United States                                                     HW-8.8
Environmental Protection Agency	May 1986

          DESCRIPTIONS OF 87 SITES NOT COVERED IN THE MAY  1986
                FINAL RULEMAKING, NATIONAL PRIORITIES LIST
     This document consists of descriptions of the 87 sites previously

proposed for the National Priorities List  (NPL) but not covered  in the

May 1986 final rulemaking.  Of the 87, 36  are Federal facilities proposed

in Update #2, 24 were proposed in Update #3, and 27 were proposed in

Update |4.  Summaries were provided earlier when the sites were  first

proposed.  As a convenience, they are compiled here into one document.

In sane (but not all) cases, there is a status section describing activities

subsequent to proposal.

     All sites are arranged alphabetically by State and by site.


Remedial Actions Under Superfund

     Superfund is a national Trust Fund established by Congress  to pay

the costs not assumed by responsible parties for cleaning up abandoned or

uncontrolled hazardous waste sites that threaten public health,  welfare,

or the environment.  Authorized by the Comprehensive Environmental

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

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

     CERCLA defines two types of responses that may be taken when a

hazardous substance is released (or threatens to be released) into the

environment:

     0  Removals, emergency-type actions similar to although broader in
        scope than those formerly taken under Section 311 of the Clean
        Water Act.  Typically, these actions are limited to 6 months
        and/or $1 million.

        Remedial actions, responses intended to provide permanent
        solutions at hazardous waste sites.  They are generally  longer-
        term and more expensive than removals.  A Superfund remedial
        action 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.   CERCLA requires that the list be
        updated at least annually.

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     The money  for conducting a  remedial action at a hazardous waste site

can come fron several  sources:

     o  Superfund  can  pay  for the  cleanup.

     o  The party  or parties responsible for the wastes can clean them up
        voluntarily.

     o  The responsible party or parties can be forced to clean up by
        legal action.

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

     A remedial action under Superfund is an orderly process that generally

involves the following sequence  of activities:

     o  Taking any measures needed to stabilize conditions, which might
        involve, for example, fencing the site or removing above-ground
        drums or bulk  tanks.  Such measures usually would be required in
        the later  phases of cleanup.

     o  Undertaking initial planning activities, which involve collecting
        all the information needed to develop a coherent strategy and to
        assist in  selecting an appropriate course of action.

     o  Conducting remedial planning activities, which involve:

        — Carrying out a remedial investigation to determine the type
           and extent of contamination at the site.

        — Conducting  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 $800,000 and take from 9 to 18 months to complete.

        — Selecting the "cost-effective" remedy—that is, the alternative
           that provides the most protection to human health and the
           environment at the least cost.

     o  Designing the remedy.  Typically, the design phase costs $440,000
        and takes 6 to 12 months.

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

     The State government can participate in cleaning up a site under

Superfund in one of two ways:

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      o  The State can take the lead  role  under a cooperative agreement,
         which is much like a grant because  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.

      o  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 remedial actions to average

out at about  $7.2 million per  site.

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National Priorities List Site
Hazardous waste site listed under the
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 19&w
                           ALABAMA ARMY AMMUNITION PLANT
                               Childersburg, Alabama

       Conditions at listing (October 1984);  The Alabama Army Ammunition
  Plant (AAAP) covers 5,168 acres just east of the Coosa River north of
  Childersburg, Talladega County, Alabama.  The U.S. Army terminated manu-
  facturing operations in August 1945.  The plant was in standby status
  until 1973, when it was declared excess property.

       Explosives manufactured at AAAP included trinitrotoluene, nitro-
  cellulose, and tetryl.  Most of the structures used in manufacturing have
  been demolished and/or destroyed by controlled burning.  Sources of
  contamination include disposal sites, as well as spills and general
  wastes in the manufacturing process.

       Both ground water and surface water are contaminated with trinitro-
  toluene and dinitrotoluene, according to analyses conducted by the Army.
  Surface water is also contaminated with lead.  Ground water is the source
  of drinking water in the area, with the exception of one intake on the
  Coosa River.  The City of Childersburg uses ground water for drinking
  water, but Talladega Creek, considered to be a ground water divide, is
  between AAAP and the city.  The total population using the river as a
  source of drinking water is estimated to be 1,800, and the population
  using ground water is estimated to be 700.

       AAAP 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) and Phase II
  (preliminary survey).  Phase IV (remedial action) has been completed in
  an area known as the Leaseback Area.

       Status (July 1985);  The Army is continuing with Phase IV in areas
  outside the Leaseback Area.  EPA wants the Army to certify that parts of
  AAAP that the Army plans to release for general use are clean.

       The Army is preparing the equivalent of a remedial investigation/
  feasibility study to determine the type and extent of contamination at
  the site and identify alternatives for remedial action.  EPA will review
  the work when it is completed.
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")

              ANNISTON ARMY DEPOT (SOUTHEAST INDUSTRIAL AREA)
                             Anniston, Alabama

      Conditions at listing (October 1984);  Anniston Ordnance Depot, in
 Anniston,  Calhoun County,  Alabama,  was officially designated on Oct. 14,
 1941,  as an anmunition storage area.   Over the years, the mission was
 expanded to include the overhauling and repairing of combat vehicles and
 artillery eguipment.  Now  named Anniston Army Depot (ANAD), it has become
 known  as the "Tank  and Antitank Center of the Free World."  The area of
 ANAD contained in this NPL site is the 600 acres within and near the South-
 east Industrial or Vehicle Rebuild Area.  Based upon disposal practices,
 geography, and potential threat, various individual disposal locations
 within the area were aggregated into a single site.  The wastes reportedly
 contain both chlorinated organic solvents used in degreasing and heavy
 metals resulting from plating  operations.

     There is  potential for hazardous substances to be released to Dry
 Creek,  which is used for recreation.   According to analyses reported by
 the  Army in 1982, metals and chlorinated solvents are present in ground
 water.   Calhoun County gets its drinking water frcm ground water.  The
 geohydrologic  situation in Calhoun  County is  very complex and reguires
 further studies to define the  problem.   Ground water appears to move
 through fractures  and faults,  which are numerous and diverse in the
 area.   The same bedrock  is  under both the Southeast Industrial Area of
 ANAD and Coldwater Spring,  the sole source of drinking water for Anniston1s
 municipal  water system.  Thus,  the  spring is  a potential target if
 ground water contamination  migrates.  The municipal system serves at
 least  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 altern-
 atives) .  Two portions of the  site  have been  closed under the Resource
Conservation and Recovery Act.  Wastes  and contaminated soils were
excavated  and removed  to a  permitted  facility.

     Status  (July 1985);  IRP activities continue.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency/Remedial Response Program

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         Priorities List Sfta

Hazardous waste site listed under the
Comprehensive Environmental Response. Compensation, and Liability Act of


                                 ARKWOOD,  INC.
                                Cmaha, Arkansas

     The Arkwood, Inc., Site covers  20 acres on  the  Missouri-Pacific's
Cricket railroad siding, south of Omaha  in Boone County, Arkansas.   The
site consists of a millwork shop, a  wood-treating operation using
pentachlorophenol (PCP) and creosote, and  a storage  yard for the treated
wood products before sale.  Arkwood  started operations  at  the site  in
the early 1960s.  In the mid 1970s,  the  owner  of Arkwood leased the
process and land to  Mass Merchandisers,  Inc.r  of Harrison,  Arkansas.
Mass Merchandisers'  lease expired on Jan.  1, 1985, and  was  not renewed.
The plant has not operated since then.

     Wastes from the wood-treating operation,  according to Mass
Merchandisers, were  dumped into a cave at  the  treating  plant from the
beginning of the operation to around 1970, when  the  cost of the chemicals
used in the treatment process forced use of a  recovery  system.  The
entrance to the cave, which is at ground level,  has  been boarded and
covered with a layer of dirt.  The wastes  consist of the liquid from
washing of the treatment room floor  and  the treatment equipment.  These
wastes accumulated in a tank and were then soread 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. However, prior
to 1970, when the recovery operation began, the  quantities were signifi-
cantly higher.  There is also a pit  containing 40 cubic yards of waste
adjacent to the site next to the railroad, as  well as a pile of 6,000
cubic yards of sawdust and woodchips.

     Approximately 660 persons living within 3 miles of the site depend
on ground water as a source of drinking  water.  The  State  has detected
PCP in local water wells, natural springs  in the area,  and in nearby
Walnut Creek.

     Mass Merchandisers has sent the contaminated wood  on  the site and
the contents of the  tank to an approved  disposal facility.  The company
has also drilled a new well for a resident near  the  site and retained a
consulting firm to conduct a geohydrological study  in the  area.
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"
                             CASTLE MR FORCE BASE
                               Merced,  California

        Conditions at listing  (October  1984);  Castle Air Force Base is a
   military installation located in Merced, Merced County, California.   The
   base consists of 2,777 acres of runways and airfield operations,  indus-
   trial areas, and housing for base personnel.   In the past,  spent solvents
   (trichloroethylene and trichloroethane), cyanide,  cadmium,  fuels,  and
   waste oils have been disposed of into on-site  chemical disposal pits and
   landfills.

        The drinking water supply for the base is drawn from an aquifer
   underlying the base at a depth of approximately 300  feet.   This has  been
   contaminated by trichloroethylene.  The Air Force has  installed a new
   drinking water well for the base that will draw from a deeper,  uncontami-
   nated aquifer.  The well is scheduled to be operational in  the  fall  of
   1984.

        Castle Air Force Base is participating in the Installation Restora-
   tion 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 Air Force  completed Phase I (records
   search)  in October 1983.  Phase II (preliminary survey) is  scheduled to
   begin in late 1984.

        Status (July 1985);  Castle Air Force Base has  completed installa-
   tion and hookup of a new drinking water supply well  for the base.  Phase
   II of the Installation Restoration Program is  currently underway.
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)("Super?und"
                 LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY  (USDOE)
                             Livermore, California

        Conditions at listing (October 1984);  Lawrence  Livermore National
  Laboratory (LLNL)  covers about 1 square mile and is situated about  1.5
  miles east of the  densely populated City of Livermore, Alameda County,
  California.   The research facility is administered by the U.S. Department
  of  Energy (USDOE).

      Abandoned waste pits on the site contain chloroform, 1,1,1-trichloro-
  ethylene, tetrachloroethylene, and other organic solvents.  Monitoring
  wells on-site are  contaminated by these organic chemicals, as are
  private  wells off-site.  LLNL has provided some nearby residents with
  bottled  water.

        LLNL is working with the California Regional Water Quality Control
  Board to determine the full extent of the ground water contamination.

        Status  (July  1985);  In December 1984, LLNL, with input from EPA,
  the California Regional Water Quality Control Board,  and the California
  Department of Health Services, developed a workplan to investigate  the
  extent of ground water contamination at the facility.  LLNL has completed
  the majority of the ground water investigation.

