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   Environmental Protection Agency	 July 1987

                   DESCRIPTIONS OF 149 SITES PROPOSED FOR THE
                   NATIONAL PRIORITIES LIST AS OF JULY 1987
       This document consists of descriptions of the 149 sites (including
   16  Federal facility sites) proposed for the National Priorities List
   (NPL)  as of July  1987.  Summaries were provided earlier when the sites
   were first proposed.  As a convenience, they are compiled here into one
   document.  In some (but not all) cases, there is a status section describing
   activities subsequent to proposal.

       The size of  the site is indicated on the basis of presently available
   information.  The size may change in the future as additional information
   is  gathered on the extent of contamination.

       All sites are arranged alphabetically by State and by site.

Remedial Responses Under Superfund

     The Superfund program is authorized by the Comprehensive Environmental

Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA) and the Superfund

Amendments and Reauthorization Act (SARA), enacted on October 17, 1986.

Under SARA, the Hazardous Substances Superfund pays the costs not assumed

by responsible parties for cleaning up hazardous waste sites or emergencies

that threaten public health, welfare, or the environment.  The Superfund

program  is managed  by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

     Two types of responses may be taken when a hazardous substance is

released (or threatens to be released) into the environment:

      0 Removal actions:  emergency-type responses to imminent threats.
       Typically., these actions were limited to fi months and/or SI million
       under CERCLA.  Under SARA, they are limited to 1 year and/or $2
       million, with a waiver possible if the actions are consistent
       with remedial actions.  Removal actions can be undertaken  by the
       private parties responsible for the releases or by the Federal
       Government using the Superfund.

      0 Remedial responses:  actions  intended to provide permanent solutions
       at abandoned or uncontrolled hazardous waste sites.  They  are
       generally longer-term and more expensive than removals.  A Superfund
       remedial response can be taken only if a site is on the NPL.
       After publishing two preliminary lists and proposing a formal
       list, EPA published the first NPL in September 1983.  The  list
       must be updated at least annually.

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     The money for conducting a remedial response or removal action can

ccme from several sources:

     0  The party or parties responsible for the problem can clean up
        voluntarily with EPA or State supervision.

     0  The responsible party or parties can be forced to clean up by
        Federal or State legal action.

     0  Superfund can pay for the cleanup, then seek to recover the costs
        from the responsible party or parties.

     0  A State or local government can choose to assume the responsibility
        to clean up without Federal dollars.

     A remedial response at an NPL site is an orderly process that generally
involves the following steps:

     0  Take any measures needed to stabilize conditions, which might
        involve, for example,  fencing the  site  or removing above-ground
        drums or bulk tanks.

     0  Undertake initial planning activities to scope out a strategy
        for collecting information and analyzing alternative courses of
        action.

     8  Conduct a remedial investigation to determine the type and
        extent of contamination at the site.

     0  Conduct a feasibility study to. analyze various cleanup
        alternatives.  The feasibility study is often conducted with
        the remedial investigation as one  project.  Typically, the two
        together cost $875,000 and take from 9  to 18 months to complete.

     0  Select the cleanup alternative that:

        — Protects human health and the environment

        — Attains Federal and State requirements that are applicable
           or relevant and appropriate

        — Makes maximum use of permanent  solutions, alternative treatment
           technologies, or resource recovery technologies

        — Is "cost effective" — that is, the results achieved are proportionate
           to the cost (tentative working  definition)

     0  Design the remedy.  Typically, the design phase costs 5850,000
        and takes 6 to 12 months.

     0  Implement the remedy,  which might  involve, for example,
        constructing facilities to treat ground water or removing con-
        taminants to a safe disposal area  away frcm the site.  The
        implementation phase typically lasts 6  to 12 months.

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     The State government can participate in a remedial response financed
by Superfund in one of two ways:

     0  The State can take the lead role under a cooperative agreement,
        which is much like a grant in that Federal dollars are trans-
        ferred to the State.  The State then develops a workplan,
        schedule, and budget, contracts for any services it needs,  and is
        responsible for making sure that all the conditions in the
        cooperative agreement are met.  In contrast to a grant,  EPA
        continues to be substantially involved and monitors the State's
        progress throughout the project.

     0  EPA can take the lead under a Superfund State Contract with the
        State having an advisory role.  EPA, generally using contractor
        support, manages work early in the planning process.  In the
        later design and implementation (construction) phases, contractors
        do the work under the supervision of the U.S. Army Corps of
        Engineers.

     Under both arrangements, the State must share in the cost of the

implementation phase of cleanup.   EPA expects this phase to average out

at about S10-12 million per site.

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National Priorities List She

Hazardous waste site listed under the
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA)("Superfund")

             ANNISTON ARMY DEPOT (SOUTHEAST INDUSTRIAL AREA)
                            Anniston, Alabama

     Conditions at listing (October  1984):  Anniston Ordnance Depot,  which
occupies approximately 30 square miles  in Anniston,  Calhoun County,
Alabama, was officially designated as an ammunition  storage area on October
14, 1941.  Over the years, operations were  expanded  to include the overhauling
and repairing of combat vehicles and artillery  equipment.   The facility
is currently referred to as the  Anniston Army Depot  (ANAD).

     This NPL site consists of six different disposal operations covering
600 acres in and adjacent to the Southeast  Industrial/Vehicle Rebuild
Area.  The six disposal operations were combined  to  form this NPL site.
Five are waste disposal pits or  lagoons containing liquid  chemical and
industrial wastes contaminated with  heavy metals  and chlorinated organic
solvents.  At the sixth location, drums containing calcium hypochlorite
(bleaching powder) were buried.

     According to analyses reported  by  the  Army in 1982, metals and
chlorinated solvents were present in the ground water beneath the ANAD
Southeast Industrial Area.  Ground water is the source of  drinking water
for Calhoun County residents.  The hydrogeology of Calhoun County is
very complex and requires further studies to define  possible  aquifer  inter-
connections.  The highly fractured bedrock  apparently is the  source rock
for Coldwater Spring, which supplies private and  public water.  The spring
may be connected via fractures to contaminated  ground water at the ANAD
site.  The Anniston municipal water  supply  system provides drinking water
for an estimated 39,000 people.

     ANAD is participating in the Installation  Restoration Program, the
specially funded program established in 1978 under which the  Department
of Defense has been identifying  and  evaluating  its past hazardous waste
sites and controlling the migration  of  hazardous  contaminants from these
sites.  The Army has completed Phase I  (records search), Phase II (pre-
liminary survey), and Phase III  (assessment of  remedial action alterna-
tives).  Two portions of the site (encompassing approximately 5 acres)
have been closed under the Resource  Conservation  and Recovery Act (RCRA).
Wastes and contaminated soils from those two areas were excavated and
removed to a permitted facility.

     Status (April 1987);  EPA is reviewing an  Army  study  of  ground water
beneath 31 RCRA and CERCLA solid waste  management units at ANAD,  including
the Southeast Industrial Area.   The  Army is conducting an  Endangerment
Assessment that will include a summary  of all previous activities.

     This site is being reproposed to be consistent  with EPA's recently
proposed policy for placing on the NPL  sites located on Federally-owned
facilities that are subject to the corrective action authorities of RCRA
Subtitle C.  EPA is soliciting comments on  the  Hazard Ranking System  score
for the site, which includes areas subject  to RCRA Subtitle C corrective
action authorities.
  U.S. Environmental Protection Agency/Remedial Response Program

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National Priorities List Site
Hazardous waste site listed under the
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA)("Superfund")
                              APACHE POWDER CO.                tv
                               Benson, Arizona               :;  \£
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       Apache Powder Co. has manufactured explosives  and  fertilizers since
  1929  in Benson, Cochise County, Arizona.  Large quantities ofy nitrates
  have  been used.  Prior to 3971, all waste water drained to.;.dtry washes on-
  site  that flowed to the San Pedro River.  Since that  time/waste water
  has been contained in unlined ponds ranging from 6  to 8 feet 'deep and
  covering more than 10 acres.  The waste water contains  elevated levels
  of nitrate.  In ]982, EPA found more than 13,480 parts  per million
  nitrate nitrogen in a sample.  Soil in the bottom of  the dry ponds
  also  contains high levels of nitrate nitrogen, as does  ash in a burning
  ground located in a dry wash.

       EPA detected toxic heavy metals in the lagoons and on-site wells
  at levels above drinking water standards.  Downgradient of" Apache
  Powder, 11 shallow wells contain nitrate nitrogen in  excess of the
  drinking water standards, according to .EPA.  The maximum concentration
  found was in the well closest to Apache Powder.  Nitrogen isotope
  analysis of this well positively identified Apache  Powder's ponds as
  the source, but was inconclusive for other wells.   Nine of the 11
  wells were used for drinking water.  About 900 people get drinking
  water from the shallow aquifer within 3 miles of the  site.  Because
  nitrate is very mobile, it is likely that it precedes the migration of
  toxic heavy metals, which will likely follow the same path.

       A deeper artesian aquifer is not contaminated  to date, but there
  may be danger of contamination in the future.

       EPA has also detected elevated nitrate levels  in the San Pedro
  River, which borders the plant.
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National Priorities List Site
Hazardous waste site listed under the
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA)("Superfund"
                    MESA AREA GROUND WATER CONTAMINATION
                               Mesa, Arizona

     Volatile organic solvents contaminate five wells  in Mesa,  Maricopa
County, Arizona.   Trichloroethylene, tetrachloroethylene, 1,1,-dichloro-
ethylene,  1,1,1-trichloroethane, and Freon-113 were detected in tests
conducted  by the  Arizona Department of Health Services and the  City of
Tempe.  Two of  the wells are owned by the Cities of Mesa and Tempe.
The other  three are owned by the Salt River Project and pump into the
Tempe Canal, a  source of irrigation water for about 20,000 acres and a
source of  raw water for the South Tempe Municipal Water Treatment Plant.

     The area is  highly urbanized, and the Tempe well  pumps into a
municipal  supply  system serving an estimated 126,000 people.

     EPA is in  the process of identifying potential sources of  the contami-
nation.
 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency/Remedial Response Program

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 National Priorities List Site

 Hazardous waste site listed under the
 Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA)("Superfund"

                    MOTOROLA,  INC.  (52ND STREET PLANT)
                             Phoenix,  Arizona

     Conditions  at listing (October  1984);  Motorola,  Inc.,  manufactures
semiconductors and related components  at a  plant on 52nd Street in Phoenix,
Maricopa County, Arizona.   The  facility  is  situated approximately 1.5 miles
northeast of the Sky Harbor International Airport and  is surrounded by
residential, industrial, business, agricultural, and recreational areas.

     Ground water beneath  the  52nd Street Plant is contaminated with tri-
chloroethylene (TCE),trichloroethane (TCA), and other  organic and inorganic
compounds, according to analyses conducted  by  EPA and  Motorola.  Contami-
nation may have  resulted from  leaking  storage  tanks, leaking effluent
lines, and past  disposal practices,  including  the use  of dry wells.
Motorola detected TCE and  TCA  in its off-site  monitoring wells located at
least 1 mile from the facility.  Analytical results indicate that several
private wells not used for drinking  and  one irrigation well  contain TCE
concentrations above the State  action  level of 5 parts per billion.

     Prior to October 1983,  Motorola installed 22 on-site and 6 off-site
monitoring wells.  This work was described  in  a Phase  I remedial investi-
gation report.   In October 1983, the Arizona Department of Health Services
established a Task Force comprised of  the State, EPA,  -and local agencies
to guide and evaluate Motorola's remedial activities.   The Task Force has
guided Motorola  in development  of a  detailed workplan  for a  remedial
investigation/feasibility  study (RI/FS)  to  determine the type and extent
of contamination at the site and identify alternatives for remedial action.
The RI/FS workplan was aporoved in October  1984, and Phase II of the RI
was begun.

     The plant received Interim Status under the Resource Conservation
and Recovery Act (RCRA) when the company filed Part A  of a permit
application.

     Status (January 1986);  Motorola  has completed most of  the field
activities planned for Phase II of the RI/FS.   The report is expected to
be completed in  1986.

     Off-site well sampling has confirmed a plume extending  at least
1 mile west of the plant.   In  1986,  additional monitoring wells will be
installed, around water and soil testing will  be conducted,  and a pilot
plant for pumping and treating  contaminated ground water will be installed.

     This site remains in  proposed status until EPA implements the appropriate
elements of its  final policy for placing RCRA-related  sites  on the NPL and
then applies the policy to this site.
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National Priorities List Site

Hazardous waste site listed under the
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA)C'Superfund'

                              ARKWCOD,  INC.
                             Qnaha, Arkansas

     Conditions at listing  (September  1985);   The Arkwood,  Inc.,  Site
covers approximately  20 acres on the Missouri-Pacific  Cricket Railroad
siding, south of Omaha  in .Boone County, Arkansas.  The site consists  of a
millwork shop, a wood-treating plant which used pentachlorophenol (PCP)
and creosote, and a storage yard for the  treated wood  products before
sale.  The site owners  started operations at  the site  in  the early 1960s
and formed an Arkansas  corporation, Arkwood,  Inc., shortly  thereafter.
In 1973, the owner of Arkwood, Inc., leased the process and land  to Mass
Merchandisers, Inc., of Harrison, Arkansas.   Mass Merchandisers'  lease
expired on Jan. 1, 1985, and was not renewed.  The plant  has not  operated
since then.

     The history of waste disposal activities has been provided primarily
by Mass Merchandisers.  Wastes from the wood-treating  operation were
dumped into a cave at the plant from the  beginning of  the operation to
around 1970.  The entrance  to the cave, which is at  ground  level, has
been boarded and covered with a layer  of  dirt.  Waste  oils  were also
placed in a ditch adjacent  to the railroad until approximately 1974,  when
the cost of the chemicals used in the  process forced improvement  of the
recover5/ system and reduced the volume of wastes generated.

     Other wastes consist in part of the  liguid from washing of the
treatment roan floor  and  the treatment eguipment.  These  wastes accumulated
in a tank and were then spread over the storage yard to control dust.
Based on plant operations during 1970,  a  minimum of  6,000 to 7,000 pounds
per year of waste were  generated over  the more than  20 years of operation,
according to Mass Merchandisers.  There is also a large pile of sawdust
and wood chips in the southeast portion of the site.  At  least a  portion
of this pile  is contaminated with PCP,  according to  tests conducted by
the Arkansas Department of Pollution Control  and Ecology.

     The State has detected PCP in local  water wells,  natural springs in
the area, and nearby Walnut Creek.  In 1982,  Mass Merchandisers drilled a
replacement well  for  a  nearby resident, and retained a consulting firm to
conduct a geohydrological study in the area.   Approximately 660 persons
depend on private wells within 3 miles of the site for drinking water.

     Status (April 1987);   In May 1986, EPA signed an  Administrative
Order on Consent  reguiring Mass Merchandisers to conduct  a  remedial
investigation/feasibility study to determine  the type  and extent  of
contamination at  the  site and identify alternatives  for remedial  action.
A workplan submitted  by the company in July 1986 has been approved by
EPA.  In August 1986, under the Arkansas  Water and Air Pollution  Control
Act and the Remedial  Action Trust Fund Act, the State  filed suit  against
Mass Merchandisers and  the  former owner and operator of Arkwood for
investigation and remedial action at the  site.  On-site field activities
have been delayed because the land owner  has  refused to grant access  to
Mass Merchandisers.
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National Priorities List Site

Hazardous waste site listed under the
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA)("Superfund'

        FAIRCHILD CAMERA &  INSTRUMENT CORP.  (MOUNTAIN VIEW PLANT)
 .......  .       ....   Mountain  View, California

     Conditions at listing  (October 1984):   Fairchild Camera & Instrument
Corp. manufactures semiconductors at a plant in Mountain View, Santa
Clara County, California.   The facility occupies approximately 56 acres
and is surrounded by residential  and industrial areas.

     Monitoring wells on the site are contaminated with trichloroethylene,
1,1,1-trichloroethane,  1,1- and trans-l,2-dichloroethylene, according to
analyses conducted by a  consultant to Fairchild.  Contamination is believed
to have resulted from leaking underground solvent tanks.  About 270,000
people depend on ground  water within 3 miles of the site as a source of
drinking water.

     Since early 1982,  Fairchild  has been investigating the site geology
and hydrcgeolcgy and attempting to define the lateral and vertical extent
of solvents underlying  the  site.   Fairchild  has installed two wells to
pump and treat the contaminated ground water plume.

     Fairchild is working with the California Regional Water Quality Con-
trol Board to further define the  extent of contamination and outline
various cleanup strategies. .

     The plant received  Interim Status under the Resource Conservation
and Recovery Act (RCRA)  when the 'ccmpany filed  Part A of a permit
application.

     This is one of  19 sites in the  South Pay Area of San Francisco.
Facilities at these  sites have used  a variety of toxic chemicals,  primarily
chlorinated organic "solvents, which  contaminate a common ground water basin.
Although these sites  are  listed separately,  EPA intends to apply an area-
wide approach to the  problem as well  as take specific action as necessary.
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     Status (February 1986):  Continuing efforts to determine the  extent of
ground water contamination, Fairchild has installed 101 monitoring wells.
The two treatment wells  are now in operation.

     The California  Regional Water Duality Control Board has issued Waste
Discharge Requirements to the ccmpany.   The  requirements are the board's
legal mechanism for  regulating activities at facilities under its  jurisdiction.

     On Aug. 15, 1985, EPA  issued  a  CERCLA Administrative Order on Consent
to Fairchild Camera's Mountain View  Plant,'as well as to Intel  Corp.'s and
Raytheon Corp.'s Mountain View Plants.   The  order calls for the three
companies to conduct  a joint remedial investigation/feasibility study of
the area to determine the type and extent of contamination and  identify
alternatives for remedial action.

     This site remains in proposed status until EPA implements  the appropriate
elements of its final policy for placing RCRA-related sites on  the NPL and
then applies the policy  to this site.

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National Priorities List Site

Hazardous waste site listed under the
Comprenensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA)("Superfund"

        FAIRCHILD.CAMERA &  INSTRUMENT CORP. (SOUTH SAN JOSE PLANT)
               :   "'     South  San  Jose,  California

     Conditions at. listing  (October  1984) :   Fairchild Camera & Instrument
Corp. manufactures semiconductors  on approximately 20 acres in South San
Jose, Santa Clara County, California.  Land use in the vicinity of the
site is agricultural, residential, and commercial.

     Soils and a portion of a  major  aquifer providing drinking water to
about 65,000 people  are contaminated with  trichloroethane and other
solvents, according  to analyses conducted  by the Great Oaks Water Co. and
Fairchild.  One municipal well within 3  miles of the  facility has been
taken out of service.

     In response to  a request  from the California Regional Water Duality
Control Board, Fairchild is voluntarily  taking  action to contain and
reduce the plume of  contamination.   Fairchild has started  an investigation
to determine the extent of  the problem at  the site and is currently
undertaking interim  cleanup measures consisting of excavation of contami-
nated soils, the pumping and treatment of  contaminated ground water, and
construction of a slurry wall  to reduce  the spread of contamination from
the site.

     The plant received Interim Status under the Resource' Conservation
and Recovery Act (RCRA) when the conpany filed  Part A of a permit
application.

     This is one of  19 sites in the  South  Ray Area of San  Francisco.
Facilities at these  sites have used  a  variety of toxic chemicals, primarily
chlorinated organic,  solvents,  which  contaminate a common ground water
basin.  Although these sites are listed  separately, EPA intends to apply
an area-wide approach to the problem as  well as take  specific action as
necessary.

     Status (January 1986);  Continuing  its investigation  to determine the
extent of ground water contamination,  Fairchild has removed contaminated
soil from the facility, has installed  a  system  to pump and treat contami-
nated ground water,  and is constructing  the slurry wall.

     This site remains in proposed status until EPA implements the appropriate
elements of its final policy for placing RCRA-related sites on the NPL and
then applies the policy to this site.
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National Priorities List Site

Hazardous waste site listed under the
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA)C'Superfund'

                          FMC CORP.  (FRESNO  PLANT)
             "'••"      •    '•   Fresno, California

      Conditions at listing (October 1984);   FMC Corp.  has  been producing
 pesticides for nearly 30 years at a plant located  in  an  industrial area of
 Fresno, Fresno County, California.  Ground  water below the facility is
 contaminated with heavy metals, as well as  other chemicals,  according to
 analyses conducted by the company.  Fresno  municipal  wells near the site
 tap this contaminated aquifer.  The wells are blended into the municipal
 water supply system, which serves about 250,000 people.

      FMC has removed some soil contaminated with various pesticides and
 heavy metals from the facility and transported it  to  an  approved landfill-.
 FMC has conducted some site investigations  at the  direction  of the
 California Department of Health Services and the California  Regional
'Water'Duality Control Roard.

      Status (January 1986):  FMC's contractor- has  submitted  to the
 California Regional. Water Quality Control Roard an initial field investi-
 gation report assessing the extent of soil  contamination in  one part of
 the site and a plan  for a ground water monitoring  program.

      EPA has issued a Notice Letter to the  company, and  the  company is
 developing a workplan for a remedial investigation/feasibility study to -
 determine the type and extent of contamination at  the  site and identify
 alternatives for remedial action.

      EPA believes that it may be possible to clean up  this site under
 authorities of the Resource Conservation and Recovery  Act  (RCRA).   This
 site remains in proposed status until EPA implements  the appropriate
 elements of its final policy for placing RCRA-related  sites  on the NPL and
 then applies the policy to .this site.
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National Priorities List Site

Hazardous waste site listed under the
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA)("Superfund")


                        .  IBM CORP. (SAN JOSE PLANT)
..•••'"•  •  •..• ..••••   .•   •- San- Jose, California

       Conditions at  listing (October 1984);  IBM Corp. manufactures data-
 processing  equipment on  approximately 400 acres in the southern portion
 of San Jose,  Santa  Clara County,  California.  Land use in the vicinity of
 the site  is agricultural and residential.

       Spent  solvents are  stored i'n a number of underground storage tanks
 at the IBM  facility.   Soils and  a multiple aquifer system used for
 drinking  water'are  contaminated  with trichloroethane, trichloroethylene,
 Freon 113,  and  other industrial  solvents,  according to analyses conducted
 by the Great. Oaks Water  Co.  and  IBM.  Two municipal wells within about 1
 mile  of the facility have  been taken out of sen/ice.  About 65,000 people
 use ground  water within  3  miles  of the site as a source of drinking
 water.

       In response to a request from the California Regional Water Quality
 Conto1 Board, IBM  is  voluntarily undertaking remedial measures to contain
 and reduce  the  plume  of  contaminants.  IBM has recently completed an
 investigation to determine the extent of the problem and is currently
 undertaking interim cleanup measures consisting of the removal of con-
 taminated soil  and  the pumping and treatment of contaminated ground
'"wafer.'    .   - -    -                    _  .

    The State  issued IBM  a  Part B permit under the Resource Conservation
 and Recovery Act (RCRA).

       This is one of 19 sites in  the South  Bay Area of San Francisco.
 Facilities  at these sites  have used a variety of toxic chemicals,
 primarily chlorinated organic solvents, which contaminate a common ground
 water basin.  Although these sites are listed separately, EPA intends to
 apply an area-wide  approach to the problem as well as take specific
 action as necessary.

       Status (February 1986):   IBM has removed more than 10,000 cubic yards
 of soil and the leaking  underground tanks  and installed wells both on-
 and off-site  to pump  and treat contaminated ground water.

       This site  remains in  proposed status  until EPA implements the appropriate
 elements of its final policy for  placing RCRA-related sites on the NPL and
 then  applies the policy  to this  site.
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National Priorities List Site

Hazardous waste site listed under the
Comprehensive Environmental Response. Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLAIC'Superfund'

                             HEWLETT-PACKARD
                           Palo Alto, California

     Conditions at listing  (October  1984);  Hewlett-Packard manufactures
optical instruments at a plant in Palo Alto,  Santa Clara County,
California.  The facility occupies about  50 acres  and  is surrounded by
industrial and business areas.

     Monitoring wells on the site are contaminated with 1,1,1-trichloro-
ethane, 1,1-dichloroethylene, 1,1-dichloroethane,  trichloroethylene, and
toluene, according to analyses conducted  by a consultant to Hewlett-
Packard.  Contamination is  believed  to have resulted from leaking tanks.
About 56,000 people depend  on wells  within  3  miles of  the site  as a
standby source of drinking  water.

     Hewlett-Packard is working  with the  California Regional Water Quality
Control Board to determine  the extent of  contamination of ground water
and soils.

     This is one of 19 sites in  the  South Bay Area of  San Francisco.
Facilities at these sites  have used  a variety of toxic chemicals,
primarily chlorinated organic solvents, which contaminate a common ground
water basin.  Although these sites are listed separately, EPA intends to
apply an area-wide approach to the problem  as well as  take specific
action as necessary.

     Status  (January 1986):  The extent of  the contaminated ground water
plume is still being investigated.   The California Regional Water Quality
Control Board, in conjunction with EPA and  the California Department of
Health Services, is considering  various response actions at the site.
The State has called for Hewlett-Packard  to submit a Part B permit
application  under  the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA).  Site
investigation and any subseguent remedial action are regulated  by the
board's Waste Discharge Reguirements.

     This site remains in  proposed status until EPA implements  the appropriate
elements of  its  final policy for placing  RCRA-related sites on  the NPL and
then applies the policy to this  site.
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National Priorities List Site
Hazardous waste site listed under the
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA)C'Superfund"
     .     .-.•••• :  :  -.-•   •'-.-   -J.H.- BAXTER CO.
                              Weed, California

      Conditions at listing (October 1984);  J.H.  Baxter Co.  has operated
 a wood-treatment facility at the base of Mount  Shasta in Vfeed,  Siskiyou
 County, California, since the 1960s.  Other companies previously conducted
 similar operations on the site for about 20 years.   Chemicals used in the
 treatment include pentachlorophenol, arsenic compounds, and  creosote.
 Analyses conducted by the company'and the California Regional Water
 Quality Control Board (CRWOCB) detected arsenic,  polynuclear arcmatics,
 and pentachlorophenol in ground water beneath the site.  Heavy metals,
 pentachlorophenol,  tetrachlorophenol, and creosote  have been detected in
 .surface water downstream of the site.

      CRWXB issued the company a Cleanup and Abatement Order in iMarch
 1983 and a Cease and Desist Order in May 1983.  The company  has installed
 monitoring wells and taken measures to collect  and  direct rainwater
 run-off.

      Status (February 1986);  CRWOCB' ordered J. H.  Baxter,  International
•Paper Co., and Roseberg Wood Products to develop  a  site characterization
 study in accordance with a workplan developed earlier by the companies.

      In December 1985, EPA issued a Notice Letter to the companies.  In
 response, the companies agreed to meet with EPA to  develop a workplan for
 a remedial investigation/feasibility study to determine the  type and
 extent of contamination at the site and develop alternatives for remedial
 action.

      Two units at the facility that were regulated  under the Resource
 Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) have been  closed.   EPA  and the State
 are now trying to determine if the closures meet  RCRA requirements.
                      •
      EPA is deferring final rulemaking on this  site because  it  needs more
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                        LORENTZ BARREL & DRUM CO.
   -.••• •  • •    . /• '-..  '•  -•••;• San--Jose, California

      Conditions at listing (October 1984);  Lorentz Barrel  & Drum Co,
 recycles drums at a plant in San Jose, Santa Clara  County,  California.
 The  facility occupies about 5 acres and is surrounded  by  residential,
 industrial, and business areas.

      Monitoring wells on the site are contaminated  with trichlorcethane,
 trichloroethylene, 1,1-dichloroethylene,  and tetrachloroethylene,
 according to analyses conducted by a consultant to  Lorentz  Barrel & Drum
 Co.   Contamination is believed to have resulted from overflowing sumps
'and  spills.  About 250,000 people depend  on ground  water  within 3 miles of
 the  site as a source of drinking water.

      Lorentz Barrel & Drum is working with the California Regional Water
 Quality Control Board (CRWOCB)  to determine the extent of ground water
 contamination.   The board issued a Cleanup and Abatement Order to the
 company in August 1983.

   The plant received Interim Status under the Resource Conservation and
 Recovery Act'(RCRA) when the company Eiled Part A of its permit application.

      This is one of 19 sites in' the South Bay Area  o£  San Francisco-.-
 Facilities at these sites have used a variety of toxic chemicals, pri-
 marily chlorinated organic solvents, which contaminate a common ground
 water basin.  Although these sites are listed separately, EPA  intends to
 apply an area-wide approach to the problem as well  as  take  specific
 action as necessary.

      Status (February 1986);  In a March  1985 site  inspection,  EPA and  the
 California Department of Health Services  discovered over 300 drums
 containing phenols, methylene chloride, and PCBs stored on  the  Lorentz
 property.   In response to action taken by the Santa Clara County District
 Attorney,  the company removed all contaminated drums.

      CRWCCB is overseeing the investigation conducted  by Lorentz to determine
 the  extent of ground  water contamination.  The California Department of
 Health Services will  oversee the investigation to determine the extent  of
 soil contamination.

      On Feb. 7, 1986, the Santa Clara County District  Attorney  filed a
 complaint against the company for violation of State hazardous  waste
 laws.   The facility has been shut down until "procedures for compliance
 are  developed.

      This site  remains in proposed status until EPA implements  the appropriate
 elements of its final policy for placing RCRA-related  sites on  the NPL  and
 then applies the policy to this site.
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                             MARLEY COOLING TOWER  CO.
                               Stockton, California

      Conditions at listing (October 1984);  Marley Cooling  Tower Co.
 operates on a site adjacent to Franklin High School  in  Stockton, San
 Joaquin County, California.  The company began operation at this location
 in 1942.  From 1966 until 1982, the company used  chromated  copper arsenate
 to pressure treat wood for the purpose of  fabricating cooling  towers.
 Since 1982, acid copper chromate has been  used in the wood-treating
 process.'

      Since 1966, rainwater run-off contaminated with arsenic,  chromium,
 and copper has been discharged""to a 2-acre percolation  pond.   The sludge
 in the pond and soil on-site are heavily contaminated with  arsenic,
 chromium, and copper.  Two on-site monitoring wells are contaminated with
 chromium, according to analyses conducted by the  company.   No  off-site
 ground water contamination has been detected to date.

      Marley is currently working with the California Department  of Health
 Services and the California Regional Water duality Control  Roard to
 develop a plan to determine the full extent of soil and  ground water
 contamination..

    The facility received Interim Status under the Resource  Conservation
 and Recovery Act (RCRA) when the company filed Part A of a  permit application.

      Status (February 1986);  Marley Cooling Tower is scheduled  to complete
 the initial phase of a remedial investigation in  February 1986.   Current
 data indicate that the primary source of soil and ground water contamination
 is a retort pit used in the wood-treatment process.  The surface water
 run-off pond is a secondary source of current soil and ground  water
 contamination on-site.  The second phase of the remedial investigation
 will focus on further defining soil and ground water contamination.

      This site remains in proposed status until EPA implements the appropriate
 elements of its final policy for placing RCRA-related sites on the NPL and
 then applies the policy to this site.
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                        .  MCNTROSE CHEMICAL CORP.
                            Torrance, California

      Conditions at listing (October 1984):  Montrose Chemical Corp.
manufactured the pesticide DOT on a 13-acre site in Torrance, Los  Angeles
County,  California, from 1947 until 1982.  The site is located  in  a  light
industrial/residential area.  About 3,000 people live or work within 0.25
miles of the site.

      The company's operations included formulation, grinding, packaging,
and distribution of the pesticide.  According to analyses conducted  by
EPA, Montrose,  and various State and local agencies, on- and off-site
soils and surface water are contaminated with DOT.  The major transport
mechanisms identified were storm water run-off and aerial emissions.

