. Treatment
0 Calvert City, Kentucky - Integrated treatment involving
biological, chemical and thermal treatment.
Incinerator - Fixed horizontal kiln - designed for liquids
(1800 - 2000°F for 0.7 seconds). Waste heat acts as an unfired
afterburner. Natural gas used as support fuel. No ash disposal
and no air pollution control (stack gases controlled by regulating
feed rate). Planned expansion will triple residence time and
increase temperature range by 300°F.
Biological treatment - (Planned) Conventional treatment (screening-
sedimentation, - microbial digestion with effluent discharged
and sludges forwarded to municipal landfill.)
Chemical treatment - (Planned) Limited to detoxifying and/or
neutralizing chemicals, 200 gallon/hour capacity.
0 Corpus Christi, Texas - Oil recovery by electrostatic precipita-
tion. Chemical reduction and degradation to inert by-products,
waste residues are deep well injected or landfilled on site (small
amounts). 20,000 barrels per month capacity.
E. Disposal
0 Landfill - All Calvert City wastes incinerated or detoxified to
inert form for municipal landfill. Corpus Christi - 35 acre
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landfill area receives detoxified waste treatment by-products.
0 Deep well injection - Corpus Christi facilities - COD/BOD of
injected wastes are within secondary (sewage) treatment
parameters, 5000 ft. well with an 850 ft. unconsolidated
injection zone, (capacity unknown). Sedimentary rock strata
above and below injection zone.
0 Operate a landfill for Calvert City and nonputrescible solids
from area industry.
IV. ECONOMICS
A. User charges
0 Calvert City cost range up to 25<£/gallon
0 Corpus Christi cost is approximately one-third of Calvert City.
0 Deep well injection charges are less than Calvert City charges.
B. Costs
0 Corpus Christi - $1.6 million capital investment
0 Operating costs - unknown
C. Resource recovery revenues - unknown
D. Percent capacity - 60% of capacity due to lack of licensed carriers.
Corpus Christi facility initially lost $25,000 per month, increased
costs eliminated the small profit from the Corpus Christi plant to
approximately break-even.
E. Expansion potential - Favorable based on regulatory structure to
prohibit open dumps.
V. COMMENTS - User charges consistently lower than those projected by
Arthur D. Little.
VI. SOURCE -
Personal communication. Mr. Shoberg, Petrolite Corporation, with Don
Farb, Office of Solid Waste Management Programs, June 6,
1974.
Personal communication. Mr. Ralph A. Shoberg, Petrolite Corporation,
to Mr. John P. Lehman, Office of Solid Waste Management
Programs, November 5, 1974.
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Texas Ecologists Inc.
Robs town, Texas
(512) 387-3518 (Dowel! Buckner, General Manager)
I. BACKGROUND
A. Services provided
0 Collection/hauling
0 Processing/treatment
0 Disposal
B. Service area - Corpus Christi, Houston, Freeport, Dallas,
Austin, Texas Gulf Coast
C. Date established - April 1973
D. Licensed by the State of Texas ("No discharge permit")
E. Organizational structure - Wholly owned subsidiary of
Nuclear Engineering Co. Operate 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.. shift
5 days/week (emergency service available)
II. WASTE STREAMS
A. Accept - Acids, alkalies, solvents, detergents, oil, tank bottoms,
organic wastes, pesticides
B. Exclude - Cyanide and radioactive wastes
C. Volume - No specific limit. Depends on type and composition.
III. WASTE HANDLING
A. Collection/hauling - Company operates its own fleet of trucks
(primarily box and flatbed trailer).
B. Receiving/storage - Prefer drummed waste, storage area available
for drummed waste.
C. Laboratory analysis - Rely on waste generator's analysis. Do spot
checks for quality control. Job lot consignments, only.
D. Treatment
0 Acids/caustic neutralization
0 Oil recovery by 3 tank gravity/heat sedimentation
0 Recovery oil used by municipalities for heating fuel
0 Non-saleable volatile liquid separates evaporated
0 Residues and solids landfilled
E. Disposal
1. Incinerator - Fixed, non-scrubbed kiln currently not
operational.
2. Landfill
0 240 acre Class I site, natural clay strata 35 ft.
0 Trenches 17-19 feet deep, lined with 10-15
feet of natural clay (meets local standards for landfill
lining)
0 Three monitoring wells - No indication of leachate migration
IV. ECONOMICS
A. User charges - Based on waste composition and quantity
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B. Costs - Specific costs unknown.
C. Resource recovery revenues - Unknown
D. Percent capacity - Unknown
E. Expansion - Efforts to establish facility at Midlothian were
dropped due to local opposition.
V. COMMENTS - None
VI. SOURCE -
Personal communication. Mr. Buckner, Texas Ecologists, Inc., to
Don Farb, Office of Solid Waste Management Programs,
May 31, 1974.
Personal communication. Mr. Buckner, Texas Ecologists, Inc., to
Mr. John P. Lehman, Office of Solid Waste Management
Programs, November 22, 1974.
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Conservation Chemical Co. (3 locations)
215 West Pershing Rd., Suite 703, Kansas City, Mo. (816) 421-8494
Box 5472 St. Louis, MO b3160 (314) 241-7095
Box 6066 Gary, Indiana 46406 (219) 949-8229
Main Office (Chicago, Illinois) (312) 734-2741
I. BACKGROUND
A. Service provided - Processing/treatment
B. Service area - Extensive service area, wastes received
from distances in excess of 1000 miles
C. Date established - 1959 by Norman Hjersted
D. Licensed by - state environmental and health agencies
E. Organizational structure - No financial affiliations. Six
degreed professional people
II. WASTE STREAMS
A. Accept - Metal ion solutions, acids, caustics, arsenicals,
cyanide, phenols, various sludges.