        Residents previously using bottled water have been supplied with a
  municipal drinking water system paid for by LLNL.
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")
                      MATHER AIR FORCE BASE (AC&W DISPOSAL SITE)
                                Sacramento, California

        Conditions at listing (October 1984);  Mather Air Force Base  is
   located  near Sacramento, Sacramento County, California.   Its mission  is
   to train pilots and act as support for the Strategic Air  Command.  This
   effort includes the maintenance of aircraft and other machinery.

        A records search of base operations has located a disposal site  in
   the Air  Command and Warning (AC&W) area of the base.  The site is  currently
   occupied by the Strategic Air Command Security Police Headquarters.   The
   Air Force has determined that spent trichloroethylene (TCE) was placed
   in a  pit on the site frcm about 1958 to 1966.  A well near the site
   was used for drinking water until October 1979, when it was shut down
   due to TCE contamination.  The well now provides water for fire protection.

        Mather 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
   (records  search).   Phase II (preliminary survey)  is underway.

        Status (July 1985);  Phase II of the IRP for Mather  Air Force Base
  has been  divided into stages.   The first stage investigated the
  cause and extent of contamination at three areas on the base, including
   the AC&W  Disposal  Site,  considered by the Air Force to have high
  priority.   A statement of work for further investigation  of the areas
  evaluated during the first stage will be prepared after the stage one
  report is finalized.
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)C'Superfund"
                MOCLELLAN AIR FORCE BASE (GROUND WATER CONTAMINATION)
                                Sacramento/ California

        Conditions at listing (October 1984);  McClellan Air Force Base
   occupies about 2,600 acres and is located approximately 8 miles northeast
   of Sacramento, Sacramento County, California.  The base uses organic
   solvents for the maintenance, repair, and modification of aircraft.  The
   Air Force has identified 46 past disposal areas covering 56 acres within
   the base.  Based upon disposal practices, geography, and potential threat,
   the 36 areas are being designated one NPL site.

        These areas include several sludge disposal pit where dewatered
   industrial sludge containing trichloroethylene (TCE), 1,1,1-trichloro-
   ethane,  and 1,1-dichloroethylene was disposed of during the 1960s and
   early 1970s.  These solvents have been detected in monitoring wells and in
   public and private wells to the west of McClellan.

        Since 1979, 12 off-base wells, including a municipal well, have
   closed due to TCE contamination.  The municipal well was part of a blended
   system that served about 23,000 people.  Where the levels of contaminants
   have exceeded or are expected to exceed the California Department of
   Health Services action levels, the Air Force is providing alternative
   water sources to residents.

        A Ground Water Task Force, consisting of the Air Force, local, State,
   and Federal agencies, and public representatives, is working to identify
   the extent of contamination and determine the remedial measures necessary
   to clean up the sources on the base.

        McClellan Air Force Base is participating in the Installation Restora-
   tion 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 Air Force has completed Phase I (records
   search)  and Phase II (preliminary survey).  Phase IV (remedy implementa-
   tion) is being carried out at a number of on-site locations.  The Air
   Force has initiated an off-site investigation to determine the extent of
   any off-site migration of contamination.

        Status (July 1985): Continuing work under Phase II and IV of the
   Installation Restoration Program, the Air Force has identified 16 addi-
   tional on-site disposal areas, bringing the total to 62.  The Air Force
  has begun a feasibility study to identify long-term remedial actions for
   that same area.
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)C'Superfund"]
                          MOFFETT NAVAL AIR STATION
                            Sunnyvale, California

       Conditions at listing (April 1985):  Moffett Naval Air Station covers
  8,700 acres in Sunnyvale, Santa Clara County, California.   In the
  past, various solvents and sludges have been disposed on-site into ponds
  and landfills and onto the ground.  As a result,  soil and  ground water
  on-site are contaminated.  The major contaminants in ground water are
  volatile organic compounds.  About 272,000 people depend on ground water
  within 3 miles of the station as a source of drinking water.

       Moffett Naval Air Station 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  Navy has  completed
  Phase I (records search) of the program and is beginning Phase II
  (preliminary survey).

       Moffett Naval Air Station is in the South Bay Area of San Francisco.
  In October 1984, 19 non-Federal sites in the area were proposed for the
  NPL.  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 site-specific
  action as necessary.

       Status (November  1985);  In June 1985, the  California Regional Water
  Quality Control Board adopted Waste Discharge Requirements for Moffett
  Naval Air Station.  The requirements outline specific tasks and compliance
  dates Moffett must follow to define the full extent of contamination in
  soils and ground water.
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 (CER'
                             NORTON AIR FORCE BASE
                           San Bernardino, California

        Conditions at listing (October 1984);  Norton Air Force Base covers
   approximately 2,036 acres near the City of San Bernardino, San Bernardino
   County, California.  One of the base's activities is the maintenance of
   aircraft and engines.  In addition, Norton formerly had the responsibility
   for providing maintenance and logistics for liquid-fuel intercontinental
   ballistic missiles.

        Industrial solvents have been used extensively on the base.  Unknown
   quantities of spent solvents were disposed of in several base landfills.

        A well on the base has been contaminated with trichloroethylene (TCE).
   The well water is currently being used in a blended system and is sampled
   quarterly to assure that TCE is below the California State action level.
   The water is used by approximately 11,000 people who live and/or work
   on the base.

        Norton Air Force Base is participating in the Installation Restora-
   tion 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 Air Force has completed Phase I
   (records search).  Phase II (preliminary survey) is underway.

        Status (July 1985);  Phase II of the Installation Restoration
   Program was completed in April 1985.  Phase II focused on characterization
   of contamination at 14 additional on-base sites.  Of the 14, 7 required
   additional investigation, and that work is currently underway.
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")
                             SACRAMENTO ARMY  DEPOT
                             Sacramento, California

        Conditions at listing  (October  1984);  The Sacramento Army Depot
   (SAAD) occupies 485 acres within the city  limits of  Sacramento, Sacramento
   County, California, approximately 7 miles  to  the southeast of the Sacramento
   business district.  Morrison Creek enters  the SAAD eastern boundary.  The
   creek parallels the depot perimeter  to the south and discharges on the western
   boundary.

        SAAD is a supply depot primarily responsible  for  the  receipt, storage,
   issue, maintenance, and disposal of various electronic materials.  The
   primary sources of contamination at SAAD derive from metal-plating operations
   and their associated waste waters and solid wastes.  Generally, these
   wastes were discharged to unlined sewage lagoons or  burned and/or buried
   on the facility.

        Ground water on and off the site is contaminated  with trichloroethylene.
   Heavy metals above background levels have  been  detected  in on-site ground
   water and in sediment of Morrison Creek immediately  downstream of SAAD.
   The California Regional Water Control Board and SAAD have  been discussing
   additional monitoring of ground water and  further  investigations to
   define contaminated areas.

        SAAD 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).

          Status (July 1985);  SAAD has submitted  a workplan  for a remedial
   investigation to the California Regional Water  Quality Control Board.
   EPA and the California Department of Health Services will  participate in
   the review of the workplan.
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 (CERCLM
                               SHARPS ARMY DEPOT
                              Lathrop, California

       Conditions at  listing  (October 1984);   The Sharps Army Depot covers
  724 acres  in a primarily rural area of San Joaquin County in north central
  California, approximately 60 miles east of San Francisco, 2 miles east
  of the  San Joaquin  River, and 1.5 miles northeast of Lathrop.

       The site  is  a  former U.S. Army maintenance facility.  Wastes produced
  on-site were disposed of in two discrete areas:  the South Balloon area
  and Burning Pits.   The two  areas cover about 0.5 square miles.  The
  wastes  included sludge containing phenols and polychlorinated hydrocarbons
  (trans-dichloroethylene, trichloroethylene, carbon tetrachloride), and
  used paints and solvents.  The total amounts and types are unknown.  The
  wastes  have contaminated both soil and ground water, but not surface
  water to date.  All maintenance activities have ceased, and the waste
  areas are  no longer used.

       The site  is  located in the large plain on the valley floor, which
  carries several aquifers, at least one artesian.  Most of the surrounding
  land is used for  agriculture, primarily for raising row crops.

       The 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 Phase I (records search) of the IRP.

          Status  (July 1985);   Sharpe Air Force Base is sampling on-base
  ground  water as a continuing effort under Phase II, Stage II  (confirmatory
  sampling)  of the  Installation Restoration Program.  Off-base sampling,
  also a  part of the  sampling program, is planned.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency/Remedial Response Program

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  National Priorities List Site

  Hazardous waste sits listed under the
  Comprehensive Environmental Response. Compensation, and LiabiEty Act of 1900

                         MARTIN MARIETTA (DENVER AEROSPACE)
                                 Waterton, Colorado

       The Martin Marietta Denver Aerospace plant covers approximately 5,200
  acres near the town 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 ware filled and
  closed. Tests conducted by EPA in early 1985 intercepted a plume of
  ground water contaminated with chrcmiim and organic chemicals downgradient
  from a former  waste disposal area.  The area is approximately 1.5 miles
  upgradient fron 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
  demand 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, die Colorado Department of
  Health issued  an anergency order to the company to monitor ground water
  and to prepare a remedial action plan for surface water 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 (RCRA.)  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 remote 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 fron 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 sppts 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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                            ROCKY MOUNTAIN ARSENAL
                            Adams County, Colorado

       Conditions at listing (October 1984); The Rocky Mountain Arsenal
  (RMA)  is  located about 10 miles northeast of downtown Denver, Adams
  County, Colorado.   It  covers  over 27 sauare miles.  Since 1942, RMA has
  manufactured and demilitarized mustard gas and chemical munitions.
  From  1952 until 1982,  Shell Chemical Co. used the site to manufacture
  pesticides and  herbicides.

       The  Army has  identified  165 "possibly polluted" areas on F-MA; six
  received  Interim Status under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
  when  the  Army filed Part  A's  of permit applications.  Contamination from
  some of these areas has migrated and continues to migrate off RMA, princi-
  pally via around water.   The  contaminated area covers about 4 square
 miles, with  additional off-site ground water contamination.

      The  Army and  Shell each  have constructed systems along the down-
 gradient  borders of RMA to pump out contaminated ground water, treat it
 with activated  carbon to  remove organic contaminants, and reinject the
  treated ground  water.  The Army is constructing a third system.  The Army
  is also developing alternatives for controlling or eliminating the sources
 of contamination on RMA and the off-site contamination.  These activities are
 part'of 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.   To date, the Army has spent
 more than $25 million on  studies and control actions at RMA.