      On  May 6,  1983,  EPA issued an Administrative Order under CERCLA
section  106 requiring Montrose Chemical to cease all discharges of DOT
and to initiate a. study to determine the nature and extent of contamina-
tion.  After a  more detailed review of the-Montrose site, EPA determined
that further work was necessary to characterize the site and evaluate
alternatives.   Therefore, EPA prepared a workplan for a remedial investi-
gation/feasibility study (RI/FS).  This second phase of investigation
will assess all areas of contamination, both on- and off-site, and the
possible impact on public health and the environment.

      Status (January  1986):  In February 1985, Montrose installed a  tem-
porary asphalt  cover  over the site.  EPA did not endorse this activity
and does not consider it a permanent remedy.

      In  the summer vof 1985, EPA conducted Part I of the RI.  On-site
sampling conducted during Part I indicates high levels of contamination
at  77-foot depths in  soil and in the shallow ground water.  In October
1985,  Montrose  and EPA signed an Administrative Order under CSRCLA section
106 requiring Montrose to conduct Phase II of the RI.  Phase II consists
of  off-site sampling  of soil, sediments, and surface water, and sampling
of  ground water both  on- and off-site.

      EPA is deferring final rulemaking on this site because it needs
time to  conduct additional air monitoring to support the site's score on
the Hazard Ranking System, which EPA uses to assess the relative hazards
of  waste sites.  The  Montrose Chemical Corp. Site will remain in proposed
status until a  later  rulemaking.
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                      PHONE-POULENC,  INC./ZOECON  CORP.
                        East Palo Alto, California

     Conditions at listing  (October  1984);  The  Rhone-Poulenc,  Inc./
Zoecon Corp. Site covers  about 0.1 acres  in East Palo  Alto,  Santa Clara
County, California.   It is  surrounded by  residential and  industrial areas.

     Tne site was originally proposed for listing under the  name "Zoecon
Corp./Rhone-Poulenc,  Inc."

     Rhone-Poulenc, Inc., the previous owner,  manufactured pesticides
containing arsenic at  the plant.  Zoecon  Corp.,  which  purchased the site
in 1972, produces agricultural chemicals, but  no contamination  has thus
far been traced to its operations.

     Monitoring wells on  the site are contaminated with arsenic and other
metals such as lead,  cadmium, mercury, and selenium, according  to analyses
conducted by a consultant to Rhone-Poulenc.  Contamination  is believed to have
resulted from leaking  underground storage tanks. About 58,000  people
depend on ground water within 3 miles of  the site as a source of drinking
water.

     Rhone-Poulenc is working with the California Regional Water Cuality
Control Board (CRWOCB) to determine  the extent of ground  water  contamination.
CRWQCB issued a Cleanup and Abatement Order to the company-in December 1983.

   The plant has received part 8 of  its application  for a permit under the
Resource Conservation  and Recovery Act (RCRA).

     This is one of 19 sites in the  South Bay  Area of  San Francisco.
Facilities at these sites have used  a variety  of toxic chemicals, primarily
chlorinated organic solvents, which  contaminate  a common  ground water basin.
Although these sites are  listed separately, EPA  intends to apply an area-
wide approach to the problem as well as take specific  action as necessary.

     Status  (January  1986):  . In response  to the  Cleanup and  Abatement
Order issued in December  1983, Zoecon and Rhone-Poulenc initiated action
to determine the extent of  contamination.  The companies  submitted a
remedial action plan  to the CRWQB in December  1984.  The  CRWQB  is working
with the companies to  select and implement an  appropriate remedial action
plan.

     This site remains in proposed status until  EPA  implements  the appropriate
elements of  its final  policy for placing  RCRA-related  sites  on  the MPL and
then applies the policy to  this site.
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             SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EDISON CQ'.. (VISALIA POLEYARD)
                            visalia,  California
                                        •'  L*~r

     Southern California Edison Co.  (SCE)'"Created utility poles on a 20-acre
site in Visalia, Tulare County,  California^ from the 1920s until 1980.  Wood
preservatives, including creosote and pent^chorophenol (PCP), were used and
stored on-site during the  poleyard's  ope-raSions.  Leaking tanks and stored
treated poles have contaminated ground Water and soil  with wood-treatment
chemicals, as well as associated hexa-,hepta-,  and octa-chlorodioxins and
furans, according to analyses  conducted by both the California Regional
Water Quality Control Board  (CRWQCB)  and SCE.

     California Water Service  Co.  wells within  3 miles of the site supply
drinking water to the City of  Visalia, population 59,000.  After sampling
ground water and soil in May  1976, CRWQCB issued a Cleanup and Abatement
Order requiring SCE to  (1) abate discharge of treating fluids into the
soil, (2) contain contaminated soil and"water on the property, (3) pump
shallow ground water under the site before and  during  construction of an
underground slurry wall around the site,  (4) pump the  lower confined aquifer
to remove contamination, and  (5)  clean up contaminated shallow ground
water off-site.

     In response to the order,  SCE removed 2,300 cubic yards of grossly
contaminated soil to an approved Class I disposal site.  The remaining soil
was not sampled after the  cleanup.  In 1977, a  60-foot-deep cement-bentonite
slurry wall was constructed to slow lateral migration  of  the shallow aguifer.
Currently, SCE is pumping  the  shallow wells, treating  the water by carbon
filtration, and discharging it into the city sewer system.   SCE has been
sampling monitoring wells, along with California Water Service Co. wells, on
a quarterly basis.  The results indicate that on-site  monitoring wells
contain up to 12 parts per million (pprn)  PCP, and off-site monitoring wells
contain up to 0.15 ppm PCP.
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                                  SIGNETICS,  INC.
  •  •••-    :   .   '    '        , ;  Sunnyvale,  California

      Conditions at listing (October  1984);   Signetics, Inc., manufactures
 electronic components at a plant in  Sunnyvale,  Santa Clara County,
 California.  The facility occupies about 20 acres and is surrounded by
 residential, industrial, and  business  areas.          '

      Monitoring wells on the  site are  contaminated with  trichlorcethylene,
 tetrachloroethylene, and trichloroethane, according' to analyses conducted
 by a consultant to Signetics.  Contamination is  believed to have resulted
 from cracks in acid  neutralization tanks and underground solvent tanks,
 as well as through localized  spills.   The same  contaminants have teen
 detected in monitoring wells  off the facility.   About 300,000 people
 depend on ground water within 3  miles  of the site as a source of
 drinking water.

      Signetics removed the leaking tanks and excavated contaminated soil
 from the facility.   The company  is working  with  the California Regional
 Ifeter Quality Control Board to determine the extent of ground water
 contamination.  The  l~x:>ard issued a Cleanup  and  Abatement Order to the
 company in June 1QR4.

    The plant received InteVim Status under" th^"'"Res"6u"fce~'Cohser^/atr6"h"'arid  •
 Recovery Act (RCRA)  when the  company filed  Part  A of its permit application.

      This is one of  19 sites  in  the South Bay Area of San Francisco.
 Facilities at these  sites have used a  variety of toxic chemicals, primarily
 chlorinated organic  solvents, which contaminate  a common ground water
 basin.  Although these sites  are listed  separately, EPA  intends to apply
 an area-wide approach to the  problem as  well as  take specific action as
 necessary.

      Status (January 1986);   The California Regional Water Ouality Control
 Board, in conjunction with EPA and the California Department of Health
 Services, is considering various response actions at the site.

      This site remains in proposed status until  EPA implements the appropriate
 elements of its final policy  for placing RCRA-related sites on the NPL and
 then applies the policy to this  site.
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                     SOUTHERN  PACIFIC TRANSPORTATION CO.
       •  •     •       •••"•    Roseville, California

      Conditions at  listing (October 1984):   Southern Pacific Transporta-
 tion Co. operates a train  yard  and  locomotive  service facility on a
 640-acre site  in Roseville,  Placer  County,  California.  The site is
 located to the northeast of  Sacramento,  a major metropolitan area.

      The cleaning operations at the facility require a variety of
 industrial solvents.   Waste  streams from these operations were discharged
 into a number of locations on the site.   Five  waste ponds and eight other
 locations that received  waste discharges have  been identified.  The eight
 locations are no longer  used.   All  waste streams are now routed to a
 central collection  system  and periodically removed to a hazardous waste
 landfill.

      According to investigations conducted  by  Southern Pacific, soil and
 ground water, both  on- and off-site, are contaminated with heavy metals
 and organic  solvents.  About in domestic wells supply drinking water to
 approximately 40 people  living  within 3  miles  of the site.  These wells
'are believed to draw from  an uncontarninated, lower aquifer.  In addition,
 water from a large-volume  municipal well, located within 3,060 feet
. downgradient of the facility, is blended into  a water system serving
 about 34,000 people.

      EPA issued an  administrative order  to  the company under Section 3008
 of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act  (RCRA).  The California
 Regional Water Quality Control  Board has also  taken an enforcement action
 against the  company.

      Status  (January 1986):   Southern Pacific  has complied with the Section
 3008 Order.  In March  1985,  EPA issued a RCRA  Section 3013 Order requiring
 the company  to undertake a sampling and  analysis program.   Southern
 Pacific has  submitted  a  workplan which is being reviewed by EPA, the
 California Department  of Health Services, and  the California Regional
 Water Quality Control  Board.

      This site remains in  proposed  status until EPA adopts its final policy
 with respect to placing  RCRA-related sites  on  the NPL and then applies
 the policy to this  site.
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                         VAN WATERS  &  ROGERS,  INC.
                   ••.'... San Jose,  California

      Conditions at  listing (October 1984):  Van Waters &  Rogers, Inc.,
 is a solvent distributor  located  in San  Jose,  Santa Clara Valley, Cali-
 fornia.  The facility occupies about  13  acres  and  is surrounded by
 residential, industrial,  and business areas.

    Solvents are stored in 36 underground tanks connected  to the facility
 through buried pipelines.  Contamination is believed to have resulted'
 from.leaks in the underground storage tanks and piping as well as from
 localized spills.   Contaminants found in monitoring wells on the site
 include a wide variety of solvents  such  as acetone, chloroform, toluene,
 1,1-dichloroethylene,  trichloroethylene, methanol,  and isopropanol,
 according to analyses conducted by  a  consultant to  Van Waters  & Rogers.
 About 132,000 people depend on ground water within  3 miles of  the site as
 a source of drinking water.

      Van Haters & Rogers  is working with the California Regional Water
 Duality Control Board  to  determine  the extent  of ground water  contamination.

      The facility received Interim  Status under the Resource Conservation
 and Recovery Act (RCRA) when the company filed Part A of  a permit
 application.

      This is one of 19 sites in the South Ray  Area  of San Francisco.
 Facilities at these sites have used a variety  of toxic chemicals, primarily
 chlorinated organic solvents, which contaminate a common  ground water
 basin.  Although these sites are listed  separately, EPA intends to apply
 an area-wide approach, to  the problem  as  well as take specific  action as
 necessary.       ': .

      Status (January 1986);  The California Regional Water Quality Control
 Board issued Waste  Discharge Requirements to the company  in July-1985.
 The requirements are the  board's legal mechanism for regulating activities
 at facilities under its jurisdiction.  The California Regional Water
 Quality Control Board, in conjunction with EPA and  the California
 Department of Health Services, is considering  various response actions  at
 the site.

      This site remains in proposed  status until EPA implements the appropriate
 elements of its final policy for placing RCRA-related sites on the NPL and
 then applies the policy to this site.
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               WATKINS-JOHNSON CO.  (STEWART DIVISION PLANT)
                          Scotts Valley California

     The Watkins-Johnson  Co.  (Stewart Division Plant) has manufactured
industrial furnaces  and electrical  parts since 1965 on a 3-acre site in
Scotts Valley, Santa Cruz County, California.  The California Regional
Water Quality Control Board  (CRWQCB)  and Watkins-Johnson's consultant have
detected organic  chemicals,  including trichloroethene, trichloroethane,
tetrachloroethene, dichloroethene,  and Freon in soil and ground water on
the site.  The contamination  is apparently the result of improper handling
of hazardous waste.

     Early in July 1986,  the  CRWQCB issued Waste Discharge Reguirements to
the company.  The reguirements are  the CRWQCB's legal mechanism for regulating
activities at facilities  under its  jurisdiction.  Later in July, CRWQCB
issued a Cleanuo  and Abatement Order to the company.  In response, Watkins-Johnson
has begun an interim program  to pump and treat contaminated ground water.

     Wells within 3  miles of  the site draw on the Santa Margarita Aguifer,
designated by EPA as a "sole  source"  of drinking water in the area.  An
estimated.12,000  people use  the wells.
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                         MARTIN MARIETTA (DENVER AEROSPACE)
                                Waterton,  Colorado

      The Martin Marietta Denver  Aerospace plant covers approximately 5,200
 acres near  the  tow  of Waterton  in  southern Jefferson County,  Colorado.
 Martin Marietta began operations at the plant in 1956 when it  purchased
 the undeveloped property and  constructed  facilities  for development of
 missiles and missile components  for the U.S. Air Force.  Martin Marietta
 currently owns  the property and  continues its aerospace manufacturing
 activities  for  the U.S.  Air Force.

      In the early 1960s, the  company began disposing  of waste  oils, hexa-
 valent chromium salts, volatile  organic compounds, and other industrial
 wastes on the property in a number  of ponds covering  a few acres.  . In
 1979, the ponds stopped  receiving wastes  and in mid-1980 were  filled and
 closed.  Tests  conducted by EPA  in  early  1985 intercepted  a plume  of
 ground water contaminated with chrcmiun and organic chemicals  downgradient
 fron a former waste  disposal  area.   The area is approximately  1.5  miles
 upgradient  frcm a Denver municipal  water  treatment facility.  The  facility
 captures alluvial ground water and  surface water moving from the inactive
 waste disposal  areas.   It provides  up to  15 percent of the potable water
 danand of more  than  1 million.people in the Denver metropolitan area.

      In March 1985,  EPA issued a CERCLA 106 order that required Martin
 Marietta to begin a  comprehensive program at the site, including installa-
 tion of monitoring wells and  plans  for contairment and treatment of
 contaminated ground  water.  In February 1985,  che Colorado Department of
 Health issued an  emergency order to the cotpany to monitor ground  vater
 and to prepare  a  remedial action plan for surface vater and ground water
 drainages adjacent to  an active  waste handling  unit on the facility.
 The unit now holds Interim Status under the Resource  Conservation  and
 Recovery Act (PCRA.)  The inactive waste disposal site has  never been
 regulated under RCRA and is over 1  mile from the active waste  units
 currently subject  to RCRA.

      Under  EPA  and State orders, the company is installing monitoring
 wells in the vicinity  of the  Denver water treatment facility and planning
 further site investigations,  including ranote sensing.  EPA and the State
 are reviewing preliminary designs submitted by  the company for a system
 to punp out ground water and  treat  it.
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                           ROCKY FLATS PLANT  (USDOE)
                                Golden, Colorado

        Conditions at listing (October 1984);  The Rocky  Flats  Plant began
   producing components for nuclear weapons in 1951 on  a  site of about 2,000
   acres in Jefferson County, near Golden, Colorado.  A buffer  zone was
   acquired in 1974, bringing the total to 6,550 acres.   Major  operations at
   the plant, which is owned by the U.S. Department of  Energy  (USDOE),
   include fabrication and assembly of plutonium, beryllium, and uranium,
   recovery of plutonium, and separation of and research  on americium.  Dow
   Chemical Co. operated the plant from inception until June 30, 1975, when
   Rockwell International Corp. assumed operation.

        Releases of plutonium and tritium have contributed  to contaminated
   soils and sediments in surface water.  USDOE has completed some  remedial
   work such as capping and removing plutonium-contaminated soils and is
   improving liquid waste treatment systems to reduce discharge of  liquid
   effluents, which are covered by a permit under the National  Pollutant
   Elimination Discharge System.  Three evaporation ponds have  contributed
   to nitrate contamination of ground water.  These ponds may be covered
   under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act.

        Approximately 80,000 people live within 3 miles of  the  facility.

        Status (July 1985):  USDOE continues  to conduct remedial work by
   removing hot spots of contamination.  A recent court settlement  requires
   USDOE to conduct remedial activities on private land east of the plant
   as a condition of its sale to local governments.  USDOE  has  begun to
   address the site through its internal cleanup program.  The  installation
   assessment phase is underway.
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                             NUTMEG VALLEY ROAD
                           Wolcott,  Connecticut
                              I' '_
     The Nutmeg Valley Road:  Sirte  is in southwest Connecticut in the Town
of Wolcott,  New Haven County.''T Investigation of  this site centers around
Nutmeg Screw Machine  Products-"^o.  (NSMP), which  covers 3.5 acres on Nutmeg
Valley Road  in the western potion of  Wolcott (population,  13,000) and
0.25 miles northeast  of Waterbury  (population 103,800).  The area around
the site is  both rural residential and light industrial,  with a number
of other metal-working and metal-finishing shops in the immediate vicinity,
including Waterbury Heat  Treating  Corp. (WHTC) and Alpine Electronic
Components,  Inc.  (AEC).   WHTC is  300 feet to the northwest  of NSMP and
performs various heat-treating operations (annealing and  hardening) on
metal articles.  AEC  leases  a portion  of the NSMP building  in which it
machines metal parts  and  performs  degreasing, polishing,  acid dipping, and
assembly functions.

     NSMP is a small  (8-30 employees)  metal-working and machine shop
that has been in business since 1951.   Substances used in the machining
processes include  a kerosene-like  cutting oil, machine lubrication oils,
and carbon tetrachloride  (for cleaning and degreasing).  Carbon tetra-
chloride and cutting  oils were dumped  onto the ground at  an estimated
rate of up to 15 gallons  per day,  according to the Connecticut  Department
of Environmental Protection  (CT DEP).   This  practice was  followed for
between 14 and 20  years,  ceasing by 1980.

     Soil adjacent to the shop building contains volatile organic chemicals
and metals,  including lead and copper, according to analyses conducted by
EPA.  No contamination was detected  in water and sediment in Old Tannery
Brook 300 feet from the site.  -A  fresh-water wetland is approximately
600 feet downstream from  the site.

     Local surficial  deposits, primarily sand and gravel, are relatively
permeable, facilitating movement of  contaminants into ground water.
About 10,500 people draw  drinking  water from private wells  within 3
miles of the site.

     EPA has conducted preliminary assessments at all three companies
and site, inspections  at NSMP and WHTC.  Further  investigation is required
to more fully define  the  quantities  of contaminants present in  the soil
and to evaluate the underlying ground  water.                      •   '
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                             CHEM-SOLV,  INC.
                            Cheswold,  Delaware

     Chertv-Solv, Inc.,  started  a small  solvent distillation facility in 1982
on a 1.5-acre site  in Cheswold, Kent County, Delaware.   The company recycled
waste solvents by placing a drum on an electric  coil heater, which distilled
the solvents into a second drum.   The  contents of the second drum were
filtered into a third drum, which  was  returned to the customer.  The
residues remaining  after distillation  were  classified as hazardous waste
under Subtitle C  of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) and
were stored on-site.

     On September 7,  1984, an  explosion  and fire at the site destroyed the
entire distillation facility.  At  the  time,  witnesses observed fluids
flowing off a concrete pad into the soil.   On September 21, 1984 and
again on January  31,  1985, the Delaware  Department of Natural Resources
and Environmental Control (DNREC)  issued orders  under State law calling
on the company to cease operations immediately,  monitor ground water, and
remove all contaminated soil.  The company  failed to take any action.

     Subsequent analyses conducted by  DNREC detected hiqh concentrations-
of organic chemicals,, including trichloroethylene, 1,1,1-trichloroethane,
and 1,1-dichloroethane, in soils and qround water on and off the site.
Both the upper and  lower zones of  the  Columbia aquifer  are  contaminated.
About 5,500 residents  are served by private wells within 3  miles of the
site.

     In September 1985, DNREC  excavated  contaminated soil and began using a
treatment process that passes  air  through the soil to remove the volatile'
organic contaminants.  The air-stripping process should reduce contamination
to levels that permit  returning the soil to the  excavated area.  Later in
the year, DNREC plans  to install an air-stripping system to remove volatile
organic contaminants  fro'u ground water.  DNREC has filed suit against
Chem-Solv to recover  the money it  has  spent.  The company has declarer]
itself financially  insolvent.

     In 1984 and  1985, the State issued  two orders requiring Chem-Solv to
begin remedial action  at the site.  The  company  refused to  ccmply.

     When Chem-Solv  started operations,  it  filed Part  A of  a permit
application under RCR\, giving the company  Interim Status as a storage
facility.  On August  6, .1985,  DNREC made a  final decision to deny Chem-Solv
the storage permit.

     Because Chem-Solv, Inc., has  lost Interim Status  (and  hence authorination
to operate) and there  are additional indications that  the owner or operator will
be unwilling to undertake corrective action, it  meets  the second component of
EPA's policy for  listing RCRA-related  sites.
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                           DOVER AIR FORCE BASE
                             Dover, Delaware

     Conditions at listing (October 1984)r  Dover  Air  Force Base has been
in operation in Dover, Kent  County, Delaware,  since  1942.   It currently is
the base of operation for..the 436th Military Airlift Wing.  The base's
operations generated numerous wastes,  including  paints,  solvents, and oil.
Some wastes were  buried in drums, while others were  disposed of through
the storm drainage system.   The wastes were disposed of  in various on-base
locations totaling 44 acres.

     Ground water on the  site is contaminated  with arsenic and other metals,
and an on-site stream  is  contaminated  with trichloroethylene, according to
tests conducted by the Air Force.  The base well system  serves about
10,000 people and is routinely monitored  by the  Air  Force.  Currently, it
is free of the contaminants  found in the  ground  water.

     Dover Air Force Base is participating in  the  Installation Restoration .
Program (IRP), the specially funded program established  in 1978 under
which the Department of Defense has been  identifying and evaluating its
past hazardous waste sites and controlling the migration of hazardous
contaminants from these sites.  The Air  Force  has  completed Phase I (record
search).  Phase II  (hydrogeological investigation) is  underway.

     Status (April 1987);  Approximately  11 areas  on the base have now
been identified as potential sources of contamination.  The Air Force is
working with the  State to close the industrial wash  basins, one of the
major sources of  ground water contamination at the base, according to
requirements of the Resource Conservation and  Recovery Act (RCRA).  The
Air Force filed Part A of a  permit application for the basin, giving it
Interim Status under  RCRA.

     Phase II of  the  IRP  is  still underway.

     This site is being reproposed to  be  consistent  with EPA's recently
proposed policy for placing  on the NPL sites located on  Federally-owned
facilities that are subject  to the corrective  action authorities of
Subtitle C of the Resource Conservation  and Recovery Act.   EPA is soliciting
comments on the Hazard Ranking System  score for  the  site,  which includes
areas subject to  RCRA Subtitle C corrective action authorities.
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                           DOVER GAS  LIGHT CO.
                              Dover, Delaware

     Dover  Gas Light  Co.  operated a coal  gasification plant on  a 0.9-
acre site in  Dover,  Kent  County,  Delaware, from 1859 to 1948.  The plant
processed coal to produce a gas  that  was  piped to street lamps in Dover.
When the plant closed,  the structures,  except for a brick garage, were      '•
demolished.   Steel and  iron scrap were  removed;  all other materials, including
coal oil, coal tar, coke, and an unknown  kind of acid, were buried on the
site.

     In 1984, during  geotechnical studies of the property prior to construction
of the new  Kent County  Family Courthouse, remains of this coal gasification
plant were  discovered buried  on  site.  The buried materials include coal
tar residues  containing hazardous substances.

     The Delaware Department  of  Natural Resources and Environmental
Control (DNREC) installed and sampled 16  monitoring wells to determine
the nature  and extent of  contamination.  The results show that hazardous
substances  buried on  site have been released to  ground water.  These
substances  include benzene, toluene,  xylene, lead, trans-1,2-dichloroethylene,
and polynuclear aromatic  hydrocarbon  compounds.

     DNREC  determined that these substances are  in ground water at depths
of up to 53 feet and  a  horizontal distance of at least 300 feet southeast
of the site.  The closest supply well,  1,000 feet southwest of the site,
draws on the  Cheswold aguifer.   It is part of Dover's municipal water
system.  An estimated 45,000  people are served by public and private
wells within  3 miles  of the site. Of Dover's 14 municipal supply
wells, 7 are  within  1 mile of the site.
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                    E.I.  DU  PONT DE NEMOURS & CO., INC.
                     (NEWPORT PIGMENT PLANT LANDFILL)
                             Newport, Delaware

     E.I. du Pont de  Nemours & Co., Inc., formerly operated a 7-acre
industrial landfill next to its pigment plant, now known as the Holly
Run Plant, in Newport,  New  Castle County, Delaware.  From 1902 to  1975,
the landfill was  used for the disposal of inorganically bonded metals,
plant pigments, pigment sludges,  magnetic tapes, and low-level radioactive
residues, according to information Du Pont provided to EPA as reguired
by section 103(c) of  CERCLA.

     When the landfill  closed in  1975, Du Pont graded, covered, and
seeded it and installed 11  monitoring wells.

     Subsequent sampling by. the Delaware Department of Natural Resources
and Environmental Control,  EPA, and Du Pont indicated that the shallow
Columbia Aguifer, and to a  lesser degree, the deeper Potomac Aguifer,
have been contaminated,  both on and off the site, with heavy metals,
including barium, cadmium,  and zinc, as well as trichloroethylene  and
tetrachloroethylene.

     The Artesian Water Co.,  which serves 131,000 people throughout New
Castle County, has  six wells  within 3 miles of the site.  Private  wells
are also used for drinking  water  supplies in some areas, the nearest  well
beinq 0.5 miles from  the site.
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                            PIGEON POINT LANDFILL
   .  •                     '   New Castle, Delaware

       Pigeon Point Landfill covered 187 acres in New Castle, New Castle
  County,  Delaware,  along  the Delaware River just north of the Delaware
  Memorial Bridge.   It  started receiving industrial and municipal wastes
  in  1968.   Before  it was  a  landfill,  the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
  used  the site for disposal of dredge soils from the Delaware and Christiana
  Rivers.   New Castle County operated  the site from 1968 through 1981.
  In  1981,  the Delaware Solid Waste Authority (DSWA)  took control of site
  operations.   Thereafter, it was permitted  by the State to accept municipal
  wastes.   Operations stopped and the  site was closed in November 1985.
  During closure, the site was covered with  a 2-foot  clay cap and seeded.

       Before 1980,  according to the Delaware Department of Natural Resources
  and Environmental  Control,  wastes disposed at the unlined landfill included
  paint sludges, metal  sludges,  petroleum refinery wastes, polyvinyl chloride
  wastes,  chemical process wastes, and phenol resins.

       In  1984-85,  a consultant to DSWA detected arsenic, benzene, ethylbenzene,
  and tetrachloroethylene  in on-site monitoring wells.   Aguifers of both
  the Columbia and  Potomac- Formations  are at risk. The Artesian Water Co.
  has nine  walls within 3 miles of the site.  The water is blended with
  water from other  wells.  The public  water  supply for 150,000 people is
  potentially affected.
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                          TYLER REFRIGERATION PIT
                               Smyrna,  Delaware

      The Tyler Refrigeration  Pit  Site involves a 500-cubic-yard unlined
 pit in Smyrna, Kent County, Delaware.  From 1952 to 1969, Tyler, which
 used solvents to degrease and clean refrigeration equipment, disposed of
 spent solvents, mostly trichloroethylene (TCE), and sludge in the pit.
 Later, Tyler excavated the pit to about 20 feet, filled it in, capped it
 with 6 inches of top soil and clay, and planted vegetation.  The site is
 now occupied by Metal Masters,  which  manufactures commercial kitchen
 equipment.

      In 1982, EPA detected elevated levels of toluene, ],1-dichloroethane,
 and ],],]-trichloroethane in  on-site  soils.

      Since 1977, TCE has been detected in Smyrna municipal wells.
 To remove contamination from  the  wells, the town improved the efficiency
 of its air stripping process  and  added an activated carbon filtration unit
 to its water treatment system.  The contamination in Smyrna's wells has
 significantly declined, and the treatment system continues in operation.

      According to the Delaware Department of Natural Resources .and -
 Environmental Control, the Tyler  pit  is a likely contributor to the
 contamination of Smyrna's wells,  although there may be other sources.
 About 6,700 people depend on  wells, both municipal and private, within 3
 miles of the site for their drinking  water.
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                          CITY  INDUSTRIES,  INC.
                             Orlando, Florida

     Conditions at listing  (October 1984);  The City  Industries,  Inc.,  Site
covers 1 acre in Orlando, Orange County,  Florida.   From 1971  to mid-August
1983, the company operated'a recycling and  transferring facility  on the site,
handling a wide variety of chlorinated and  nonchlorinated  organic solvents,
paint/varnish wastes, acid and  alkaline plating wastes,  PCBs,  and waste
ink.  According  to tests conducted by EPA,  ground water, soils, and sediments
are contaminated with heavy metals and volatile organic compounds.

     The company abandoned  the  operation  in mid-1983,  informing the State
that it lacked resources to continue operations and leaving approximately
1,200 drums and  12,000 gallons  of unknown liquids and  sludges  in  large  holding
tanks.  In August 1983, the State funded  and oversaw  a cleanup of the site
by a contractor.  In the cleanup, 41 tons of drums  were crushed and removed
and 65 truck and tanker loads of contaminants were  disposed of properly.
The cost was $950,000.

     In February 1984,.EPA issued an Administrative Order  under CERCIA
requiring City Industries to clean sludge frcm holding tanks,  remove contami-
nated soils, and treat contaminated ground  water.   The order was  not complied
with.  In March  through May 1984, using about $500,000 of  CER.LCA  emergency
funds, EPA emptied, cut open, and cleaned the holding  tanks,  thus removing
the threat of explosion and further soil  contamination.  EPA's emergency
team and its contractors used an incineration device  to treat  about 1,700
tons of contaminated soil.  The treated soil remains  on the site.

     In February 1984, the State filed a  civil complaint against  the landowner,
operator, and four companies associated with the operator.  On April 24,
1984, the State held a meeting  attended by  generators  potentially responsible
for wastes associated with  the  site.

     The, facility received  Interim Status under the Resource  Conservation
and Recovery Act  (RCRA) when the company  filed  Part A of a permit application.
The company filed Part B, but EPA denied  the application twice because  the
company did not meet the financial guarantee and waste analysis requirements
of RCRA.  The company also failed to submit a closure  plan.

     Status  (April 1987):  The  generators formed a  steering committee
comprising approximately 200 industries.  It has worked with  the  State  during
a remedial investigation of ground water  contamination.  EPA  is reviewing
data from this investigation.

     In August 1986, EPA issued demand letters  to approximately 250 potentially
responsible parties to recover  Federal money spent  for the 1984 emergency action.
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 .                       MONTCO RESEARCH PRODUCTS, INC.
                              Hollister, Florida

      Conditions  at  listing (October 1984):  Montco Research Products,
 Inc., manufactures  chemical intermediates and purifies organic compounds
 for commercial use  on a ID-acre site in Hollister, Putnam County,  Florida.
 The processes generate discharge cooling water and distillation residues.
 The State  has confirmed that both soil and ground water at the site are
 contaminated with lead, arsenic, cyanide, chromium, benzene, and several
 other organic chemicals.   An estimated 270 people draw drinking
 water from wells within 3 miles of the site.

      The State and  the site owner are awaiting a civil, court ruling on
 access.  The State  is conducting further negotiations outside of court.

      EPA has taken  administrative enforcement action against the company
 for failing to respond promptly to a request for information under section
 3007 of the Resource  Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA).

      Status (January  1986):  In a State court decision in June 1985,
 the court  authorized  access to the State for the limited purpose of
 conducting a pollution assessment, but denied access for the purpose of
 removing any materials except samples related to that assessment.