B. Exclude - Based on tests and sample analyses
C. Volume - Monthly reports available from local environmental
agencies.
III. WASTE HANDLING
A. Collection/hauling - Complete line of lined tanker trucks and
trailers available. Fleet of tank cars also available.
B. Receiving/storage - Facilities at Kansas City (8 million gal.),
St. Louis, Gary, and Greensboro, N.C. 5 million gallons in
storage in total. Drum and bulk wastes.
C. Laboratory analysis - Sample and batch analysis done on each
waste stream (facilities available in Gary, Indiana; another
laboratory being opened in Kansas City. A number of outside
labs used to supplement our own facilities.)
D. Treatment
0 Volume reduction (distillation/evaporation)
0 Neutralization of acids,caustics
0 Detoxification by chemical recombination
0 Ferric chloride, copper oxide, potassium fluoride, ferrous
chloride, ferric sulfate, and hydrogen fluoride recovery
(large supplier of ferric chloride to municipal waste treat-
ment facilities).
0 700,000 gal. per week
0 Sludge wastes (inert) landfilled
0 Other effluents deep well injected
E. Disposal
0 K.C. operations - Detoxified waste liquids and sludges allowed
to separate.
0 Supernatant evaporates.
0 Solidified sludges are landfilled on site.
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IV. ECONOMICS
A. User charges - Most inorganic wastes charged between 3<£ and 12
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Conservation Chemical Co. (3 locations)
215 West Pershing Rd., Suite 703, Kansas City, Mo. (816) 421-8494
Box 5472 St. Louis, MO 63160 (314) 241-7095
Box 6066 Gary, Indiana 46406 (219) 949-8229
Main Office (Chicago, Illinois) (312) 734-2741
I. BACKGROUND
A. Service provided - Processing/treatment
B. Service area - Extensive service area, wastes received
from distances in excess of 1000 miles
C. Date established - 1959 by Norman Hjersted
D. Licensed by - state environmental and health agencies
E. Organizational structure - No financial affiliations. Six
degreed professional people
II. WASTE STREAMS
A. Accept - Metal ion solutions, acids, caustics, arsenicals,
cyanide, phenols, various sludges.
B. Exclude - Based on tests and sample analyses
C. Volume - Monthly reports available from local environmental
agencies.
III. WASTE HANDLING
A. Collection/hauling - Complete line of lined tanker trucks and
trailers available. Fleet of tank cars also available.
B. Receiving/storage - Facilities at Kansas City (8 million gal.'
St. Louis, Gary, and Greensboro, N.C. 5 million gallons in
storage in total. Drum and bulk wastes.
C. Laboratory analysis - Sample and batch analysis done
waste stream (facilities available in Gary, Indiana;
laboratory being opened in Kansas City. A number of
labs used to supplement our own facilities.)
D. Treatment
0 Volume reduction (distillation/evaporation)
0 Neutralization of acids,caustics
0 Detoxification by chemical recombination
0 Ferric chloride, copper oxide, potassium fluoride,
chloride, ferric sulfate, and hydrogen fluoride
(large supplier of ferric chloride to municipal
ment facilities).
0 700,000 gal. per week
0 Sludge wastes (inert) landfilled
0 Other effluents deep well injected
E. Disposal
0 K.C. operations - Detoxified waste liquids and sludges allowed
to separate.
0 Supernatant evaporates.
0 Solidified sludges are landfilled on site.
on each
another
outside
ferrous
recovery
waste treat-
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IV. ECONOMICS
A. User charges - Most inorganic wastes charged between 3
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Casma1ia Disposal Site
P.O. Box 5275
Santa Barbara, California 93108
(805) 969-4703 (Mr. Hunter or Mr. Cole)
I. BACKGROUND
A. Services provided
0 Treatment
0 Disposal
B. Service area - Santa Barbara County, California
C. Operations started early in 1973
D. Licensed by the State of California
E. Organizational structure - Private firm. Management
personnel and other affiliations, unknown. 24 hour service avail-
able upon request.
II. WASTE STREAMS
A. Accept - Primarily oily wastes, oil field wastes, pesticides, and
etchant wastes.
Exclude - Unknown
Volume - Unknown
III. WASTE HANDLING
A. Collection/hauling - Not available
B. Receiving/storage - Bulk shipments, usually on job lot bases,
from vacuum tank truck carriers.
C. Laboratory analysis - Not available
D. Treatment - Limited to ponding, evaporation, spreading, and soil
microbe degradation.
E. Disposal - Landfill operation, with site monitoring wells
and leachate surveillance.
IV. ECONOMICS
A. User charges - 40<£ per 42 gal. barrel for oily wastes and 5<£
per gal. for special wastes.
B. Costs - Unknown
C. Resource recovery revenues - Not applicable
D. Percent capacity - Unknown
E. Expansion potential - Good, firm is interested in expanding
service to handle all hazardous chemical wastes.
V. COMMENTS - Petroleum industry and some electronics are currently the
only generators of waste chemicals in this area.
VI. SOURCE -
Personal communication. Mr. Cole, Casmalia Disposal Site, with
Don Farb, Office of Solid Waste Management Programs,
June 11, 1974.
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Chancellor & Ogden, Inc. (A wholly-owned subsidiary of) B.K.K. Corp.
3031 East I St. Csame address)
Wilmington, CA 90744
(213) 432-8461 (Mr. William Shearer)
I. BACKGROUND
A. Services provided
0 Interim storage systems design
0 Collection/hauling
0 Disposal
B. Service area - Western states & ICC authority for 50 states.
C. Date established - 1922
D. Licensed by the State of California
E. Organizational structure
0 B.K.K., Inc., the parent company operates a 600-acre sanitary
landfill in West Covina, County of Los Angeles, California
0 Chancellor & Ogden, Inc., is a wholly-owned subsidiary and
is a bulk and vacuum tank liquid hauling firm.