      Status  (July  1985);   The third ground water intercept and treatment
 system is now in service.   The Army continues to develop alternatives for
 addressing the off-site contamination.   F,PA  has begun a separate off-site
 study in an adjacent area.

      The State has observed that seepage water on the slope adjacent to
 the northwestern, perimeter of  Hill' AFB,  near Landfills #3 and 4, contains
 detectable concentrations  of toxic  organic chemicals.
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                             DOVER AIR FORCE BASE
                               Dover,  Delaware

      Conditions at listing (October 1984)t  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 (July 1985):   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.
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                      COKER'S SANITATION SERVICE LANDFILLS
                             Kent County, Delaware

        Conditions at listing (April 1985);  The Coker's Sanitation Service
   Landfills cover 25 acres near Cheswold in Kent County, Delaware.  The
   site consists of two areas located directly across from each other along
   Route 152.   Both areas were used as dumps for latex rubber sludges generated
   by the latex plant now operated by Reichhold Chemicals, Inc.  Reichhold
   acquired the plant in 1976.  Prior to that, it was operated by  Standard
   Brands Co.  (1963 to 1976)  and International Latex Corp. (before 1963).

        The area on the north side of Route 152 consisted of unlined trenches
   and operated from 1962 until 1977.  Coker's Sanitation Service, which
   handled the disposal operations for Reichhold and Standards Brands,
   leased this property from the current owner.  The area to the south  of
   Route 152 operated from 1977 until 1981 under a State solid waste disposal
   permit.  Wastes were disposed of in lined trenches.  Coker's Sanitation
   Service also leased this property from the current owner.

        According to tests conducted by EPA, ground water in the vicinity
   of  the landfills has been contaminated by acrolein and ethylbenzene.
   Bis (2-choroethyl) ether was also detected in leachate coming from the
   landfills.   To date, residential wells close to the landfills do not
   contain these contaminants or violate any drinking water standards,
   according to tests conducted by EPA.  About 4,000 people depend on
   ground water within 3 miles of the site for drinking water.

        Status (September 1985):  EPA is considering various alternatives
   for the site.
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                            NCR CORP.  (MILLSBORO)
                              Millsboro,  Delaware

       Conditions at listing  (April  1985);   The NCR Corp. Site covers 58
  acres in Millsboro,  Sussex  County, Delaware.   From 1967 until 1974, the
  company conducted electroplating operations on the site.  From 1974
  until 1981, only assembly operations were conducted.  In 1981, NCR sold
  the property to First National Bank of Maryland.  The current building
  and property are referred to  as First  Freedom Center.

       The plating process  produced  a chromium-bearing waste water which
  was treated on the site.  The resulting sludge was disposed of in an
  unlined pit on-site.  NCR subsequently excavated this material.  Three
  concrete-lined storage lagoons were also on-site.  Two contained toxic
  materials which were later  drained and removed.

       The State required NCR to monitor ground water after the site was
  closed.  According to tests conducted  by a consultant to NCR, ground
  water on the site has been  contaminated by trichloroethylene (TCE),
  chloroform, hexavalent chromium, and trans-l,2-dichloroethylene.  Also,
  TCE-contaminated ground water is entering Iron Branch, as revealed
  by stream sampling.  Iron Branch flows into Indian River, which is used
  for recreation.

       About 4,700 people depend on  ground water within 3 miles of the site
  as a source of drinking water.

       Status (September 1985):   EPA is  considering various alternatives
  for the site.
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                     STANDARD CHLORINE OF DELAWARE,  INC.
                           Delaware City, Delaware

      Standard  Chlorine of Delaware, Inc., manufactures  chlorinated benzenes
 on a 46-acre site in Delaware City, New Castle County,  Delaware.  In
 September  1981,  about 5,000 gallons of monochlorobenzene spilled from a
 railroad tanker  car onto the Standard Chlorine property.   Subsequent testing
 by the company and the State has detected chlorobenzenes in.on-site soils,
 ground water underlying the site, and Red Lion Creek, which is about 1,000
 feet north of  the site.  Ground water is a source  of private and public
 water supply within one mile of the site.

      Standard  Chlorine has retained a consultant to study the site and
 recommend  remedial alternatives.
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                 HARRIS CORP./GENERAL DEVELOPMENT UTILITIES
                             Palm Bay, Florida

      Conditions at listing (April 1985):  The Harris Corp./General
 Development Utilities Site occupies over 500 acres  in  Palm  Ray,  Brevard
 County, Florida.  Harris, which has two major operating divisions  (Semi-
 conductor Sector and Government Systems Sector), produces a wide variety
 of electronic devices and components.  General  Development  Utilities
 (GDU) provides drinking water and manages the waste water collection,
 treatment, and disposal system for much of Palm Bay.

      GDU's well field consists of 18 producing  wells and is located south
 of the Harris complex adjacent to the facility  and downgradient.  It
 serves at least 18,000 people.  According to a  nationwide survey of
 ground water supplies conducted by EPA, the well field is contaminated
 with volatile organic compounds.  Although the  Florida Department  of
 Environmental Regulation has indicated that the Harris Corp. is  the
 source of these compounds, .the precise origin and cause of  the
 contamination are unknown.  Past spills are suspected, however.

      The  Department of Environmental Regulation and Harris  Corp. signed  a
 Consent Agreement in December 1983.  According  to the  agreement, which was
 under Florida statutes, Harris is to determine  the extent of ground
 water contamination and then develop a restoration program  to improve
 ground water quality in the area.  Harris has begun construction of a
 system to pump out ground \ ater and pass it through an air  stripper to
 remove the volatile organic compounds.

      Status (September 1985);  The air stripper was activated in May  1985.
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                            PETROLEUM PRODUCTS CORP.
                             Pembroke Park, Florida

        Conditions at listing (April 1985);  Petroleum Products Corp.  refined,
   stored, and recycled oil on a 2-acre site in Pembroke  Park,  Broward
   County, Florida, from about 1952 to 1972.  Poor housekeeping and  equipment
   maintenance resulted in soils beconing heavily impregnated with oil and the
   formation of a layer of organic chemicals on the shallow Biscayne Aquifer
   beneath the site.  The aquifer is contaminated with lead and PCBs,  according
   to the Florida Department of Envirormental Regulation  (DER)  analyses of
   monitoring wells.  Pits covering an extensive area on  the site  contain
   sludges generated in the oil recycling process.  Although the area  was
   filled and paved over from 1970 to 1974, it continues  to discharge  oily
   materials, especially during the rainy season.

        The Hallandale well field is less than 0.5 miles  downgradient  from
   the site;  two other municipal well fields are located  within 3 miles.
   More than 150,000 people get their drinking water from these wells.

        DER filed suit against Petroleum Products in June 1984  in Broward
   County Circuit Court to force the company to clean up  the site or to
   allow the  State to use its own funds and then to assess  penalties for
   cost recovery.

        After EPA issued a CERCLA section 106 order for an  immediate removal
   action at  the site, EPA and Petroleum Products entered into  a Consent
   Order on April 1,  1985.  The order required the company  to perform  tasks
   outlined in an Immediate Removal Work Plan, which is incorporated as part
   of  the Consent Order.
       Status  (September  1985):   Petroleum Products completed the removal  and
  transported  the materials to an EPA-approved disposal site.
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                            ROBINS AIR FORCE BASE
                           Houston County, Georgia

      Conditions at listing (October 1984);  Robins Air Force Base covers
 8,855  acres  approximately 18 miles south of Macon in Houston County in
 middle Georgia.   It includes a 1,200-acre wetland.  The base has 13 areas
 that contain hazardous waste from past disposal activities.  Two areas
 comprise this  NPL site: Landfill #4, where 1,500 drums are stored, and
 an adjacent  sludge lagoon, which contains phenols and metal plating
 wastes.   The two  areas cover 67 acres.

      The base  is  located in  the Coastal Plain of Georgia and is underlain
 by units of  the highly permeable Cretaceous Aquifer of Georgia.  The
 water  supplies for the base  and the City of Warner Robins are derived
 from this aquifer.  More than 10,000 people are potentially affected.
 Trichloroethylene and tetrachloroethylene have been detected in ground
 water  near the site, and phenols have been detected in surface water on
 the  site.

      Robins  Air Force Base is participating in the Installation Restora-
 tion 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 Air Force has completed Phase I
 (records search).   Phase II  (preliminary survey) is underway.

      Status  (July 1985);  Phase II continues.
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                               H.O.D LANDFILL
                             Antioch,  Illinois

      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 from 1963
 to 1981.   One tanker dunped on the site contained moderately  high levels
 (80 parts per billion) of PCBs, according  to  tests  conducted  by the
 Illinois Environmental Protection Agencyx(IEPA).

      Monitoring wells downgradient 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.

      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 permit violations involving operation of the  landfill without a
 permit and cover violations.  The daily cover violations were dismissed
 because inspections ware 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  requirecpents at the
 landfill.  Under a settlement reached in October 1984, Waste  Management
 agreed to step the cover violations and pay a $5,000  fine.
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          JOLIET ARMY AMMUNITION PLANT (LOAD-ASSEMBLY-PACKING AREA)
                               Joliet, Illinois

       Conditions at listing (April 1985);  The Joliet Array Ammunition
  Plant (JAAP) is an inactive Army munitions installation located  in north-
  eastern Illinois near Chicago.  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).

       The LAP Area 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, 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
  TNT, DMT, 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 (September 1985);  IRP activities continue.
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               JOLIET ARMY AMMUNITION PLANT (MANUFACTURING AREA)
                                Joliet, Illinois

        Conditions at listing (October 1984);  The Joliet Army Ammunition
   Plant (JAAP) is a munitions installation located  in Joliet near Chicago,
   Will County, Illinois.  The Manufacturing Area (Mfg Area) occupies  about
   9,000 acres of JAAP west of Illinois State Highway 53.  More than 4 billion
   pounds of explosives were produced in the area during its operating life
   from the early 1940s to 1977.  Since 1977, the area has been maintained
   in nonoperating standby condition by the contractor/operator (Uniroyal, Inc.)

        The Army has determined that extremely large guantities of waste
   products and waste waters were generated during the operating  life  of
   the Mfg Area.  Contaminated process waters and chemical spills were
   routinely discharged to constructed drainage ditches, where they flowed
   without treatment into Jackson Creek and Grant Creek.  Unlined piles
   of incinerator ash and a leak in the liner of one of several waste  water
   lagoons have also contributed to contamination of ground water and  surface
   water, according to the Army.

        JAAP 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) and Phase II
   (preliminary survey).  In the course of the survey the Army has documented
   releases to ground water and surface water of munitions-related contami-
   nants attributable to Mfg Area activities.