      In July 1985,  EPA issued a unilateral Administrative Order under CERCLA
 section 106 for  immediate removal of contaminated soils and sludges on-
 site.  This order has not been complied with.

      An administrative hearing between EPA and tMontco has been held on the
 subject of the company's  failure to respond to the request for information
 under RCRA section  3007.   No decision has been issued yet.

      EPA is deferring final rulemaking on this site because it needs
 more time  to analyze  the  comments received during the public comment
 period.  The Montco Research Products, Inc., Site will remain in proposed
 status until a later  rulemaking.
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          PIPER  AIRCRAFT CORP./VERO BEACH WATER & SEWER DEPARTMENT
                            Vero Beach,  Florida

     Conditions at  listing  (June 1986);   The Piper Aircraft Corp.Aero
Beach Water & Sewer Department Site covers 8 acres in Vero Beach, Indian
River County, Florida.  Piper assembles  and paints light aircraft at the
southern end of the Vero  Beach Municipal Airport.  In 1980, an unknown
amount of trichloroethylene leaked from  an underground storage tank and
distribution system, contaminating a nearby municipal well of the Vero
Beach Water & Sewer Department with volatile organic compounds (VOCs).
The well, which was subsequently shut down, was part of a municipal system
serving  about 33,000 people.   Six months later the city developed two
other wells to  replace  the  closed one.

     In  1981, the State took  an enforcement action requiring Piper Aircraft
to conduct a monitoring,  testing, and treatment program at the site.  Piper
repaired  the leaking storage  tank and in April 1981 began to pump out the
contaminated ground water.  To date,  the pumping has yielded approximately
2,050 gallons of VOCs,  including trichloroethylene, cis-trans-l,2-dichloro-
ethylene, vinyl chloride, and 1,1-dichloroethylene.  The contaminated
water is  sprayed into the air to enhance removal of VOCs  and is discharged
into the Main Canal leading to the Indian River.

     Status (September  1986);   The city  is continuing  to submit quarterly
reports on the monitoring of  the treated effluent.being discharged to the
Indian River.
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            PRATT & WHITNEY AIRCRAFT/UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORP.
                          West Palm  Beach,  Florida

     Conditions at listing (October 1984);   The  Pratt & Whitney Aircraft/
United Technologies Corp. Site comprises about  7,000 acres  in West Palm
Beach in north central  Palm Beach County,  Florida.   Jet engines have
been manufactured and tested on  the site since  1957.  Pratt & Whitney is
a privately-owned Canadian-based operation and  a division of United
Technologies Corp.

     On the site are  a  sanitary  landfill where  solvents were disposed of,
a solvent storage tank  that leaked  approximately 2,000 gallons of tri-
chloroethane through  an underground valve,  a solvent distilling area,
and jet fuel heaters  which contained PCBs  until  the mid-1970s.

     Ground water and surface water are contaminated with PCBs and organic
solvents, according to  tests conducted by  Pratt  & Whitney.   The company also
found that the well serving its  7,200 employees  is  contaminated with solvents.

     Pratt & Whitney  has  installed  a forced aeration system to remove
volatile organic chemicals (VOCs) from its well  fields and  is involved in
discussions with the  State regarding PCBs  and landfill remedial actions.

     Status (January  1986);  On  April 26,  1985,  the company signed a
Consent Agreement with  the State under which the company is to implement
a State-approved remedial action plan to deal with  VOCs and PCBs.

     Other areas of contamination,  including PCB-contaminated soil and a
buried leaking waste  oil  tank containinq VOCs, have been discovered on
the property.

     Voluntary cleanup  of the site  is continuing.

     The Pratt & Whitney  facility was first proposed for the NPL as part
of Update #2.  In response to public comments received, EPA completely
reevaluated the site  and  made' a  significant change  in its score on the
Hazard Ranking System,  which EPA uses to assess  waste sites for the NPL.
Conseguently, EPA reproposed the Pratt & Whitney facility on Sept. 18,
1985 (50 FR 37950) as part of NPL Update #4 and  solicited comments on the
revised score.
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                           SYDNEY MINE SLUDGE PONDS
                               Brandon, Florida

      The Sydney Mine  Sludge  Ponds cover 2.1 acres in Brandon, Hillsborough
 County, Florida.   The ponds  are part of an old 1,700-acre phosphate strip
 mine and were used for storing and dewatering waste clays and tailings
 from phosphate ore processing.  The Hillsborough County Division of
 Public Utilities  leases the  land from American Cyanamid Co. and used two
 on-site ponds from 1974 to 1982.  The larger pond (1.5 acres) received
 primarily septic  sludge and  the smaller pond (0.6 acres) received the
 grease trappings  fron commercial restaurants, industrial cutting oil, and
 other types of waste  oil.  The total volume of wastes in both pits is
 over 6,000 cubic  yards.

      Tests conducted  by EPA  in 1979 found arsenic and lead in.the septic
 sludge pond and 1,1,1-trichloroethane and toluene in the oil pond.  EPA
 also detected 1,1-dichloroethane, 1,1-dichloroethene, toluene, and benzene
 in ground water that  forms the secondary artesian aquifer developed in
 the Hawthorne Formation.   Over 4,000 persons draw water from wells into
 this aquifer within 3 miles  of the site.

      Turkey Creek  is  contaminated with cadmium, chromium, lead, and zinc,
 according to EPA.   The creek is about 0.5 miles to the east of the
 site.

      The county is working with consultants to determine the best
 method for cleaning up the site.  The county has constructed an under-
 ground slurry wall around  the ponds to prevent contaminants from escaping
 and ground water  from entering.  Also, the county is pumping out the
 contaninated ground water  within the wall, treating it, and spraying the
 treated water onto the ground.  Incineration of sludges in the pond is
 scheduled to get  underway  shortly.
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                      DIAMOND SHAMROCK CORP. LANDFILL
                             Cedartown, Georgia

     The Diamond Shamrock Corp. Landfill covers less  than  1 acre- in Cedartown,
Bolk County, Georgia.   Between 1972 and 1977, the company  buried drummed
and bulk waste  in three 6-foot-deep trenches.  The waste included
fungicides,  amides,  oil and oil sludges, esters, ethers, alcohols, and
metallic salts,  according to the company.

     The trenches are unlined, in an area of permeable soils, and in the
floodplain of Cedar  Creek, which is a major tributary of the Coosa River.
Ground water is  shallow (less than 10 feet).  These conditions potentially
threaten surface water and ground water in the area.

     An estimated 25,000 people draw drinking water from public wells
within 3 miles of the site.
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       .•;/       MATHIS BROTHERS LANDFILL  (SOUTH MARBLE  TOP ROAD)
                             Kensington, Georgia

     •  The Mathis Brothers Landfill is located 1.5 miles  north-northwest of
  Kensifsgton,  along the east side of South Marble Top  Road in the north central
  part q£ Walker County, Georgia.  The site  is on a  hill  on a 20-acre parcel
  of laqicl, of which only 5 acres were used for waste disposal.  The privately-
  owned'.-landfill operated from. 1974 to 1980.   It had a permit from the Georgia
  Environmental Protection Division to accept  nonhazardous wastes.  Sometime
  after'1980,  the landfill was abandoned.

        Residues from herbicide manufacturing  and latex waste from the
  carpet-manufacturing industry were buried  in unlined trenches.  According
  to records obtained from Velsicol Chemical Corp.'s plant in Chattanooga,
  Tennessee, the wastes contained arsenic and  organic  chemicals, including
  benzonitrile and herbicides.  About 3,000  tons of  hazardous waste were
  buried during the operational period.

     '•  The site is located in the outcrop of the Knox  Group in the Valley  '
  and'Ridge Geologic Province.  The soil is permeable, thus facilitating
  movement of contaminants into ground water,  which  is at 40 feet.  The
  Kensington Water and Sewer Authority provides  drinking  water to an estimated
  4,300 people from wells 1.5 miles south of. the site. A private well is
  1,900 feet from the site.

       Surface water within 3 miles downstream of the  wastes is used for
  fishing and  irrigation.
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                         OLIN CORP. (AREAS 1,2, & 4)
                               Augusta, Georgia

       Conditions at listing (September 1983):  01 in Corp.'s  plant  in
  Augusta,  Richmond County, Georgia, manufactures chlorine  and  caustic
  soda, generating a mercury-contaminated brine sludge  in  the process.
  Since the early 1970s, Olin has disposed of the sludge in two unlined
  disposal  pits and in a lined surface impoundment  (Areas  1,2,and 4).  The
  liner in  the impoundment may have been damaged by dumping of  construction
  rubble.   About 32,000 tons of mercury-contaminated wastes have been
  disposed  of in the three areas.  All three areas, plus a  retort ash and
  filter cake dump, occupy about 5 acres on the southern portion of  the
  plant property.  In April and July 1981, the company's on-site monitoring
  wells near the disposal facilities detected mercury in ground water.

       Within 3 miles of the disposal areas are 11  Richmond County drinking
  water wells.  More than 10,000 people use ground  water in this area.
  Large areas of fresh-water wetlands are within. 1.5 miles  of: the Olin plant.

       The  plant acquired Interim Status under the  Resource.Conservation
  and Recovery Act (RCRA) when the company filed Part A of  a  permit  appli-
—cation..

       Status (June 1984):  A State Consent Order executed  in January 1984,
  required  Olin to cease waste disposal in the two  pits and to  retain a
  consultant to fully define the extent of contamination.   The  ccmpany
  submitted the resulting Groundwater Assessment Program Report to the
  State, where it is currently under review.

       EPA is deferring rulemaking on this site because appropriate  scoring
  documents were not in the public docket and so were not available  during
  the comment period.  Thus, EPA is providing an additional comment  period
  for this  site.

       Status (January 1986);  In May 1985, the State issued  an order
  requiring Olin to submit a corrective action plan for all releases into
  the environment from all disposal units at the site.  Olin  appealed the
  order and in December 1985 the State agreed to rescind it.  Then the
  State required Olin to meet the January 1984 order calling  for the closing
  of Pits 3 and 4.  However, the State required no  further  corrective
  action beyond that, and EPA is currently assessing the State-Olin  agreement
  for consistency with RCRA requirements.

       EPA  called in Part B of the RCRA permit application  in August 1985.
  EPA certified that the ccmpany is in compliance with  the  financial
  requirements and ground water monitoring requirements of  RCRA.

       This site remains in proposed status until EPA adopts  its final policy
  with respect to placing RCRA-related sites on the NPL and then applies
  the policy to this site._

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                               KUNIA WELLS  I
                 County of Honolulu, Island of  Qahu,  Hawaii

       Conditions at listing (October  1984) :  The  Kunia Wells I Site consists
  of four drinking water wells that are owned and  operated by the City and
  County of Honolulu.  The wells are located on the  Schofield Plateau in the
  County of Honolulu, Island of Qahu,  Hawaii.   They  are contaminated with
  trichloropropane (TCP), according to analyses conducted by the Hawaii
  Department of Health and other government agencies.   The Kunia Wells I are
  part of a distribution system which  serves 21,000  people.  Wkter from the
  Kunia I Wells is blended with water  from  another well field.

       There are several well sites with similar contamination problems
  located in the Schofield Plateau/Ewa Plain area  of  Oahu.  The City and
  County of Honolulu Board of Water Supply  has  conducted pilot tests on
  methods for decontaminating the water in  the  area  and has had success in
  removing TCP'with granulated activated carbon and  with aeration towers.

       Status (January 1986) ;  EPA received numerous  comments on the six
  sites in Hawaii, which were the first sites proposed for the NPL on the
  basis of contamination that appears  to originate entirely frcm the
  application of pesticides- registered under~~the~ Federals-Insecticide'", ""  •
  Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA).   EPA  is  continuing to evaluate
  these sites in the context of an overall  policy  with respect to sites
  at which contamination results frcm  the application of FIFRA-registered
  pesticides.  Hence, EPA is continuing to  propose the sites for the NPL.
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Hazardous waste site listed under the
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              "  '• •               KUNIA WELLS II
                  County of Honolulu, Island of Qahu, Hawaii

       Conditions at listing (October 1984):  The Kunia Wells  II  Site
 consists  of  two drinking water wells that are owned and operated  by  the
 City  and  County of Honolulu.   The wells are located on the Schofield
 Plateau  in  the County of Honolulu, Island of Oahu, Hawaii.   They  are
 contaminated with dibrcmochloropropane (DBCP) and trichloropropane  (TCP),
 according to analyses conducted by the Hawaii Department of  Health and
 other government agencies.  They have been closed since July 1983.   The
 wells are part of the Kunia distribution system that provides drinking
 water to  about 13,700 people.

       There  are several well sites with similar contamination problems
 located  in  the Schofield Plateau/Ewa Plain area of Oahu.  The City and
 County of Honolulu Board of Water Supply has conducted pilot tests on
 methods  for  decontaminating the water in the area and has had success in
 removing  DBCP and TCP with granulated activated carbon and with aeration
 towers.

       Status  (January 1986);  EPA received numerous comments  on  the six
 sites in  Hawaii, which were the first sites proposed for the NPL  on  the  .
 basis of  contamination that appears to originate entirely frorrTthe
 application  of pesticides registered under the Federal Insecticide,
 Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA).  EPA is continuing to evaluate
 these sites  in the context of  an overall policy with respect to sites at
 which contamination results from the application of FIFRA-registered
 pesticides.   Hence, EPA is continuing to propose the sites for  the NPL.

       A contract was awarded by a private developer to build  a carbon
 treatment plant at Kunia II.   Construction is complete, and  the plant is
 scheduled to be operational in March 1986.
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Hazardous waste site listed under the
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                               MILILANT WELLS
                 County of Honolulu, Island of Oahu, Hawaii

       Conditions at listing (October 1984):  The Mililani Wells  Site
  consists of six drinking water wells that are owned and operated  by  the
  City and County of Honolulu.  The wells are located on the  lower  Schofield
  Plateau in the County of Honolulu, Island of Oahu, Hawaii.   They  are
  contaminated with dibromochloropropane (DBCP) and trichloropropane  (TCP),
  according to tests conducted by the Hawaii Department of Health and  other
  government agencies.  Three of the wells are presently not  being  used.
  The  Mililani wells normally supply water to 19,500 pe°ple through a
  closed  distribution system. ...        .

       There are several well sites with similar contamination problems
  located in the Schofield Plateau/Ewa Plain area of Oahu.  The City and
  County  of Honolulu Board of Water Supply has conducted pilot tests on
  methods for decontaminating the water in the area and has had success  in
  removing DBCP and TCP with granulated activated carbon and  with aeration
  towe rs.

       Status (January 1986):  EPA received numerous comments  on  the six
  sites in'Hawaii, which were the first sites proposed for the NPL  on  the
  basis of contamination that appears to originate entirely from  the
  application of pesticides registered under the Federal Insecticide,
  Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA).  EPA is continuing  to evaluate
  these sites in the context of an overall policy with respect to sites
  at which contamination results from the application of FIFRA-registered
  pesticides.  Hence, EPA is continuing to propose the sites  for  the NPL.

       The developer of Mililani Town has awarded a contract  to build  a carbon
  treatment plant at the wells.   The plant will be designed to remove  the
  pesticides from the water prior to distribution.  The plant  is  complete
  and  is  scheduled to be operational in March 1986.
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              .          -      •   WAIAWA SHAFT
                  County of Honolulu, Island of Qahu,  Hawaii

       Conditions at listing (October 1984);  The Waiawa Shaft  is located
 on  the  Ewa Plain in the  County of Honolulu, Island of Oahu, Hawaii,  and
  is  owned and operated by the U.S. Navy.  The well is part of  a closed
 distribution system which provides drinking water to 64,000 people  in the
 area  of McGrew Point, Pearl Harbor, and part of Hickam Air Force Base.
 The well is contaminated with dibrcmochloropropane (DBCP) and trichloro-
 propane (TCP), according to analyses conducted by the U.S. Navy and  other
 government agencies.

     '"  There are several well sites with similar contamination  problems
 located in the Schofield Plateau/Ewa Plain area of Oahu.  The City and
 County  of Honolulu -Board of Water Supply has conducted pilot  tests on
 methods for decontaminating the water in the area and has had success in
 removing DBCP and TCP with granulated activated carbon and with aeration
 towers.  The Navy is currently reviewing alternative treatment methods
 for DBCP removal in a study designed to complement the Board  of Water
 Supply  effort.

       Status (January 1986);  EPA received numerous comments on the six
 sites in Hawaii, which were the first sites proposed for the  NPL on  the
 basis of contamination that appears to originate entirely from the
 application of pesticides registered under the Federal Insecticide,
 Fungicide,  and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA).  EPA is continuing to evaluate
 these sites in the context of an overall policy with respect  to sites
 at  which contamination results from the application of FIFRA-registered
 pesticides.  Hence,.EPA is continuing to propose the sites for the NPL.
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Hazardous waste site listed under the
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 ~V                              WAIPAHU WELLS
 IjT                County of Honolulu, Island of Qahu, Hawaii

 f:    Conditions  at  listing (October 1984);  The Waipahu Wells Site
 t' onsists of  four drinking water wells that are owned and operated by  the
 ...ity and County  of  Honolulu.   The wells are located on the Ewa Plain  in
 'the County of  Honolulu, Island of Oahu, Hawaii.  They are contaminated
 With ethylene  dibrcmide (EDB)  and trichloropropane (TCP-), according to
 analyses conducted  by the Hawaii Department of Health and other government
 agencies.  The Waipahu Wells  are part of. a distribution system which
 serves  13,700  people in Waipahu, Ewa, and Waianae.  All the wells have
 been closed  down.

      There are.several well sites with similar contamination problems
 located in the Schofield Plateau/Ewa Plain area of Oahu.  The City and
 County of Honolulu  Board of Water Supply has conducted pilot tests on
 methods for  decontaminating the water in the area and has had success in
 removing TCP with granulated  activated carbon and with aeration towers.
 However, because of continuing contamination, the people served by the
 Waipahu Wells  are being provided with an alternative supply of drinking
 water.

      Status  (January 1986):  EPA received numerous comments on the six
 sites in Hawaii, which were the first sites proposed for the NPL on the
 basis of contamination that appears to originate entirely from the
 application  of pesticides registered under the Federal Insecticide,
 Fungicide, and Podenticide Act (FIFRA).  EPA is continuing to evaluate
 these sites  in the  context of an overall policy with respect to sites
 at which contamination results from the application of FIFRA-registered
 pesticides.  Hence, EPA is continuing to propose the sites for the NPL.

      The Board of Water Supply 'is building a carbon treatment plant at
 the Waipahu  well field.  The  treatment plant will be designed to remove
 the pesticides from the water prior to distribution.  The plant is
 scheduled to be  operational in the summer of 1986.
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                           WAIPIO HEIGHTS WELLS  II
                  County of Honolulu, Island of  Oahu,  Hawaii

       Conditions at listing (October 1984):  The Waipio  Heights Wells II
  Site  consists of two drinking water wells that are owned  and operated by
  the City and County of Honolulu.  The wells are located in  Waipio on the
  lower Schofield Plateau in the County of Honolulu, Island of Oahu, Hawaii.
  One well is contaminated with trichloropropane (TCP), according to'analyses
  conducted by the Hawaii Department of Health and other  government agencies.
  The other well has been shut down for repairs  and has not been tested for
  contamination.  The wells are part of a distribution system which serves
  3,400 people in the Waipio Heights area.

       There are several well sites with similar contamination problems
  located in the Schofield Plateau/Ewa Plain area of Oahu.  The City and
  County of Honolulu Board of Water Supply has conducted  pilot tests on
  methods for decontaminating the water in the area and has.had success in
  removing TCP with granulated activated carbon  and with  aeration towers.

       Status (January 1986);  EPA received numerous comments on the six
 .sites in Hawaii, which were the first sites proposed for  the NPL on the
  basis of contamination that appears to originate entirely from the
  application of pesticides registered under the Federal  Insecticide,
  Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA).  EPA is continuing  to evaluate
  these sites in the context of an overall policy with respect to sites
  at which contamination results from the application  of  FIFRA-registered
  pesticides.  Hence, EPA is continuing to propose the sites  for the NPL.
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Hazardous waste site listed under the
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                               H.O.D LANDFILL
                             Antioch,  Illinois

     Conditions at listing  (September 1985);   H.O.D Landfill covers 82
acres  in Antioch,  Lake County, Illinois.   Bulk liquid organic wastes and
drummed wastes generated  by Johnson Motors Division of Outboard Marine
Corp.  were disposed of at the site in 1963-81, according to the Illinois
Environmental Protection  Agency (IEPA).   One  tanker dumped wastes containing
moderately high levels (80  parts  per billion) of PCBs, according to State
tests.

     Monitoring wells downqradient of the site contain zinc, lead, and
cadmium, according to tests conducted by  EPA.  Antioch municipal wells
serving 4,600 people  are  within 3 miles downgradient of the site.  The
nearest well  is 600 feet  from the site.

     The site is  in a fresh-water wetland.  Seguiot Creek, which is adjacent
to the site on the south  and west, flows  into a series of lakes used for
recreation.

     In 1975, the  State filed a suit  against  Waste Management, Inc., of
Illinois, which had purchased the site from H.O.D. Corp.  The suit alleged
violations involving  operation of the landfill without a permit and cover
violations.  The daily cover violations were  dismissed because inspections
were not performed  at the end of  the  working  day,  and intermediate cover
violations occurred on only a small area  of the site and had been corrected.

     In 1978, the  State filed an  enforcement  notice against Waste Management
for repeated violations of  State  law  regarding cover -reguirements at the
landfill.  Under a  settlement reached in  October 1984,  Waste Management
agreed to stop the  cover violations and pay a $5,000 fine.

     Status (September'1986):   EPA is considering  various alternatives for
the site.
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        JOLIET ARMY AMMUNITION PLANT  (LCAD-ASSEMBLY-PACKING AREA)
   . .                         Joliet,  Illinois

     Conditions at listing (April  1985);  The  Joliet Army Ammunition
Plant (JAAP)  is an inactive Army munitions installation located  in north-
eastern Illinois near Chica'go.  JAAP  is divided  into two  major functional
areas: the Manufacturing Area, which  was proposed  for  the NPL in October
1984, and the Load-Assembly-Packing Area (LAP  Area).

     This NPL site consists of the LAP Area, which covers about  22 square
miles of JAAP east of Illinois State  Highway 53.   During  its  operating
life (the early 1940s to 1977), high  explosive artillery  projectiles,
aerial bombs, and a variety of ammunition component  items were loaded,
assembled, and packaged.  Other activities included  testing of ammunition,
washout and renovation of projectiles, and burning and demolition  of
explosives.  Since 1977, JAAP has  been maintained  in nonoperating  standby
condition by the contractor/operator  (Uniroyal,  Inc.)

     JAAP is participating in the  Installation Restoration Program (IRP),
the specially funded program established in 1978 under which  the Department
of Defense has been  identifying and evaluating its past hazardous  waste
sites and controlling migration of hazardous contaminants from these
sites.  As part of this program, the  Army has  documented  releases  into
ground water and surface water of munitions-related  contaminants—including
trinitrotolulene  (TNT), dinitrotoluene and heavy metals—attributable
to production activities in  the LAP Area.  The main  source of waste water
from this area was "pink water" resulting from washout of rejected bombs
and from washing of equipment and  floors.  Munitions-related  contaminants
have been found in monitoring wells located near a former leaching pond
in the washout facility.  About 260 people depend  on ground water  within
3 miles of the site as a source of drinking water.  Munitions-related
contaminants have also been  found  downstream in  Prairie Creek sediments
and in Doyle  Lake sediments.

     Status (April 1987);  IRP activities continue.

     This site is being reproposed to be consistent  with  EPA's recently
proposed policy for placing on the NPL sites located on Federally-owned
facilities that are  subject  to the corrective  action authorities of
Subtitle C of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. EPA is  soliciting
Garments on the Hazard Ranking System score for  the  site, which  includes
areas subject to RCRA Subtitle C corrective action authorities.
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Hazardous waste site listed under the
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA)("Superfund'
            KERR-McGEE (KRESS CREEK/WEST BRANCH OF DUPAGE RIVER)
                           DuPage County, Illinois

      Conditions at  listing  (October 1984):   The Kerr-tMcGee (Kress Creek/
 West Branch-of DuPage River) .Site  includes  about 1.5 miles of Kress Creek
 and 0.5 miles of  the  West Branch of the DuPage River in DuPage County,
 Illinois.  About  20,000  people  live within  3 miles of the site.

      In 1931, Lindsay Light & Chemical Co.  established a mill in West
 Chicago for the extraction  of  thorium and nonradioactive elements from
 monazite and other  ores.  Later, the site was used for the manufacture of
 gaslight mantles  (which  contain thorium), mesothorium, and, during World
 War II, hydrofluoric  acid.   Ownership of the facility changed from Lindsay
 to American Potash  &  Chemical  in 1958 and to Kerr-McGee Chemical Corp. in
 1967.  Operations at  the  site continued until 1973,  when Kerr-McGee, the
 current owner, closed the plant.

      Over the years,  a portion  of  the wastes from the plant was discharged
 into Kress Creek, a tributary of the DuPage River, either via a storm sewer
 or drainage ditch.  Radiation contamination, which is found to a depth of
 several feet along'the stream,  decreases with distance from the creek.
 Many of the highest levels  are  found near•the storm sewer outfall,  water
 in the area is obtained  from municipal or private wells.

      The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued an Order to Show Cause,
 dated March 21, 1984, requiring Kerr-McGee  Chemical  Corp. to either
 prepare and implement a  cleanup plan,  or show it should not be required
 to do so.

      Status (January  1986);  Because of an  administrative error during the
 public comment period, EPA  is extending the comment  period on this site
 for an additional 60  days.
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                           KERR-MCGEE (REED-KEPPLER PARK)     ;::'
                               West Chicago,  Illinois      ;. ^
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      Conditions  at listing (October 1984):  The  Kerr-McGee fReed-Keppler
 Park)  Si£e  is in Reed-Keppler Park in West  Chicago,  Illinois.   About
 15,000 people live; within 3 miles of the  site.           .:..;•;:

      In  1931, Lindsay Light & Chemical Co.  established a mill  in West  •
 Chicago  for the  extraction of thorium and nonradioactive'elements .from
 monazite  and other ores.   Later, the site was used for the manufacture of
 gaslight  mantles (which contain thorium), mesothorium, and,  during World
 War  II, hydrofluoric acid.  Ownership of.the facility changed  from Lindsay
 to Anerican Potash & Chemical in-1958'and to Kerr-McGee  Chemical Corp. in
 1967.  Operations at the  site continued until 1973 when  Kerr-McGee, the
 current owner, closed the plant.     '.-.-"'                  ;

      Radioactive materials were landfilled  at an  11-acre 'site  which had
 apparently  been  a gravel  quarry.  The JJ.S.  Muclear Regulatory  Commission1?;
 contractor  located contaminated areas within the  landfill  and  around and
 under  tennis courts adjacent to it.  Contaminated  material around (not
 under) the  tennis- courts  was moved onto an  area of surface contamination,
 _wh.ich._was_thea.£enced_and_. posted.

      Status (January 1986):   Because of an  administrative  error during the
 public ccmment period,  EPA is extending the comment  period on  this site
 for  an additional 60 days.
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                 •        KERR-McGEE .(RESIDENTIAL AREAS)
                      Wtest Chicago/DuPage County, Illinois

      Conditions at  listing (October 1984):   The Kerr-McGee (Residential
Areas) Site is in West Chicago  and  DuPage County, Illinois.  The site
covers the general area of elevated radiation levels adjacent to the
Kerr-McGee Chemical  Corp.  "facility on  the east  (about 30 acres), as well
as other adjacent areas and isolated spots of elevated radiation levels.
/About 15,000 people  live within 3 miles of the site.

     In  1931, Lindsay Light & Chemical  Co. established a  mill in West
Chicago  for the extraction  of thorium and nonradioactive  elements from
monazite and other ores.   Later, the site was used for the manufacture of
gaslight mantles (which contain thorium), mesothorium, and, during World
War II,  hydrofluoric acid.   Ownership of  the  facility  changed from Lindsay
to American Potash & Chemical in 1958 and to  Kerr-McGee Chemical Corp. in
1967.  Operations at the site continued until 1973,  when  Kerr-McGee, the
current  owner, closed the  plant.

     In  1978, the U.S. Nuclear  Regulatory Commission's contractor located
75 spots of elevated radiation  levels.  Since that time,  the nunher has
grown to around 87.  Overlying  many of  these  spots adjacent to the Kerr-McGee
facility  is an area  of- generally elevated radiation  levels.  Although the
general  area of contamination may be due,  in  part,  to  long-term emissions
Prom the  facility, the primary  source of  contamination is believed to be
the result of specific incidents such as  spills  or use of contaminated
materials as fill.

     Status (January 1986):  Because of an administrative error.during the
public comment period, EPA is extending the comment  period on this site
for an additional 60 days.
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                   KERR-McGFF! (SFWA3E TREATMENT PLANT)
    '':-''.-   '      West Chicago,  Illinois

     Conditions  at listing  (October 1984):   The Kerr-McGee (Sewage
Treatment Plant) Site  covers  about 23 acres  in West Chicago, Illinois.
About 15,000 people live  within 3  miles  of  the site.
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     In  1931, Lindsay  Light  & Chemical Co. established  a mill in West
Chicago  for the  extraction of thorium and nonradioactive elements frcm
monazite and other ores.  Later, the site was  used for  the manufacture of
gaslight mantles (which contain thoriun), mesothoriun,  and, during World
War II,  hydrofluoric acid.   Ownership of the  facility changed from Lindsay
to American Potash & Chemical in 1958 and to Kerr-McGee Chemical Corp. in
1967.. Operations at the  site continued  until  1973,  when Kerr-McGee, the
current  cwner, closed  the plant.

     The original sewage  treatment plant was  built in 1919 and included
two septic tanks.  Over the years,  the plant changed, and the tanks were
filled with radioactive materials.   In addition,  fill,  including radio-
active materials, was  placed  in other areas of the site,  while modernizing
the plant, the city has located many surface  and subsurface areas of
contamination.   To allow  the  modernization to  continue,-any areas that
obstruct construction  are expected to be excavated and  the material placed
in a designed storage  area on the  site.      --_                	
     Status (January 1986);  Because of  an  administrative  error during the
public conment period, EPA is extending  the comment  period on this site
for an additional 60 days.
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                           SAVANNA ARMY DEPOT ACTIVITY
                                Savanna, Illinois

      Conditions at listing (October 1984):  The Savanna Army Depot Activity
 (SADA)  is an  Army munitions installation occupying more than 13,000
 acres north of  Savanna, in -Carroll County in northwestern Illinois, on
 the  east banks  of the  Mississippi River.  The facility has handled, processed,
 and  stored munitions,  explosives, and industrial chemicals since operations
 began in 1918.   Renovation and loading of artillery shells and bombs
 began at SADA in the 1930s and has occurred intermittently.  Several
 areas of the  facility  have been used for the demolition and burning of
 obsolete ordnance.

      The Army has detected munitions-related contaminants, primarily trini-
 trotoluene (TNT), in surface soils and ground water on the base.  The
 volume  of contaminated ground water is unknown.

      SADA is  participating in the Installation Restoration Program, the
 specially funded program established in 1978 under which the Department
 of Defense has  been identifying and evaluating its past hazardous waste
 sites and controlling  the migration of hazardous contaminants frcm these
 sites.   The Army has completed Phase I (records search) and Phase II
 (preliminary  survey).   Phase III (engineering analysis of alternative
 remedial measures) is  underway.

      Status (April 1987);  Phase III was completed in November 1984.  The
 Department of Defense  will meet with the State and EPA to discuss alternatives
'for  remedial  action.  The Army has decided to incinerate TNT-contaminated
 soils.