0 Ben K. Kazarian, Jr. is the principal executive for both firms,
II. WASTE STREAMS
A. Accept - Group 1 wastes as defined by the State of California
B. Exclude - Radioactive wastes
C. Volume - Upwards to 500,000 gals./day.
111. WASTE HANDLING
A. Collection/hauling - Bulk and vacuum tank trucks operated by
Chancellor & Ogden, inc.
B. Receiving/storage
0 Receive primarily bulk loads of liquids by truck.
0 Storage available in holding areas at terminal.
C. Laboratory analysis
0 Mr. Charles Ruzakis is employed as firm's chemist
0 Wastes receive cursory examination for odor, flammability,
explosiveness, and pH
D. Treatment - No treatment prior to disposal
E. Disposal - Landfill
0 600-acre site located in and regulated by the City of West
Covina and other state agencies.
0 Acids are accepted but discharged in separate location.
0 Site meets state requirements for Class I materials.
0 Natural clay strata.
0 Three monitoring wells have been placed in bed rock to monitor
leachate activity.
IV. ECONOMICS
A. User charges - rates posted at site and available upon request.
B. Costs - Unknown
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C. Percent capacity - Estimated 25 year life.
D. Resource recovery revenues - Unknown.
E. Expansion potential - Unknown.
V. COMMENTS - Management would like the Federal Government to
develop a program that would insure uniform regulatory structures
in all states.
VI. SOURCE -
Personal Communication. Mr. G. W. Shearer, Chancellor & Ogden
Inc., to Mr. John P. Lehman, Office of Solid Waste
Management Programs, November 8, 1974.
Personal Communication. S. Morekas and T. Gross, Office of
Solid Waste Management Programs, to the Record,
October 12, 1973.
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Environmental Protection Corp.
1801 Oak St., Rm. 18
Bakersfield, CA
(805) 327-9681 (Mr. William Park)
I. BACKGROUND
A. Services provided - Disposal in Class II-I disposal farm
B. Service area - Bakersfield and surrounding oil fields
C. Date established - 11/1/71
D. Licensed by the State of California and the county of Kern
E. Organizational structure - Founded by W.H. Park, practicing geologist,
R.A. Ganong, petroleum engineer, and L.W. Potter, waste hauler.
Mr. Park is president and manager of another Class II-I disposal
site near Taft, California for Bryant-Park and Associates, Inc.
II. WASTE STREAMS
A. Accept - Refinery sludges, oil field wastes, oily water,(95%
water) some organic solvents.
B. Exclude - Inorganic chemical wastes and pesticides.
C. Volume - 25,000- barrels per month
III. WASTE HANDLING
A. Collection/hauling - not available
B. Receiving/storage - Bulk wastes received by truck, no storage
available.
C. Laboratory analysis - not available
D. Treatment - Soil incorporation - liquid wastes are sprayed on
soil from tank truck then disked and mixed with earth. Appli-
cation rate 10% oil by weight in the first 6 inches of soil.
E. Disposal - Land spreading and soil incorporation. Each site
consists of a series of 1- acre fields. Fields are rotated to
allow evaporation and waste degradation: all site run-off is
collected, facility constructed to withstand projected 500 year
flood.
Iv. ECONOMICS
A. User charges
0 Oily wastes - 25<£/42 gal. barrel
0 Flammable, volatile and difficult to handle wastes 35<£/42 gal.
barrel.
B. Costs - Land and development - $100,000.
C. Resource recovery revenues - Approximately $300. worth of oil is
recovered per month from a screened and fenced sump operation.
D. Expansion potential - Life of Taft and Bakersfield sites is
indefinite.
V. COMMENTS - None
VI. SOURCE -
Personal communication. Mr. Park, Environmental Protection Corp.,
with Don Farb, Office of Solid Waste Management
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Programs, June 7, 1974.
Personal communication. Mr. Park, Environmental Protection Corp.,
to Mr. John P. Lehman, Office of Solid Waste
Management Programs, November 13, 1974.
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Fresno County Dept. of Public Works
4499 East Kings Canyon Rd.
Fresno, CA 93702
(209) 488-3820 (K. D. Swarts)
I. BACKGROUND
A. Services provided - Disposal of Agricultural Pesticide
Containers.
B. Service area - Central California
C. Date established - Late 1973
D. Licensed by the State of California
E. Organizational structure - County operated site open twice a
year, two weeks in the spring and two weeks in the fall. Site
operators have been briefed by agricultural inspectors to
recognize and handle various agri-chemical containers.
II. WASTE STREAMS
A. Accept - Pesticide and fertilizer containers
B. Exclude - Bulk liquid wastes
C. Volume - Approximately 11,000 C.Y. to date after 3 site
openings.
III. WASTE HANDLING
A. Collection/hauling - not available
B. Receiving/storage - not available
C. Laboratory analysis - not available
D. Treatment - no pre-treatment available
E. Disposal - Land burial on 32 acre site with projected 40-50
year life. Tight clay soil with low rainfall, 8 to 10
inches per year. Depth to groundweter 400-500 ft., no monitoring
required.
IV. ECONOMICS
A. User charges - $0.75 per cubic yd. plus state fee based on
0.60/ton equivalent.
B. Costs - $1.55 per cubic yd. (to date 10/1/74)
C. Resource recovery revenues - not applicable
D. Percent capacity - Site usage has been less than anticipated.
Less than 1% of site capacity has been used.
E. Expansion potential - No expansion beyond the existing site
is anticipated at this time.
V. COMMENTS - This site was specifically set up for the disposal of
pesticide containers.
VI. SOURCE -
Personal communication. Mr. Wade, Fresno County Dept. of
Public Works, with Don Farb, Office of Solid Waste
Management Programs, June 10, 1974.