        Status (July 1985):  The Army is cleaning out the lagoons so they
   can be closed according to the reguirements of the Resource Conservation
   and Recovery Act.
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      SANGAMO ELECTRIC DUMP/CRAB ORCHARD NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE  (USDOI)
                             Carterville, Illinois

       Conditions at listing (October 1984):  The Sangamo Electric Dump/Crab
  Orchard  National Wildlife Refuge Site covers 2 to 3 acres in Carterville,
  Williamson County, Illinois.  The U.S. Department of Interior (USDOI)
  owns the property.  Fran 1946 to the mid-1960s, Sangamo Electric buried
  by-products from the manufacturing of electrical components and capacitors
  in  a landfill that is close to and drains into Crab Orchard Lake.   Soil
  samples  from the edge of the landfill contain PCBs in the range of  12,000
  parts per million (ppm)  and lead in the range of 7,000 ppm, according to
  analyses conducted by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.  Soil samples
  collected between the fill and the lake showed lower concentrations.
  These contaminants are migrating via surface run-off into Crab  Orchard
  Lake, from which the City of Marion (population 1,400) takes water  during
  periods  of peak demand.

       At  the request of EPA, USDOI is planning a remedial investigation/
  feasibility study to determine the extent of the contamination  at the
  site and identify alternatives for remedial action.

       Status (July 1985);  The contractor for Sangamo and USDOI  has  prepared
  a draft  scope of work for the remedial investigation/feasibility study,
  which EPA has reviewed.   Sangamo has agreed to pay for cleanup  of the
  site, while USDOI will handle the off-site study.
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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 in Savanna, in Carroll County  in northwestern Illinois, on
   the 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  bcmbs
   began at SADA in the 1930s and has occurred  intermittently since that
   time.  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 water and ground water  on the base.  The
   area of contaminated ground water encompasses about  18 acres.

        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 from these
   sites.   The Army has completed Phase I (records search)  and Phase II
   (preliminary survey).  Phase III (assessment of remedial action alternatives)
   is  scheduled to be completed in December 1984.

        Status (July 1985):  The Phase III report is still under development.
   The  Department  of Defense will meet with the State and EPA when the
   report is completed.
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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.  PCBs 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.

      Vhen the  waste water lagoon overflows, the contents go into the
 Vincennes sewer system.   Storm water run-off from the facility  enters
 Kelso Creek, which flows into the Wabash River.  These waste  water
 discharges are regulated under the Clean Water Act.
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                            WASTE,  INC.,  LANDFILL
                            Michigan City,  Indiana

       Conditions at listing  (April 1985);   The Waste, Inc., Landfill covers
  10 acres in a wetland within  the  limits of Michigan City, LaPorte County,
  Indiana.  The area is industrial  with an  urban population of about 34,000.

       From 1966 to 1982,  the landfill  accepted approximately 128,000 tons
  of industrial waste contaminated  with PCBs, heavy metals, and organic
  solvents.  It was not permitted to accept such wastes.  The landfill was
  unlined, and there were  no  dikes  to control run-off.  Originally, the site
  sloped down to the creek.   Now, the landfill rises 50 feet above surrounding
  terrain.

       In December 1983, EPA  detected heptachlor in one ground water sample
  at the site.  Ground water  below  the  site is shallow.  About 2,100 people
  depend on ground water within 3 miles of  the site as a source of drinking
  water.

       The site drains into nearby  Trail  Creek, which discharges to Lake
  Michigan.  EPA detected  3 parts per million each of arsenic and PCBs in
  the creek.  These levels exceed EPA drinking water standards.  People
  are known to fish in the creek.

       In May 1981, the State and Dis-Pos-All Service, Inc. (a previous
  owner/operator of the site) signed an Agreed Order limiting acceptance
  of refuse from Josam Foundry  and  McLain Foundry.  In January 1982, in
  response to a State court order,  the  landfill closed.

       Status (September 1985); A  State  court has stated that there is an
  imminent health hazard and  that a court order is needed to permit anyone
  to enter the site.
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                          A.  Y.  MCDONALD INDUSTRIES, INC/
                                  Dubugue, Iowa

       A. Y. McDonald  Industries, Inc., formerly operated an  iron and
   brass foundry on a  site which occupies approxiinately 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 contained
   lead, according to  tests  conducted by EPA.

       The piles threaten to contaminate ground water, surface water and
   air.  The 62,300 people living within 3 miles of the site  depend on
   ground water as a source  of  drinking water.

        On Dec. 5, 1984,  EPA issued a Compliance Order under  section 3008(a)
   of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act.  The order  requires the
   company to submit a complete closure plan for the disposal site and a
   ground water assessment plan.
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                       FRIT INDUSTRIES  (HUMBOLDT PLANT)
                                Humboldt,  Iowa

       Conditions at listing  (April  1985):   The Frit Industries Site covers
  about 6 acres north of Humboldt, Humboldt County, Iowa.  The company
  produces trace mineral additives for  agricultural use.  The 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 Nakomis, 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

        Conditions at listing  (September 1985):   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, approximately 3,000 tons of
   solvents, paint sludges, acids, heavy metals,  and cyanide were disposed
   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 accepted
   solvents, acids, heavy metals, and cyanide.  It  ceased receiving wastes
   prior to the effective date of the RCRA permitting  standards for land
   disapproval 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-related sites.
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                      LOUISIANA ARMY AMMUNITION PLANT
                             Doyline, Louisiana
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      Conditions at listing (October 1984);  Louisiana Army Ammunition
Plant is located in Doyline near Shreveport, Webster Parish, Louisiana.
The  primary mission includes 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 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 ground water 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 (pre-
liminary survey) is  underway.

      Status (July 1985);  The State has issued a compliance order against
the  plant with  respect to ground  water contamination.
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                              SHAW AVENUE DUMP
                             Charles City, Iowa

     The Shaw Avenue Dump covers about 8 acres on  Shaw Avenue in the
 floodplain of the Cedar River at the southeastern edge of Charles City,
 Floyd County, Iowa.  The city owns the site  and operated  it as a municipal
 waste dump.  The dump also accepted arsenic-contaminated  waste fron
 Salsbury Laboratories, an animal Pharmaceuticals  company, fron 1949 to
 1953.  Salsbury then began disposing of its  waste at the  nearby LaBounty
 Site on the opposite side of the Cedar River.  The  LaBounty Site was
 placed on the NPL in September 1983.

     The Shaw Avenue"Dump also received wastes fron  Charles City waste water
 treatment plant between 1949 and 1964.  Liming sludge fron the city's
 drinking water treatment plant is still disposed  of at this site, and the
 central portion is used by the public and the city  as an  open burning
 area.  The burning is authorized by the city.

     Analyses conducted by Salsbury Laboratories have detected arsenic in an
 on-site monitoring well.  A nearby private drinking water well has also
 shown contamination, according to EPA.  The  city  of St. Charles municipal
 water supply system, which serves 8,800 people, has two wells (185 feet
 deep) which draw fron the Cedar Valley Aquifer within 2 miles of the
 site.
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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 Ouiggle Brook and is  in the 100-year floodplain.
 Grassy Pond, an alternate drinking water source for the  towns of CaitKien,
 Rockport, Rockland, and Thonaston  (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  flanmable materials and sludges.  Among the
 wastes were PCBs, methylene chloride, cyanides, methyl ethyl ketone, and
 trichloroethene.  An on-site well  and Ouiggle Brook are  contaminated with
 trichloroethylene, according to tests conducted by the Maine Department
 of Environmental Protection and EPA.

      Union Chemical was shut down  June  29, 1984, under Maine's
 Uncontrolled Hazardous Substance Act because  it failed to satisfy the
 Interim Status requirements of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
 (RCRA).  Under section 3008 of RCRA, EPA fined the company for failure to
 submit its 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 (September 1985):  EPA is considering  various alternatives for
 the site.
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                           BRUNSWICK NAVAL AIR STATION
                                 Brunswick, Maine

         Conditions at listing (October 1984):  The Brunswick Naval Air
    Station,  in Brunswick, Sagadahoc County, Maine, encompasses seven
    areas that were used in the past (beginning in 1942) for the storage or
    disposal  of hazardous wastes.  These areas are within a 2-roile radius
    and  occupy a total of at least 15 acres.  Of the seven areas, two were
    used for  landfilling the station's household and office wastes.  The
    other areas were used for disposal of acid, caustic, and asbestos wastes.
    Pesticides, solvents, and waste oils present on the site threaten ground
    water (including a nearby public well field serving 18,000 people),
    surface water,  and adjacent wetlands.

         The  Brunswick Naval Air Station 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 identified the potential
    threats to human health or the environment caused by past practices at
    the  seven areas, and in 1984 will start a study to further identify the
    contaminants present at the site and determine their migration paths.

         EPA  intends to monitor future work at Brunswick and provide technical
    assistance to the Navy as needed,

         Status (July 1985):  The Navy completed the Site Verification Stage
    of the Installation Restoration Program, which is the first phase of a
    multiphase program.  EPA will continue to monitor work at Brunswick and
    provide technical assistance as needed.
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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 triethyl phosphate 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 1985);   IRP activities continue.
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                  ABERDEEN  PROVING GROUND - EDGEWDOD 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 subsequently
 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
 quantities 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 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 contami-
 nation of surface water  and ground water in  the vicinity of Old  "O" 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 organic 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 Joppatcwne  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 acquired 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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                           HOOKER (MONTAGUE PLANT)
                              Montague,  Michigan

      The Hooker Site covers 900 acres  in Montague, Muskegon County,
 Michigan.   Since 1954,  Hooker Chemicals and Plastics Corp., a subsidiary
 of Occidental  Petroleum Corp., has manufactured chlorine, sodium hydroxide,
 and hydrochloric acid at the site.   Until February 1977, the plant also
 manufactured hexachlorocyclopentadiene, a toxic chemical used in the
 production  of  pesticides.   Improper disposal of about 506,000 cubic yards
 of organic  wastes has contaminated ground water and surface water with
 chlorinated organic chemicals, according to tests conducted by EPA.  The
 plant  is currently on stand-by because of unfavorable economic conditions.

      A shallow aquifer  below the site  supplies drinking water to about
 700 people.  There is no alternative drinking water source.

      On Feb. 21,  1979,  the State filed suit against Hooker to conpel
 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
 to prevent  contamination from migrating off-site.

      The site  is an inactive portion of a facility that acquired Interim
 Status for  a drum 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 area instead of seeking an operating permit.
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                         KENT CITY MOBILE HOME PARK
                            Kent City, Michiqan

     Conditions at  listing (September 1985);  The Kent City Mobile  Home
Park is  corrprised of about 75 hones in Kent City, Kent County, Michiqan.
Ground water  at the park  is contaninated with organic solvents (chloroform,
toluene, methylene  chloride, trichloroethylene, and carbon tetrachloride),
according  to  tests  conducted by EPA.  To date, no contamination  has been
detected in off-site wells.  The contamination may be the result of
solvents buried by  a former on-site dry cleaner.