      This site  is being reproposed to be consistent with EPA's recently
 proposed policy for placing on the NPL sites located on Federally-owned
 facilities that are subject to the corrective action authorities of
 Subtitle C of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act.  EPA is soliciting
 comments on the Hazard Ranking System score for the site, which includes
 areas subject to RCRA  Subtitle C corrective action authorities.
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                     .  SHEFFIELD (U.S.. ECOLOGY, INC.)
                     '   •    Sheffield,  Illinois

     Conditions at  listing  (October 1984);   The U.S. Ecology, Inc.,
Landfill covers 45  acres  in a  strip-fnined area in Sheffield, Bureau
County, Illinois.   The company,  which  was formerly known as Nuclear
Engineering Co., began operating the site in the late 1960s.  U.S.
Ecology was purchased  by  Teledyne,  Inc.,  in January 1981.  The site  '
ceased operation in January 19R3.

     At one time, the  site  was the  largest  hazardous waste disposal site
in Illinois.   It accepted a wide variety  of hazardous waste, including
acids, bases,  low-flash-point  organic  solvents,  pesticides, and sludges
containing heavy metals.  Monitoring wells  in the shallow aquifer at
the site are  contaminated'with arenes',  aromatic hydrocarbons, ketones,
aliphatic hydrocarbons, chlorinated hydrocarbons, ethers, and PCBs,
according to -tests  conducted by  the State Water' Survey Division and
the (J.S. Geological Survey.  An  estimated 450 people use the shallow
aquifer within 3 miles of the  site  as  a source of drinking water.

     The facility received  Interim  Status under the Resource Conservation
and Recovery Act (RCRA) when the company  filed Part A of a permit
application.-

     U.S. Ecology has  submitted  a plan  for  closing the site according
to RCRA requirements,  but the  State considers the plan incomplete.

     Status (January 1986):  EPA is reviewing a  revised closure plan
submitted by  the company  and conducting monitoring to determine if the
facility is meeting RCRA  requirements.

     This site remains  in proposed  status until  EPA implements the appropriate
elements of its final  policy for placing  RCRA-related sites on the NPL
and then applies the policy to this site.
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              STAUFFER CHEMICAL CO.  (CHICAGO  HEIGHTS PLANT)
                        Chicago Heights,  Illinois

     Stauffer Chemical Co. produces  food-grade products and pesticides in
a plant  covering 15 acres  in  Chicago Heights,  Cook County,  Illinois.
Stauffer purchased the plant  in 1958 from Victor Chemical Works, which
had made phosphates there  since 1902.

     Stauffer Chemical disposed of about  175,000 cubic feet of hazardous
waste in an unlined pile and  in buried drums,  according to information
the company provided EPA as required under CERCLA section 103(c).  The
waste area covers 2.5 acres.   At one time, Stauffer also had two settling
lagoons.  After they were  closed, the sediment from the lagoons was added
to the pile.  When on-site disposal  ceased in 1979, the 60-foot-high pile
was covered with 1 to 2 feet  of clay.

     According to tests conducted in 1984 by  EPA, high levels of arsenic
and lesser amounts of antimony and selenium are present in shallow ground
water below the site.  To  date,  the  deeper aquifer is not contaminated.
However, the  two aquifers  are hydraulically connected so that water can
move between  them.  Wells  extending  into  the  lower aquifer within 3 miles
of the site provide drinking  water  for an estimated 70,000 people.  The
nearest  well  is within 1 mile of the site.

     The site is near a drainage ditch that leads to Thorn Creek 3,000
feet away.  Sauk Trail Lake,  which is used for recreation,  is within 3
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          TRI-COUNTY LANDFILL CO./WASTE MANAGEMENT OF ILLINOIS, INC.
                            South  Elgin,  Illinois

       The Tri-County Landfill Co./Waste  Management of Illinois, Inc., Site
  covers approximately 46 acres  in South  Elgin,  Kane County, Illinois.
  This site was originally owned and operated by Tri-County Landfill Co.
  (3968-73).  It had a permit from the State to  accept general municipal
  refuse.  Waste Management of Illinois,  Inc., operated the site from 1973
  until it closed in ]977.  The  property  owner from 1973 to present is
  Michigan Avenue National Bank.

       In May 1984, EPA detected cyanide, benzene,  chlorobenzene, and 1,1-
  dichloroethane in monitoring wells downgradient of the landfill.  Over
  10,000 people use wells within 3 miles  of  the  site for drinking water.
  This population figure includes  the towns  of Valley View and South Elgin,
  which are served by municipal  systems.  A  residential well is 1,800 feet
  from the site.

       The Fox River, approximately 1 mile west  of  the site, is used
  extensively for fishing and boating.  A fresh-water wetland is 1,100 feet
  from the site.

       In March 1971, the Elgin  Jaycees filed suit  against Tri-County
  Landfill Co. for allegedly violating the Illinois Environmental Protection
  Act with respect to "water, soil, leaching,  and air pollution."  In 1973,
  the Illinois Pollution Control Board ruled in  favor of the complainants,
  issuing a penalty and invoking a bond to be posted to ensure compliance
  with two Consent Orders resulting from  findings in the case.  There
  are no records indicating further actions.
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                    DOUGLASS RQAD/UNIROYAL,  INC., LANDFILL
                              Mishawaka,  Indiana     '  £?*

       The Douglass Road/Uniroyal,  Inc.,  Landfill covers!; approximately 19
  acres in St. Joseph County just north of Mishawaka, Iiljfiana, near the
  corner of Douglass Road and Grape Road.   The landfill-'is owned by
  Uniroyal, Inc., and was operated  between 1954 and 1979.   Fran 1954 to
  1971, solvents, fly ash, paper, wood  stock,  rubber,-and plastic wrap were
  disposed at the landfill, which was unlined.  Only fly ash was disposed
  from 1971 to 1979.  Uniroyal then covered  the landfill with 1 foot of
  topsoil and seeded it.

       According to Uniroyal, sane  6,000  barrels of waste were disposed at
  the landfill, including methyl ethyl  ketone, tetrahydrofuran, toluene,
  eyelohexanone, and xylene.

       The landfill is underlain by permeable  soils and is located in an
  area of glacial sand and gravel deposits,  conditions that facilitate
  the movement of contaminants into ground water, as well  as the rapid
  movement of ground water.  The South  Bend  Water Department has seven
  wells within 3 miles of the site.  They draw water for public consumption
  from a sand and gravel aquifer at an  average depth of 150 feet.  The1—
  Water Department serves approximately 120,000 people.
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                     FIRESTONE INDUSTRIAL PR9DUCTS CO.
                            Noblesville,  Indiana

     Conditions at listing  (September  1985):  Firestone Industrial Products
Co. manufactures molded  rubber products  in Noblesville, Hamilton County,
Indiana.  Between 1938 and  1973,  Firestone buried debris, drums, and
limestone contaminated with sulfuric acid and cyanide  plating wastes on
three areas covering 23.5 acres.   About  7,750 drums were buried, according
to information the company  provided  to EPA,  as  required under CERCLA
section 103(c).  The wastes consisted  of raw material  wastes and cured
and uncured products,  including  rubber-  and  solvent-base cement, organic
solvents (chlorinated and nonchlorinated), paints, lacquers, process
oils, resins, and chemical  additives.

     On-site wells providing  process water are  contaminated with traces
of chlorinated organic solvents,  according to tests conducted by EPA.
The soil beneath  the site is  permeable,  thus facilitating the movement
of contaminants into ground water, which is  shallow.  About 14,250 people
depend on municipal  wells within  3 miles of  the site for drinking water.
The nearest well  is  less than 1 mile from the site.

     The site is an  inactive  portion of  an active facility that received
Interim Status under  the Resource- Conservation  and Recovery Act in 1980
when Firestone filed Part A of a  permit  application.  In April 1985,
Firestone submitted  Part 3  of the application,  which the State has reviewed
and EPA is reviewing.

     Status (September 1986):  The company is providing bottled water to
homes closest to the facility.  They formerly were supplied by the shallow
wells.   The company has also put in place water mains, but they have not
yet been hooked up to the homes.
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                         MCCARTY'S BALD KNOB LANDFILL
                             Mt. Vernon,  Indiana

      McCarty's Bald Knob Landfill covers 28 acres near Mt.  Vernon, Posey
 County,  Indiana.   From 1971 to 1978, the privately-owned operation accepted
 municipal  wastes  from the city of Mt. Vernon under a State  permit.  In
 addition,  according to information provided to  EPA under CERCLA section
 103(c),  the  landfill received 3,000 tons of hazardous wastes from the Mt.
 Vernon plant of General Electric Co. (GE).  The wastes contained bisphenol-A
 and solvents.

      In  1982,  GE  covered the landfill with 1 foot of clay topped by clean
 soil, graded and  seeded it to control erosion,  and installed 35 monitoring
 wells.

      Three aquifers below the landfill are contaminated with phenol,
 according  to tests conducted in June and October  1981 by GE.  An estimated
 1,000 people obtain drinking water from private wells tapping the two top
 aquifers within 3 miles of the site.  The nearest well is 700 feet from
 the site.
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                         PRESTOLITE BATTERY DIVISION
                              Vincennes, Indiana

       Prestolite Battery Division manufactures lead acid batteries on a
  17.5-acre site in Vincennes, Knox County, Indiana.  In 1945, Prestolite,
  a division of Allied Corp.  of Ohio, purchased the property from Eltra
  Corp.,  which is no longer in existence.

       About 30.9 tons of hazardous wastes in the form of spills and un-
  contained piles are on the site.  Analyses conducted by a consultant to
  Prestolite detected high levels (up to 25,000 parts per million) of lead
  in on-site soil,  threatening ground water.  PC3s and sulfuric acid were
  also found in on-site soil.   About 20,000 people within 3 miles of the
  site depend on ground water as a source of drinking water.

       Other portions of the Prestolite facility are regulated under other
  Federal laws.   A waste water lagoon on the site received Interim Status
  under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act when Prestolite filed
  Part A  of a permit application.   Instead of seeking an operating permit,
  the  company has decided to close the lagoon.  Its closure plan is being
  reviewed by the State.

       When the waste water lagoon overflows, the contents go into the
  Vincennes sewer system.   Storm water run-off from the facility enters
  Kelso Creek,  which flews into the Wabash River.  These waste water
  discharges are regulated under the Clean Water Act.
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                         SOUTHSIDE SANITARY  LANDFILL
                            Indianapolis,  Indiana

       Southside Sanitary Landfill covers  34 acres of  the White River
  floodplain in southwest Indianapolis, Marion  County,  Indiana.  Landfill
  Management owns the site and started landfilling in  December 1971  and is
  still in business.  The site is adjacent to the Envirochem Corp.  Site,
  which was placed on the NPL in September 1983.

       In ]971, the north side of the area was  licensed by both Marion
  County and the State for disposal of solid wastes.   A 100-foot strip of
  land was excavated to depths of 3 to 6 feet.  The  loose dirt was  piled on
  a 50-foot strip of land immediately south  of  the excavated area for use
  later as cover material.  After the first  excavated  area was filled by
  alternate dumping of refuse and covering with a layer of dirt, a  second
  area was excavated ]50 feet south of the first  one.   After these  areas
  were filled, the land between the two was  excavated.   More than 4
  million cubic yards of waste have been buried at the landfill, according
  to estimates made by the U.S. Geological Survey.  The wastes include coal
  tar, asbestos insulation, iron oxide sludge,  paint waste, and clarifier
  sludge.

       Metals, including arsenic, chromium,  cadmium, and nickel, are
  present in ground water, according to analyses  conducted by EPA.
  The landfill lies above a continuous shallow  sand and gravel deposit
  along White River, Fall Creek and Eagle  Creek.  About 6,100 people depend
  on private wells drawing on the shallow  deposit.  The area has been
  described by several sources, including  the Indiana  State Board of Health,
  as having the greatest potential for ground water development (in  terms
  of well yield) of any area in Marion County.

       Eagle Creek is contaminated with metal compounds (aluminum, lead,
  and zinc), according to tests conducted  by EPA.  The  creek is used for
  fishing and boating.  All of White River and  Eagle Creek are a potential
  habitat for the Indiana bat, a species designated as  endangered by the
  U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

       The landfill continues to operate as  a solid waste disposal facility
  under a State permit.  The State has taken an enforcement action based
  on permit violation and is negotiating a settlement  for the alleged
  violation with owners and operators involved  with the site.   In addition,
  the State is discussing measures to control leachate  with the current
  owner/operator.
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                          A.  Y.  MCDONALD INDUSTRIES, INC.
                                   Dubuque, Iowa

     Conditions  at  listing (September 1985):   A. Y. McDonald Industries,  Inc.,
formerly operated an  iron and brass foundry on a site covering approximately 19
acres on the Mississippi  River  floodplain in Dubuque, Dubuque County,  Iowa.
From 1896 to 1983,  the company placed piles of casting sands and sludge from air
pollution control scrubbers  on  the property.   The materials contain lead,
according to tests  conducted by EPA.

     Because the piles are unlined, unstabilized, and uncovered, they  threaten
to contaminate ground water, surface water, and air.  About 62,300 people depend
on wells within  3 miles of the  site for their drinking water.

     In  the fall of 1983,  the Iowa Department of Transportation acquired'the site
under eminent domain for  a Federal highway project.

     On  Dec. 5,  1984, EPA issued a compliance Order under section 3008(a) of the
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act.  'The  order required the company to submit
a complete closure  plan for  the disposal site and a ground water assessment
plan.

     Status (September 1986):   On Nov 21,  1985, the company submitted a draft
closure  plan, which EPA determined was inadequate.  EPA is currently evaluating
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               .    '            CHEMPLEX CO.
                          Clinton/Camanche,  Icwa

     Conditions at listing  (October 1984);   The Chemplex Co. facility is
on the western edge  of  Clinton and  Camanche, Clinton County, Iowa.  The
facility has manufactured high-  and low-density polyethylene since 1968.
Wastes generated by  this  facility include  peroxides, mineral spirits,
vinyl acetate, and various  organic  hazardous substances such as styrene,
benzene, toluene, and polyarcmatic  hydrocarbons.  Unknown quantities of
these wastes were disposed  in an unlined landfill on the site,  which has
been covered and is  no  longer used.  Waste  water containing some of
these constituents was  also stored  in a 2-acre  lined impoundment on the
site.  During dredging  of the sediments from the bottom of the impoundment,
the liner was- ruptured, releasing hazardous  substances to the environment.

     The facility received  Interim  Status  under the Resource Conservation
and Recovery Act (RCRA) when the company filed  Part A of a permit application.

     Oround water downgradient of the landfill  and the impoundment 'is
contaminated with polyaromatic hydrocarbons  and the other organic
chemicals identified above, according to tests  conducted hy the company
and its consultants.  The company has recovered previously released
hazardous substances and  taken measures to  prevent the release  of
additional hazardous substances.  The company is conducting additional
investigations to completely characterize  releases from the landfill.

     About 5,000 people depend on wells within  3 miles of the site 'as a
source of drinking water.

     Status (January 1986):  The  company has installed a system for  •
recovering contaminated ground water and treating it prior to disposal.

     Chemplex has submitted Part  R  of its RCRA  permit application.  EPA
is reviewing the application.

     This site remains  in proposed  status until EPA implements  the appropriate
elements of its final policy for  placing RCRA-related sites on  the NPL
and then applies the policy to this site.
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                       FRIT INDUSTRIES  (HUMBOLDT PLANT)
                                Huraboldt,  Iowa
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       Conditions at listing (April  1985):   The Frit Industries Site covers
  about 6 acres north of Humboldt, Huraboldt  County,  Iowa.  ; T$s company
  produces trace mineral additives for  agricultural  use.   ?Ihe' process
  involves combining baghouse dust and  waste sulfuric acid. ;Two waste
  treatment ponds on-site have received waste phosphoric acid, sulfuric
  acid, fluoride compounds, and other hazardous materials  containing high
  levels of lead and cadmium.  Waste from air scrubbers has also been
  dumped on the ground south of the  site, threatening ground water.  About
  4,800 people obtain their drinking water  from wells within 3 miles of the
  site.  Lake Nakcmis, located about 1  mile  from the site, is used for
  recreation.

       In 1980, the tank storage area of  the plant site received Interim
  Status under the Resource Conservation  and Recovery Act when Frit filed
  Part A of a permit application.  On Sept.  30, 1983, the .Iowa Department
  of Water, Air and Waste Management issued  an Administative Order to Frit
  to develop appropriate cleanup actions.   The company is appealing the
  order.

       Status (January 1986): The State has  reviewed a remedial action plan
  submitted by Frit Industries.  In  January 1986, the State returned its
  comments on the plan to Frit.
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                         JOHN DEERE (DUBUQUE WORKS)
                               Dubuque, Iowa

     John Deere operated a  160-acre landfill north of Dubuque,  Dubuque County,
Iowa, for disposal  of wastes from equipment-manufacturing activities  at its
nearby Dubuque Works.   From 1946 until 1974, according to reports  the company
filed with EPA, as  required by CERCIA Section 103(c), approximately 3,000
tons of  solvents, paint sludges, acids, heavy metals, and cyanide  were disposed
of in the unlined landfill.   An estimated 2,750 people use private wells within
3 miles of the  site as their source of drinking water.  The site  is within 200
feet of the Mississippi and Little Masquoketan Rivers and adjacent to the
upper Mississippi River Wildlife and Fish Refuge and neighboring wetlands.

     An area of the Dubuque Works was used for treatment of hazardous wastes
and storage of  drums.   The  facility received Interim Status under  the Resource
Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) for these operations when  John Deere
filed Part A of a permit application.

     The landfill ceased receiving wastes prior to the effective date of the
RCRA permitting standards for land disposal and was not included  in the permit
application.  The landfill  is thus an inactive portion of an  active facility
and so is eligible  for the  NPL under EPA's current policy for listing RCRA-
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                            RED OAK CITY LANDFILL
                                Red Oak,  Iowa

       The Red Oak City Landfill covers  40  acres in Red Oak, Montgomery
  County, Iowa.  It was owned and operated  by the city from 1962 to 1974.
  It is now owned by a private citizen.   In June 1981, Union Carbide
  Corp. and Uniroyal, Inc., notified EPA, as  required by CERCLA section
  103(c), that wastes buried in the landfill  contained lead, mercury,
  toluene, tetrachloroethylene, diacetone alcohol, and methyl isobutyl
  ketone.

       The landfill is in permeable soil.   It has no liner and was
  inadequately covered when it closed, according to an inspection
  conducted by EPA.  The contents are exposed along the bank of the East
  Nishnabotna River and elsewhere.  In September ]984, EPA observed
  leachate from the landfill seeping into the river and collected samples
  of ground water, surface water, and sediment.   Analyses detected toluene,
  chlorobenzene, and 1,1,1 -trichloroethane.

       About 7,000 people depend on ground  water within 3 miles of the
  site as a source of drinking water.  The  nearest residence uses a
  private well 1,800 feet from the landfill.   Prime agricultural land is
  adjacent to the site.
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                       . '    U.S.  NAMEPLATE CO.
                            Mount. Vernon, Iowa

     Conditions at  listing  (October 1984);  U.S. Nameplate Co. manu-
factures aluminum,  brass, and  stainless steel nameplates on a 7-acre  site
near Mount Vernon in  Linn County, Iowa.  Etching and plating are among
the processes  involved.   Liquid wastes from these processes are acidic
and have high  concentrations of chromium, fluoride, lead, and zinc.

     Prior to  1979,  U.S.  Nameplate treated the wastes in septic tanks
that discharged into a drainage  field and a nearby creek.  In 1979, the
State received complaints about the discharge.  In response, U.S. Name-
plate constructed a waste treatment lagoon system and began operating it
in.November 1979.   In 1982, based on high fluoride levels (137 milligrams/
liter) detected in ground water,  the State determined that the lagoon was
leaking.  EPA  has taken a compliance action under the Resource Conser-
vation and Recovery Act (RCRA) to require U.S. Nameplate to close the
lagoon and monitor ground water.   The listing under CERCLA involves the
septic tank and drainage  field.

     Mount Vernon (population  3,300)  draws its water from two municipal
wells less than 1.5 miles from the U.S. Nameplate plant.

  • '  Status (January 19R6) ;  This site remains in proposed status until
EPA implements the appropriate elements of its final policy for placing
RCRA-related sites on the NPL  and then applies the policy to this site.
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                 NATIONAL INDUSTRIAL ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES
                               Furley,  Kansas

      Conditions at listing (October 1984) :   The National Industrial
 Environmental Services (NIES)  Site covers  160 acres approximately
 10 miles northeast of Wichita  and 3 miles  south of the unincorporated
 community of Furley,  Sedqwick  County,  Kansas.  Approximately 30 households
 are within a 9-soua re-mile rural agricultural area surrounding the site.

      In 1977, NIES began operating a hazardous waste landfill on the
 80-acre north half of the site under a State permit.  Two evaporation
 and four treatment ponds were  also in use.   Wastes received at the facility
 included:  liguid chromium, liquid cyanide, acids, bases, chlorinated and
 nonchlorinated solvents, sludges, and bulk solid wastes.  In December 1980,
 Chemical Waste Management, Inc. (CWMI) bought the company.  In January
 1982, the State closed the site when it discovered that ground water,
 surface water, and soil off -site were contaminated with toxic oraanic
 chemicals, including  known carcinogens.

      In May 1982,  CWMI submitted a hydroqeological report and remajial
 action plan to the State.  The plan recommended digging drainage trenches,
 drilling an underground injection well for disposal of the liguid wastes,
 closure of treatment  and evaporation ponds, capping of existing landfill
 areas, and construction of a new landfill.   The drainage trenches and new
 landfill have been constructed, the treatment ponds decommissioned, and
 the old landfill areas capped.  Ground water. pumped from the trenches is
 beina hauled off-site to an approved disposal facility.  Monitoring wells
 are being sampled on  a monthly basis.

      In 1984, the State issued a series of Administrative Orders to the
 company for various remedial actions.

      The facility received Interim Status  under the Resource Conservation
 and Recovery Act (RCRA) when the company filed Part A of a permit
 application.

      Status (January  1986); On May 31, 1985, EPA signed two Administrative
 Orders involving NIES, CWMI, and Waste Management, Inc. (parent company of
 CWMI).  The orders, issued under section 106 of CERCLA and section 3008(h)
 of RCRA, are aimed at stopping migration of contaminated ground water and
 closing the inactive  units at  the facility.  The responsible parties are
 to develop Alternate  Concentration Limits  for 89 contaminants detected in
 RCRA Appendix VIII analyses and other historical analyses conducted by
 EPA, the State, and the responsible parties.

      In November 1985, NIES submitted  Part B of the RCRA permit application
 to cover expansion of the facility into adjacent property.

      This site remains in proposed status  until EPA implements the appropriate
 elements of its final policy for placing RCRA-related sites on the NPL
 and then applies the  policy to this site.
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                               COMBUSTION,  INC.
                          Etenham  Springs,  Louisiana

       The Combustion, Inc., Site covers approximately 6 acres in Denham
  Springs, Livingston Parish, Louisiana.   Prior  to late 1980, the
  company transported nonreclaimable  tars,  paraffins,  waste oil, sediments,
  and waste water to the site via pipeline  from  its petroleum hydrocarbon
  recycling plant located approximately 0.25 miles to  the southeast.
  During the life of the facility,  11 irregularly shaped earthen pits were
  constructed; five contain oily  wastes, three contain oil and waste water,
  and three contain principally waste water.   Approximately 3 million
  gallons of material are in the  pits.  Although the pits were constructed
  to isolate the wastes, they are connected by a series of trenches or
  pipes that allow mixing.

       Two above-ground tanks are also located on the  Combustion, Inc.,
  property:  a 20,000-gallon tank and a 30,000-gallon  tank.  These tanks
  were used primarily for storing the wastes before they were processed
  to recover oil, but they may have been used  for other storage at times.
  In addition, Dubois, Inc., the  previous owner  of the property, may have
  treated potentially hazardous chemicals other  than waste oils on the
  site.

       Combustion, Inc., began to close the facility late in 1980, and by
  May 1982, had completely shut down  operations.   In October 1983, the
  Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality  (LDEQ) analyzed wastes
  from the site and found they contained PCBs, volatile organic chemicals,
  and heavy metals.  In February  1985, LDEQ detected lead and thallium
  in ground water at the site, and  volatile organic chemicals in the
  air.  Ground water within 3 miles of the  site  is used for irrigation
  and drinking water.  About 500  people live within 1  mile of the site.

       On Jan. 18, 1984, a State  Compliance Order was  issued to the site
  owner.  The property has allegedly  been sold to unknown parties, and the
  former owner says he is financially unable to  clean  up the site.
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                      LOUISIANA ARMY AMMUNITION PLANT
                            Doyline,  Louisiana

     Conditions at listing  (October 1984):   Louisiana Army Ammunition Plant
is located  in Doyline near  Shreveport, Webster Parish, Louisiana.  The primary
mission involves loading, assembling, and packing military ammunitions, and
the manufacture of metal ammunition parts.   The hazardous waste site consists
of 16 1-acre pits in which  trinitrotoluene  (TNT), RDX (an experimental
explosive), and other explosive waste materials settle out of treatment
waters.  The pits received  Interim Status under the Resource Conservation
and Recovery Act (RCRA) when the Army filed Part A of a permit application.

    According to tests conducted by the Army,  soil, surface water, and ground
water are contaminated with TNT, dinitrotoluene, phenols, 4-DNT, tetryl, and
cadmium.  About 1,300 people depend on private wells within 3 miles of the
site as a source of drinking water.

    The plant is participating in  the Installation Restoration Program, the
specially funded program established  in 1978 under which the Department of
Defense has been identifying and evaluating its past hazardous waste sites
and controlling the migration of hazardous  contaminants from these sites.  The
Army has completed Phase I  (records search).  Phase II (preliminary survey)
is underway.

      Status (April 1987);  Phase  II  activities continue.  In July 1986, the
State issued a compliance order against the plant based on deficiencies in
its application for a RCRA  permit. The Army has corrected the deficiencies,
but issuance of the permit  has been delayed until a decision is reached on
CERCLA/RCRA jurisdiction over the  pits.

     This site is being reproposed to be consistent with EPA's recently
proposed policy for placing on the NPL sites located on Federally-owned
facilities  that are subject to the corrective  action authorities of RCRA
Subtitle C.  EPA is soliciting comments on  the Hazard Ranking System score
for the site, which includes areas subject  to  RCRA Subtitle C corrective
action authorities.
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                         UNION  CHEMICAL CO.,  INC.
                             South  Hope, Maine

     Conditions  at listing (April  1985);   Union Chemical Co., Inc., operated
a chemical recycling and incineration business from 1978 to 1984 on a
0.75-acre fenced lot in South Hope,  Knox County, Maine.  The site is
bounded on the east by Quiggle  Brook and is in the 100-year floodplain.
Grassy Bond, an  alternate  drinking water source for the towns of Camden,
Rockport, Rockland, and Thomaston  (approximately 22,800 people), is located
less than 1 mile downgradient.

     The site once contained approximately 2,500'drums and over 30 tanks
holding 100,000  gallons of flammable materials and sludges.  Among the
wastes were PCBs, methylene  chloride, cyanides, methyl ethyl ketone, and
trichloroethene.  An on-site well  and Quiggle Brook are contaminated with
trichloroethylene, according to tests conducted by the Maine Department
of Environmental Protection  and EPA.

     Union Chemical lost Interim Status in June 1984 under Maine's
Uncontrolled Hazardous Substance Act because  it failed to satisfy requirements
of the Resource  Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA).'  Under section
3008 .of RCRA, EPA fined the  company  for failure to submit, a complete
Part B permit application.

     Using CERCLA emergency  funds, EPA removed all surface drums, over
100,000 gallons  of liquid  wastes and sludges  from  above-ground storage
tanks, and some  contaminated soil  from the site.  The action was completed
on Oct. 8, 1984.

     Status  (April 1987):   EPA  is  considering various alternatives for
this site.
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                 ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND - EDGEWOOD  AREA
                            Edgewood, Maryland

     Conditions at listing (April 1985);  The Aberdeen  Proving Ground  (APG)
occupies some 79,000  acres of land and water in southern Harford County  and
southeastern Baltimore County, Maryland, near the head  of Chesapeake Bay.

     Until 1971, Edgewood Area operated as a distinct military entity  known
as the Edgewood Arsenal.  The primary mission of the Arsenal, and  subseguently
the Edgewood Area of  APG, has been developing and testing of  chemical  agent
munitions.  According to an Army Installation Assessment report  (1976):
"From 1917 to the present, the Edgewood Area has conducted chemical research
programs, manufactured chemical agents, and tested,  stored and disposed  of
toxic materials.  As  a result of these extensive programs, the Edgewood
Area has large areas  of land and water, and numerous buildings, which  are
contaminated or suspected of contamination." A "contamination map" and
discussion in the report indicate "contaminated or potentially contaminated"
areas in virtually every land portion of the Edgewood Area.

     Among the substances disposed of in the Edgewood Area are significant
guantities of napalm, white phosphorus, chemical agents, and  nerve agents.
Several of the chemical agents, which include arsenic and cyanide, are suffi-
ciently toxic and.persistent to present a danger for months or even years.

     APG is participating in the Installation Restoration Program  (IRP), the
specially funded program established in 1978 under which the  Department  of
Defense has been identifying and evaluating its past hazardous waste sites
and controlling the migration of hazardous constituents from  these sites.
As part of the IRP, the Army conducted an environmental monitoring program
at Edgewood Area in 1977 and 1978 covering "0" Field, Canal Creek, "J"
Field, Graces Quarters, and Carroll Island.  Evidence was found of substantial
contamination of surface water and ground water in the  vicinity of Old
"0" Field, which includes a wetlands area that is a  designated habitat for
bald eagles.  In February 1984, the State recommended that four Edgewood
.Area standby water-supply wells in the Canal Creek area be immediately
removed from service  because of high levels of volatile orqanic chemicals
detected during routine testing in late 1983.  These wells serve a resident
population of about 3,000 persons.  Also within 3 miles of the facility
are the Long Bar Harbor well field of the Harford County Department of
Public Works and the  well field used by the Joppatowne  Sanitary Subdistrict.
About 35,000 persons  are served by these two well fields; an  alternate
water source is available.

     The Army is continuing to monitor surface water and ground water  at
several locations within Edgewood Area and has undertaken a detailed
hydrogeological study in the vicinity of the Old "0" Field.

     The facility acguired Interim Status under the  Resource  Conservation
and Recovery Act when the Army filed Part A of a permit application.

     Status (September 1985);  IRP activities continue.
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             ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND - MICHAELSVILLE LANDFILL
                             Aberdeen, Maryland

     Conditions at listing  (April  1985):   The Aberdeen Proving Ground
(APG) occupies some 79,000  acres of  land  and water in southern Harford
County and southeastern Baltimore  County, Maryland, near the head of
Chesapeake Bay.   It is an active Army test and evaluation installation
primarily responsible for planning and testing of weapons,  munitions,
vehicles, and various equipment.   APG consists of two functional areas:
The Edgewood Area (13,000 land acres, including Gunpowder Neck, Pooles
Island, Carroll Island, and Graces Quarters) and the Aberdeen Area (17,000
land acres).  The land portions of the two areas are separated by Bush
River.

     The Aberdeen Area is bordered on the west by the Bush River and
northeast to south by the Chesapeake Bay.   The area is drained by seven
creeks plus the Bush  River.   Most  of these creeks have their headwaters
on the Aberdeen Area.  The  area contains  firing ranges, impact areas,
vehicle test racks, and laboratories-in support of the testing activities.