Personal communication. Mr. K. D. Swarts, Fresno County Dept.
of Public Works, to Mr. John P. Lehman, Office of
Solid Waste Management Programs, November 14, 1974.
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Hollister Disposal Site
Hoi lister, California 95203
(408) 637-4491 (San Benito City Hall, Mr. Grimsley)
I. BACKGROUND
A. Services provided - Disposal
B. Service area - Local waste generators, (within county)
C. Date established - 1966
D. Licensed Class I disposal site by the state of California.
Waste haulers must be approved by City Hall.
E. Organizational structure - Site operated by the county.
II. WASTE STREAMS
A. Accept - Pesticide containers, off-spec missile propellant
B. Exclude - Unknown
C. Volume - Unknown
III. WASTE HANDLING
A. Collection/hauling - Not available
B. Receiving/storage - Receive car or truck load shipments,
storage facilities not available.
^- Laboratory analysis - Not available
D. Treatment - Wastes do not receive treatment prior to burial
E. Disposal - Landfill
0 Hazardous waste site is a separate section of a sanitary
landfill (115 acres)
0 No special engineering, depth to water table, 220 ft; all
site run off collected for treatment.
0 Clay soil, low permeability
0 8 ft. of fill used for daily cover.
IV. ECONOMICS
A. User charges - Vary according to waste characteristics
B. Costs - Unknown
C. Resource recovery revenues - Not applicable
D. Percent capacity - Initial projected site lifetime was 50 years,
subsequent increases in waste generation rates have decreased
life expectancy by 10 years.
E. Expansion potential - Unknown
V. COMMENTS - None
VI. SOURCE -
Personal communication. Mr. Grimsley, Hollister Disposal Site,
with Don Farb, Office of Solid Waste Management
Programs, June 5, 1974.
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Industrial Tank, Inc. J & J Disposal, Inc.
P.O. Box 831 P.O. Box 885
310 Barrel!esa St. Lake Herman Rd.
Martinez, CA 94553 Benicia, CA 94510
(415) 228-5100 (Barney Simonsen or Victor Johnson)
I. BACKGROUND
A. Services provided
0 Collection/hauling
0 Receiving/storage
0 Treatment
0 Reclamation
0 Disposal
B. Service area - San Francisco Bay area and Pacific Coast.
C. Date established - 1949
D. Licensed by California Dept. of Public Health
California Water Quality Control Board
Bay Area Air Pollution Control District
E. Organizational structure - Initially developed to handle petroleum
industry wastes. Operates three Class I disposal sites in
Benicia, Martinez and Antioch. Disposal staff includes two civil
engineers, mechanical engineer, chemical engineer and 5 chemists.
Emergency 24 hour response to spills.
II. WASTE STREAMS
A. Accept - Waste oil, petroleum, steel, electronics and most other
Class I industrial liquid wastes. Methods are developed as
needed to handle extremely hazardous wastes.
B. Exclude - Solids, radioactive waste
C. Volume - Currently 180,000 bbl. per month (42 gallons = 1 bbl.)
III. WASTE HANDLING
A. Collection/hauling - Operate 16 vacuum trucks of 4600-5000 gallon
capacity, 4 acid trucks of 5000 gal. capacity, and 4 small vacuum
trucks.
B. Receiving/storage - Receive by truck or barge. Storage capacity
5,000 bbl. for barge, 10,000 bbl. at plant for trucks.
C. Laboratory analysis - State Certified laboratory with atomic
absorption and analysis capability for samples and quality
control of treatment.
D. Treatment - Chemical degradation
0 Neutralization and precipitation emphasizing controlled blending
and mixing.
0 Oil reclamation and recovery
0 Residues and by products forwarded to landfill site.
0 Volume reduction by evaporation
0 Steam stripping of volatiles.
0 Precipitation of fluoride etchants as CaF .
0 Incineration of treatment plant off gases.
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E. Disposal
0 Evaporation ponds constructed in clay strata
0 Complete monitoring and leachate surveillance
0 Capacity approximately 200,000 bbl./mo.;when pond residue accum-
ulates they are disposed of in landfill areas.
0 Some materials are biodegraded by spreading on earth plots
inside ponds and plowed under.
IV. ECONOMICS
A. User charges - Approximately $0.70 per 42 gallon barrel.
Highly toxic wastes handling will cost more.
B. Costs - unknown
C. Resource recovery revenues - unknown
D. Percent capacity - Available evaporation ponds nearing capacity.
E. Expansion potential - Firm has completed installation of 4,000
gallon/day incinerator to handle flammable liquids and recover
steam. Currently seeking a permit to open a replacement site
for an existing ponding facility near Antioch. Firm is examining
feasibility of recovering other resources.
V. COMMENTS - J & J Disposal Co. closed by state due to leaking
holding basins. Industrial Tank has assumed control of J & J
and is initiating corrective engineering so J & J site may continue
to serve two refineries nearby.
VI. SOURCE -
Personal communication. Mr. Simonsen, Industrial Tank, Inc., with
Don Farb, Office of Solid Waste Management Programs,
June 20, 1974.
Personal communication. Mr. Barney Simonsen, Industrial Tank, Inc.,
to Mr. John P. Lehman, Office of Solid Waste Management
Programs, November 15, 1974.
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County Sanitation Districts of
Los Angeles County
P.O. Box'4998
Whittier, California 90607
(213) 699-7411; From Los Angeles (213) 685-5217
(Mr. Frank R. Dair)
I. BACKGROUND
A. Services provided - Disposal
B. Service area - Los Angeles County
C. Date established - Palos Verdes landfill opened in 1957;
Calabasas landfill opened in 1961.
D. Licensed by the State of California
E. Organizational structure
0 Both sanitary landfills are operated by the County
Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County.
0 The Palos Verdes landfill is located in the City of Rolling
Hills Estates.
0 The Calabasas landfill is located in an unincorporated area
near the town of Agoura.