     In April 1984,  a 55-gallon drum was removed under State supervision.
The State  detected  benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylene in an oily
substance  seeping south into Ball Creek.  The creek runs through the 2
acres of known  ground water contamination.  The 2,800 people  in  the
mobile home park  and surrounding area now use water from two new we!3s
drilled  in 1983-84  by the Kent City Mobile Home Park.

     Status (January 1986):  EPA is considering various alternatives for
the site.
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                            KXSOR INDUSTRIAL CORP.
                             Cadillac,  Michigan

      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.  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 ccmpany.

      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 when the  ccmpany filed Part A
 of a permit application.   In  July  1984,  EPA  approved a plan for closing
 the area.
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                  ROCKWELL INTERNATIONAL CORP'.  CALLEGAN PLANT)
                               Allegan,,. Michigan

       Conditions at listing CApril. 1985)';.  Rockwell!. International'. Corp*
  manufactures universal joints, for. the; automotive: induslaiy/ am a 3fljv4s-acre
  site in Ml'eganr MIegan County,,  Michigan1..  The. giant, is, in> a residential
  neighborhood: and on the banks of  the: Kalamazoo1 River,, which, is; used for
  recreation.

       Fran- 1910 to I960-,., the- company, discharged' waste water containing
  sludge r heavy metal's-,- process- wastes7,, and' oils: into the; Kalamazoo
  River.  Fran I960' to 1972V the:- waste: water was discharged; into two; unlined
  ponds on  the site..  In I9.'72i, the  company built a> plant, to treat cutting.
  fluid wastes-,- which contain; emulsified: oils', ferric, chloride-, sodium
  hydroxide, and a: polymer' floccuHent...  The treated, wastes: were discharged
  into one  of-  two uniined' ponds-.

       Ground"  water on. the site is  contaminated with lead:, arsenic, cyanide,
  and 4-methyl-2-pentanone-r according to tests conducted by EPA.  Private
  wells downgradient of the plant are contaminated with heavy metals and
  cyanide,  according to EPA.  About 6,900  people within 3 miles of the site
  depend on the shallow ground water as. a  source of drinking water.  EPA
  also detected heavy metals and: organic chemicals (polynuclear aromatic
  hydrocarbons)  in the Kalamazoo- River.,

        In  October 1980, Rockwell received Interim Status under the Resource
  Conservation and Recovery Act by  filing  Part A. of a permit application.
  Later,  Rockwell withdrew the: application because it never met Interim
  Status criteria.

        Status  (September- 1985);   EPA is considering various alternatives
  for the site.
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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,
  Missourio  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 waste were accepted at the site for treatment and disposal.
  Some wastes were incinerated on site.  Most wastes 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 under the Resource Conservation and Recovery
  Act (RCRA) for various storage tanks by filing Part A of a permit application.
  Subsequently, those wastes were disposed of off-site.  The tanks are no longer
  used, although 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 down-
  gradient of the site is contaninated 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  (November  1985)r   On Aug. 2, 1985, the U.S. reached a preliminary
  settlement under  which the four original generator defendants agreed to
  begin design  work for  the remedy immediately and to reimburse the U.S.
  $500,000 of its expenses.  The generator defendants also agreed to implement
  the remedy whenever either a settlement was reached among the additional
  parties  or there  was an adjudication by the court of all claims for
  liability  among defendants,  whichever comes first.  The design work is
  scheduled  to be completed within 18 months.
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                  ST.  AUGUSTA SANITARY LANDFILL/ST. CLOJD DUMP
                       St. Augusta Township, Minnesota

       The St.  Augusta Sanitary Landfill/St. Cloud Dump covers about  30
  acres  in St.  Augusta Township,  in Stearns County, Minnesota.  The site  is
  approximately 4  miles  south of the city of St. Cloud and a*, mile from the
  hamlet of  St.  Augusta.

       Seven acres of the site were operated; as the St. Cloud, Dump for an
  unknown number of. years until approximately 197L..  In 1971 r the Minnesota
  Pollution  Control Agency (MPCA)  issued a permit for operation of Engen
  Landfill No.  1 on land, adjacent  to the St. Cloud Dump.  In. 1973, the'
  MPCA permit was  assigned to Ervin Schramel and Landfill, Inc.   The  site
  ceased accepting waste in 1982*   MPCA files indicate that paint wastes;,
  solvents,  high-lead sludges, and ash from hazardous waste  incineration
  were buried: at the  site.

       The site  is adjacent to the Mississippi River.  The soils  are  sandy,
  and the shallow  aquifer that is  the only source of drinking water for
  about  1,400 people  is  contaminated with benzene, 1,1,2-trichloroethylene,
  arsenic, and  lead,  according to  tests conducted by MPCA.
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               LAKE CITY ARMY AMMUNITION  PLANT (NORTHWEST LAGOON)
                             Independence,  Missouri

        Conditions at listing (October  1984):   The Lake City Army Ammunition
   Plant (AAP), located on the eastern  edge of Independence, Jackson County,
   Missouri, extends over 7 square miles.   Lake City AAP is responsible for
   the manufacturing and loading of  small arms ammunition.  Remington Arms,
   Inc., has been the contractor since  the  installation opened in 1941.  The
   company employs approximately 2,800  workers, all  of whom live off-site.
   There are 11 residences on the facility  grounds.   These homes and the
   plant are served by a series of on-site  wells.

        The facility has 38 past and present disposal areas, including 9
   where the presence of hazardous waste  has been documented.  At least
   eight of these hazardous waste disposal  areas are no longer used.  One
   of them is the Northwest Lagoon,  which was  operated from the early 1950s
   until 1975.  This lagoon, approximately  50  x 50 x 8 feet deep,  received
   about 900 gallons of hazardous wastes, including  barium, cadmium, chro-
   mium, lead, mercury, silver, and  spent halogenated and nonhalogenated
   solvents.  The lagoon has been treated,  covered,  graded, and reseeded.
   Heavy metals have been detected in an  on-site monitoring well,  indicating
   that the closure was not adequate.

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

        The plant 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 Army has completed Phase  I (records search).   Phase II
   (preliminary survey) is underway.

        Status (July 1985);  Phase II activities continue.
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                        WELDON SPRING QUARRY (USDOE/ARMY)
                           St. Charles County,  Missouri

        Conditions  at  listing (October 1984):   The Vfeldon Spring Quarry
   covers 9 acres near the Missouri River in St. Charles County, Missouri.
   The Atonic Energy Commission (AEC) acquired the site in 1958 fron the
   Army.  As a  result  of  a reorganization of the AEC, the U.S. Department of
   Energy (USDOE) now  owns the site.

        The quarry  was first used by  the Army for disposal of rubble
   contaminated with trinitrotoluene  (TNT).   Later, AEC used the quarry for
   disposal of  180  cubic  yards of thorium residues in 1959, about 50,000
   cubic yards  of uranium- and radium-contaminated material and equipment in
   1963-64, and 550 cubic yards of thorium residues in 1966.  Fran 1966 to
   1969, the Army deposited additional TNT-contaminated stone, earth, and
   demolition rubble fron the Vfeldon  Spring  Chemical Plant, operated by AEC,
   and the Vfeldon Spring  Ordnance Works, operated by the Army.

        Water in the quarry is connected to  ground water through fractured
   limestone.   Uranium and radium have been  detected in off-site monitoring
   wellsr the radium in concentrations exceeding drinking water standards.
   A well field within 0.75 miles of  the site  is the source of drinking
   water for about  46,000 people.

        USDOE has conducted numerous  studies to characterize the geology and
   determine the types of wastes present.  Currently, USDOE is developing
   engineering  plans and  preparing an Environmental Impact Statement for the
   long-term management of radioactive wastes  at the quarry.

        Status  (July 1985);   USDOE is participating in a study sponsored by
   St. Charles  County  to  monitor the  flow and  quality of ground water in
   the Missouri River  alluvium well field operated by the county near the
   quarry.
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                       CORNHUSKER ARMY AMMUNITION PLANT
                            Hall County, Nebraska

        Conditions at listing (October 1984):  The Cornhusker Army Ammunition
   Plant is in Hall County, Nebraska, approximately 3 miles west of the City
   of Grand Island.  The facility, which is owned by the U.S. Army and
   operated by a contractor, operated intermittently in 1942-73 to
   produce bombs, shells, boosters, and mines.  It is now in standby status.

        Wastes containing trinitrotoluene (TNT) and RDX, an experimental
   explosive,  have been disposed through cesspools, leach pits, burning, and
   burial at many locations at the facility.  The wastes have contaminated
   the aquifer, which is the sole source 6f drinking water for residents in
   the area.  The Army is supplying bottled water to residences whose wells
   have been contaminated.  The Army has provided funds to the City of
   Grand Island for extension of its municipal water supply to serve affected
   residences.  Surface waters have not been affected to date.

        The hazardous waste site consists of the contiguous portion of the
   facility containing the main production area (load lines 1 through 5),
   the magazine areas, the sanitary landfill,  the demolition and burn ground,
   and the shop area, as well as the contaminated aquifer extending east of ,
   the facility.  The site covers about 9 square miles.

        The plant area is underlain by moderately to highly permeable uncon-
   solidated deposits which yield large quantities of good quality ground
   water for drinking water, agriculture, and industry.  Most of the land
   surrounding the site is used for agriculture and is under irrigation
   during much of the growing season.  The surface is drained through inter-
   mittent streams, with the closest continuously flowing water body
   5  miles away.

        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 (July 1985);  Over 500 private wells have been contaminated.
   The Army is furnishing alternative water supply for affected residents.
   The Army has identified sources of contamination within the plant and
   intends to  take remedial action in those areas.
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                          MONROE AUTO EQUIPMENT CO.
                               Cozad, Nebraska

     The  Monroe Auto Equipment Co.  Site covers approximately 26.3 acres
 on  the Platte  River floodplain on  the outskirts of Cozad, Dawson 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  from 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 trichloroethylene 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 Recovery
 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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                                MOTTOLO PIG FARM
                             Raymond, New Hampshire

        Conditions at listing (April 1985):  The Mottolo Pig  Farm is in an
   undeveloped wooded area of approximately 50 acres on Blueberry Hill Road
   in Raymond, Rockinghan County, New Hampshire.  Over  a period of 3 to 4
   years ending in 1979, approximately 1,000 barrels of hazardous materials
   were buried on a 0.25-acre fill area on the abandoned pig  farm.  Among
   the materials were carbon tetrachloride, chloroform, ethylbenzene,
   methyl ethyl ketone, and toluene.