     The location  of  concern on the  Aberdeen Area is the 20-acre
Michaelsville Landfill.   The Army  has detected lead, mercury, chromium,
benzene, and cadmium  in ground water on the  site.   Other  potentially
hazardous portions of the Aberdeen Area are  currently being evaluated.

     APG is participating in the Installation Restoration Program (IRP),
the specially funded  program established  in  1978 under which the Department
of Defense has been identifying and  evaluating its past hazardous waste
sites and controlling the migration  of hazardous constituents from these
sites.  As part of  the IRP,  the Army has  performed an environmental
contamination survey  and  assessment  of the Aberdeen Area  and is monitoring
ground water and surface  water in  the areas  of suspected  contamination.
APG is cooperating with the  State  of Maryland Department  of Hygiene and
Mental Health in determining the extent of the Aberdeen Area contamination.

     The facility  acquired  Interim Status under  the Resource Conservation
and Recovery Act when  the Army filed Part A  of a permit application.

     Status (September 1935):  IRP activities continue.
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                            AMERICAN ANODCO, INC.
                                Ionia, Michigan

       The American Anodco, Inc.,  Site covers approximately 5 acres in
  Ionia, Ionia County, Michigan.   This company has cleaned, brightened,
  anodized, and sealed aluminum parts for the automotive industry on the
  site since 1962 and has owned the property since then.

       The company disposes of  process and cooling water in a 7-foot deep
  unlined seepage lagoon measuring 207 feet x 60 feet.  The lagoon holds
  an estimated 2,400 cubic yards of waste.  According to analyses conducted
  by EPA, the water placed in the  lagoon contains nitric acid and chromium.

       The potential for ground water contamination is high because the
  subsurface consists of highly permeable glacial drift, mainly sand and
  gravel, and because wastes  can easily enter the ground water from the
  unlined lagoon.  The glacial  drift aquifer underlying American Anodco, .
  Inc., supplies public and private wells within 3 miles of the site which
  serve over ]0,000 people.

       EPA detected low levels  of  arsenic in Prairie Creek, which is near
  the site.  Grand River, which is within 3 miles of the site, is used for
  fishing and recreation.
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                               BARRELS, INC.
                             Lansing, Michigan

     The .Barrels, Inc.,  Site covers 1.8 acres at 1404 North Larch Street
in  the  city limits of Lansing, Ingham County, Michigan.  The company
recycled drums on the property,  which it leased from the Chesapeake and
Ohio Railway Co.  from 1964  to 1981.

     Barrels,  Inc.,  allegedly dumped waste residues from drums directly onto
the ground  as  an  initial step in recycling drums.  According to tests •
conducted by the  Michigan Department of Natural Resources (riDNR) in 1983,
shallow ground water is  contaminated with lead and zinc.  The shallow
contaminated aquifer is  hydraulically connected to the deeper Saginaw
Formation,  so  that water can move between then.  Tne shallow and deeper
aquifers provide  drinking water  to the 133,000 residents of Lansing and
Holt via municipal wells within  3 miles of the site.  The nearest well
is  800  feet away.

     The nearest  downslope  surface water, Grand River, is 1,800 feet from
the site.   The Grand River, which is a fishing stream, is potentially
threatened  by  conditions at the  site.  The areas along the river are a
habitat for the  Indiana  bat, designated by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service as  an  endangered species.

     In January  1986, MDNR  gained access to the site from a State Court.
MDNR has approved $449,589  under the Michigan Environmental Response Act
for removal and disposal of barrels, debris, contaminated soil, and
buried  tanks.  All drums, 1,001  yards of visibly contaminated soil, and
nine underground  tanks have been removed and sent to an approved hazardous
waste disposal facility. The contents of one underground tank and two
tanks in the building have  been  pumped out.

     Activities remaining include: removal of additional soil, crushed
drums,  resins, nonhazardous and  hazardous liquids, nonhazardous solids,
and additional buried tanks.  Soil sampling is undarway to determine the
extent  of soil contamination.
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            E.I. DU  PONT DE  NEMOUPS & CO., INC. (MONTAGUE PLANT)
                             Montague,' Michigan

     Conditions at  listing  (October 1984):  E.I. du Pont de Nemours  &
Co., Inc.,  produces petrochemicals and handles many raw materials and
products on a  1,325-acre site in  Montague, Muskegon County, Michigan.
Problems at this  site date;to 1961, when the State found that a private
well was contaminated with  thiocyanate.  Subsequently, Cu Pont supplied
water to a  limited  number of residents.  The contamination apparently
results from a waste pile on the  site, as well as occasional spills
during routine operations.   Du Pont installed two interceptor wells  that
pump the contaminated water to a  treatment plant.  The extent of off-site
contamination  is  unknown.  About  4,000 people depend on wells within 3 miles
of the site as a  source of  drinking water.

     The plant received Interim Status under the Resource Conservation
and Recovery Act  (RCRA)  when the  company filed Part A of a permit application.
After filing Part B,  the company  received a permit in September 1984 for
two drum storage  areas.

     Status (January 1986):   This site remains in proposed status until
EPA implements the  appropriate elements of its final policy for placing
RCRA-related sites  on the NPL and then applies the policy to this site'.
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                               FOLKERTSMA REFUSE
                             Grand  Rapids, Michigan

       The Folkertsma Refuse Site  covers 8 acres in Grand Rapids, Kent
  County, Michigan.  From  1965 to  1969^ the site operated as a sanitary
  landfill and was also licensed by the? State to accept industrial waste.
  Muck was excavated to a  depth of 4?to' 10 feet, and the area was filled in
  with waste; 99 percent of  the waste was foundry sand and the rest was
  construction debris.  The  water  table is 2 feet below the surface.
  According to the original  owner, Waste Management of Michigan, Inc.,
  owned and operated the s/ite from 1969 to 1972 under the name Industrial
  Disposal.  Again, foundry  sand,  which contains iron, was accepted.

       In 1972, the original owner bought back the property, closed the
  landfill, and covered it with foundry sand.  Since then, Bergsma Pallet
  Co., a wood pallet business, has occupied the site.

       In June 1984, EPA took sediment samples in a drainage ditch that
  originates in the northwest portion of the landfill.  On-site samples, as
  well as downstream off-site samples, contain high levels of semivolatile
  compounds and heavy metals.  The ditch drains into Indian Mill Creek at
 • the south end of- the fill,  via an unnamed creek and drainage pipe.
  Indian Mill Creek flows  into the Grand River.

       The site is in a river valley directly north of the city limits of
  Grand Rapids.  About 3,600 people draw drinking water from private wells
  within 3 miles of the site.  One well is on the site.  During the summer,
  the Grand Rapids Water Department, which serves 235,000 people, draws
  water from the Grand River 1.7 miles downstream of the site.
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                       FORD  MOTOR CO.  (SLUDGE LAGOON)
                            Ypsilanti,  Michigan

     Ford .Motor Co.  operated an aircraft bomber plant for the Federal
Government during World  War II in Ypsilanti Township, Washtenaw County,
Michigan.  Sludge from the  plating operation was piped to a 3-acre unlined
lagoon on plant property.   The present owners are Ford Motor and the
Wayne County Road Commission,  which operates the Willow Run Airport.  The
abandoned lagoon is  on airport property.

     Ford Motor disposed of approximately 1 million cubic feet of sludge
in the lagoon, according to information the commission provided to EPA as
required by CERCLA section  103(c).  Analysis of the sludge conducted in
1979 by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources detected PCBs and
heavy metals,  including  lead,  cadmium, and mercury.

     A noncontinous  sand and gravel aquifer underlies the area at a depth
of 65 to 100 feet.   An estimated 60,000 people draw drinking water from
municipal wells within 3 miles of the site.  Private wells are also in
the area, the  nearest  about 2,000 feet from the si'te.

     The nearest downslope  surface water,  Willow Creek, is 800 feet from
the site.  It  is potentially threatened because the lagoon is unlined and
had no structures to divert run-off.   Belleville Lake, 3,600 feet from
the site, is used for recreation.

     The site  is unfenced,  making it possible for people and animals
to come in direct contact with hazardous substances.
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                          HOOKER (MONTAGUE PLANT)
                             Montague, Michigan

     Conditions  at listing (September 1985);   Starting in 1954, Hooker
 Chemicals  and Plastics Corp.,  a subsidiary of Occidental Petroleum
 Corp., manufactured chlorine,  sodium hydroxide, and hydrochloric acid
 on  a 900-acre tract of land in Montague,  Muskegon County, Michigan.
 Until February 1977, the  plant also manufactured hexachlorocyclopentadiene,
 a toxic  chemical used  in  the production of pesticides.  The plant has
 been inactive since 1982,  and  there are no plans to reactivate it.

     About 506,000 cubic  yards of  organic wastes were improperly disposed
 of  on 50 of the  900 acres.   The disposal  has  contaminated ground
 water and  surface  water on and off the site with chlorinated organic
 chemicals,  according to tests  conducted by EPA.  A shallow aauifer below
 the site supplies  drinking water to about 700 people.   There is no altern-
 ative drinking water source.

     On  Feb.  21, 1979, the State filed suit against Hooker to compel
 cleanup  of  the site.  Pursuant to  a consent judgment,  Hooker removed
most of  the waste  on the  surface in 1981  and  1982 and disposed of it
 properly.   Since 1979, Hooker  has  -been pumping and treating ground water
with carbon to prevent contamination from migrating off-site.

     The site is an inactive portion of a facility that acguired Interim
Status for  a  small  barrel  storage  area under  the Resource Conservation
and Recovery  Act when Hooker filed Part A of  a permit  application.
Hooker has  now decided to close the storage area instead of seeking an
operating permit.

     Status (September 1986);   Hooker is  pumping eight purge wells,
 including two installed in  1986, to contain the plume  of contaminated
ground water  and has also upgraded the carbon treatment system.   The
State guestions  whether the purge  wells are drawing enough ground water
 Eor treatment to prevent contamination from reaching nearby Vfrute Lake.
Discussions are continuing with the company.
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                                  J&L LANDFILL
                           Rochester Hills, Michigan

       The J&L  Landfill covers 100 acres on Hamlin Road in Rochester Hills,
  Oakland County,  Michigan.   Recently, the owner, Jones & Laughlin Steel
  Corp., assumed the name of its parent company, LTV Steel Corp.

       While  the landfill operated (]967 to 1980), approximately  1.5
  million cubic feet of wastes, including dusts from emission control
  devices in  electric furnaces, were buried at depths of up to  25 feet.
  Analyses conducted by the  company detected manganese, chromium,  and
  nickel in dusts  at the site.

       The landfill  has no liner and is located in a stratification
  consisting  of sands and gravels extending between 18 and 35 feet below
  the surface.  These materials facilitate the movement of contaminants
  into ground water.   About  1,500 people depend on shallow wells  within
  3 miles of  the site as a source of drinking water.  The nearest
  well is less  than  2,000 feet from the site.

       Ladd Drain  borders the site and flows into Clinton River,  which
  flows through the  Rochester-Utica Recreation Area less than 1 mile from
  the landfill.
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                           KYSOR INDUSTRIAL CORP.
                            Cadillac/  Michigan

     Conditions at  listing (September  1985):   Kysor Industrial Corp.
manufactures  temperature  control systems for  the automotive industry on
a 0.10-acre site  in Cadillac,  Wexford  County, Michigan.  The process
involves stamping and machining metal  parts.   Prior to 1979, 665 cubic
yards of liquid/sludge wastes  containing solvents (1,1,1-trichloroethane,
trichloroethylene,  toluene, and ethyl  benzene)  used to clean metal parts
were disposed of  in unlined earthen pits on the site,  according to the
State,  in 1981,  the company excavated the pits and sent the materials
to an off-site disposal facility.

     On-site  monitoring wells  that  tap shallow ground  water are contami-
nated with solvents,  including toluene and trichloroethylene, according
to tests conducted  by consultants to the company.   A shallow aquifer
within 3 miles of the site provides water for 4,500 people, approximately
8 percent of  Cadillac's population.  The nearest surface water (0.4
miles downstream  from the facility)  is used for fishing.

     A container  storage  area  at Kysor received Interim status under
the Resource  Conservation and  Recovery Act (RCRA)  when the company filed
Part A of-a permit  application.  In July 1984,  EPA approved a plan for
closing the area.

     Status (September  1986):  The  State is conducting an area-wide
remedial investigation/feasibility  study to determine  the type and extent
of contamination and  identify  alternatives for  remedial action.   The
effort includes several NPL sites,  among them Kysor Industrial Corp.
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                         .  LACKS INDUSTRIES, INC.
               .            Grand Papids, Michigan  ,

     Conditions at listing  (October 1984);  Lacks Industries,  Inc.,
operates a die-casting and  painting facility for the automotive  and'
appliance industries  on a 40-acre site in Grand Rapids, Kent County,
Michigan.  A plating  operation also existed until July  1984%   Process
wastes were  deposited in two unlined lagoons, each covering about
0.25 acres.

     Monitoring wells on the site are contaminated with heavy  metals,
according to the  State.   The major concern is potential contamination of
private drinking  water wells, although sampling in May and June  of  1984
by Kent County showed no contamination.  About 300 people  (lower estimate)
use wells within  3 miles of the site as a source of drinking water.

     The facility received  Interim Status under the Resource Conservation
and Recovery Act  (RCRA)  when the company filed Part A of a permit appli-
cation.  The company  filed  Part B, but EPA1s review determined that  it
was incomplete.

     Status  (January  1986):   This site remains in proposed status until
EPA implements the appropriate elements of its final policy for  placing
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                               METAL WORKING SHOP
                               Lake Ann, Michigan

       The Metal Working  Shop  Site covers approximately 1 acre  in  Lake  Ann,
  Benzie County,  Michigan.   Fran 1974 to 1977, the owner of the property
  finished metals in the  shop  using iron phosphate.  Two types of  rinse
  waters were generated in  an  oxidizing phase of the operation: an acidic
  rinse  (dilute hydrochloric acid)  containing iron phosphate  and a caustic
  rinse  (sodium hydroxide).  From approximately October 1975  to February
  1977, effluents from these rinses were mixed to neutralize  them  and then
  dumped onto the ground.   According to the owner, 400 gallons per day  were
  disposed of for 8 to  10 days a month.

       Analyses by the  State detected chromium, molybdenum, and other.
  heavy metal salts in  the  rinses.   Ground water occurs at shallow depths
  (10 feet), and  wells draw from the very permeable sand and  gravel drift
  aquifer.  Hence, the wells are threatened by any heavy metals in site
  soil.  An estimated 1,100 people obtain drinking water from private wells
  into the aquifer within 3  miles of the site.  One well  is on the site.

       The site is on a hill between Lake View and Lake Ann.  Many other
  lakes are within 3 miles of  the site.

       In June 1983, a  new owner took over the site and operates it under
  the name Lake Ann Manufacturing.
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             MICHIGAN DISPOSAL SERVICE (CORK STREET LANDFILL)
                           KalamaJzpo,  Michigan

      Conditions at listing  (OctoSar  1984):   Michigan Disposal Service's
 Cork Street Landfill covers approximately  64 acres in Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo
 County, Michigan.  The city operated  the site as a general refuse landfill
 from 1925 until 1968.  Until tfie/'mid-1960s, a teepee-type incinerator was
 on the site.  After closing the  landfill for general refuse, the city
 operated it for inert material'until  1981,  when Michigan Disposal Service
 (formerly Dispos-O-Waste) bought the  site.   The company has applied to
 the State for a permit to operate a sanitary landfill.

      Monitoring wells on the site contain  lead and arsenic above drinking
 water standards, according to tests conducted by the State.  The City of
 Kalamazoo (population 80,000) has three well fields within 3 miles of
 the site.  -••

      Status (January 1986):  EPA is deferring final rulemaking on this
 site because it needs more time  to analyze  the comments received during
 the public comment period.  The  Michigan Disposal Service (Cork Street
 Landfill) site will remain in proposed status until a later rulemaking.
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                         CONSERVATION CHEMICAL CO.
                           Kansas City, Missouri

      Conditions at listing (April 1985);  The Conservation Chemical Co.
 (CCC) Site covers approximately 6 acres in Kansas City, Jackson County,
 Missouri.  It is on the south bank of the Missouri River near where the
 Blue and Missouri Rivers meet.  CCC operated a waste treatment and disposal
 facility on the site from 1960 to 1980.  The primary wastes handled were
 metal-finishing wastes, including pickle liquors, spent plating solutions,
 heat-treating materials, and alkaline cyanides; chlorinated and nonchlorinated
 solvents and other organics; alkaline refinery wastes; laboratory chemicals;
 and wastes containing arsenic and elemental phosphorus.  Approximately
 300,000 tons of wastes were accepted for treatment and disposal.  Some
 wastes were incinerated, but most were buried in lagoons which were either
 unlined or inadequately lined to contain the wastes.  CCC attempted physical
 stabilization of the lagoons by mixing the lagoon contents with fly ash
 and waste pickle  liquor.  The lagoons were then covered with soil.

      CCC obtained Interim Status for various storage tanks under the Resource
 Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) by filing Part A of a permit application.
 Subsequently,  those wastes were disposed of off-site, and the tanks are no
 longer used.  Technically, the facility has Interim Status until it is properly
 closed.

      EPA investigations of the site and surrounding areas have detected
 various hazardous substances in surface soil, and ground water downgradient
 of the site is contaminated with numerous metals, organic compounds, and
 other pollutants.  This ground water is part of an aquifer that is used
 locally as a drinking and industrial water supply.  Because the ground
 water and the Missouri River are hydraulically connected, contaminants
 in the ground water are entering the Missouri River, which is used locally
 and regionally for recreation, industry, irrigation, and municipal water
 supply.

      On Nov. 22,  1982,  the United States filed a civil action under RCRA
 and CERCLA seeking a court-ordered site cleanup and reimbursement of the
 government's investigative costs.  The parties sued were CCC, its president
 and principal stockholder, Conservation Chemical Co. of Illinois (a related
 corporation),  and four major contributors of waste to the site: Armco, Inc.,
 FMC Corp., IBM Corp., and AT&T Technologies, Inc. (formerly Western Electric).
 On June 19, 1984, the four original generator defendants filed third-party
 suits against 152 other generators, 7 Federal agencies, and 16 insurance
.companies.  On Oct. 1, 1984, 77 additional third-party defendants were added
 to the lawsuit.

      Status (April 1987):  On Aug. 2, 1985, the U.S. reached a preliminary
 settlement under which the four original generator defendants agreed to
 perform remedial design and remedial action at the CCC site and to reimburse
 the U.S.  $500,000 of its response cost.  During the design, the bedrock
 was further defined, revealing a trench, which raised the cost of the
 remedial alternative selected.  Therefore, EPA is further evaluating the
 appropriate remedy.
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                   .,.  ..."        FINDETT CORP.
                 '      •   St.  Charles, Missouri

     Conditions at listing  (October 1984):   Findett Corp. currently
operates on  a site near  the St.  Louis suburb of  St. Charles, St. Charles
County, Missouri,.on  the floodplain of the  Mississippi River.  The Findett
facility covers about 3  acres; however, contamination originating at the
facility may cover a  much greater  area.  A  municipal well field is within
1 mile of the .site.

     Among other, activities, Findett reprocessed fluids containing PCBs
between 1963 and  1974.   Some wastes from the reprocessing were disposed
of in a small pond on the Findett  property.   In  1977,  after significant
levels of PCBs were detected in  the pond,  Findett excavated and back-
filled a portion of the  pond.

     In 1979, EPA conducted further investigations at  the site, which
showed that  the pond  area was  again contaminated with PCBs.  In 1980, as •
a result of  these investigations,  EPA issued an  Administrative Order
under the Clean Water Act requiring further excavation of the pond area.
Additional sampling under the  1980 order indicated PCBs had migrated
beyond the immediate  pond area and into subsurface areas.

     The facility received  Interim Status under  the Resource Conservation
and Recovery Act  (RCRA)  when the company filed Part A of a permit appli-
cation for treating and  storing hazardous waste.

     EPA issued an Administrative  Order under section  3013 of RCRA in the
summer of 1982.  The  order  required Findett  to design  and implement a
monitoring,  sampling,, and analysis plan to  characterize the nature and
extent of soil contamination,  as well as the potential for ground water
contamination at or beyond  the Findett facility.  Findett has installed
monitoring wells and  begun  the ground water  monitoring phase of the
order.

     Status  (January  1986):  EPA sampled wells in June 1985 and developed
a workplan for a remedial investigation/feasibility study (RI/FS)  to
determine the type and extent of contamination at the  site and identify
alternatives for remedial action.   EPA is negotiating  with Findett to
conduct the  RI/FS under  a CERCLA Section 106 Consent Order.

     This site remains in proposed status until  EPA implements the appropriate
elements of  its final  policy for placing RCRA-related  sites on the NPL
and then applies the  policy to this site.
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                           KEM-PEST LABORATORIES
                          Cape Girardeau, Missouri

      The  Kern-Pest Laboratories Site occupies 6.1 acres on Missouri  State
 Highway 177, near Cape Girardeau, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri.
 The company formulated various pesticides on the site from  1965  to  1975,
 when it went out of business.

      According to information provided to EPA as required by CERCLA
 section 103(c), the plant generated wastes, including the following pesticides;
 aldrin, dieldrin,  2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D), endrin,
 heptachlor, methyl parathion, and thiuram.  On the site was a  1,250 square-
 foot lagoon used to treat plant waste and sewage.  When the company closed
 the lagoon in April 1981, it was filled in with compacted clay and  covered
 with another layer of compacted clay.

      An EPA inspection in May 1983 revealed that the lagoon cover was
 eroding,  and no vegetation was observed on the cover.  Heptachlor and
 endrin were detected in surface soil near the lagoons and in drainage
 paths leading off-site.  In April 1984, EPA detected heptachlor, chlordane,
 endrin, aldrin, and 4,4-DDD in on-site monitoring wells into the shallow
 aquifer..  This aquifer, which is not currently used, is connected to a
 deeper aquifer that supplies private drinking water wells within 3  miles
 of  the site.   The wells serve an estimated 1,300 people.

      The  site  is in the floodplain of the Mississippi River.   A  fresh-
 water wetland  is within 1 mile.  Cape Girardeau (population 34,000)  draws
 drinking  water from the Mississippi less than 1 mile downstream  of  the
 site.
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  '••"."   ,   .             . QUAIL RUN MOBILE. MANOR           «
                            Gray Summit, Missouri

       Conditions at listing (September 1983);  Quail Run Mobile  Manor is a
  trailer park located 2 miles east of Gray Summit, Franklin County,
  Missouri.   In the early 1970s, the road through the park was  sprayed with
  an unknown quantity of dioxin-contaminated waste oil.   In  1974,  some of
  the soil was excavated from the road and deposited in  the  area  between
  the road and a lagoon and also on two nearby properties which are also part
  of the  site.

       Early in 1983, EPA identified dioxin in soil samples  from  numerous
  locations  on the site, one as high as 1,100 parts per  billion.   As  a
  result, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) issued  a health  advisory
  warning that the more than 100 residents were at risk  of developing adverse
  health  effects from dioxin if .they remained in their homes.   Some of-the
  residents  had come to the trailer park from Times Beach, Missouri,  which
  also has a dioxin problem.

       In May 1983, EPA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency  (FEMA),
  and the State briefed the residents on the findings and explained FEMA's
  offer of temporary relocation.  Of 33 families, 29 applied for  relocation.

       Status (July 1984);  A few families are still residing at Quail Run.
  The site is scheduled to be cleaned up as part of a planned removal using
  CERCLA  emergency funds.  The project involves excavating and  restoring
  several on-site areas contaminated with dioxin.  The contaminated soil
 •will be stored temporarily on the site.

       EPA is deferring final rulemaking on this site because it does not
  meet the criteria currently specified to place a site on the  NPL.   EPA
  is considering revising the National Contingency Plan  (NCP),  the Federal
  regulation by which CERCLA is implemented, in such a way that Quail Run
  and similar sites where CDC has issued a health advisory will qualify
  for the NPL.

       Status (January 1986);  Removal actions are currently underway.   All
  families have been temporarily relocated, and all of the mobile homes-
  have been  decontaminated and sent off-site for rehabilitation.  The tasks
  remaining  under the removal action include construction of one remaining
  steel structure of a tctal^of 11 for temporary storage of contaminated
  soil; excavation and storage of remaining contaminated soil;  and site
  restoration.

       On Sept* 16, 1985, EPA revised the NCP to allow placing Quail  Run
  and similar sites on the NPL.  EPA is continuing to evaluate  this site
  and so  is  again deferring final rulemaking.
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              WHEELING DISPOSAL SERVICE  CO.,  INC.,  LANDFILL
                             Amazonia,  Missouri

     Wheeling Disposal Service Co.,  Inc., operates  a landfill on two
contiguous areas  covering approximately  200 acres.   The site is approximately
1 mile southeast  of Mazonia in Andrew County, Missouri.

     The landfill was  established  in the early 1970s.   Between June 1980
and September 1981, the company voluntarily ceased  operations pending
the issuance of State  and Federal  regulations on hazardous  waste disposal
facilities.  In September 1981, the  facility  resumed operations under the
authority of a special waste disposal  permit  issued by the  State of
Missouri.  The Missouri Department of  Natural Resources (MDNR) has •
periodically inspected and monitored ground water at the site since 1975.

     Based on monthly  MDNR hazardous waste logs,  wastes containing
pesticides (including  heptachlor,  toxaphene,  and lindane),  cyanide, arsenic,
sulfide, nickel,  cadmium, lead, zinc,  asbestos,  paint sludge, and tanning
sludge were disposed of at this landfill.

     In field investigations conducted by EPA in December 1980, November
1982, and November 1983, trichloroethylene, chloroform, and 1,2-dichloro-
ethane were detected  in monitoring wells and  springs on-site at concentrations
significantly above background levels.

     Drinking water is supplied to 314 residents of Amazonia through wells
within 1 to 2 miles of the site and  90 to 100 feet  deep in  the Missouri
River alluvial aguifer.  Shallow ground  water beneath the site provides
partial recharge  to the aguifer.

     Mace Creek,  4,000 feet  downslope  from the landfill,  is threatened by
drainage from the site.  Local surface waters are used for  fishing.
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          BURLINGTON NORTHERN RAILROAD  (SOWERS TIE-TREATING PLANT)
              .        ..•••..• Scmers, Montana

      Conditions at listing (October 1984);  Burlington Northern Railroad
 has treated ties on a 4.5-acre site in Somers,  Flathead  County, Montana,
 since around 1900.  The plant's current operations are regulated under
 the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act  (RCRA).  An old waste disposal
 lagoon downgradient of the RCRA-regulated facility has not been used
 since 1974 and is not regulated by RCRA.

      The old lagoon was used to dispose of creosote wastes from the wood-
 treatment process.  The wastes were discharged  from the  pond  via a ditch
 to a marshy area on the shore of Flathead Lake, the largest fresh  water
 lake west of the Mississippi River.  The lake is extensively  used  for
 camping and fishing, and towns along the lake such as Somers  use it for
 drinking water.

      On Feb.  28, 1984,  the State dug several shallow holes along the lake
 shore and took samples of creosote-saturated sand below  the ditch  outfall.
 Sludge/sediment samples were collected from the bottom of a 0.5-acre swamp
 pond located along the shore adjacent to the waste ddtch.   The  material
 was silty-sandy and stained with oil.

      Early in March 1984, consultants from Burlington Northern  drilled
 approximately 60 "test borings in the vicinity of the swamp pond,  in the
 waste ditch,  and below the seasonal high water beach of  Flathead Lake.
 About 46 percent of the test holes showed visual evidence of  creosote
 contamination.   The holes encompassed an area of approximately  3.5 acres,
 including the pond.  Soil samples were collected frcm the test  borings.
 Monitoring wells were installed at 10 sites around the pond.

      Status (January 1986);  In May and June 1985, Burlington Northern
 removed contaminated sludge, soil, and water from the swamp pond under a
 CERCLA section 106 EPA Consent Order for an immediate removal.   The
 materials were placed in two existing RCRA lagoons on the  plant site which
 were reconstructed to meet RCRA standards.   The conpany is moving the
 sludges and soils to another of its facilities at Paradise, Montana,  where
 they are being placed in a waste pile that meets RCRA standards.   Swamp
.pond water was processed through the plant's waste water recycling system.

      In December 1984,  Burlington Northern voluntarily submitted to EPA
 a remedial investigation/feasibility study (RI/FS) to determine the type
 and extent of contamination at the site and identify alternatives  for
 remedial action.  FPA negotiated with Burlington Northern  for further
 RI/FS studies,  and a Consent Agreement was signed on Oct.  9,  1985.   RI/FS
 activities are scheduled to be complete in approximately January 1987.

      This site remains in proposed status until EPA implements  the appropriate
 elements of its final policy for placing RCRA-related sites on  the NPL
 and then applies the policy to this site.
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                         LINDSAY MANUFACTURING CO.
                             Lindsay,  Nebraska

     Conditions at  listing  (October 1984);  Lindsay Manufacturing Co.
generates acid waste from a qalvanizinq process at its plant in Lindsay,
Platte County, Nebraska.  The wastes  were discharged into a 0.1-acre
unlined pond.  On Jan. 11,  1983, the  company sampled monitoring wells
near the pond.  Analyses indicate that ground water is contaminated by
acid and metals.  In October  1983,  the ponds were closed.  Prior to the
closing, the plant  received Interim Status, under the Resource Conservation
and Recovery  Act  (RCRA)  when  the company filed Part A of a permit application.

   Under a  Stipulated Agreement issued by the State, the company has
removed the source  of contamination and is purging the ground water.
Five municipal wells serving  the community of Lindsay are within 1 mile
of the site.

     Status (January 1986):  Lindsay  is pumping ground water and treating
it by neutralization and precipitation.  The State is monitoring the
ground water  restoration program.  Data from monitoring wells away from
the site suggest  that the program is  controlling the migration of contami-
nants from  the site.

     This site remains in proposed  status until EPA implements the appropriate
elements of its final policy  for placing RCRA-related sites on the NPL
and then applies  the policy to this site.
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                         MONROE AIJTO EQUIPMENT CO.
                               Cozad,  Nebraska

     The Monroe  Auto  Equipment Co.  Site covers approximately 26.3 acres
 on the  Platte River  flcodplain on  the outskirts of Cozad, Dawscn County,
 Nebraska.  The  company began  manufacturing  activities in Cozad in 1961.
 In 1981,  it employed 600  workers and produced 40,000  shock absorbers each
 day.  The company is owned  by Tenneco and is still in operation.

     Manufacturing processes include metal finishing,  welding, painting,
 electroplating, and  reclaiming of  waste oil. Sludges generated from
 treating plant  wastes contain chromium, cadmium, and  zinc.  This sludge is
 stored  in on-site surface impoundments.  Underground  tanks for storing
 organic solvents  are also on  the site.

     Results fron  an 1982  EPA  Water Supply Survey revealed that two of
 Cozad's seven drinking water  wells,  located in  the vicinity of the Monroe
 site, were contaminated with  trichlorcethylene  and other synthetic organic
 compounds.  The well system serves 4,400 people.  Subsequent sampling
 showed  that significant levels of  trichloroethylene and  acetone exist  in
 on-site wells.  The Platte  River and the Dawson County canal (which is
 about 2,000 feet  downstream of the site)  are used  for irrigation.

     On Jan. 18, 1983, EPA Headquarters  granted  a temporary exclusion
 delisting Monroe  Auto sludge  under the  Resource Conservation and Recover/
 Act (RCRA).  The  surface  impoundments,  therefore,  are not currently subject
 to-Interim Status  requirements of  RCRA.  EPA has asked the company to
 supply  new information on the sludge to meet the requirements of the RCRA
 amendments passed  in November 1984.