II. WASTE STREAMS
A. Accept - All group 1 wastes, except as noted below
B. Exclude (Palos Verdes)
0 Wastes with pH less than 4 and greater than 11.
0 Highly odorous, highly flammable, explosive and high
temperature wastes.
0 Magnesium
0 Loads containing a wide variety of chemical wastes, each
in relatively small quantities and separate containers.
Exclude (Calabasas)
0 Explosives and magnesium
0 Loads containing highly odorous or highly flammable wastes.
0 Concentrated acids and alkalines.
C. Volume - Palos Verdes landfill - 1,300,000 tons of solid waste
and 280,000 tons of liquids annually.
Calabasas landfill - 320,000 tons of liquids annually.
III. WASTE HANDLING
A. Collection/hauling - Not available
B. Receiving/storage - Receive bulk or drummed wastes by truck.
C. Laboratory analysis - Wastes receive pH, odor explosivity
and flammability tests before being accepted.
D. Treatment - Wastes do not receive treatment prior to disposal
E. Disposal - Landfill
° Sites meet geological conditions described for Class I sites.
0 Monitoring wells for leachate surveillance.
0 At Palos Verdes, wastes are typically delivered by vacuum tanker
truck and discharged into a diked area of municipal refuse.
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Front-end loaders are not used \n landfilling operations. Area
Is covered at the end of each day,
IV. ECONOMICS
A. User charges - Fees at Palos Verdes and Calabasas are $3.00
per ton with the mtnimtim charge being $2.00 No special fee
is charged for loads delivered in drums.
B. Costs - Unknown
C. Resource recovery revenues - Unknown
D. Percent capacity - Palos Verdes Class I area will be filled
by approximately January 1976. Calabasas has a projected
life of 25 to 30 years in the Class I area.
E. Expansion potential - District personnel are investigating
various alternatives for disposing of liquid industrial wastes.
V. COMMENTS - None
VI. SOURCE -
Personal communication. Mr. Frank R. Dair, County Sanitation
Districts of Los Angeles County, to Mr, John P,
Lehman, Office of Solid Waste Management Programs,
November 21, 1974.
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Omar Rendering Co.
P.O. Box 1236
ChuTa Vista, California
(714) 422-5311 (Mr. William O'Donnell)
I. BACKGROUND
A. Services provided
Collection/hauling
0 Processing/treatment
0 Disposal
B. Service area - San Diego area
C. Initiated chemical waste handling in 1964
D. Licensed by the State of California
E. Organizational structure - Firm established in early 50's
to handle packing and slaughter house wastes. (Still
compromises majority of their waste volume). Maintain a
three shift, 24 hr. per day operation.
II. WASTE STREAMS
A. Accept - Acids, caustics, solvents, cleaners, etchant wastes
(electronics industry) - liquids only.
B. Exclude - No exceptions noted
C. Volume - Unknown
III. WASTE HANDLING
A. Collection/hauling - Maintain a fleet of vacuum tank trucks
for collection and hauling
B. Receiving/storage - Receive drum or bulk wastes (liquids only).
Receiving basins available, (capacity unknown).
C. Laboratory analysis - Service not available, rely on waste
generator's analyses.
D. Treatment - Evaporation ponds (capacity unknown)
0 Highly toxic wastes, e.g., cyanide, drummed and forwarded
to Beatty, Nevada.
0 Ponding residuals trucked to a company operated open pit.
(No pre-treatment)
E. Disposal - Open pit
0 Ponding residuals trucked to an open pit clay excavation area.
(Excavated clay used for evaporation pond construction).
0 Site permeability - 10 in./hr.
0 Monitoring in compliance with state specifications.
IV. ECONOMICS
A. User charges - $40.00 per 1000 gal. (2000 gal. minimum)
B. Costs - Unknown
C. Resource recovery revenues - Not applicable
D. Percent capacity - Unknown
E. Expansion potential - Unknown
V. COMMENTS - Evaporation ponds are unlined. 1 inch of leachate
penetration in six years.
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VI. SOURCE -
Personal communenation. Mr. Ed Stare, Omar Rendering Co., with
Mr. Don Farb, Office of Solid Waste Management
Programs, June 20, 1974.
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Richmond Sanitary Service
1224 Nevin Ave.
Richmond, California
(415) 234-3304 (Mr. Aquilino)
I. BACKGROUND
A. Services provided
0 Collection/hauling
0 Disposal
B. Service area - San Francisco Bay area.
C. Date established - 1949
D. Licensed by the State of California
E. Organizational structure - Firm deals in municipal refuse
disposal and hazardous waste disposal.
II. WASTE STREAMS
A. Accept - Refinery wastes, acid plating solutions, tetra-ethyl
lead sludge, solvents, pesticide and chemical containers, and
other state of California group I wastes.
B. Exclude - Exceptions as noted in California Class I landfill
regulations and other wastes depending on analysis.
C. Volume - Unknown
III. WASTE HANDLING
A. Collection/hauling - Flat bed trailer for drummed wastes.
B. Receiving/storage - Receive drummed and bulk wastes.
Holding pond storage for bulk wastes.
C. Laboratory analysis - Rely on waste generator's analyses.
D. Treatment - No waste treatment.
E. Qisposal - Landfill
Present site contains approx. 890 acres of marshland,
tidelands, and bay fill.
0 Drummed wastes are buried as is.
0 Bulk wastes are discharged into holding ponds and filled.
0 Discharge of uncontainerized group I wastes is prohibited.
0 Conditions exist which appear to preclude leachate migration
to useable groundwater. (low permeability, confined conditions,
and an upward direction of flow exist.)
0 Annual run off and flooding conditions'are controlled.
IV. ECONOMICS
A. User charges - Based on waste analysis.
B. Costs - Unknown
C. Resource recovery revenues - Mot applicable
D. Percent capacity - Unknown
E. Expansion potential - Space available, long range plans
include use of available space.