        According to tests conducted by a consultant to the State, on-site
   soil and ground water are contaminated with lead.  An estimated 1,600
   people depend on ground water within 3 miles of the  site as a source of
   drinking water.  Downhill from the site is a small stream  that is a
   tributary to the Exeter River.  The town of Exeter draws its municipal
   water from the river.

        From Sept. 8 through Dec. 5, 1980, under section 311  (k) of the
   Clean Water Act, EPA used emergency funds to excavate and  remove the
   drums, thereby preventing further contamination of the soil and ground
   water.  Under CERCLA section 107, EPA is seeking to  recover the costs of
   the 1980 action frcra the owner and several generators of wastes at the
   site.  The State is also seeking to recover costs.

        Status (September 1985):  EPA is considering various  alternatives for
   the site.
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                         DAYCO CORP./L.E. CARPENTER CO.
                          Wharton Borough, New Jersey

       Conditions  at  listing (April 1985);  Dayco Corp./L.E. Carpenter Co.
  manufactures vinyl-coated wall coverings on a site of about 2 acres in
  Wharton Borough, Morris County, New Jersey.  Prior to 1970, the company
  disposed of  polyvinyl  chloride sludge by burying it in drums.

       In January  1982,  Dayco Corp./L.E. Carpenter Co. and the State
  entered into an  Administrative Consent Order requiring the company to
  remove the sludge,  study ground water contamination, and decontaminate
  ground water.  Later in the year, the company removed approximately
  4,000 cubic  yards of sludge and soil in the rear of the property.

       In 1983, an engineering firm hired by the company studied ground
  water and prepared  a proposal to decontaminate it.  The firm estimated
  that approximately  20,000 gallons of recoverable organic solvents are
  floating on  the  ground water beneath the site.  Additional investigations
  are underway.

       The facility is located in the floodplain of the Rockaway River, a
  recharge area for the  unconsolidated Quaternary Aquifer, which is
  designated a sole source of drinking water for the Rockaway River Basin
  area.  Dover Township  wells and Wharton Borough wells serving 27,000
  people are within 3 miles of the plant.

       Status  (September 1985);  EPA is considering various alternatives
  for this site.
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                         FORT DIX  (LANDFILL SITE)
                        Wrightstown,  New Jersey

     Conditions  at  listing (October 1984):   Fort  Dix is located near
Wrightstown,  Burlington County, New Jersey.  The  installation covers
31,170 acres  and contains built-up areas (cantonment,  hospital, housing,
administrative buildings,  etc.),  training areas,  and a test range.   Fort
Dix's mission is to provide supervision, training,  guidance,  financial
raanaqejnent, administrative and  logistical support,  and other services
and support activities.   It conducts  no industrial  activities.

     A 126-acre  landfill  located  near the southwestern boundary of  the
installation  has been used for  the disposal of municipal  refuse from Fort
Dix and  chemical waste  from Fort  Dix  and McGuire  Air Force  Base. Adjacent
to the landfill  is  a grease disposal  pit.  Both the landfill and the pit
are potential sources of  contamination.

     The Army detected  methylene  chloride and trichloroethylene in  Cannon
Run, a stream that  flows  near the landfill.  However,  no upstream samples
were taken.  No  critical  habitats or  wetlands are threatened to date.

     About 7,300 residents are  served by domestic wells within  3 miles
of the landfill.

     Fort Dix  is participating  in the Installation  Restoration  Program,
the specially funded program established in ]978  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) and started
ground water sampling around the  landfill.   Analyses indicate the presence
of contaminants  such as chloroform, 1,1,1-trich.loroethane,  methylene
chloride, and toluene.

    Status (July 1985);   EPA, the State, and the  Army  have  agreed to
a workplan which calls  for a remedial investigation/feasibility study to
determine the type  and  extent of  contamination at the  landfill  and  to
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                                MATLACK,  INC.
                        Woolwich Township, New Jersey

      Matlack,  Inc.,  has operated a tank cleaning and truck terminal in
 Woolwich Township, Gloucester County, New Jersey, since 1962.  From 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 pumped 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 (NTOEP),
 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,UJDEP 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 AIR ENGINEERING CENTER
                                   (NAEC)
                          Lakehurst, New Jersey

    The Naval Air Engineering Center (NAEC) at Lakehurst  consists of
approximately 7,400 acres located  in Ocean County within  the  New Jersey
Pinelands.  The area has been used continuously  since  about  1915 for
defense-related activities.  Port  Dix Military Reservation,  agricultural
lands, landfills, and a State wildlife  refuge  are adjacent to the site.
Although the the size of the Lakehurst  facility  and  its functions have
changed over the years, its major  function has always  been development
and testing of weapons systems.

    The facility makes up a major  portion  of the Toms  River  drainage
basin, and several headwater tributaries arise on-site, including Manapaqua
Brook, Obhanan Ridgeway Branch, Harris  Branch, and North  Ruckels Branch.
Several ponds both natural and man-made, occur on the  site.

    NAEC 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 identified and investigated 44  potential sites
within the confines of NAEC.  These 44  sites were selected based upon a
review of base records and interviews with long-term base employees.
Confirmation studies are recommended at 16 of  these  areas, which include
landfills, open pits, unlined lagoons,  and drainage  ditches.  Several of
the areas appear to occur in, or adjacent  to,  freshwater  v*tlands.    The
contaminants identified by the  Navy include  fuels, oils,  metals, solvents,
and various other organic compounds.   Phase  II of the  Installation Restoration
Program is currently underway.
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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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                          GRIFFISS AIR FORCE BASE
                                Rome, New York

        Conditions at listing (October 1984);  Griffiss Air Force Base
 occupies approximately 3,900 acres  in the Mohawk River Valley in Oneida
 County in central New  York State, approximately 2 miles northeast of
 Rome.  The Mohawk River borders  the main  base on the west and south.
 Besides the main base,  there are 11 annexes used for base support and
 research and development.  Activated  in 1942,  the base is currently
 active with the 416th  Bombardment Wing as host unit.

      Hazardous wastes  generated  on  the base are from support of the base
 mission and research and development  activities.   The sources include
 industrial shops and laboratories.  The various wastes produced, including
 solvents and lead (from battery  acids), were disposed of primarily in
 landfills and dry wells covering about 110 acres.

      The Air Force has detected  phenols,  ethylbenzene,  and benzene in
 ground water, and toluene in surface  water on the base.  To date, no off-
 base wells have been closed  due  to  contamination.

      The base 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 Air Force has  completed Phase I (records search)
 and is nearing completion of Phase  II (verification and quantification).

      Status (July 1985);  In May 1985,  the Air Force contractor
 completed its final report on Phase II.   The report recommends remedial
 action for a number of areas.  EPA  is reviewing all the data.
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                               WAFWICK LANDFILL
                              Warwick, New York

      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 unlined landfill is roughly L-shaped and occupies approximately
  13 acres on a 25-acre privately-owned property fronting on Penaluna
  Itoad.   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 un-
  determined 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 subsequently issued a restraining order and closed
  the landfill.

      Later, sampling by the State found relatively low levels of organic
  and metal  compounds in  soil, ground water, surface water, and sediment on
  the site.   Surface water is threatened because 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 of between 1 and 2 feet.
  Ground water is the major concern because private wells are nearby, the
  nearest within 0.15 miles.  Approximately 2,100 residents within 2 miles
  of  the site  depend on the ground water as their source of drinking water.
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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 on an area covering more than 465 acres in Salisbury,  Rswan
 County, North Carolina.   The company purchased the site  from Proctor
 Chemical Co.  in  1969 and started construction of a plant in  1970.

      National Starch deposited about 350,000 gallons of  liquid  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  on  the site is contaminated with lead, xylene,  toluene,
 and other organic chemicals.  The site is located in a rural area that
 depends heavily  on ground water for drinking water.  About 7,000  people
 use ground water within  3 miles of the site for drinking water.

      Status (September 1985);  EPA is considering various alternatives
 for the site.
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                                 ORMET CORP.
                                Hannibal,  Ohio

         et Corp. operates a primary aluminum production facility on a
 200-acre site on the Ohio Piver in Hannibal, Monroe County, Ohio.
 Operations began in 1956.   An  8-acre lagoon on the site contains 8 to 10
 feet of sludge contaminated with cyanides,  fluorides,  and polynuclear
 aronatic hydrocarbons.  Use of the lagoon ended in 1983.  Other wastes
 that have been stored or  disposed on-site include large quantities of
 "spent potlinings" containing  cyanide and fluorides, and possibly spent
 chlorinated solvents.
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      Ground water beneath the  facility is contaminated with cyanides and
 fluorides, according to analyses conducted  by the Ohio Environmental
 Protection Agency.  A nearby well provides  drinking water for over 3,000
 employees that work at Ormet and nearby  Consolidated Aluminum Corp.

      Untreated water fron the  facility,  as  well as contaminated ground
 water, discharges to the Ohio  River.   Ormet is studying the ground water
 problem and operating an  interceptor well that pumps contaminated ground
 water (without treatment)  into the river.

      The company filed Part A  of an application for a  permit as a treatment,
 storage, and disposal facility under the Resource Conservation and Recovery
 Act but withdrew it in 1983, indicating  that it was only a generator of
 wastes.
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           TINKER AIR FORCE BASE  (SOLDIER CREEK AREA/BUILDING 3001)
                           Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

       Conditions at listing  (April 1985):  Tinker  Air Force Base covers
  4,277 acres adjacent to Oklahoma City,  Oklahoma County,  Oklahoma.   The
  base is within the North Canadian River drainage  basin and drains  into
  Crutcho and Soldier Creeks.   It overlies  the Garber-Wellington Aquifer.

       The area of concern is bounded by  59th Street,  Douglas Boulevard,
  Building 3001, and the base boundary to the north.   Building 3001  is used
  for aircraft maintenance and  jet engine rebuilding.   Organic solvents,
  including trichloroethylene  (TCE), tetrachloroethylene,  and
  1,2-dichloroethene, were used for degreasing and  aircraft maintenance.
  In the past, waste oils, solvents, paint  sludges, and plating waste
  generated from maintenance activities were disposed  in Industrial
  Waste Pits Numbers 1 and 2, located about 1 mile  south of Soldier  Creek
  and Building 3001.

       Current waste is disposed  off-site at landfills permitted under
  the Resource Conservation and Recovery  Act (RCRA) or the State. The
  base acquired Interim status  under RCRA when  it filed an application
  for a permit to store hazardous wastes.

       Tests conducted by a contractor to the Air Force detected TCE in a
  water supply well located within Building 3001.   The Air Force has taken
  this well out of service.  The  municipal  water system serving 55,400
  customers in Midwest City draws water from the contaminated aquifer
  within 3 miles of the base.   The Air Force has detected heavy metals
  (chromium, nickel, cadmium)  in  Soldier  Creek  at Douglas Boulevard.