      Additional data are  needed to establish which part  of the facility
 is responsible  for ground water contamination.
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   ;                          HORSTMANN'S DUMP
                         East Hanover, New Jersey

; •--*• Horstmann's Dump covers about 15 acres on Great Meadow Lane-in East
Hanover, Morris  County,  New Jersey.  From 1965 to 1973, the owner/operator
accepted raw sewage and  septic  wastes from various industries.  The
sit£ is  in a marshy area,  and the wastes were dumped as fill.  Wastes
were deposited below the water  table.  The site was unlined and had
no leachate controls.

     In  1970 Horstmann registered as a public utility.  Subsequently,
citizens objected  about  Horstmann's operations to the New Jersey
Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) and the New Jersey Board
of Public Utilities  (NJBPU).   In 1973,  Horstmann petitioned NJBPU to
stop operations, which NJBPU agreed to.  As a result of this action,
NJDEP in 1974 ordered the  site  to close so that closure requirements
could be enforced.

     In  1984, EPA  tests  found lead, nickel, mercury, volatile organic .
chemicals, and PCBs in on-site  soil.  The soil is highly permeable,
which facilitates movement of contaminants into ground water.  About
75,000 people draw drinking water from public and private wells within
3 miles of the site.  A .well  of the South East County Utilities Authority
is less  than 2,000 feet  away.

     Surface.water is threatened because the site is in a swampy area
and is surrounded by wetlands.   The site is within the Passaic Valley
floodplain and is bordered by two Passaic River tributaries — Black
Brook ami Pinch  Brook.
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                             LODI MUNICIPAL WELL
                               Lodi, New Jersey

       Conditions at listing (October 1984):   The  Lodi Municipal Well in
  Lodi,  Bergen County, New Jersey, is contaminated with uranium and its
  decay products, according to tests conducted by  the State.  In December
  1983,  the State closed the well, which is one of nine wells serving
  about 24,000 people.  Other municipal  wells  are  being used, but they
  draw from the same aquifer.  The State is investigating to determine if
  ground water migrating from a nearby thorium-processing facility is
  contaminating the Lodi Municipal Well.

       Status (January 1986):  Additional  tests of the well water are
  planned to determine if the radionuclides present are associated with a
  naturally-occurring formation in the area.   The  analyses will also include
  nonradiological constituents, which are  used to  help identify the source
  of contaminants.

       EPA is deferring final rulemaking on this site because it needs more
  time to analyze the conments received  during the public comment period.
  Thus,  the' Lodi Municipal Well will remain in proposed status until a
 •later rulemaking.
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                                MATLACX, INC.
                        Woolwich Township, New Jersey

      Matlack,  Inc.,  has operated a tank cleaning and truck terminal in
 Woolwich Township, Gloucester County,  New Jersey, since 1962.  Fran 1962
 to  1976, rinse water from the cleaning of tanks used for transporting a
 variety of materials (including resins, organic solvents, and acids) was
 disposed of  in an unlined sand and gravel pit behind the terminal building.
 At  the end of  disposal operations, Matlack punped the lagoon and left the
 sludge in place.  The pit was subsequently filled with demolition rubble
 and clean fill.

      The New Jersey  Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP),
 Gloucester County Health Department, and Matlack have sampled ground
 'water and soil both  on- and  off-site.   The results indicate that on-site
 soils are contaminated with  volatile organic chemicals, including
 trichloroethane,  tetrachloroethane, and 1,2-dichloroethene.  A private
 residential  well  about 0.25  miles northwest of the site is similarly
 contaminated.   The residents are now using bottled water.

      On January 18,  1984,^JDEP notified Matlack that it should investigate
 hydrogeological conditions at the site.  In response, Matlack hired a
 consultant to  install and sample additional  monitoring wells.

      About 300  people within 3 miles of the site are served by ground water.

      This site is an inactive part of  an active facility that received
 Interim Status under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act when the
 owner filed-Part  A of a permit application.
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                       NAVAL WEAPONS STATION EARLE (SITE A)
                              Colts Neck, New Jersey

        Conditions  at listing (October 1984);  The Naval Weapons Station
    Earle covers  10,048 acres in Colts Neck,  Monmouth County, New Jersey.
    Since the  early  1940s,  the U.S. Navy has handled, stored, renovated, and
    transshipped  munitions  at the station.  These operations involve preserving
    and maintaining  ammunition, missile components, and explosives; rendering
    safe unserviceable and/or dangerous ammunition and explosives; and providing
    support  to the Fleet Mine Facility.  The  station also conducts or has
    conducted  nonordnance activities,  radiological operations, materials
    storage, and  waste disposal operations.

        Site  A covers 29 waste areas  identified by the Navy.  Wastes
    generated  in  Site  A include ordnance materials, grit and paint, paint
    scrapings,  solvent/paint sludges,  ammonium picrate, lead bullets from
    small arms  ranges, zinc, lead, titanium,  and small amounts of other
    constituents.  The Navy detected contaminants in a limited number of
    sediment and  surface water samples, but  further background samples are
    necessary.

        The waste areas of Site A overlie the Cohansey Sand, Kirkwood
    Formation,  Vincentown Formation, Red Bank Sand, Navesink Formation/
    and the Wenonah  Formation aquifers.  All  are hydraulically connected, so
    that water  can move among them. An estimated 1,900 people within 3
   miles of Site A  are served by these aquifers.  Local surface water is
    used for recreation and irrigation purposes.  An estimated 270 people
    are served  by surface water within 3 miles downstream of Site A.

        The station is participating  in the  Installation Restoration Program,
    the specially funded program established  in 1978 under which the Depart-
   ment of Defense  has been identifying and  evaluating its past hazardous
   waste sites and  controlling the migration of hazardous contaminants from
    these sites.  The  Navy  has completed Phase I (records search).  Phase II
    (preliminary  survey)  is underway.

        Status (July  1985):   EPA and  the Navy have agreed upon a scope of
   work which  calls for investigation of 13  of the 29 areas.
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                      BIOCLINICAL  LABORATORIES,  INC.
                             Bohemia, New  York

     Conditions  at listing  (June 1986);   BioClinical Laboratories,  Inc.,
formulated and mixed organic and inorganic chemicals for  repackaging and
distribution in  Bohemia, Suffolk County,  New York,  from 1978 to 1981.  The
company occupied one 3,000-square-foot unit of a 10 unit  one-story  brick
building.

     Drums used  for mixing  chemicals were washed for reuse;  the rinse water
was routinely dumped down sink  drains or  directly onto the ground.   Leaking
drums containing hazardous  wastes  were stored  outdoors for long periods of
time, according  to Suffolk  County.  After receiving complaints, the County
Department of Health investigated  and sampled  surface  water, storm  drains,
sanitary drains, and leaching pools on the site. The  Health Department
detected high levels of organic solvents  and heavy  metals, chloroform at
particularly high levels.   In November 1981, five months  after the  highest
level of chloroform was confirmed, the Health  Department  ordered the company
to pump out a septic tank and pool.

     In August 1981, the county issued a  Consent Order to BioClinical
Laboratories, citing several violations,  including  improperly storing hazardous
materials, discharging materials in excess of  ground water standards, and
not possessing a permit under the  State Pollutant Discharge  Elimination
System.  The company has not installed monitoring wells,  as  reguested by the
Health Department.  BioClinical Laboratories abandoned the site following a
fire in July 1981.  The site is currently occupied  by  the American  Flagpole
Division of Kearney National Co.

     One well in the Suffolk County Water Authority's  Locust Avenue Well
Field is within  0.5 miles of the site.  The well taps  the contaminated aguifer,
which is the sole source of drinking water for about 11,000  people  within 3
miles of the site.

     Rattlesnake Brook, which is used for recreation,  is  within 3 miles of
the site.

     Status  (September 1986):   EPA is reviewing  the property owner's workplan
for an investigation of the site.
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                               CONKLIN DUMPS
                             Conklin, New York

      Conditions at listing (June 1986);  The Conklin Dumps Site consists
 of  two abandoned landfills located on a 619-acre tract of land in Conklin,
 Broome County,  New York.   -The Town of Conklin owned and operated the
 landfills from  1964 to 1975.

      The lower  or  eastern-most landfill, which operated fron 1964 to
 1969, consists  of  three linear trenches.  Assuming an average depth of
 30  feet for each trench,  the lower landfill contains approximately 3.7
 million cubic feet of  waste material.  Preliminary indications are that
 the landfill  contains  municipal solid waste,  according to a consultant
 to  the Broome County Industrial Development Agency (BIDA), which is
 considering purchasing the property to create an industrial park.  Some
 industrial and  chemical wastes also may have  been deposited.

      The upper  landfill operated from 1969 until it closed in 1975 under
 a closure order issued by the State.  Most of the waste deposited in this
 landfill was  placed in six unlined cells;  subseouently, additional waste
material was  piled over the cells.  The majority of the waste is municipal
 solid waste,  although  sampling indicates that some industrial and chemical
waste may have  been deposited.  Assuming an average depth of 25 feet, the
 total  filled  volume of  this landfill is estimated at 6.9 million cubic feet.

      The State  has observed leachate from the dumps draining towards
Carlin Creek, a tributary to the Susguehanna  River, which is used for
recreation.   Ground water on the site is grossly contaminated with arsenic,
chromium, mercury,  and  various organic chemicals,  including benzene,
according  to  tests conducted by BIDA's consultant.   Private wells near
the site contain high levels of arsenic and traces.of  organic chemicals,
according  to  the consultant and the  New York  State  Department of  Health.

     The  lower  dump is  in highly permeable soils and is about 800 feet
upgradient frcm residential areas using private  wells.   About 2,000
people depend on wells within 3 miles  of the  site for  their drinking
water.  On the  site is  a  large wetland designated by the U.S. Department
of the  Interior as  an important biological resource.

     Status (September  1986);   EPA is  considering various alternatives
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                     ISLIP MUNICIPCAL SANITARY LANDFILL
                              Islip,  New York

     The Islip Municipal  Sanitary Landfill covers approximately 65 acres
on Blydenburgh Road  in the  Town of Islip,  Suffolk County, New York.  The
site is also known as the Blydenburgh Road Landfill.  The town has operated
the landfill since 1957.  It has  a permit  from the State to accept municipal
wastes.

     In early 1978,  the State filed  an Administrative Complaint against
Hickey Carting Co.   A hearing was conducted which concluded that in June
1978 Hickey Carting  had disposed  approximately 50 or more 55-gallon
drums containing  a mixture  of tetrachloroethylene and other liguids at the
site.  The drums  were buried in the  highest (southeastern) part of the
site.  In May 1979,  the New York  Commissioner of Environmental Conservation
adopted the findings of the hearing  and fined Hickey Carting $4,000.

     According to tests conducted by the County Health Department in
1980, private wells  adjacent to the  landfill are contaminated with
tetrachloroethylene, trichloroethane, trichloroethylene, and vinyl chloride.
An estimated 75,000  people  draw drinking water from Suffolk County Water
Authority wells,  in  addition to numerous private wells; all are within 3
miles of the landfill.
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                               WARWICK LANDFILL
                              Warwick,  New York

     Conditions  at listing (September 1985):   Warwick Landfill is located
in the Town of Warwick, Orange County,  New York.   It is approximately 1 mile
northeast of the Village of Greenwood Lake and approximately 7.5 miles south
of the Village of Monroe.

     The landfill is roughly  L-shaped and occupies approximately 13 acres on
a 25-acre privately-owned  property  fronting on Penaluna Road.  The surrounding
area is generally hilly, with residential clusters and wooded areas.  Both
wetlands and rock outcrops exist adjacent to  landfilled areas.

     In about 1957, the town  started  to accept municipal wastes at the site
under a permit from the Orange County Department  of Health.  Industrial
chemical wastes  also may have been  disposed of at the site over an undetermined
period of time.  In 1977,  the owner leased the site to Grace Disposal and
Leasing, Ltd., of Harriman, New  York.  In 1979, the State identified volatile
organic compounds in leachate at the  site. The State subseguently issued a
restraining order and closed  the landfill.

     Later, the  State found relatively low levels of organic and metal compounds
in soil, ground  water, surface water, and sediment on the site.  Drainage
from the landfill enters a stream south of the site which flows into Greenwood
Lake, a major recreational resource approximately 0.5 miles from the site.

     The landfill is unlined  and overlies moderately permeable soil and rock.
Ground water is  found at shallow depths (between  1 and 2 feet).  Private
wells, the nearest within  0.15 miles, are potentially threatened.  Approximately
2,100 residents  depend on  wells  within 3 miles of the site as their source
of drinking water.

     Status (September 1986):  EPA  is considering various alternatives for the
site.
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                              ABERDEEN  PESTICIDE DUMPS
                              Aberdeen, North Carolina

     The Aberdeen Pesticide Dumps Site  is  located in  Aberdeen,  a" rural  area in
Moore County, North Carolina.  The site consists of five dumps  within 2 miles  of
each other.  All  but  one  are privately owned.

     The Fairway  Six  dump covers approximately  1.5 acres and was  discovered in
August 1984 during construction of a new golf course.  In October 1984, the North
Carolina Solid and Hazardous Waste Management Branch  (SHWMB) found several  bags
labeled toxaphene and noted a strong chemical odor.   The soil contained DDT, ODD,
toxaphene, and lindane  (BHC), according to SHWMB analyses.

     The Twin dumps cover about 1 acre; one  is  privately owned  and one  is
owned by Aberdeen and used for recreation.   They are within 350 feet  of each
other.  The dumps were  reported to SHWMB in  August 1984 by State  highway personnel
who had smelled chemical  odors in the area.  SHWMB detected various pesticides in
Twin dumps soil.  Several operations have  manufactured pesticides in  a  building 500
feet from the dumps:  Taylor Chemical Co.  (1936-64);  E-Z Flo, owned by  Union Carbide
Corp. (1964-72);  and  Farm Chemicals, Inc.  (1972 to the present).

     The Mclver pesticide dump covers approximately 1 acre.  It was discovered in
November 1984 when SHWMB, acting on information provided by a citizen,  found 200-
300 55-gallon pesticide drums in Lucks Landfill,  a rubble landfill occupying a
leased portion of the Mclver property.  The  State determined that the drums con-
tained small amounts  of parathion and had  been  shipped by Farm  Chemicals, Inc.
Soil at the landfill  contains many of the  same  pesticides found at the  other
dumps.  Further investigation found another  area where pesticide  bags and
residues had been dumped.

     In February  1985,  the State, Farm Chemicals, Inc., and Lucks Construction Co.
signed an Administrative  Order on Consent  requiring the companies  to  remove
the drums from the Mclver dump.  In March  1985,  687 drums were  removed, steam
cleaned, triple rinsed, crushed, and sent  to the Moore County landfill.  Rinsate
was applied to farm land  as per label directions for  the pesticide.

     In June 1985, using  CERCLA emergency  funds,  EPA removed pesticide-contaminated
soil and wastes from  the  Fairway Six, Twin,  and Mclver dumps.

     The Route 211 dump covers approximately 0.75 acres.  The owner re-
ported it in July 1985 after EPA emergency actions.  SHWMB investigated, finding
a pile containing cardboard containers, pesticide bags (one marked Taylor Chemical),
and various powders and tarry residues.  SHWMB  detected various pesticides  in  soil.

     The 0.5-acre Farm Chemicals, Inc., dump is  approximately 500  feet  from the
Twin dumps.  The  company  has manufactured  pesticides  since 1972.   Previously,
E-Z Flo (1964-72) and Taylor Chemical (1936-64) manufactured pesticides there.
After discovery of the  four other pesticide  dumps, EPA investigated Farm Chemicals
in May 1986.  Various pesticides and PCB-1242 were found.

     Soils at all five areas are permeable,  facilitating movement  of  contaminants
into ground water.  Nearby Page's Lake is  also potentially threatened.  About  5,100
people draw drinking  water from public and private wells within 3  miles of  the site.
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                     NATIONAL STARCH  &  CHEMICAL  CORP.
                        Salisbury,  North  Carolina

     Conditions at listing  (April  1985);   National  Starch & Chemical Corp.
manufactures specialty chemicals for  the  textile and furniture industries
in two plants covering more than 465  acres in Salisbury,  Rowan County,
North Carolina.  The company purchased  the land  and a plant from Proctor
Chemical Co. in 1969 and  in 1970 started  construction of  another plant.
From November 1980 until  June 1983, the Proctor  Chemical  plant (National
Starch kept this name for one of the  plants)  was regulated  under the Resource
Conservation and Recovery Act as a  storer of  hazardous waste.  The status
was withdrawn_after the company guit  storing  hazardous waste on-site for
over 90 days.

     National Starch deposited about  350,000  gallons of liguid waste containing
lead and various organic  chemicals  in unlined trenches in a 2-acre area.
According to tests conducted by the company's consultant, ground water
beneath the trench area is contaminated with  lead,  xylene,  toluene, and
other organic chemicals.  The plants  are  located in a rural area that
depends heavily on wells  for drinking water.   About 7,700 people use public
and private wells within  3 miles of the site  for drinking water.  The
nearest well is 2,200 feel from the site.

     Status (September 1985);  EPA  is considering various alternatives for
the site.
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                  GENERAL ELECTRIC CO.  (COSHOCTON PLANT)
                             Coshocton,  Ohio

     Conditions at listing  (October  1984);   General  Electric Co. disposed
of wastes on a 2.5-acre site at  its  Coshocton, Coshocton  County, Ohio,
plant.  The wastes, frcm the production  of  resins, contained phenol.
They were placed in a landfill and infiltration lagoons from 1946 to 1977.

     Ground water near  the  lagoons is contaminated with phenol, barium,
arsenic, and other pollutants, according to tests conducted by a consultant
to General Electric.  City  and private wells within  3  miles of the site
draw water from a shallow aquifer.   About 15,000 people are involved.

     General Electric has hired  a consultant to study  ground water in the
area of the waste site.

     The facility received  Interim Status under the  Resource Conservation
and Recovery Act (RCRA) when the ccmpany filed Part  A  of  a  permit application
for treatment and storage of hazardous waste.

     Status (January 1986);  This site remains in proposed  status until
EPA implements the appropriate elements  of  its final policy for placing
RCRA-related sites on the NPL and then applies the policy to this site.
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                        TRW,  INC.  (MINERVA PLANT)
                              Minerva,  Ohio

     The TRW, Inc., Site  covers  54 acres  in Minerva, Stark County, Ohio.
The Minerva plant is  adjacent to State  Road 183,  approximately 1.3 miles
northeast of the  intersection of Route  183 and  U.S.  Route 30.  TRW
purchased the initial  property in 1954  and expanded  twice by addinq
adjacent properties.   Farmland lies  to  the north  and east of the site.
The TRW property extends  south to Sandy Creek,  which is used for
recreation.

     The plant conducts metal-castinq operations.  Until 1976,  PCBs were
used as working fluids in diffusion  pumps.  Spent PCBs were stored in
drums on the back pad  of  the  plant and  apparently leaked into the drainage
ditch adjacent to the  pad.  Waste wash  water and  spent casting wax,
which may have come into  contact with the PCBs, were discarded into a
ditch that flowed to  the  south to a  pond.  Volatile  organic chemicals
(trichloroethylene before 1972 and 1,1,1-trichloroethane after 1972)
were used as degreasers,  and  spent degreasers were discharged to the
ditch.

     Ground water on  the  site is contaminated with PCRs, trichloro-
ethylene, 1,1,1-trichloroethane,  1,1-dichloroethane, and 1,1-dichloro-
ethylene, according to analyses  conducted by a  consultant to TRW.

     Minerva city wells are  located  approximately 1  mile southwest and
downgradient of the TRW building,  west  of Sandy Creek, and south of Route
30.  The wells draw water at. 30  to 120  feet from  a sand and gravel aguifer,
the same aguifer that  underlies  TRW  property.  The wells serve 4,560
people.  Within 3 miles of the site  are shallow residential wells serving
approximately 114 persons in  Minerva, 125 persons in Pekin, 400 persons
in East Rochester, and 200 persons in Bayard.  The nearest residential
well is 925 feet from  the TRW plant.

     On June 23,  1985, the State issued an Administrative Order involving
contaminated soil, sediments, and wastes.  In November 1985, TRW completed
placing the materials  in  an on-site  secure disposal  cell.  On April 2R,
1986, the State issued an Administrative  Order  covering cleanup of ground
water.
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                          ALLIED  PLATING,  INC.
                             Portland,  Oregon

     Allied  Plating,  Inc., started  operating  a chrome-plating facility in
Portland, Multnomah County,  Oregon, in 1957.  The operation generated
electroplating wastes  that contain  heavy metals  (including chromium,
barium, cadmium, lead, and mercury)  and arsenic,  according to tests
conducted by EPA,  the  State, and  the company.

     For over 25 years, the  company discharged the wastes  without pre-
treatment into an  unlined pond  in an on-site  0.5-acre  swamp that had
been filled  in.  In mid-1985, during an EPA inspection,  the banks of the
pond were eroding, and the natural  drainage channels were  filled in with
refuse.  Shortly thereafter, the  owner pumped the contents of the pond
into the Portland  sewer system.

     In 1978, the  company detected  chromium and barium in  an on-site well
and in industrial  and municipal wells  within  2 miles of  the site.   EPA
and the State confirmed the  results in 1981,  1984,  and 1985.  About
1,500 people draw  drinking water  from  public  and  private wells within 3
miles of the site. -A well used for food processing is 1,700 feet frcm
the site.  Ground  water is also used for irrigation within 3 miles of
the site.

     The site drains into Columbia  Slough, which  is 600  feet to the north
northeast.   The slough is a  part  of the Columbia  River.

     The company received Interim Status under the Resource Conservation
and Recovery Act (RCRA) when it filed  Part A  of a permit application
for a surface impoundment.   In  1982, the company  filed for bankruptcy
under Chapter 11 of the Federal .bankruptcy code,  and in  1984 consented  to
liguidation  under  Chapter 7  bankruptcy.

     Because the owner or operator  is  in bankruptcy and  may not be
financially  able to take appropriate remedial action,  the  site meets the
first component of EPA's policy for listing RCRA-related sites.  In
addition, the company lost Interim  Status  (and hence authority to operate)
when it did  not certify by Nov. 8,  1985, that it  was complying with
certain RCRA Subtitle C regulations.
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                  AMERICAN ELECTRONICS LABORATORIES,  INC.
                       MDntgoneryville, Pennsylvania

      American Electronics Laboratories, Inc. (AEL) manufactures"electronic
communication equipment and components on a 20-acre parcel  of  land in
Montgomeryville, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.  AEL uses trichloroethylene
 (TCE)  in  its  operations.

      The  Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources (PA DER)  and
AEL have  detected TCE, 1,1,1-trichloroethane, tetrachloroethylene, and
related breakdown products in on-site and off-site wells.   Soils  on the
site also contain TCE (up to 50,000 ppb).

      An estimated 106,000 people use public and private  wells  within 3 miles
of  the  facility as their source of drinking water.  A public well is
within  50 feet of the site.

      AEL  has  removed 125 cubic yards of contaminated  soil and  transported
it  to an  EPA-approved hazardous waste facility.  Since 19.81, AEL has been
treating  contaminated ground water by punping on-site monitoring  wells
and treating  the water at a nearby sewage treatment plant.

      The  site is 950 feet north of an unnamed tributary  to  Neshaminy
Creek,  which  is used for recreation.
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                   AMETEK,  INC.  (HUNTER SPRING DIVISION)
                            Hatfield, Pennsylvania

      Anetek, Inc.'s  Hunter Spring Division manufactures precision springs,
 reels, and measuring  and controlling apparatus on an 8-acre site  in
 Hatfield, Montgomery County,  Pennsylvania.  The facility  uses  trichloroethylene
 (TCE) as a degreasing solvent.

      In February 1986, the North Penn Water Authority  (NPWA) detected TCE
 and 1,1-dichloroethylene in on-site and downgradient wells.  Background
 wells contained  neither of these contaminants.

      An estimated 69,700 people  obtain drinking water  from public and
 private wells within 3 miles  of  the facility.
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                   AVCO LYCOMING  (WILLIAMSPORT  DIVISION)
                         Williamsport, Pennsylvania

      The'Avco Lycoming (Williamsport Division) Site  consists ^approximately
 28 acres in the west-central portion of Williamsport, Lycoming.County,
 Pennsylvania.  For over 50 years, this facility has  been  primarily involved
 in the production of aircraft engines.  The plant operates  a s^ill for
 the reclamation of Varsol, a petroleum solvent, and  (since  the-^early 1950s)
 a waste treatment facility.  Past poor housekeeping  practice^' apparently
 have contaminated the site, according to the Pennsylvania Department of
 Environmental Resources (PA DER).

      On-site monitoring wells, off-site downgradient wells,  and  a well
 field of the Williamsport Municipal Water Authority  (WMWA)  3,000 feet
 southwest of the site are contaminated with trichloroethylene and
 chromium, according to tests conducted in 1985 by a  consultant to the
 company.  The well field was used as a backup supply under  drought
 conditions until it was closed in November 1984 because of  contamination
 with volatile organic chemicals.  WMWA serves about  65,000  people within
 3 miles of the site.                                        -•   .

      In November 1985, Avco and PA DER signed a Consent Order and Agreement
 involving monitoring of ground water and cleanup of  on-site soils and
 ground water.  Currently, ground water is being pumped, treated  to remove
 contaminants, and returned to the ground.  Cleanup of the municipal well
 field was not addressed in the order.
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                        CCMMODORE SEMICONDUCTOR GROUP
                   Lower Providence Township, Pennsylvania

       The Oonmodore Semiconductor Group Site covers about  10 acres in the
  Valley Forge Corporate Center in Lower Providence  Township, Montgomery
  County,  Pennsylvania.  Commodore manufactures computers,  calculators,
  and various electronic components on property rented  from Valley Forge
  Corporate Center.

       Waste solvents, including trichloroethylene (TCE), were  stored in
  an underground concrete storage tank on-site until 1974,  when it was taken
  out of service.  A steel tank was then installed.   Inspections conducted
  by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources (PA DER)  indicate
  both tanks have leaked.

       According to tests conducted by EPA, PA DER,  and Commodore, soils
  and ground water both on and off the site have been contaminated with
  TCE, 1,1-dichloroethylene, trans-l,2-dichloroethylene,  and 1,1,2,2-
  tetrachloroethane.  Two public water supply wells  of  the  Audubon Water
  Co., which serves 6,300 people, were taken out of  service in  1979 due to
  contamination.  Approximately 800,000 people draw  drinking water from
  wells into the contaminated aquifer within 3 miles of the site.

       In  1979, Commodore started investigations and cleanup actions  at
  the site.  The company has excavated soils and pumped water from a
  contaminated well, then sprayed it onto fields.  The  volatile solvents
  dissipate into the air.  Since February 1984, an air  stripper,  which is
  more efficient at removing the solvents, has been  in  use.
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                               CRYOCHEM,  INC.
                            Wbrman, Pennsylvania

      CryoChem, Inc./ has operated a metals-fabrication facility on a
 19-acre site in Woman, Berks County, Pennsylvania,  from 1962 to the
 present.  The facility is composed of several production and storage
 buildings and an office complex situated at the lower portion of the
 property.  The company uses solvents to  clean finished metal parts.  Any
 excess solvent is collected in shop drains.  Prior to 1982,  the company
 used about one 55-gallon drum of 1,1,1-trichloroethane per year for 3 or
 4 years and allowed the shop drain system to discharge into  nearby surface
 waters that lead to Manatawny Creek.

      In August 1981, the Pennsylvania Department of  Environmental Resources
 (PA DER), acting on complaints of area residents,  began sampling
 residential wells.  Analysis of nine wells downgradient of the site
 detected chlorinated solvents, including 1,1,1-trichlorethane.  In June
 1982, PA DER detected up to 270 parts per billion  (ppb)  of 1,1,1-trichloro-
 ethane on-site in an unnamed tributary to Ironstone  Creek, which is
 used for fishing.  As a result of this discharge,  PA DER notified the
 company that it was in violation of the  Pennsylvania Clean Streams Law.
 PA DER also recommended that the company discontinue the use of 1,1,1-
 trichloroethane, clean out the drain system, and properly dispose of all
 contaminated materials.  The company complied with the recommendations.

      Since the original sampling, PA DER has extensively sampled resi-
 dential wells located near and mostly downgradient of the site.  Concen-
 trations of 1,1,1-trichloroethane generally ranged from 0 to ]80 ppb, and
 one measured 600 ppb.

      PA DER notified the affected residents of  the contamination.  Seme
 citizens have opted to buy bottled water or are filtering tap water at
 their own expense.  About 1,100 people are served  by wells within 3 miles
 of the site.
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              DELTA QUARRIES &  DISPOSAL, INC./STOTLER LANDFILL
                    Antis/Logan Townships, Pennsylvania

      The Delta Quarries &  Disposal,  Inc./Stotler Landfill Site covers
 40 acres in Antis and  Logan Townships, Blair County, Pennsylvania.
 Since the 1960s, the site  has  disposed of municipal wastes without  a
 permit.  Originally, the site  consisted of two adjacent landfills—Stotler
 and Parshall-Kruise.   They are now one large fill owned by Delta Quarries &
 Disposal, Inc.

      On-site wells and an  off-site spring are contaminated with chlorine-
 containing organic chemicals,  according to tests conducted by the
 Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources.  Nearby residential
 wells contain low levels of the contaminants.  About 1,500 people depend
 on wells within 3 miles of the site  as a source of drinking water.
 Ground water flows to  the  northeast  in the direction of the Little  Juniata
 River, which is within 3 miles of  the site.  The river is used for
 recreational purposes.
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                         EASTERN  DIVERSIFIED METALS
                           Hometown,  Pennsylvania

      The Eastern Diversified Metals  Site covers about 25 acres in Hometown,
 Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania.   From 1966 to 1977, the company disposed
 of an estimated 157 million pounds of  "fluff  (waste insulation material)
 from recycling of copper wire  in an  open pile  60 feet high covering an
 area 500 by 3,000 feet.  The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental
 Resources (PA DER) found that  the  waste pile was producing phenolic
 leachate.  In 1974, as a result  of a Consent Agreement with PA DER, the
 company installed a waste water  treatment plant, diversion ditches, and
 an interceptor that diverts shallow  ground water to the treatment plant.
 The surface impoundment associated with the waste water treatment plant
 sometimes overflows into a tributary to the Little Schuylkill River,
 which is used for trout fishing  within 3 miles downstream of the site.

      Sludge from the waste water treatment plant was disposed of on top
 of the waste pile until 1983,  when PA  DER issued a Notice of Violation
 to the company.  The sludge is now being taken to a disposal facility
 regulated under the Resource Conservation and  Recovery Act.

      The site is underlain by  Mauch  Chunk,  one of the most important
 water-bearing formations in northeastern Pennsylvania.  About 1,400
 people are served by wells that  are  within 3 miles of the site and draw
 on the Mauch Chunk Formation.
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            GENTLE CLEANERS,  INC./GRANITE KNITTING MILLS,  INC.
                          Souderton, Pennsylvania

     The. Gentle Cleaners,  Inc./Granite Knitting Mills,  Inc., Site  is  in
Souderton, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.   Gentle Cleaners,  Inc., has  been
in business since 1953.   It used  perchloroethylene (PCE or tetrachloroethylene)
during 1953-83; it changed  to a combination of PCE and  1,1,1-trichloroethane
(1,1,1-TCEA)  in 1983.  Next door  to Gentle Cleaners is Granite Knitting
Mills, Inc., a hosiery mill that  has operated for over  50 years.   This
facility used PCE as  part of its  dry cleaning operations for many  years.

     The North Penn Water Authority (NPWA) discovered PCE in a municipal
well in the area  in  1979.   Tests Conducted by EPA in August 1986 identified
Gentle Cleaners,  Inc., and  Granite Knitting Mills, Inc., as the sources  of
'of 1,1,1-TCEA in  a private  well 200 feet south of the site.