V. COMMENTS - State Dept. of Public Health has noted a reluctance on
the part of Richmond management to comply with the letter and spirit
of existing statutes.
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VI. SOURCE -
Personal Communication. Richmond Sanitary Service Representative,
with Don Farb, Office of Solid Waste Management
Programs, July 1974.
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San Diego County Refuse Disposal
5555 Overland Rd.
San Diego, CA
(714) 565-5703
I. BACKGROUND
A. Services provided - disposal
B. Service area - San Diego County
C, Date established - in the early 60's
D, Licensed by the State of California
E. Organizational structure - Operated by San Diego County
11• WASTE STREAMS
A. Accept - Pesticides and other chemical wastes, except as
noted below.
B. Exclude - Cyanide, explosives, and radioactive wastes.
C. Volume - Unknown
III. WASTE HANDLING
A. Collection/hauling - not available
B. Receiving/storage - Bulk or drum by truck. Holding pond
storage available.
C. Laboratory analysis - not available
D. Treatment - Available treatment limited to volume reduction
by evaporation.
E. Disposal - Landfill
° All wastes to be buried are drummed and placed in an
abandoned mine excavation (native bentonite clay)
0 2-3ft. of bentonite used as cover on each cell.
0 Liquid wastes are discharged into 2 large unltried
evaporative ponds, (one pond currently full). To date,
it has not been necessary to remove pond residues, but
the issue will have to be addressed in near future since
one pond is nearly full.
IV. ECONOMICS .
A. User charges - 20<£/ft. or 6<£/gal.
B. Costs - Unknown
C. Resource recovery revenues - Not applicable
D. Percent capacity - Landfill projected lifetime - 11 yrs. One
holding pond nearly full.
E. Expansion potential - Management plans to seek permission to fill
certain sludges following neutralization or other chemical
degradation treatment. Plan to improve site operations by
employing a site operator that is familiar with hazardous
wastes. An operations manual is also being prepared.
V. COMMENTS - Area flood during winter of 73-74 caused the holding
ponds to overflow (oil wastes). Extra material has been added
to pond berm to prevent overflow. Some leachate migration was
noted the year prior to the flood. Currently drilling a test
well to determine groundwater level. Site is located near
county landfill.
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Ventura Regional County Sanitation District
P.O. Box AB
Ventura, California
(805) 648-2717 (John A. Lambie)
I. BACKGROUND
A. Services provided - disposal
B. Service area
0 Ventura County
0 Los Angeles County: Mostly flammables
0 Santa Barbara County: Class I wastes only
0 Kern County: Class I wastes only
C. Date established - January 17, 1971
D. Licensed by the State of California
E. Organizational structure
0 Operated by Ventura Regional County Sanitation District (special
district - Ventura County only - created by state charter.)
District also operates a liquid waste pre-treatment facility to
handle septic tank cleanings and chemical toilet wastes.
II. WASTE STREAMS
A. Accept
0 Waste accepted based upon review and screening or clearance
procedure.
0 Accepted wastes include solvent sludges, pesticide containers,
epoxy, chlorinated bi-phenols, cyanide, plating wastes, polyester
resins, acids, etc.
B. Exclude - radioactive materials and materials considered unsafe
through the screening procedure.
C. Volume - varies
III. WASTE HANDLING
A. Collection/hauling - not available.
B. Receiving/storage - not available.
C. Laboratory analysis - pH and explosive capability are determined at
the site: contents of each wastestream must be known and if needed,
analysis may be performed by chemical consultants.
D. Treatment - Wastes do not receive treatment before disposal.
E. Disposal - Landfill
0 Site geology, hydrology and monitoring meet all state
prerequisites for Class I sites.
0 Waste burial plots mapped and inventoried.
0 Well monitoring is practiced.
0 Bulk liquids spread on soil in thin layer and allowed to dry off.
0 Highly toxic wastes buried in containers that are used to bring
them in.
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IV. ECONOMICS
A. User charges - $7.70 per ton plus 60<£ per ton for State Health
Department fees with $1 minimum. $25 application fee charged
to hauler for each new waste received (empty pesticide containers
exempt.) Fee covers administrative costs. Extra costs incurred
in specific disposal are charged to the haulers. This may include
lab. tests.
B. Costs - To be evaluated.
C. Resource recovery revenues - not applicable.
D. Percent capacity - Estimated remaining life = 10 years.
E. Expansion potential - District is considering an additional site
in western part of county.
V. COMMENTS - The District is conducting a demonstration program for
Hazardous Waste Management in the county funded by EPA.
VI. SOURCE -
Personal communication. Mr. Mike Williams, Ventura Regional
County Sanitation District, with Don Farb, Office
of Solid Waste Management Programs, June 24, 1974.
Personal communication. Mr. Phillip Beautrow, Ventura Regional
County Sanitation District, to Mr. John P. Lehman,
Office of Solid Waste Management Programs, November
26, 1974.
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Nuclear Engineering Co., Inc.
Main Offices: West Coast - Box 156
San Ramon, California 94583
(415) 837-1561 (Mr. G. S. Williamson)
East Coast - Box 7246
Louisville, Kentucky 40207
(502) 426-7160 (Mr. A. Crase)
Burial sites - Morehead, Kentucky;
Sheffield, Illinois;
Beatty, Nevada;
Richland, Washington;
Robstown, Texas
I. BACKGROUND
A. Services provided
0 Collection/hauling
0 Disposal
B. Service area - Nationwide
C. Date established - Approximately 1958
D. Licensed by state health and environmental authorities
E. Organizational structure - Primarily radioactive waste (low
level) burial service, firm has developed disposal service
for chemical wastes at Beatty, Nevada and at Sheffield,
Illinois. Owns subsidiary waste disposal firm, Texas
Ecologists, Robstown, Texas, which handles only non-radioactive
hazardous wastes.