       The Air Force 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 Air Force has completed Phase I  (Records Search) and is
  currently involved in Phase  II  (Problem Confirmation).

       Status (September 1985);  Phase IV (Operations Phase) is now underway,
  and work on Phase II continues.
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                        UMATILLA ARMY DEPOT (LAGOONS)
                              Hermiston, Oregon

      Conditions at listing (October 1984): Since 1941, ttnatilla Army Depot
 Activity has occupied about 20,000 acres in northeastern Oregon 6 miles
 south of the Columbia River in Hermiston, Unatilla County.  Lagoons covering
 about 0.5 acres of the site are contaminated with explosive wastes as a
 result of past demilitarization and disposal operations.  The major
 contaminants identified on the base include explosive wastes (RDX, TNT, and
 nitrate), pesticides (DDT and lindane), organic solvents (tetrachloroethylene
 and  trichloroethylene), and caustic brine.  RDX and nitrates are present  in
 ground water beneath the lagoons.  This ground water contamination might
 affect public water supplies serving about 24 people.

      The Umatilla Army Depot is participating in the Installation Restora-
 tion 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).

      Status (July 1985);   In the summer of 1985, Umatilla Army Depot expects
 to submit Part B of an application for a storage permit under the Resource
 Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA).  The permit would cover storage of
 unused ordnance.  EPA, in cooperation with the State, is issuing a compliance
 order under RCRA to be effective until the final permit is issued.  The
 permit may include corrective action provisions.
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                       BENDIX FLIGHT SYSTEMS DIVISION
                     Bridgewater Township, Pennsylvania

      Bendix Flight Systems Division manufactures aircraft  instruments
 on a 40-acre site in Bridgewater Township, Susquehanna County,
 Pennsylvania.  Fran 1952 to 1978, solvent wastes were dumped onto  the
 ground on the property.

      A consultant to Bendix has studied "the site and sutmitted a remedial
 plan to the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources.  According
 to the consultant's study, the principal sources of contamination  appear to
 be a trichloroethylene storage tank area and a pit/trench  used for disposal.
 Other potential contributors are the former distillation facility  and  an
 old landfill.

      On-site soils contain significant levels of several volatile
 organic solvents which have contaminated 11 off-site residential wells,
 according to tests conducted by the consultant.

      About 1,400 people within 3 miles of the site draw drinking water
 from private wells.  Bendix is supplying bottled water and installing
 filters on water lines to residents with contaminated wells.

      In December 1980, the company received Interim Status under  the Resource
 Conservation and Recovery Act by filing part A of a permit application.   In
 June 1981, the company withdrew the application.
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                               C & D Recycling
                        Poster Township, Pennsylvania

      The C & D Recycling Site covers 50 acres in Foster Township,  Luzerne
  County,  Pennsylvania.   Fran the 1920s to 1979, the company  incinerated
  lead-cased telephone  cables or burned them over pits  to melt off  the lead
  and  reclaim  the remaining copper wire.

      The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources (PA DER)  began
  to investigate the site  after detecting elevated lead levels in two  nearby
  residential  wells. Further ground water sanpling throughout the  area
  confirmed the  existence  of a lead problem.

      According to  tests  conducted by PA OCR, high concentrations  of
  lead and  copper are present in the ash piles, burn pit, and drainage pathway
  areas on the site. One  off-site sanple of surface soil also showed  high
  levels of lead.  On-site ground water contains lead and copper/ among other
  inorganic contaminants,  according to EPA and State tests.   About  6,100
  people within  3 miles  of the site depend on ground water as a source of
  drinking  water.

      The  owner has begun to evacuate lead-containing material fron the
 site under the supervision of PA DER.  PA DER has also required C &  D
  Recycling to submit a  sampling plan to further assess conditions  at  the
 site.
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                          KEYSTONE SANITATION LANDFILL
                          Union Township, Pennsylvania

       Conditions  at listing (April 1985);  The Keystone Sanitation Landfill
  is an active 40-acre landfill located in Union Township, Adams County,
  Pennsylvania.  It is currently permitted by the State to receive municipal
  waste and  industrial/construction debris.  It has been privately owned
  and operated since 1966.

       According to tests conducted by EPA and the State, ground water on
  and off  the  site has been contaminated by various organic and inorganic
  pollutants,  including trichloroethylene, tetrachloroethylene, chromium,
  and lead.  The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources continues
  to monitor the site, and  the owner has voluntarily begun remedial actions.
  He is pumping ground water to the surface and removing the  volatile
  organic  compounds by treating the water through an aeration process.  The
  owner is also conducting  a hydrogeologic evaluation of the  site.  Maryland
  is monitoring the possible impacts from the site, as it is  close to the
  Maryland/Pennsylvania border.

       About 1,700 people draw drinking water from private wells or springs
  that tap the contaminated aguifer within 3 miles of the site.

       Status  (September 1985);  EPA is considering various alternatives
  for the  s.ite.
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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.   From 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 frcrn these operations have been stored and disposed
   of in the Property Disposal Office (PDO) Area by landfilling and  spreading
   on the ground.  The PDO Area includes 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 fron 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 (September 1985):  IRP activities continue.
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               LETTERKENNY ARMY DEPOT (SOUTHEAST INDUSTRIAL AREA)
                           Chambersburg, Pennsylvania

        Conditions at listing (October 1984):  The Letterkenny Army Depot
  located  2 miles north of Chambersburg, Franklin County, Pennsylvania,
  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  taken  place primarily in the southeast corner of the depot known as
  the Southeast Industrial Area and in the East Patrol Road Disposal Area.
  The two  areas include about 170 acres.  The operations have employed
  large quantities of chlorinated organic solvents and cleaning agents.
  Wastes from the operations have been disposed in the same areas — by
  landfilling,  burial in trenches, and spreading on the surface.

        Ground water beneath the Southeast Industrial Area of the depot and
  beneath  an  off-depot area of approximately 4,000 acres extending 2.5
  miles to the  east of the depot is contaminated with chlorinated organic
  chemicals,  including trichloroethylene and 1,1-dichloroethylene.
  Approximately 40 residential water wells have been contaminated.

        Letterkenny Army Depot 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 U.S. Army has completed studies to
  determine sources of on-depot ground water contamination as well as a
  remedial investigation/feasibility study.  The Army is currently supplying
  16 residences with bottled water to replace contaminated wells.

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

     Status (July 1985);  The Army has volunteered to install permanent
  public water  supplies to residences off the southeast area of the depot,
  including those in the area adjacent to the Southeast Industrial Area.
  Installation  is scheduled to be completed in the fall of 1985.

        The Army has completed the majority of remedial investigation in the
  East  Patrol Road Disposal Area and Southeast Industrial Area, although some
  data  gaps exist.  Currently, the Army is developing field studies to test
  remedial actions in anticipation of the feasibility study.
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                               REESER'S LANDFILL
                     Upper Macungie  Township,  Pennsylvania

       Conditions at listing  (April 1985);  Reeser's Landfill is an inactive
  50-acre unlined dump  for municipal wastes near Haafsville in Upper
  Macungie Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania.  Initially, the site
  owner operated the landfill.   Later, the  facility was leased to Reeser's
  Hauling Service.   Reeser's  applied for but  never received a permit to
  operate the landfill  from the  Pennsylvania  Department of Environmental
  Resources (PA DER).   Operations ceased in 1981.

       The landfill  is  inadequately covered.   Soil is stained by leachate
  coming out of filled  areas.  A hole that  resulted from excavation of
  burned wastes is filled with water.   According to PA DER files, wastes
  were dumped into a water-filled quarry and  into excavated trenches, possibly
  permitting the wastes to enter ground water.   Homes in the immediate area
  rely on individual wells for drinking water.   Lehigh County Water Authority
  municipal supply wells serving approximately 3,400 people are within 3 miles
  of the site.  Most of the landfill drains to Iron Run, a tributary to
  Little Lehigh Creek.

       Limited sampling by PA DER of two monitoring wells in the area
  detected zinc, lead,  and relatively high  levels of organic chemicals.  In
  August 1983, EPA detected heavy metals, including cadmium, lead, zinc,
  and mercury, in on-site soils, surface water,  and/or sediment samples.
  Mercury in a downstream water  sample was  three times EPA's Revised Ambient
  Water Quality Criteria.

       PA DER issued orders to close Reeser's Landfill on June 22, 1979 and
  February 3,  1981.  Both orders are pending  under appeal by the site owner.

       Status  (September 1985);  EPA is considering various alternatives
  for the site.
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                            REVERE CHEMICAL CO.
                     Nockamixon Township,  Pennsylvania

      The Revere Chemical Co. Site covers  about  111  acres off Route 611,
 just north of Route 412, in Nockamixon Township,  Bucks County,  Pennsylvania.
 Metals were recovered on the site until December  1969, when a U.S. District
 court closed the facility because it failed  to  prevent discharge of contami-
 nants to a tributary of Rapp Creek.
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      While the plant operated, wastes containing  chromic acid,  copper
 sulfate, sulfuric acid, and amnonia were  stored on-site in unlined earthen
 lagoons, thus threatening surface water and  ground  water.  Later, the
 wastes were treated and then buried on-site  or  removed from the site.
 Analyses conducted by EPA detected high concentrations of copper in run-off
 to Rapp Creek.

      In 1984, EPA used CERCLA emergency funds to  remove 22 drums of waste
 chronic acid and excavate 30 cubic yards  of  sludge  containing copper and
 chromium.  All materials were sent to an  EPA-approved hazardous waste
 facility.

      About 2,500 people within 3 miles of the site  depend on ground
 water from the aquifer of concern as a source of  drinking water.
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                           ROHM AND HAAS CO. LANDFILL
                         Bristol Township, Pennsylvania

        Conditions at listing (April 1985);  The Pohm and Haas Co. Landfill
  covers  approximately 60 acres adjacent to the Delaware River, just south
  of  Croydon in Bristol Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.  From 1916 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.  Mong
  contaminants detected on-site are benzene, bis (2-chloroethyl) ether,
  a-endosulfan,  heptachlor epoxide, and g-BHC (lindane).

       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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                             ROUTE 940 DRUM DUMP
                         Pocono Summit, Pennsylvania

      The Route 940 Drum Dump covers 2.5 acres on Route 940  in Pocono
 Sumnit, Tobyanna  Township,  Monroe County, Pennsylvania.  During  the
 1970s,  as many as 600 drums of unknown materials were stored on-site.   In
 early 1983, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources  (PA DER)
 was informed  that some  drums may have been buried on-site.  Later in 1983,
 PA DER  detected organic chemicals, including xylenes, benzene, toluene,
 and chlorobenzene, in on-site soils.

      The site owner has hired a consultant to assist in  investigating the
 site and developing a plan for remedial action.  As part of the  investi-
 gation, monitoring wells have been installed and sampled, and about  100
 drums have been excavated under PA DER supervision.