     An estimated 74,700 people obtain drinking water from public  and
private wells within  3 miles of the site.  There is no-other source of
drinking water.

     The site is  800  feet northwest of Skippack Creek, which is used  for
recreation.
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                        HELLERTOWN MANUFACTURING CO.
                          Hellertown/ Pennsylvania

      HelXertown Manufacturing Co., a subsidiary of Champion Spark  Plug
 Co., of Toledo, Ohio,  formerly manufactured spark plugs at  1770  Main
 Street in the borough of Hellertown, Northampton County, Pennsylvania.
 Operations commenced at the facility in 1930 and continued  until it
 closed in October 1982.

      Between 1930 and 1976, Hellertown used five on-site lagoons for the
 disposal  of its wastes.  According to a preliminary assessment made by  the
 Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources (PA DER), the wastes
 disposed  of on-site included zinc plating waste, chrome dip waste,
 cleaners, and cutting  oils.  The lagoons were unlined, thereby permitting
 wastes to seep into the local soils and rock strata.  The lagoons
 covered approximately  50,000 square feet and could hold an  estimated
 18,400 cubic yards.  In 1970, the company reported that it  discharged
 300,000 drums of wastes to the lagoons.  In 1976, all five  lagoons  were
 filled with excavated  material from construction of the City of
 Bethlehem Waste Water  Treatment Plant.  From 1976 until 1982, Hellertown
 wastes were discharged into the local sanitary sewer system.

      Ground water underlying the site is contaminated with  1,2-
 dichloroethylene,  trichloroethylene, vinyl chloride, tetrachloroethylene, •
 and 1,1,1-trichloroethane, according to tests conducted by  PA DER  in early
 1985.  This aquifer within 3 miles of the site supplies water to the
 Hellertown Water Co.,  the Bethlehem Steel Corp. plant, and  private  residences,
 affecting an estimated 15,000 people.

      Surface water is  potentially threatened by the site because the filled
 lagoons have no diversion structures.  Saucon Creek and fjehigh River are
 used for  fishing within 3 miles downstrean of the site.
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   J.W.  REX CO./ALLIED PAINT MANUFACTURING CO., INC./KEYSTONE HYDRAULICS
                           Lansdale, Pennsylvania

      The  J.W. Rex Co./Allied Paint Manufacturing Co.,  Inc./Keystone Hydraulics
 Site  covers 1 acre in Lansdale, Montgomery County,  Pennsylvania.   J.W.  Rex
 Co.,  which was involved in heat-treatment of metals, owned  the  site before
 the mid-1970s.  An underground storage tank was on  the site.  J.W.  Rex
 used  trichloroethylene (TCE)  in another plant it operated nearby.   Allied
 Paint Manufacturing Co., Inc., acquired the site in the mid-1970s.   In
 1979, while Allied owned the site, a fire destroyed a  building  on  the
 site.  Subsequently, Allied removed the underground tank.   Soils surrounding
 the tank  contained high levels of TCE, according to the North Penn Water
 Authority (NPWA).

      Keystone Hydraulics has owned the site since 1979 and  used it to
 store construction equipment.

      High levels of TCE, vinyl chloride, cis-1,2-dichloroethylene,
 perchloroethylene  (PCE or tetrachloroethylene), and 1,1-dichloroethylene
 were  detected by NPWA in an on-site well.  Contamination decreases  with
 distance  from the  site.

      In 1979, NPWA took a well within 200 feet of the  site  out  of  service
 due to  contamination from TCE and PCE.  An estimated 101,000 people
 obtain  drinking water from public and private wells within  3' miles  of the
 site.

      An unnamed tributary to Towamencin Creek is about 5,000 feet  from
 the site.
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                    LETTERKENNY ARMY DEPOT (PDO AREA)
                       Franklin County,  Pennsylvania

     Conditions at listing  (April  1985);   The  Letterkenny Army Depot is
located 2 miles north of Chambersburg,  Franklin County, Pennsylvania.
It was established in 1942-as an ammunition storage  facility.   Fran 1947
to the present, operations  have included  the maintenance, overhaul, and
rebuilding of wheeled and tracked  vehicles and missiles.   These operations
have employed large quantities of  chlorinated  organic  solvents and cleaning
agents.  Some wastes  from these operations have been stored and disposed
of in the Property Disposal Office (PDO)  Area  by  landfilling and spreading
on the ground.  This  NPL site consists  of the  PDO Area, which covers
approximately 250 acres.

     Ground water beneath the PDO  Area  and the surface waters draining
the area are contaminated with chlorinated organic chemicals,  including
chloroform, 1,1-dichloroethylene,  1,1,1-trichloroethane,  and trichloroethylene,
according to tests conducted by the Army. To  date,  no residential water
wells have been found to be contaminated  by activities in the PDO area.

     Letterkenny Army Depot is participating in the  Installation
Restoration Program (IRP),  the specially  funded program established in
1978 under which the  Department of Defense has been  identifying and
evaluating its past hazardous waste sites and  controlling the migration
of hazardous contaminants from these sites.  The  Army  has completed
studies to determine  sources of on-depot  ground water  contamination.

     The facility received  Interim Status under the  Resource Conservation
and Recovery Act when the Army filed Part A of a  permit application.

     Status (April 1987);   IRP activities continue.

     This site is being reproposed to be  consistent  with  EPA's recently
proposed policy for placing on the NPL  sites located on  Federally-owned
facilities that are subject to the corrective  action authorities of
Subtitle C of the Resource  Conservation and Recovery Act.  EPA is soliciting
comments on the Hazard Ranking System score for the  site, which includes
areas subject to RCRA Subtitle C corrective action authorities.
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                 NAVAL AIR DEVELOPMENT CENTER (8 WASTE AREAS)
                      Warminister Township, Pennsylvania

      The Naval Air Development Center (NADC) covers 734 acres in
 Warminster Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.  NADC was commissioned
 in 1944.  Its main mission is research, development, testing, and
 evaluation for naval aircraft systems.  The center also conducts studies
 in antisubmarine warfare systems and software development.

      Waste-generating activities include aircraft maintenance and
 repair,  pest control, fire-fighting training, machine and plating shop
 operations, spray  painting, and various materials research and testing
 activities in NADC laboratories.  Wastes generated include paints,
 solvents, industrial waste water treatment sludge, and waste oils.   Eight
 waste  areas covering more than 2 acres are included in this NPL site.

      Navy contractors detected 1,1-dichloroethane, chromium, and
 nickel in ground water on the base.  No significant contamination was
 detected in nearby surface water.  The waste areas potentially affect
 the Stockton Formation aquifer, which provides water for over 100,000
 persons  within 3 miles of the site.  Local surface water bodies are  used
 for recreation and industrial purposes.

      NADC is participating in the Installation Restoration Program,  the
 specially funded progran established in 1978 under which the Department
 of Defense has been identifying and evaluating its past hazardous waste
 sites  and controlling the migration of hazardous contaminants from these
 sites.   The Navy has completed Phase I (records search) and Phase II
 (confirmation study).  As part of these efforts, NADC's contractor
 installed monitoring wells and completed a ground water quality study.
 Ground water continues to be monitored.
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                         NOVAK SANITARY LANDFILL
                  South Whitehall Township,  Pennsylvania

     The Novak Sanitary Landfill covers approximately 60 acres in -South
Whitehall Township, Lehigh  County,  Pennsylvania.   The privately-owned
landfill started operating  in  the late 1960s.   Initially, demolition
wastes were disposed in an  abandoned quarry  on the site.   Later,  the
landfill began accepting municipal  and industrial  wastes.

      In 1980, a new phase  began when  the first of five trenches  was
excavated.  Disposal in these  trenches was under a solid waste permit
from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental  Resources (PA DER).
PA DER closed the landfill  in  December 1984.   General Electric Co. notified
EPA, as required by CERCLA  section  103(c), that its Allentown, Pennsylvania,
plant had sent electroplating  wastes containing heavy metals and  organic
wastes, including spent solvents, to the landfill.   According to  PA DER,
other industrial clients of the landfill include Tyler Pipe Co.,  Tarkett
Corp., Western Electric, and Caloric Corp.

     Ntonitoring wells on the site are  contaminated with a variety of
organic and inorganic chemicals, including tetrachloroethene,  toluene,
1,1-dichloroethane, and barium, according to EPA tests.   A private well
1,200 feet southwest of the landfill boundary is similarly contaminated,
according 'to EPA and PA DER.   The landfill is in a limestone region that
is very susceptible to  ground  water contamination  and migration of
contaminants.  An estimated 17,300  people draw drinking water from public
and private wells within 3  miles of the site.   In  January 1985/ South
Whitehall Township extended its water  line to two  residences near the
landfill, because a well sampled by EPA contained  organic and inorganic
contaminants which could also  be attributed  to the landfill.

     According to an EPA inspection in June  1984,  a ditch encircling the
site diverts run-off and leachate into an on-site  pond.   The diversion
ditch and pond are not  properly engineered,  and the landfill is not
adequately covered.  Hence, surface water in the area is threatened.
Jordan Creek within 3 miles downstream of the site is used for recreation.
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                              PADLI RAIL YARDS
                            Paoli, Pennsylvania

      The Paoli Rail Yards cover approximately 10 acres  in Paoli, Chester
 County, Pennsylvania.  The site consists of an electric train repair
 facility and a commuter rail station owned by Mtrak and operated by  the
 Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority  (SEPTA).  Commuter
 trains are serviced, repaired, and stored at this facility.  Routine
 maintenance and repair of railroad cars involve PCB-containing electrical
 equipment.  The site is surrounded on three sides by residential communities
 and on the fourth side by commercial facilities.  Until recently, the site
 was unsecured and easily accessible.  Residents and commuters regularly
 used it as a shortcut to reach both the train station and the cormercial
 properties.

      In the late 1970s, both EPA and the Pennsylvania Department of
 Environmental Resources (PA DER) inspected the Paoli Rail Yards.  This
 inspection, coupled with subsequent State investigations, led  PA DER to
 issue an order in 1979 requiring Mtrak and SEPTA to determine the extent
 of  contamination and correct any problem areas.   Amtrak and SEPTA took
 some actions primarily involving collection of samples, seme cleanup
 efforts, and further study of the site.

      In November 1985,  analyses of samples taken in July 1984 by a consultant
 to  Amtrak and SEPTA were made available to EPA.   The results indicate
 that a severe PCB problem exists at this site, with contamination ranging
 as  high as 3 percent in on-site soils and to depths of up to 3 feet.

      In December 1985,  a team consisting of staff from EPA,  the Federal
 Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, and the State Health
 Department made a preliminary assessment of the  rail yards.   The purpose
 of  this assessment was  to verify the  existing sample results and identify
 those areas that were of most concern.   The sampling effort  was centered
 around the immediate threat posed by the presence of high levels of PCBs
 both on site and in the residential community.

      On February 25,  1986,  EPA filed  a  complaint in Federal  court under
 the  Toxic  Substances Control  Act,  CERCIA,  and the Resource Conservation
 and  Recovery Act.   The  complaint seeks  an order  requiring  the responsible
parties  to limit  access to  the  site,  control  migration of  PCBs,  conduct
 sampling and analysis,  and  take measures to clean up the site and protect
worker  safety.   A Consent  Dacree was  also  lodged on the same date.   As a
 first step,  SEPTA installed a security  fence  around the site.
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                RIVER ROAD LANDFILL  (WASTE MANAGEMENT, INC.)
                          Hermitage,  Pennsylvania

      The. River Road  Landfill covers  approximately 102 acres in'tiermitage,
 Mercer County, Pennsylvania.  It  is  owned by Eric Disposal Co., a subsidiary
 of Waste Management, Inc.  The landfill  has operated since 1962 as a
 sanitary landfill, accepting industrial, residential, and an unknown
 quantity of hazardous wastes.  In 1984,  it received a State permit to
 dispose of solid waste.

      According to tests conducted in 1980 by a  consultant to Waste Management,
 sludge disposed at the site contained PCBs.

      In June 1985, EPA detected PCBs in  sediments in a diversion ditch that
 discharges to the Shenango River.  The ditch collected runoff from the
 landfill.   The Shenango Valley Water Co.  draws  water for approximately
 75,000 customers at a point 2 miles  downstream  of the landfill.  EPA also
 detected chloroethane and 1,1-dichldroethane in wells on and off the site.  •

      The site is not completely fenced,  making  it possible for people and
 animals to come into direct contact  with hazardous substances in the
 diversion ditch.
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                          ROHM AND HAAS CO.  IANDFILL
                        Bristol Township,  Pennsylvania

     Conditions at  listing  (April 1985);  The Rohm and Haas Co. Landfill
covers approximately 60 acres adjacent to the Delaware River, just south
of Croydon  in Bristol Township,  Bucks County, Pennsylvania.  From 1952 to
1975, the landfill  received wastes from the company's chemical manufacturing
plants in Bristol Township  and Croydon.  Rohm and Haas reports that it
disposed of 309,000 tons of wastes in the landfill, of which 4,600 tons
were considered hazardous.  The  Bristol Township Sewage Treatment Plant
and Chemical Leaman Tank Lines,  Inc., now occupy the northwest corner of
the filled  area.

     In 1980, EPA detected  contaminants in  on-site ground water and surface
water.  Rohm and Haas is conducting a comprehensive study of environmental
conditions  in and near  the  landfill.  The company reported the first results
in April 1984.  The investigation revealed  that ground water, surface water,
and soil within the landfill  are contaminated.  Among contaminants detected
on-site are benzene,  bis(2-chloroethyl) ether, a-endosulfan, heptachlor
epoxide, and g-BHC(lindane).

     Parts  of the site  are  accessible, so that people and animals can come
in direct contact with  hazardous substances in on-site soil.

     Bristol Borough, Pennsylvania, and Burlington City,  New Jersey, have
public water supply intakes on the Delaware River within 3 miles of the
landfill.   The water systems  serve approximately 18,000 people.

     Status (September  1985); EPA is considering various alternatives for
the site.
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                               SALFORD QUARRY
                       Salford Township, Pennsylvania

      The Salford Quarry covers approximately 3 acres  on Quarry Road in
 Lower Salford Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.   The  site was
 quarried for stone/aggregate for an unknown period  prior  to 1963.   In
 1963,.American Clean Tile Co., which is owned by National  Gypsum Co.,
 purchased the abandoned quarry, and until 1980 used the site for disposal
 of its wastes.  Included were waste tiles, unfused  tile slurry, and
 other production wastes.  In 1980, the State received complaints that
 tanks were buried on the site.  In 1981, American Clean discovered two
 10,000-gallon tanks.  According to tests conducted  by the  company and
 the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources (PA DER), the
 tanks hold tile slurry containing boron and fuel oil.  After the company
 pumped out the oil, the site was officially closed  in May  1982 in accordance
 with a plan approved by PA DER.  Closure involved capping  with soil,
 grading,  and revegetating.  Two monitoring wells were also installed as
 part of closure.

      The downgradient monitoring well on-site is contaminated  with
 trichloroethene, boron, arsenic, and cyanide, according to EPA analyses.
 An estimated 54,000 people draw drinking water from public (North Penn
 Water Authority) and private wells within 3 miles of  the site.  A private
 well 650 feet from the site is contaminated with boron, according  to EPA
 analyses.
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                   T          SPRA-FIN, INC.
                   •;'•;'    North Wales, Pennsylvania

     Spra-Fin,  Inc^ has manufactured metal products on a 0.5-acre site in
North Wales, Montgcjiery  County, Pennsylvania, since 1963.  This facility
uses trichloroethylene  (TCE)  and stores it on-site in a 550-gallon
above-ground tank. ?JThis tank replaced a deteriorated underground tank
which was removed  i$ 1982. The company also removed 80 cubic yards of
TCE-contaminatedfsoiil near the buried tank in 1982.
                   i
     On-site production  wells sampled by the North Perm Water Authority
show elevated levels of  1,1,1-trichloroethene, vinyl chloride,  TCE, 1,1-
dichloroethylene,  and tetrachloroethylene.  On-site soil  samples contain
the same contaminants.

     An estimated  91,000 people obtain drinking water from  public and
private wells within 3 miles  of the site.  There is no  other  source of
drinking water.  :Wissahicken  Creek is 1,500 feet north  of the site.
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                              TRANSICOIL, INC.
                          Worcester/ Pennsylvania

     Transicoil,  Inc./ manufactures electric motors on  a 20-acre-
site in Worcester,  Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.  Records of the
Pennsylvania Department  of Environmental Resources (PA  DER)  show that the
facility used  several drums of trichloroethylene  (TCE)  per year as a
degreasing solvent  until 1976, when it changed to 1,1,1-trichloroethane.
The company stores  waste oil and solvents in an underground  tank.

     In September  1979,  PA DER found high concentrations of  TCE, 1,1,1-
trichloroethane,  1,1-dichloroethane, 1,1-dichloroethylene, and  cis-1,2-
dichloroethylene  in on-site wells.  Subseguent sampling by a
consultant to  Transicoil confirmed the results.

     An estimated  99,400 people obtain drinking water from public  and
private wells  within  3 miles of the site.
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                            MEDLEY FARM DRUM DUMP
                           Gaffney, South Carolina

       The Medley Farm Drum Dump covers 2 acres in Gaffney, a rural area in
  Cherokee County, South Carolina.  In  about 1973, an unknown person buried
  about 5,400 drums and dug six lagoons in a clearing in the woods of the
  Medley Farm.  On June 1, 1983, an anonymous caller informed the State of
  the site.  At the State's request, EPA investigated and found that all
  the drums were rusted and seme had leaked or were leaking.  EPA analyses
  indicated that the drums contained numerous flammable organic liquids,
  including toluene, benzene, vinyl chloride, and PCBs.  The six unlined
  lagoons held 300,000 gallons of contaminated rain water and tons of
  sludges.  On June 21, 1983, EPA started to clean up the site using CERCLA
  emergency funds.  EPA removed 2,400 cubic yards of contaminated soil and
  sludges plus the drums and their contents (25,000 gallons of liquids).
  The liquids in the lagoons were treated on-site and discharged.  The
  lagoons were then filled in.

       Ground water on and off the site is contaninated with volatile
  organic chemicals, including chloroform and ],],2-trichloroethane,
  according to tests conducted by the South Carolina Department of Health
  and Environmental Control.  About ]20 people draw drinking water
  fron private wells within 3 miles of  the site.

       Thickety Creek, a tributary of Jones Creek, is about 300 feet down-
  gradient of the site.  Surface and subsurface flows are such that Thickety
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                             ROCHESTER PROPERTY
                      Travelers Rest, South Carolina

     Conditions  at  listing (June 1986);   The Rochester Property covers
about 2  acres in Travelers Rest, a rural area in Greenville County, South
Carolina.  In 1971-72, the property owner permitted licjuid industrial
wastes containing volatile organic chemicals and arsenic to be buried in
four trenches in what had been farm land.

     The wastes  came from Polymer Industries of Greenville, South Carolina,
according to the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental
Control  (DHEC).  During an inspection in September 1982, the State
observed wastes  seeping out of the ground.

     In  November 1984, DHEC detected arsenic and volatile organic .chemicals,
including trichlorofluoromethane, in soils on the site.

     Site soils  are permeable.   Thus, contaminants can move into ground
water, which occurs at depths of 10 feet and is the source of drinking
water for about  1,000 people within 3 miles of the site.  All drinking
water is from shallow private wells; no municipal supplies are available.

     The site is about 200 feet upgradient from a small stream.

     Status (September 1986):   EPA is considering various alternatives
for the  site.
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        SANGAMO-WESTON INC./TWELVE-MILE CREEK/LAKE HARTWELL PCB CONTAMINATION
                               Pickens, South Carolina

      The Sanqamo-Weston, Inc./Twelve-Mile Creek/Lake Hartwell PCB Contamination
 Site consists  of PCB-contaminated portions of the Twelve-Mile Creek Basin system
 and the Twelve-Mile Creek arm of Lake Hartwell.   The site is in northwestern
 South Carolina,  in Pickens, Pickens County.   Sanqamo has manufactured electrical
 capacitors on  a  224-acre area in Pickens since 1955.  PCBs were used in
 production of  the capacitors between 1955 and 1976.

      As required by CERCLA section 103(c), Sanqamo notified EPA that it had
 disposed of approximately 38,700 cubic yards of PCB-contaminated waste on its
 plant site and an undetermined amount of waste in seven satellite dumps., all in
 the Twelve-Mile  Creek Basin.  Solid, sludqe, and liquid wastes were stored or
 disposed of in piles, landfills, and impoundments.  EPA is continuinq to search
 for any additional sources of contamination that may exist.

     EPA and the  South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control
 (DHEC)  detected  .PCBs in run-off leavinq the Sanqamo-Weston Pickens Plant and
 throuqhout the Twelve-Mile Creek Basin, includinq Lake Hartwell.  Specific
 streams in which PCBs have been detected include:  unnamed tributaries located
 downqradient from the Sanqamo-Weston Pickens Plant and flowinq into Town Creek,
 Twelve-Mile Creek, Golden Creek, Middle Fork Twelve-Mile Creek, and North Fork
 Twelve-Mile Creek.  Lake Hartwell and Twelve-Mile Creek are used for recreation '
 and drinkinq water.

      In December 1984,  residents of Catteechee,  South Carolina, initiated law-
 suits aqainst  Sanqamo and two other companies over alleqed health effects
 resultinq  from exposure to PCBs.  Sanqamo-Weston has removed over 17,000 cubic
 yards of PCB-contaminated waste from some past disposal areas located on and off
 the plant  property.  These wastes are contained  in an EPA-approved landfill.

      PCBs  have been detected by DHEC and EPA in  the drinkinq-water distribution
 system of  the  Easley-Central Water Plant, which  serves -14,500 people.  The plant
 intake is  in Twelve-Mile Creek.  Clemson University has an intake in the Twelve-
 Mile Creek arm of Lake  Hartwell.  It serves  15,800 students and employees.

      PCB contamination in Lake Hartwell and  its  tributaries was first discovered
 in  1975.   It was traced to effluent from the Sanqamo-Weston Pickens Plant and
 from other sources in the watershed.  Since  1977, EPA and DHEC have monitored
 PCB levels in  fish taken from Lake Hartwell. Over the years, levels have been
 declininq, althouqh the rate of decline appears  to be slowinq.

      From  1983 until early 1986,  the Aqency  for  Toxic Substances and Disease
 Reqistry reviewed data reqardinq possible exposures to PCBs in Pickens County.  The
 aqency said PCBs appear to present no imminent or substantial public health threat._

      In Auqust 1986, EPA neqotiated a Consent Aqreement with Sanqamo-Weston for
 samplinq to determine the extent of contamination at the Brazeale dump, one of
 the seven  satellite dumps.  The 0.5-acre dump was used for landfillinq 24,000 •
 cubic feet of  PCB waste.  The Brazeale property  is on Wolf Creek Road about 1
 mile southwest of Pickens.  In November 1985, after findinq PCB levels as hiqh
 as  27,000  ppm  in soil samples, EPA removed a mobile home from the property.

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   ••}.                       MALLORY CAPACITOR CO.
   ';>:                       Waynesboro,  Tennessee

 >  ^  Mallory Capacitor Co.  formerly manufactured electrical capacitors on
  art 8.5-acre site in a small residential community in Waynesboro, Wayne
  G&inty, Tennessee.  The site is  in the floodplain of the Green River.
 ..
 >. ;•?.  This facility, a former shoe  factory, was purchased by P.R. Mallory
 land Co. Inc., in 1968.   In  1969, the company, now known as Mallory Capacitor
 ;Co. , began to manufacture capacitors using PCBs as a dielectric fluid.
  In 1978, Mallory switched to dioctyl phthalate as a dielectric fluid.
  Dart Industries, Inc., acquired Mallory Capacitor Co. in early 1979 and
  sold it later in the year to Ehihart  Industries, Inc.  As part of the
  sales agreement with Bnhart, certain PCB wastes, a buried tank, and
  contaminated soil were removed from  the site and sent to an approved PCB
  disposal facility.

 -•      PCBs entered the environment  through spills, leaks, and intentional
 sdischarges, according to investigations conducted by EPA.  On July 31,
 ':1984, the plant voluntarily closed because of the discovery of PCB
 •contamination throughout the site.

       In 1985, tests conducted by EPA,  Mallory, and its contractors detected
  PCBs in on-site sand and off-site  wells downgradient of the site.  An
  estimated 900 people obtain drinking water from wells and springs within
  3 miles of the site.  Sediments downstream from the site also contain
  PCBs, according to Mallory.  Surface water within 3 miles downstream of
  the site is used for fishing and swimming.
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                        AIR  FORCE  PLANT 14/GENERAL DYNAMICS
                                 Fort Worth,  Texas

     Conditions at  listing  (October 1984);  Air Force  Plant #4 occupies approxi-
mately  650  acres  in Fort  Worth,  Tarrant County,  Texas.  General Dynamics operates
the plant,  which  manufactures  aircraft  for  the Air Force.  In November 1982, the
Air Force and General Dynamics notified EPA via the National Response Team that
hazardous substances were found  in a storm  water outfall that drains into a creek
on the  west side  of the plant.  Under Air Force supervision, General Dynamics con-
structed a  french drain and  a  collection basin at the  outfall.  Since that time,
leachate from the drain and  outfall has been  collected, stored, and disposed of in
an EPA-approved disposal  facility.  In  1983,  the Air Force removed 21,300 cubic
yards of contaminated soil-from  closed  waste  pits and  disposed of the soil at an
approved disposal facility.

     The Air  Force  has  drilled numerous test  holes and 97 monitoring wells in and
around  20 areas,  which  cover a total of about 8 acres.  Many of the areas have
contained hazardous substances.  Analyses of  the wells indicate that ground water
in the  upper  zone under the  site is contaminated with  several organic chemicals
and heavy metals.  Several deeper  wells were  drilled at the site into the Paluxy
aquifer, which  is the source of  drinking water for nearby residents, including
the municipality  of White Settlement (population 13,420).  Two wells have been
found to be contaminated  by  1,2-transdichlorethylene and trichloroethylene.

     The plant  is participating  in the  Installation Restoration Program, the
specially funded  program  established in 1978  under which the Department of Defense
has been identifying and  evaluating its past  hazardous waste sites and controlling
the migration of  hazardous  contaminants from  these sites.

     At the reguest of  the  Air Force,  EPA has further  investigated off-site
areas,  including  several  White Settlement wells, sediment in the creek and Lake
Worth,  and  selected residential  wells near the site.  EPA drilled four monitoring
wells near  the  plant area.   The  White Settlement municipal wells and the four EPA
wells are monitored on  a  quarterly basis by EPA.

      In November 1980,  the  facility received Interim Status under the Resource
Conservation  and  Recovery Act  (RCRA) when General Dynamics and the Air Force filed
Part A  of a permit  application to treat and dispose of hazardous wastes.

     Status (April  1987);  Phase II (preliminary survey) of the Installation
Restoration Program is  underway.

     This site  is being reproposed to be consistent with EPA's recently proposed
policy  for  placing  on the NPL sites located on Federally-owned facilities that
are subject to  the  corrective  action authorities of Subtitle C of RCRA.  EPA is
soliciting  comments on the  Hazard Ranking System score for the sites, which
 includes areas  subject  to RCRA Subtitle C corrective action authorities.
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•'••••: A--;-./ •• •:..."-.•.-•-•- .-'.. BRIO  REFINING CO.,  INC.  •"   •.•••.     '  '-.-  • ••••
-, :•:   /•;      '  ' .';. • :•-'   v .   Friendswpod,  Texas  .    .    .-.

      Conditions at listing  (October  1984):   The Brio Refining Co., Inc.,
 Site consists of approximately 12  closed  pits on a 50-acre site  in Harris
 County south of Houston near Friendswood, Texas.  Tanks and processing
 facilities remain on a portion of  the site.   The facility was operated
 from the late 1950s to December 1982.   Earlier operations carried out at
 the site included copper catalyst  regeneration, oil blending and refining,
 and hydrocarbon (styrene) cracking.   Previous owners or operators of
 the facility have included  Hard Lowe Chemical, Lowe Chemical, Phoenix
 Chemical, JOG Oil Aromatics, and Friendswood Refining.

     -Spills have entered the nearby  Mud Gulley and subsequently, via Clear
 Creek, into Galveston Bay.   A  recent inspection by EPA indicated that
 shallow ground water 'is potentially  contaminated with copper, vinyl
 chloride, fluorene, styrene, and ethylbenzene.  In January 1984, EPA
 detected toluene, benzene,  and other aromatic organic chemicals  in the
 air.  A housing development borders  the site on the north.

      Status (January 1986):  The parties  potentially responsible for wastes
 associated with the site have  organized themselves into the Brio Task
 Force.  On June,27, 1985, 14 members of the  Task Force signed an
 Administrative Order on Consent with EPA  to  conduct a remedial investi-
 gation/feasibility study to determine the type and extent of contamination
 at the site and identify alternatives for remedial action.  Initial
 field work began on May 17,  1985.

      EPA is deferring!final  rulemaking on this site because it has received
 additional technical information and needs more time to evaluate this
 information.   The Brio Refining Co.,  Inc., Site will remain in proposed
 status until a later rulemaking.
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                               . Compensation, and Uabillty Ac. of 1980
                        SHERIDAN DISPOSAL SERVICES
                             Hempstead, Texas

     The Sheridan Disposal Services Site is approximately  9 miles  north-
northwest of Hempstead in a predominately agricultural area in Waller  County,
Texas.  It consists of a 1,4-22 acre surface impoundment and a 40-acre.
evaporation system; at one time, an incinerator also was in operation.  The
company collected a wide range of petrochemical and general industrial wastes
from Gulf Coast industries.  The impoundment began operation in  the  late  1950s.
The State ordered it to close in 1976, then in 1984 ordered the  entire site  to
close.  In response, Sheridan Disposal Services constructed the  40-acre
evaporation system for treatment of accumulated rain water and covered approxi-
mately 7 acres of the impoundment with construction debris and soil.

     Of the two shallow water-bearing zones at the site, the upper zone is
contaminated with about 200 parts per billion, total, of chlorodibromanethane ,
1, 1,1-trichloroethane, and isophorone, according  to limited data collected
by EPA and parties potentially responsible for wastes associated with  the
site.  The extent of contamination of both zones  is being  studied  in an ongoing
remedial investigation of ground water.  The deeper zone provides  drinking
water for approximately 500 people within 3 miles of the site.   The  site  is
located in alluvial deposits about 250 feet from  the Brazos River, within the
100-year floodplain.

     The Brazos River is not now impacted by the site, according to  EPA analyses
of upgradient and downgradient samples of river water.  A  water  overflow  from
the site in 1978 caused a fish kill in Clark Lake, a private lake  adjacent to
the site.  Recent air testing by EPA found that no toxic compounds were present
above background levels.

     In April 1984, approximately 60 potentially responsible parties set  up
the Sheridan Site Cotmiittee.  It began negotiating with the State  and  EPA,
hired an engineering contractor who is investigating ground water  at the  site
and has also taken the following remedial actions:  transferred  approximately
1.5 million gallons of water from the impoundment to the evaporation system;
repaired, strengthened, and raised the dikes around the impoundment  and the
evaporation system to above the 100-year floodplain; and transferred approxi-
mately 6,000 gallons of oil floating on top of the impoundment to  on-site
tanks .