II. WASTE STREAMS
A. Accept - Radioactive wastes, pesticides, organic wastes,
misc. toxic chemicals, heavy metals, (solids primarily, liquids
accepted following state review).
B. Exclude - Highly reactive sodium and potassium.
C. Volume - No specific limit - depends on type and
composition.'
III. WASTE HANDLING
A. Collection/hauling - Service available
B. Receiving/storage - Warehousing available (18,000 sq. ft.).
Mostly drummed waste.
C. Laboratory analysis - Spot checks as required.,
D. Treatment - No pre-treatment prior to burial
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E. Disposal - Land burial
0 Burial sites, clay strata, low permeability, clay liners.
0 30 ft. trenches, drums lowered in by crane and
surrounded by 3x their volume of dry clay.
0 Beatty site 350 ft. to groundwater, 150 ft. of clay below
trenches - 2-4 in. of rain per year (unlimited capacity).
0 Monitoring wells checked every 2 weeks.
IV. ECONOMICS
A. User charges - Transportation cost - Approximately $1.00/mile
per 40,000 Ib. truck. Burial charges $1.25 to $1.75 per ft. .
B. Costs - unknown
C. Resource recovery revenues - Not applicable
D. Percent capacity - Sheffield site newly opened. Beatty site
capacity unlimited.
E. Expansion potential - Ample land available.
V. COMMENTS - None
VI. SOURCE -
Personal communication. Mr. Williamson, Nuclear Engineering, Co..
Inc., with Don Farb, Office of Solid Waste
Management Programs, June 20, 1974.
Personal communication. Mr. Williamson, Nuclear Engineering, Co.,
Inc., to Mr. John P. Lehman, Office of Solid Waste
Management Programs, November 8, 1974.
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Wes Con, Inc.
245 Third Ave. East
Twin Falls, Idaho 83301
(208) 733-0897 (Gene Rinebold)
(site: Grandview, Idaho)
I. BACKGROUND
A. Service provided - Disposal
B. Service area - Northwest and intermountain region
C. Date established - Unknown
D. Licensed by the State of Idaho
E. Organizational structure - Partnership arrangement with
president of Chemical Supply Co. Latter is well established
as a chemical firm with management experience in petroleum
industry and economics.
11 • WASTE STREAMS
A. Accept - Class B pesticides, potato sprout inhibiting
chemical, caustic sludge
B. Exclude - Radioactive wastess poison gases (chemical warfare)
C. Volume - Very small, trying to establish contacts
III. WASTE HANDLING
A. Collection/hauling - Currently not available, will make
arrangements if necessary
B. Receiving/storage - Receive by truck only, no storage available
on site, immediate disposal (drum or bulk acceptable).
C. Laboratory facilities - Unknown to date
D. Treatment - No treatment at Grandview site
E. Disposal - Wastes are disposed of in old missile silos.
13 holes with 6ft. walls and 13ft.-floors of reinforced concrete
on a 100 acre site. 1.5 mill. ft. capacity. Bentonite clay
available to contain liquids if necessary. 3,200 ft. to
groundwater.
IV. ECONOMICS
A. User charges - $1.00/ft. but may vary depending on waste.
To date charges have been reduced to break even point to
encourage interest (e.g., quoted state of Alaska a price of
$100.00 to handle 3 tons of DDT, FOB, Twin Falls.)
B. Costs - Unknown
C. Resource recovery revenues - None to date
D. Percent capacity - Just starting up; still looking for
customers
E. Expansion potential - Develop some of site's 100A for
sanitary landfill, current arrangements with local agencies
preclude this development.
V. COMMENTS - None
VI. SOURCE -
Personal communication. Mr. Gene Rinebold, Wes Con Inc., with
Mr. Don Farb, Office of Solid Waste Management
Programs, June 28, 1974.
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Chemical Processors, Inc.
5501 Airport Way South
Seattle, Washington 96108
(206) 767-0350 (Mr. Newt Clark)
I. BACKGROUND
A. Services provided - Processing/treatment
B. Service area - Greater Seattle, Washington state and
Pacific Northwest.
C. Date established - 1959; Management change in 1970
to present name.
D. Licensed by the State of Washington
E. Organizational structure - Firm operates two plants in Seattle
(South Seattle and Elliot Bay)
0 Major supplier of industrial fuel oil for Pacific Northwest.
0 Operate small oil reclamation facility.
II. WASTE STREAMS
A. Accept - Solvents, oils, resins, halogenated solvents, heavy
metals, arsenic, pesticides, cyanide.
B. Exclude - Radioactive wastes
C. Volume - Partial list of volume includes - 2,500 barrels
crankcase oil; 10,000 barrels of ship waste oil; 10 railcar
tankers; and 20 bulk tank trucks of waste per month.
III. WASTE HANDLING
A. Collection/hauling
0 Firm will pickup only full truck load shipments. Partial loads
are forwarded by generator to collection and transfer facil-
ities in Seattle, eastern Washington, or Oregon.
0 Firm maintains a fleet of trucks with either flat bed, tank, or
special sludge handling trailers.
B. Receiving/storage
0 Receive by truck, rail or barge both bulk and drum consignments.
0 Storage capacity 10 million gal.
C. Laboratory analysis - Available for sample analyses and
quality control.
D. Treatment - Specialize in evaporation and distillation recovery
of solvents (halogenated and non-halogenated) and oil.
Facility includes a converted paint production plant (built 1959),
complete with chemical separation and petroleum fracturing towers.
E. Disposal - All non-recoverable wastes and reclamation by-
products shipped to Pasco, Washington (Resource Recovery
Corporation). Approximately 5 tank trucks per day.
IV. ECONOMICS
A. User charges - Quotations furnished upon request
B. Costs - Vary, but general operating costs are:
$5.00 per barrel for oil reclamation and
30<£/gal. for solvent recovery
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C. Resource recovery revenues - Revenues unknown
D. Percent capacity - Below capacity, specific amount
unknown
E. Expansion potential - Good, intentions unknown
V. COMMENTS - None
VI. SOURCE -
Personal communication. Mr. Newt Clark, Chemical Processors, Inc.,
to Mr. Emery Lazar, Office of Solid Waste Management
Programs, January 23, 1973.
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Resource Recovery Corporation
(site) Pasco, Washington
(offices) 5501 Airport Way So.
Seattle, Washington, 98108
(206) 767-0355 (Mr. Kimberly)
I. BACKGROUND
A. Services provided
0 Collection/hauling
0 Disposal
B. Service area - Pacific Northwest
C. Date established - 1975
D. Licensed by - Washington State Dept. of Public Health
and Ecology and Benton-Franklin County Public Health Dept.
E. Organizational structure - Majority stock holder is
Chemical Processors, Inc. of Seattle.
II. WASTE STREAMS
A. Accept - Paint, solvents, and resin sludges, metal salts,
and plating wastes.
B. Exclude - No exceptions, must receive approval before disposing
of pesticides.
C. Volume - Unknown
III. WASTE HANDLING
A. Collection/hauling - Transportation service available (tank
trucks).
B. Receiving/storage - Receive primarily bulk truck deliveries-
Waste transfer and staging stations available in Seattle
and Oregon.
C. Laboratory analysis - Done by parent company, Chemical
Processors, Inc.
D. Treatment - Volume reduction by evaporation. Other treat-
ment services provided by parent company.
E. Disposal
0 Pond residues and other received wastes are buried on
site (natural silt cover). 140A site, 40A currently
being used. 15 year capacity.
0 No discharge from site - Ponds lined with hypalon and
underlaid with electronic sensors for leachate monitoring.
0 Evaporation exceeds precipitation.
0 40-50 ft. to groundwater.
IV. ECONOMICS
A. User charges - Bulk - liquid and sludges $.45/CWT, 55 gallon
drums - $1.75 a drum for disposal. Hauling charges vary
depending on distance.
B. Costs - unknown
C. Resource recovery revenues - not applicable
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D. Percent capacity - unknown
E. Expansion potential - Good based on favorable public
acceptance.
V. COMMENTS - Recent concern by area grape growers has persuaded
local authorities to revoke firm's hazardous waste disposal
permit. Grape growers are concerned about the burial of 2-4-D
sludges. State Dept. of Ecology has been unable to establish
cause/effect relationship between grape production and waste
disposal. Company will be allowed to continue disposal until
December 31, 1974. Company is currently negotiating for a
new site also located in eastern Washington. It is working to
get the site operational before December 31, in order to prevent
an interruption in its business. State authorities would like to
see a hazardous waste disposal site established in eastern
Washington.
VI. SOURCE -
Personal communication. Mr. J. R. Kimberly, Resource Recovery
Corporation, with Don Farb, Office of Solid Waste
Management Programs, June 18, 1974.
Personal communication. Mr. J. R. Kimberly, Resource
Recovery Corporation, to Mr. John P. Lehman,
Office of Solid Waste Management Programs, November
5, 1974.
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Western Processing Co., Inc.
7215 South 196th
Kent, Washington 98031
(206) 852-4350 (Mr. G. J. Nieuwenhuis)
I. BACKGROUND
A. Services provided - processing/treatment/disposal.
B. Service area - British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, Idaho,
Montana, California
C. Date established - 1957
D. Organizational structure
0 Corporation
0 Mr. G. J. Nieuwenhuis, President
0 Mr. G. J. Nieuwenhuis has 7 patents to his name for
processing and reclamation. One patent has been granted in
14 countries.
0 A management group is handling the day-to-day operation.
II. WASTE STREAMS
A. Accept - Plating shop waste, pickle liquor, any heavy metal
solution, flue dust, metal skimmings, oils and solvents -
in general all wastes except as noted below.
B. Exclude - Beryllium, radioactive waste.
C. Volume - 400,000-500,000 gallons liquids per month and 5000
tons dry products per year.
III. WASTE HANDLING
A. Collection/hauling
0 By common carrier
0 By collection firms
B. Receiving/storage - Prefer truck load bulk shipments 5-1/2 mil.
gallons storage available.
C. Laboratory analysis service available, sample analysis and
processing chemical control.
D. Treatment - Chemical detoxification
0 Employ a variety of chemical reactions with physical blending
and mixing to achieve saleable products including zinc
sulfate, zinc chloride, sodium dichromate, fire retardents for
wood, solvents, lube oil, trace elements for fertilizer, zinc
and aluminum metal.
0 Only discharge is clean water meeting EPA standards - No dumping
of heavy metals or other waste.
0 Seven patents on waste processing.
E. Disposal - Company emphasizes recovery as opposed to destruction.
No discharges except clean water.
IV. ECONOMICS
A. User charges - Charges based on waste analysis.
B. Costs depend on reclamation value and ease of recovery -
from 0 to 12<£ per gallon for plating shop waste and 50<£ per
gallon for cyanide waste. Some items are being paid for
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according to metal content.
C. Resource recovery revenues - Unknown
D. Percent capacity - Unknown
E. Expansion potential - Currently operate on a 13 acre site, room
available to expand, with 20 acres.
V. COMMENTS - None
VI. SOURCE -
Personal communication. Mr. Nieuwenhuis, Western Processing Co., Inc.,
with Don Farb, Office of Solid Waste Management Programs,
May 30, 1974.
Personal Communication. Mr. Nieuwenhuis, Western Processing Co., Inc.,
to Mr. John P. Lehman, Office of Solid Waste Management
Programs, November 7, 1974.
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