     On February 5, 1987, the Sheridan Site Committee entered into an
Administrative Order on consent with EPA to conduct a remedial investigation/
feasibility study to control the source and migration of contaminated  ground
water from the site.
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 /••, V"' :   '•'•'"  / ':V'*'SOL LiNN/INDUSTRIAL TRANSFORMERS 4'
                    •  •".'.'-•• •  •'-.- Houston, Texas     .      j.-.:

       Conditions at listing (October 1984);  The  Sol  Lynn/Industrial
  Transformers Site consists of three commercial lots  on Joop 610 in
  Houston,  Harris County, Texas.  The 1-acre site, which ^s within 0.5
  miles of  the Astrodome, Astroworld amusement park, several industrial
  plants, and apartment complexes, is contaminated by  trichloroethylene
  (TCE)  and PCBs.  A transformer reclamation company and a  chemical supply
  company previously used the property.  According to  analyses conducted
  by the State,  oil containing PCBs and approximately  75 drums of TCE were
  dumped or spilled on the ground behind warehouse buildings on the site.
  A well on. the  site..is highly contaminated with TCE,  and  sediment samples
  from a drainage ditch are contaminated with PCBS and TCE.

       The  State filed suit against .the present owner  in March 1983.  In a
  deposition in February 1984, the owner stated that he does not have the
  financial resources to clean up the.site.  In April  1984, the State
  started to prepare the case for trial.                ;

       Status (January 1986);  The State continues to  gather information to  -
  prepare the case for trial.  The case seeks no injunctive action but
  punitive'actions.

       Under a cooperative agreement with EPA, the State is conducting a
  remedial  investigation/feasibility study to determine the type and extent
  of contamination at the site and identify alternatives for remedial
  action.

       EPA  is deferring final rulemaking on this site  because it has received
  additional technical information and needs more  time to evaluate this
  information.  The Sol Lynn/Industrial Transformers Site will remain in
  proposed  status until a later rulemaking.
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                                  MIDVALE SLAG
                                 Midvale, Utah

       The Midvale  Slag  Site covers 300 acres in Midvale, Salt Lake
  County, Utah.  Midvale (population 10,000) is part of the Salt  Lake
  City Metropolitan area (population 936,000).  Between 1902 and  1971,
  United States  Smelting,  Refining and Mining Co. smelted ores on the
  site to produce copper,  gold,  lead, and silver.  The site consists  of
  piles of slag  estimated  at 2 million tons that remain from the  smelting
  operations.  The  smelter no longer exists.  In 1971, Valley Materials,
  Inc., acquired the  site  and processes the slag into materials for
  railroad beds  and asphalt highways.

       Testing by the Utah Department of Health indicated that the slag
  contains high  concentrations of arsenic and heavy metals.  The  slag is
  found on the surface and down  to a depth of 20 feet.  Hence there is a
  potential for  ground water contamination.  Several municipal wells  serving
  an estimated 38,000 people are within 3 miles of the site.

       The Jordan River, which forms the western boundary of the  site, is
  not contaminated  to date, according to tests conducted by EPA in May
  1985.  However,, slag piles are as close as 50 feet to the river, causing
  concern that the  river can become contaminated.
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       ...         ...  -   . OLSON/NBIHART RESERVOIR
•••'••.-.:'.•'.  '.•'•"• ..••.,'.-.-•-:•'.'•.: -Wasatch County,. Utah    •.'--.   .      .-.-   ..

     :Conditions at listing (October 1QR4);   The Olson/Neihart Reservoir
covers  5 acres in Wasatch County, Utah.   It is  located on McHenry Creek,
a minor tributary of the Provo River,  a major stream.   About 200,000
cubic yards of mill tailings from the  Mayflower Mountain Mine,  approxi-
mately  1.25 stream miles upgradient, were placed in the reservoir,
according  to the State.   They contain  elevated  levels  of numerous heavy
metals.  The reservoir is currently used  to store and  release irrigation
water.

     According to analyses conducted by the State,  surface waters off the
site are contaminated with cadmium, lead, and arsenic.   A major dam and
.reservoir-,  the Jordanelle, will be .constructed  downstream, of the site.

     Status (January 1986);  This site  is included  in  a multisite coop-
erative agreement between EPA and the State  of  Utah.   The State is currently
developing  a workplan for a remedial investigation/feasibility  study to
determine  the  type and extent of contamination  at the  site and  identify
alternatives for remedial action.

     This mining site is not'being placed .on the  NPL at this time because
it ceased mining before  Aug.  3, 1977, the enactment date of__the Surface
Mining Control  and'Reclamation Act'(SMCPA).  Therefore,'it^may  be eligible
for reclamation funds under SMCRA.  EPA is deferring final rulemaking
until it adopts a policy on the relationship that SMCPA should  have to
the NPL.
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           ....     SHARON :STEEL CORP.'. (MIDVALE TAILINGS)
•'.'•'' •  .V .,;.':..••;  . .*•:•.• ••,.. v'- :' .:  .^Midvale,  Utah-, .  •-. .   ..-.-"....   .      ...

     ' Conditions at listing  (October 1984);   Sharon Steel Corp. owns a
mill tailings site in Midvale,  Salt Lake County, Utah.  Midvale
 (population 10,000) is a part  of  the  Salt Lake City metropolitan area
 (population 936,000).  Metals  were  milled on the 260-acre site from about
1910 to 1971.   Approximately 10 million tons of mill tailings containing
high concentrations of lead, arsenic, cadmium,  chromium, copper, and zinc
remain on the site.  Sharon Steel purchased the site in 1979.

      This site was first proposed as  "Sharon Steel Corp. (Midvale
Smelter)."

.•  .. Issues of concern at the.site  include  air  contamination from wind-
blown tailings, tailings washing  into- the Jordan River, and impacts on
ground water.   Ground water samples have shown  contamination with arsenic
and  lead,  according to analyses conducted by the State and Sharon Steel.
About 500,000  people depend on  wells  within 3 miles of the site as
a  source of drinking water.

      Status (January 1986);  This site  is  included in a multisite coop-
erative agreement between EPA  and the State of  Utah.  "The State has a
contractor to perform a' remedial  investigation/feasibility study to
determine the  type and extent of  Contamination  at the site and identify
alternatives for remedial action.

      This  mining site is not being  placed on the NPL at this time because
it ceased  mining before Aug. 3, 1977, the enactment date of the Surface
Mining Control and Reclamation  Act  (SMCRA).   Therefore, it may be eligible
for  reclamation funds under SMCRA.  EPA is  deferring  final rulemaking
until it  adopts a policy on the relationship that SMCRA should  have to
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                         TOOELE ARMY DEPOT (NORTH AREA)
                                  Tboele, Utah

        Conditions at listing (October 1984);  The Tooele .Army Depot (TEAD),
   Tooele, Tooele County, Utah, consists of two separate areas, the North
   Area and the South Area.  The North Area covers about 25,000 acres in
   Tooele Valley south and west of Tooele.

        TEAD's mission is fourfold: store ammunition, demilitarize  ammunition,
   rebuild military equipment, and store military equipment.   In fulfilling
   its mission, TEAD decommissions munitions by cutting the casings and
   removing and recycling the explosive material.  The casings are  then
   rinsed with water to remove residual explosives.  Between  1948 and 1965,
   rinse waters were discharged into the "TNT Washout Area,"  which  covers
   less than 1 acre in the North Area.  The Army has detected TNT and RDX, an
   experimental explosive, in soil near the TNT Washout Area, threatening
   ground water.  About 2,500 people depend on ground water within  3 miles
   of the site as a source of drinking water.

        TEAD is participating in the Installation Restoration Program, the
   specially funded program established in 1975 under which the Departinent
   of Defense has been identifying and evaluating its past hazardous waste-
   sites and controlling the migration of hazardous contaminants from these
   sites.  The Army has completed Phase I (records search).

        Status (July 1985);  EPA is negotiating an interagency agreement with
   TEAD to perform a remedial investigation to define the nature and extent  of
   contamination at the site and take the necessary corrective action.
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                        WASATCH CHEMICAL CO.  (DDT 6)
                            Salt  Lake  City,  Utah

     The Wasatch  Chemical Co.  (Lot  6)  Site covers 6 acres  in Salt Lake City,
Salt Lake County, Utah.  Wasatch  beqan formulating various organic chemical
products, including pesticides, on  15  acres  in  the early 1960s.  Subsequently,
the site was subdivided into parcels of 6 and 9 acres,  which are now owned
by two separate entities.  Lot 6  has not been used since before 1980.

     The Utah Department of Health  estimates  that approximately 2,300 cubic
yards of wastes have  been disposed  in  a concrete pond and  in drums on Lot
6.  During an inspection  in June  1985, the State found  48  drums holding
ignitable and reactive liquids and  13  pressurized gas cylinders in poor
condition; several of the drums were leaking.  Residential and commercial
industrial areas  are  within a few hundred yards of the  drum storage area.
Approximately 85,000  people live  within 3 miles of the  site.

     Additional wastes from the operation were  discharged  into the 700
West Stream, a ditch  that drains  into  the Jordan River.

     Tests conducted  by the State in June 1985  detected several chemicals,
including pesticides  and methyl isobutyl ketone, in ground water.  700
West Stream  also has  elevated levels of some  of these compounds.

     About 60,000 people obtain drinking water  frcm private wells within
3 miles of the site.   The nearest well is within 2,000  feet.  No alternative
source of water is available in the area. The  Jordan River/Surplus Canal
is used primarily for industrial, irrigation  (3 square  miles),  and
recreational purposes.

     In January 1986,  the State requested the owner of  Lot 6 and a number
of other parties  potentially responsible for  wastes associated with the
site to remove drums  and other materials from Lot 6. When they refused,
the State filed an action in Federal Court seeking the  potentially responsible
parties (PRPs) to remove the drums  and compensate the State for its costs.
in February  1986, the State and EPA negotiated  a Consent Order under CERCLA
section 106  for the drums.

     In April 1986, during a CERCLA emergency removal action, EPA detected
dioxin in drums,  standing water,  and soil on  the site.   In the removal
action, EPA  (1) excavated contaminated soil,  (2) transported non-dioxin
drums and soil and the cylinders  to a  hazardous waste landfill  permitted
under the Resource Conservation and Recovery  Act, and (3)  placed dioxin-
contaminated materials in a temporary  storage unit adjacent to Lot 6.  EPA
has reached  a partial agreement with several  PRPs to pay for a portion of
the emergency action.  The PRPs have also agreed to provide and maintain a
storage facility  for  the dioxin materials pending final disposal.
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                        ATLANTIC WOOD INDUSTRIES, INC.
                             Portsmouth, Virginia
                                         4 *'.?
      The Atlantic Wood Industries, Inc.,  Site consists of a wood-treating
 facility and  adjacent river water and sediment in the city of Portsmouth,
 Virginia.  The  site  is on the South Branchaof the Elizabeth River, approxi-
 mately  7 miles  upstream from Chesapeake .Say.  The facility covers 15 acres?
 the area of contaminated river sediment Us-undetermined.  The facility has
 been in operation since 1926.

      Contaminants of concern are creosote and pentachlorophenol, both
 wood preservatives used by the facility.   Wastes present on-site include:
 350,000 gallons of creosote and creosote-contaminated water in leaking
 above-ground  storage tanks, an unknown quantity of creosote-contaminated
 sediment and  soils,  and 20,000 cubic feet of landfilled wood chips con-
 taminated with  creosote and pentachorophenol.

      According  to sampling conducted by.';EPA, Atlantic Wood, and the
 Virginia State  Water-Control Board, wastes pn-site have contaminated
 ground  water, which  is infiltrating a storm sewer owned by the City of
 Portsmouth.   The  storm sewer outfall discharges into an intertidal
 drainage ditch  that  is part of the South Branch of the Elizabeth River.
 EPA has detected  high concentrations of creosote in the ditch, and
 benzene and naphthalene, both constituents of creosote, in air above the
 ditch.  Approximately 14,000 people work within 0.5 miles of the ditch.

      The South  Branch of the Elizabeth River is an estuarine, tidal water
 body.   Tides  would be expected to carry contaminants upstream to waters
 used for crabbing and to estuarine wetlands.  Oyster beds are located
 within  3 miles  downstream of the site.  Studies by the Virginia Institute
 of Marine Science have shown that oysters within this reach have accumulated
 significant levels of creosote constituents.
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.  ....I"...'..'  ......   /CULPEPER WOOD, PRESERVERS«., INC., .   .  .
  • '•''•  ;    •  '           Culpepe'r County, Virginia'  '"•'•'-        t

     Conditions  at listing (October 1984);  Since 1976, Culpeper Wbod
Preservers,  Inc.,  has treated wood with a chromated copper  arsenate
solution on  a  20-acre site in the outskirts of Culpeper,  Culpeper County,
Virginia.   In  February 1981,  approximately  100,000 gallons  of waste
containing significant levels of arsenic and chromium spilled from an
impoundment, contaminating neighboring surface waters.  In  February
1981,  EPA  issued an administrative complaint against Culpeper Wbod Pre-
servers  under  the  Resource Conservation and Recovery Act  (RCRA).   In
September  1981,  the site owner agreed to issuance of a Consent Agreement
and.Consent  Order  requiring certain remedial actions.

     Ground  water  under :the" site 'is contaminated with.arsenic and chromium,
according  to analyses conducted by the State.  About 2,000  people depend
on the contaminated aquifer within 3 miles of the site for  drinking water.

     Status  (January 1986):  In March 1985, EPA completed a search for
parties  potentially responsible for wastes associated with  the Site.  In
April  1985,  EPA  issued a Notice Letter informing Jefferson  Homebuilders,
Inc.,  of its responsibility for operations at the site.

     EPA assessed  the need for removal action at the site in July 1985 and
concluded  that a removal was  not warranted at that time.

     This  site remains in proposed status until EPA implements the appropriate
elements of  its  final policy  for placing RCRA-related sites on the MPL
and then applies the policy to this site.
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                       DIXIE CAVERNS COUNTY LANDFILL
                              Salem, Virginia

     The Dixie Caverns County Landfill covers 27 acres in Salem,- Roanoke
County, Virginia.   Roanoke County operated the landfill from 1955  to
1976, accepting  itunicipal refuse,  industrial sludge, norihalogenated
solvents, and other wastes.

     In 1983, EPA observed uncontrolled leachate from the site entering
local streams.   In subsequent site investigations, EPA identified  an
uncontrolled pile of  emission control dust from an electric steel  furnace.
The pile consists of  an  estimated 15,000 cubic yards of dust.  The dust,
which is migrating via surface drainage, contains high levels of lead and
cadmium, according to EPA.

     Conditions  at the site threaten ground water and surface water.   An
estinated 2,100  people draw drinking water from private wells within 3
miles of the site.  Dixie Caverns, a tourist attraction, is located 1
mile downstream  of the site.
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                             H&H, INC., BURN PIT
                             Farrington, Virginia

       The H&H, Inc., Burn Pit covers approximately  1  acre  0.5  miles south
  of Farrington in Hanover County, Virginia.  The  site is owned by the
  former owner of Haskell Chemical Co.  It was used  exclusively by the
  company between 1960 and 1976 for disposal of  solvents  containing printing
  inks and of paint-manufacturing wastes.  These materials  were transported
  from the Haskell factory in Richmond to the site in  drums,  which were emptied
  into the shallow unlined pit and burned.  As required by  section 103(c)  of
  CERCLA, Haskell reported to EPA that it had delivered an  estimated 750
  cubic feet of waste materials to the site.  Virginia State  Health Department
  files indicate that 1,000 empty drums were on-site prior  to remedial
  activities undertaken in 1982.

       EPA sampling in March 1984 indicated that PCBs  are being discharged off-
  site via surface drainage.  Also, toluene, xylene, and  benzene are present
  in a monitoring well downgradient of the pit.

       An estimated 2,700 people draw drinking water from private wells
  within 3 miles of the site.  The nearest well  is about  1,000  feet away.

       Surface waters within 3 miles downstream  of the site are used for
  fishing.  A fresh-water wetland, as designated by  the U.S.  Fish and Wildlife
  Service, is within  3,000 feet- of the pit.

       Access to the site is unrestricted.  Thus,  people  and  animals can
  come in direct contact with hazardous substances at  the site.

       In response to enforcement actions by the Virginia State Department
  of Health, H&H, Inc., and Haskell removed contaminated  soil,  took measures
  to control erosion and sedimentation, and installed  monitoring wells
  in 1982.
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  .      .   ' .   . ; .   ,  IBM CORP..(MANASSAS PLANT  SPILL) .
•"'"•.'  '   :  :-     '•'••:•'  "     Manassas, Virginia  '•."'"•-'   •      .  •  •  ' •""   •' •

     Conditions at listing (October 1984):  Fran  1970 to 1975V  IBM Corp.
degreased  electrical components at its plant  in Manassas, Prince William
County, Virginia.   The operations involved  storing,  using,  and  recycling
chlorinated  organic solvents.  Spills during maintenance have contaminated
ground water with  a variety of chlorinated  organic solvents,  according to
analyses conducted by IBM.  The contaminated aquifer within 3 miles of the
site provides  drinking water to about 32,000 people.

     The plant received  Interim Status under the  Resource Conservation
and.Recovery Act (RCRA)  when the company filed  Part  A of a  permit application.

 .  ' .Status" (January 19R6): ' IBM is performing  studies  to determine the
extent of  the  contamination.   IBM has also  excavated soil containing
chlorinated  organic solvents.  EPA is reviewing information provided by
IBM on the soil removal.

     IBM has filed Part  B of its RCRA permit application..  Part  B
includes a workplan for  taking corrective action  under  RCRA section'
3008(h).

     This  site remains in proposed status until EPA  implements  the appropriate
elements of  its final  policy for placing RCRA-related sites on  the NPL
and then applies the policy to this site.
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                      LOVE'S CONTAINER SERVICE LANDFILL
                         Buckingham County, Virginia

       Conditions at listing (April 1985);  Love's Container Service Landfill
  covers 8 acres in a rural area near the town of Buckingham, Buckingham
  County, Virginia.  Buckingham County purchased the  landfill from Love's
  Container Service in May 1982.  Love's Container Service  began accepting
  municipal waste in 1962.  In 1972, the Virginia State Health Department
  issued the facility a permit to dispose of municipal  waste.  In 1977,
  the permit was modified to allow disposal of chemical wastes generated
  by the local furniture-making industry.  In 1979, the portion of the
  landfill receiving the above wastes was closed.

       In 1980, the facility received Interim Status  as a hazardous waste
  disposal facility under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act by   "
  filing Part A of permit application.  Subsequently, the facility accepted
  1,254 drums of used organic solvents and flammable  liquids/solids.
  These wastes were placed, in trenches separated from the previously closed
  portion of the site.

       The facility stopped accepting hazardous waste after December 1981.
  In May 1983, Buckingham County closed the new portion of  the site in
  accordance with plans approved by the Virginia State  Health Department.

       Sampling conducted by EPA in September 1983 indicates that on-site
  ground water and off-site residential well water are  contaminated by
  chromium and beryllium.  In early 1985, one residential well was
  contaminated.  About 1,100 people depend on wells within  3 miles of the
  site  as a source of drinking water.

       Status (January 1986);  In late 1985, EPA determined that an immediate
  removal was not warranted at that time.
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             RENTOKIL, INC.  (VIRGINIA WDOD PRESERVING DIVISION)
                              Richmond, Virginia

      Rentokil,  Inc. (Virginia Wood Preserving Division) has operated.a
 wood-treatment  facility on  a 4-acre site in Richmond, Henrico County,
 Virginia, since 1965.  Until about 1981, the company used creosote and
 pentachlorophenol as preservatives.  In 1982, use of pentachlorophenol
 was discontinued, and chromated copper arsenate came into use.  Creosote
 continued in use.

      EPA has detected high  concentrations of chrcmated copper arsenate
 in an unlined surface impoundment on the site.  Rentokil has detected
 the seme contaminant in run-off, soils, and a monitoring well on the
 site.  An estimated 350 people draw drinking water from private wells
 that tap the contaninated aquifer within 3 miles of the site.  The nearest
 private well, which is within 1,300 feet of the site, is not contaminated
 to date.

      Run-off from the site  enters North Run, which is used for swimming
 within  1.5 miles of the site.
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                            SAUNDERS SUPPLY CO.
                            Chuckatuck,  Virginia

     Saunders Supply  Co. has  treated wood on a site in Chuckatuck, Suffolk
County, Virginia, since 1964.  From 1964 to 1984, the facility used a
pentachlorophenol/No.2  Fuel Oil mixture as a wood preservative.  Chronated
copper arsenate was also used  starting  in 1974 and is still in use.  The
spent pentachlorophenol/oil mixture was disposed by burning in an unlined
pit, which  resulted in  the  generation of dioxin  compounds.

     Tests  conducted  by EPA in November 1984 detected elevated levels of
chromium  in Godwin's  Mill Pond Reservoir, a source of drinking water for
over 30,000 people in Suffolk, Virginia.  A fresh-water wetland is within
1,000 feet  downstream of the  point  where chromium was found.  The tests
also found  pentachlorophenol,  lead, chromium, and arsenic in the Columbia
aguifer,  which supplies private wells serving over 1,990 people within 3
miles of  the site.  The nearest well is approximately 1,900 feet from
the site.

     In 1983, the company excavated some contaminated soil and transported
ib to an  EPA-approved landfill.   A recovery well was drilled, and contaminated
ground water is pumped  out  of  the well  and recycled back into a treatment
system.
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                     HIDDEN VALLEY LANDFILL (THUN FIELD)
                          Pierce  County,  Washington

       The Hidden Valley Landfill,  located next to Thun Field, covers
  about 75 acres near Puyallup in Pierce  County, Washington,  From 1967
  to 1983, the landfill, an old gravel pit, accepted liquid and solid
  waste.  Approximately 48 acres  have been covered with waste.  The
  landfill has no liner or leachate collection system.  Originally, the
  landfill was operated by Pierce County  on leased land.  Land Recovery,
  Inc., purchased the property in 1977 and now operates the landfill.

       In 1982, a consultant  to the Taccma-Pierce County Health Department
  detected metals and organic chemicals,  including manganese and methylene
  chloride, in ground water on the site.   About 7,300 people are served
  by 35 public water supply systems drawing ground water within 3 miles
  of the site.  The nearest well  is 1,000 feet from the site.

       A fresh-water wetland  is within 1  mile of the site.
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                      NAVAL AIR STATION WHIDBEY  ISLAND
                                (AULT FIELD)
                         Whidbey  Island, Washington

      The Naval  Air Station (MAS)  at Whidbey  Island in Island County,
 Washington, was comiissioned  in  September 1942.   It covers over 7,000
 acres and  is conposed of  two  bases  — Ault Field and Seaplane Base — 5
 miles apart.  The mission of  MAS Whidbey Island  is to maintain and operate
 facilities and  provide  services  and materials in support of the Navy's
 aviation activities  and units.

      Ault Field contains  most of the military activities.  Its major ,
 waste generating activities include aircraft and vehicle maintenance and
 washing, engine testing,  nondestructive testing, parts cleaning, painting
 and paint stripping, battery  maintenance, pest control,  public work
 'maintenance, and transformer  servicing.  Wastes  generated include carbon
 tetrachloride,  trichloroethylene, methyl ethyl ketone, toluene,
 trichlorcethane, zinc,  lead,  caustic cleaners, waste paints, and
 pentachlorophenols.

      The Ault Field  Site  consists of 23 waste areas.   To date,
 contamination of ground water or surface water has not been documented.
 The waste areas overlay both  the shallow and the sea level aquifers.
 These aquifers  provide  drinking  water to about 21,000 people within
 3 miles of the  site.  Local surface water bodies are used for recreation
 and irrigation.  One surface  water  intake, 6,500 feet fron the site, is
 used to irrigate 66  acres of  farmland.   A fresh-water wetland is within
 500 feet of the site.

      MAS Whidbey Island is. participating in  the  Installation Restoration
 Program, the specially  funded program established in 1978 under which the
 Department of Defense has been identifying and evaluating its past hazardous
 waste sites and controlling the  migration of hazardous contaminants from
 these sites.  The Navy  has completed Phase I (records search).  Phase II
 (preliminary survey) is scheduled to start in October 1985.
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                      NAVAL AIR STATION WHIDBEY ISLAND
                              (SEAPLANE BASE)
                         Whidbey Island, Washington

      The Naval Air Station (NAS) at Whidbey  Island  in Island County,
 Washington, was coimissioned in September  1942.   It covers  over 7,000
 acres and is composed of two bases — Ault Field  and Seaplane  Base —  5
 miles apart.  The mission of NAS Whidbey Island is  to maintain and operate
 facilities and provide services and materials  in  support  of the Navy's
 aviation activities and units.  Ault Field contains most  of the military
 activities.

      The major waste generating activities at Seaplane  Base involve
 aircraft and vehicle maintenance, paint and  paint stripping, and machine
 •and boat shop activities.  Wastes generated  include solvents,  zinc chronate,
 lead-containing paint wastes, thinners, ethylene  glycol,  sulfuric acid,
 and lead-based sealants.  The Seaplane Base  Site  consists of six waste
 areas (a landfill and five uncontained spills)'covering 7 acres.  To
 date, contamination of ground water or surface water has  not been documented.
 The waste areas potentially affect both the  shallow and sea level aquifers.
 These aquifers provide drinking water to about 16,500 people within 2
 miles of the site.  Local surface water bodies are  used for recreation.
 A coastal wetland is within 200 feet of the  site.

      NAS Whidbey Island is participating in  the Installation Restoration
 Program, the specially funded program established in  1978 under which the
 Department of Defense has been  identifying and evaluating its  past hazardous
 waste sites and controlling the migration  of hazardous  contaminants £ron
 these sites.  The Navy has completed Phase I (records search).  Phase II
 (preliminary survey) is scheduled to start in October  1985.
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         NAVAL UNDERSEA WARFARE ENGINEERING STATION (4 WASTE AREAS)
                            Keyport, Washington

      The Naval Undersea Warfare Engineering Station (NUWES) at Keyport,
 Kitsap County, Washington, was acquired in 1913 to develop a still water
 torpedo testing range.  The main station,  which  is located on a peninsula
 15 miles west of Seattle, covers slightly  over 200 acres and employs
 approximately 3*500  people.  NUWES (Keyport)  has been involved in a wide
 variety of activities, including maintenance of torpedoes; storage of fuel
 and ordnance; and production functions such as welding, plating, painting,
 carpentry, and sheet metal work.   Waste contaminants generated include
 cadmium, chromium, copper, cyanide, lead,  nickel, tin,  zinc, carbon
 tetrachloride, methyl ethyl ketone, and trichloroethylene.

      Four waste disposal areas are included in this NPL site.  The areas
 are part of the same operation, have  the same sources of contamination,
 and have the same contaminants.  They also threaten the sane ground water
 and surface water.   The four areas are: Keyport Landfill, situated in a
 marsh and having no  liner or leachate containment system; the Van Meter
 Road Spills, an area about 100 x 200  feet  located near an intermittent
 creek that flows into a lagoon used for fishing and swimming; Sludge
 Disposal Area, which covers about 100 feet x 200 feet and is located less
 than 200 feet from Liberty Bay; and Liberty Bay Outfalls/ Shoreline, where
 very substantial quantities of wastes were discharged directly into the
 water.  The waste from at least one of these areas,  Keyport Landfill, is
 in direct contact with ground  water.

      Thousands of gallons of wastes were dumped onto the ground at the
 Van Meter Road Spill area.  Up to 500 gallons of sludge were disposed of
 at the Sludge Disposal Area.   Sediment from the Liberty Bay Outfalls/
 Shoreline area and from the landfill  contain lead, cadmium, chromium, and
 zinc, according to analyses conducted by a consultant to the Navy.
 Liberty Bay is used  for commercial shell fishing and recreation.

      There are 135 private wells and  22 public-suppply wells drawing from
 the surficial aquifer within 3 miles  of the site.  The  wells serve a
 total of 230 households.

      NUWES (Keyport) is participating in the Installation Restoration
 Program, the specially funded  program established in 1978 under which
 the Department of Defense has  been identifying and evaluating its past .
 hazardous waste sites and controlling the  migration  of  hazardous contami-
 nants from these sites.  The Navy has completed Phase I (records search),
 and Phase II (confirmation study)  started  in October 1985.
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                               OLD INLAND PIT
                            Spokane,  Washington

       The Old Inland Pit covers  about ]0 acres in Spokane, Spokane
  County, Washington.  The property previously was owned by Inland
  Asphalt Co., but it is now under new ownership.

       In 1976, the unlined gravel pit began accepting baghouse emission
  dusts from Spokane Steel Foundry Co.   The company manufactures iron
  and steel parts at a foundry across the road from the Old Inland Pit.
  The pit is still operating, and during a recent EPA inspection there was
  evidence that baghouse emission dusts apparently continue to be dumped.

       Wastes in the pit contain  toxic metals (arsenic, cadmium, chromium,
  and lead) and organic chemicals (acetone, methylene chloride, toluene,
  and trichloroethylene), according to tests conducted by EPA...

       The site overlies the Spokane  Valley-Rathdrum Prairie Aquifer, which
  is the sole source of drinking  water for more than 30,000 people within
  3 miles of the site.  The soil  is permeable so that contaminants can
  move into ground water.
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                    TOMAH  MUNICIPAL SANITARY LANDFILL
                              Tomah, Wisconsin

     The Tomah Municipal Sanitary Landfill covers 17 acres in a rural
area in Monroe County outside Tomah, Wisconsin.  The City of Tomah owned
and operated the site from 1960 to 1979.   It was licensed by the State to
accept municipal refuse.   One local facility, Union Camp Corp., notified
EPA, as  required by Section 103(c)  of CERCLA, that it had sent to the
landfill 1,514 drums of wastes containing barium, chromium,, lead, spent
halogenated and nonhalogenated solvents,  ethyl acetate, and 1,1,1-
trichloroethane.

     In June 1984, EPA inspected  the site and sampled ground water and
sediments in Deer Creek, which runs through the site.  On-site ground
water was contaminated with heavy metals, including cadmium, chromium,
lead, and zinc, and organic chemicals,  including benzene, toluene, vinyl
chloride, and xylenes.  The sediments were contaminated with arsenic,
chromium, copper, lead, zinc,  toluene,  tetrachloroethene, and 2-butanone.

     The City of Tomah's municipal well field, which serves 7,330 people,
is 2 miles from the site.   An additional  1,700 people get drinking water
from private wells within  3 miles of the  site.  Deer Creek, which is
nearby, is a trout stream.   A fresh-water wetland is within 1,000 feet of  .
the site.
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    .'• '        MOBAY CHEMICAL CORP.  (NEW MARTINSVILLE PLANT)
    4:'               New Martinsville,  West  Virginia

  *  .^Conditions at listing  (October  1984):   Mobay Chemical  Corp.-manufactures
organic compounds, including polycarbonates, toluene diisocyanate, and
ferrous oxide pigments, in  New Martinsville, Wetzel  County, West Virainia.
The s*dte is bounded on the  west by the  Ohio  River and  on the south by
Beaver Creek.  Since starting operation of the plant in the 1950s, Mobay
hafi'4'isposed of wastes in various areas on the property.   Information
Mobay provided EPA in  1981  indicated that about  540,000 cubic feet of
process wastes were disposed of on the  property.   Many of the wastes
contained hazardous substances.  EPA analyses of.  soil  and ground water
on and underlying  the Mobay facility detected benzene, chlorobenzene
vinyl chloride, and other organic chemicals, many of them listed as being
disposed of on the site.

     Approximately 1,700 people use  wells within  3 miles of the Mobay
facility as their source of drinking water.

     The plant acouired Interim Status  under the  Resource Conservation
and Recovery Act  (RCRA) when the company filed Part  A of a  permit appli-
cation.

     Status (January  1986);  On Jan. 16, 1986, Mobay entered into a
Consent Order with EPA under RCRA section 3013.   The order  calls for
sampling and monitorinq of  the area  surrounding and  underlyinq the Mobay
facility.

     This site remains in proposed status until "PA  implements the appropriate
elements of its final policy for placing RCRA-related  sites on the NPL
and then applies the policy to this  site.
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