      Several  organic chemicals have been detected in ori-site ground water
 in tests conducted by the owner's consultants.  About 4,200 people within
 3 miles of the site depend on ground water as their sole source  of  drinking
 water.
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            YORK COUNTY SOLID WASTE AND REFUSE AUTHORITY LANDFILL
                       Hopewell Township, Pennsylvania

       (Conditions  at  listing (April 19R5):  The York County Solid Waste
 and Refuse Authority (SWRA) Landfill has accepted municipal wastes since
 1974.  The landfilled portion occupies about 100 acres in Hopewell
 Township,  York County, Pennsylvania.  The site is permitted by the State
 and currently  receives an average of 400 tons of municipal and industrial
 wastes per day.

      Sampling  by  SWRA and the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental
 Resources  (PA  DER) has sh^n that ground water off-site is contaminated
 by several organic chemicals, including tetrachoroethylene, 1,1,1-trichloro-
 ethane, 1,1-dichloroethane, and methyl ethyl ketone.

      In May 1984, PA DER  entered into a Consent Agreement with SWRA.  The
 agreement  requires SWRA to continue ground water monitoring, provide
 bottled water  to  affected residents, and develop plans for returning the
 ground water to its  original state.

      About 26  homes  in the immediate vicinity of the site have been placed
 on bottled water, while 2200 people living within 3 miles of the site
 continue to receive  their drinking water from the monitored ground water.
 Monitoring of  this aquifer will detect the migration of contaminated
 ground water to the  drinking water supply for these people.

      Status (September 1985):   Activities continue under the Consent
 Agreement.
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                            MILAN ARMY MMJNITION PLANT
                                  Milan, Tennessee

       Conditions at listing  (October 1984); The Milan Army Ammunition
  Plant (AAP) in Milan, Gibson County, Tennessee, produces .munitions for
  the U.S. Amy.  The "O" Line at Milan, a conventional munition demobili-
  zation facility, operated from 1942 until December  1978.  The major
  function of the "0" Line was to remove explosives (TNT  and TNT-ROX mixtures)
  from munitions by injecting a high-pressure  stream of hot w.-vteT and
  steam into the open cavity  of  the munitions.  Effluent  .Cram ihe "0" Line
  operation was discharged into  11  unlined settling ponds with an estimated
  capacity of 5.5 million gallons.  Between 1971 and 1981, sediments were
  routinely dredged from  the  ponds  and stored  on the ground.  In 1Q81, the
  ponds were lined, and the accumulated sediments placed  into the ponds.

       Analyses of samples collected in March  1979  from on-site water supply
  and monitoring wells  indicated the presence  of explosives and heavy metals.
  Three water supply wells serving  the City of Milan and  numerous private
  wells -^re located less  than 3  miles from the area of known ground water
  contamination.  The direction  of  ground  water flow has  not baen completely
  determined.  AAP supply wells  are located on-site.   More than 13,000
  people within 3 miles of the site depend on  ground watex as a source of
  drinking water.

       Milan AA?  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) and r'hase **
  (preliminary survey).   Phase TV  (remedial action) is being undertaken to
  close the "O" Line ponds.

       Status (July 1985);  EPA  is  reviewing cleanup work completed to date
  to determine if it is comparable  to EPA's guidance for  remedial investi-
  gation/feasibility studies  and complies  with the  National Contingency Plan,
  the Federal regulation  by which CERCIA is implemented.
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                     AIR FORCE PLANT #4/GENERAL DYNAMICS
                              Fort Worth,  Texas

       Conditions at listing (October 1984);  Air Force Plant #4 occupies
  approximately 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 constructed 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.

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

       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.   Results from 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 munici-
  pality of White  Settlement (population 13,420).   Two wells have been
  found to be contaminated by  1,2-transdichloroethylene and trichloroethylene.

       The plant 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.

       At  the request of the Air Force, EPA has further investigated of f-
  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.

      Status  (July  1985);   The plant is entering  Phase II (preliminary
  survey)  of the Installation Restoration  Program.
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                       LONE STAR ARMY AMMUNITION PLANT
                               Texarkana, Texas

       Conditions at listing (October 1984): Lone Star Army Ammunition
  Plant, located in Texarkana, Bowie County Texas,  produces a variety of
  explosives and munitions.  During Wbrld War  II, explosives were disposed
  of by detonation above- and below-ground  in  an area covering about
  5 acres.   Tests conducted by the Army indicate that heavy metals contaminate
  monitoring walls south of the disposal site  along the border of the
  facility.

       About 1,200 people use ground water  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 wastes
  sites and controlling the migration of hazardous contaminants fron these
  sites. The Army has completed Phase I (records search).  Phase II (pre-
  liminary  survey) is underway.

       Status (July 1985);  EPA is reviewing new data submitted by the Lone
  Star Army Ammunition Plant.
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                              HILL AIR FORCE BASE
                                  Ogden,  Utah

        Conditions at listing (October 1984);   Hill Air Force Base (AFB)
   covers 6,666 acres approximately 5 miles south of  Ogden in Davis and Weber
   Counties,  Utah.  In 1920,  the western  portion of the site was first acti-
   vated as Ogden Arsenal,  an Army ordnance depot,  Hill AFB was commissioned
   in late 1940 and served as an aircraft rehabilitation center and as a
   prime storage depot for aircraft parts during World War II.

        The areas of known hazardous waste disposal at Hill AFB cover 54
   acres on the northeast side of  the facility and near the south gate.  The
   ares  consist of three landfills,  three chemical disposal pits,  one evapora-
   tion  pond,  several unlined beds for drying sludge  from  waste water treat-
   ment  plants,  and a fire training area.   Landfill #1 operated as a solid
   waste dump and may have received waste oils and solvents.  The largest
   accumulation of hazardous  waste at the facility is believed to be at Land-
   fill  #3, where drums of chemicals,  industrial sludges,  solvent cleaning
   bottoms, and waste solvents were received.   Landfill #4 received small
   quantities of sulfuric acid,  chromic acid,  methyl  ethyl ketone,  and
   sludge from waste water treatment plants,  along with municipal wastes.
   Chemical Disposal Pits #1  and #2 received liquid chemicals, while Pit  #3
   received trichloroethylene and  associated sludges.   Berman Pond was used
   for evaporation of waste from the electroplating operation and other
   industrial operations on the base.

        In addition,  Hill AFB deposited heavy metals  and various solutions
   at Landfill #5,  which is located off the base on the Utah Test and
   Training Range.   The Air Force  is monitoring this  site  in accordance with
   requirements  of the Resource Conservation and Recovery  Act.

       The State has observed that seepage water on  the slope adjacent to
   the northwestern perimeter of Hill AFB,  near Landfills  #3 and 4,
   contains detectable concentrations of  toxic organic chemicals.

       Hill AFB 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 Air Force has completed Phase I  (records search).
  Phase  II is scheduled to be completed  in August 1986.  Hill AFB has
   completed  initial remedial measures at Landfill #4 and  started remedial
  action at Landfill #3, Berman Pond,  and other associated sites.

         Status  (July 1985);  Additional Phase II studies began during
  the summer  of 1985.A Technical Review Committee  is being formed to
  ensure future actions meet CERCLA requirements.  Work is starting to
  cap Landfills #3  and 4 and Chemical Pits #1 and 2.   Hill AFB has agreed to
  negotiate an  interagency agreement with EPA and the State.
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                              OGDEN  DEFENSE DEPOT
                                  Ogden,  Utah

        Conditions at listing (October  1984);   Ogden Defense Depot (a part of
   the Defense Logistics Agency) covers 1,139 acres 0.5 miles vest of Ogden,
   Weber County, Utah.  Since 1941,  the facility has maintained and repaired
   vehicles and equipment.   Its operations  include  plating, degreasing,
   and painting of metals.   The depot also  recontainerizes chemicals for
   storage on-site and for shipment  off-site.   Various highly toxic chemical
   warfare agents are buried on the  site.   The exact location and quantities
   are unknown.

        Since 1981, the State and the Defense Logistics Agency have
   investigated disposal activities  at  the  depot.   Data from the one
   downgradient monitoring well indicate  that contamination has not migrated
   off the base to date.

        Ogden Defense Depot  is participating in the Installation Restoration
   Program, the specially funded program  established in 1978 under which the
   Department of Defense (DOD) has been identifying and evaluating its past
   hazardous waste sites and controlling  the migration of hazardous contami-
   nants from these sites.   DOD has  completed Phase I (records search) and .a
   geohydrological survey.

        Status (July 1985):  The Defense  Logistics  Agency's contractor is
   performing a site characterization study.  Ogden Defense Depot has agreed
   to negotiate an interagency agreement  with EPA and the State to cover site
   activities.
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                           SILVER CREEK TAILINGS
                              Park City, Utah

     The Silver Creek Tailings Site covers approximately 80 acres in Park
City in Summit County, Utah.  Fran 1900 to 1930, various mining companies
operated on the site and disposed of approximately  700,000  tons of mine
tailings.   In  the early 1940s, Pacific Bridge  reworked  the  tailings in
place  with acids and solvents to reclaim silver.  In the late 1970s and
early  1980s, 30 single-family hones and 50 apartments ware  built on the
tailings.   The tailings were not covered and are still  exposed in
undeveloped areas.

     According to tests conducted by the Utah  Department of Health,
surface water  and air are contaminated with lead, cadmium/  and silver.
The potential  for ground water to be similarly contaminated is high.
About  10,000 people (including the winter population) live  within 3 miles
of the site.
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                         TOOELE ARMY DEPOT (NORTH AREA)
                                  Tooele, 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 eguiprent, 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 Department
   of  Defense has been identifying and evaluating its past hazardous waste-
   sites and controlling the migration of hazardous contaminants fron 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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                          DEFENSE GENERAL SUPPLY CENTER
                          Chesterfield County/ Virginia

        Conditions  at  listing  (October 1984);  The Defense General Supply
   Center  (DGSC)  is located in a suburban area in Chesterfield County in
   eastern Virginia, 2 miles south of the Richmond city limit and 1 mile
   west of the James River.  It is a part of the Defense Logistics Agency.
   DGSC manages and furnishes  military general supplies to the Armed Forces
   and several Federal civilian agencies.  The 0.5-sguare-mile site includes a
   hazardous waste  landfill, a fire training pit, and storage areas where
   hazardous substances were spilled.

        Several hazardous substances associated with the site have contaminated
   ground  water on  and off  the site, according to tests conducted by DGSC.
   Contaminants detected  include chloroform, methylene chloride, dichlorobenzene,
   di-, tri-, and tetrachloroethylene, and chromium.

        DGSC is participating  in the Installation Restoration Program, the
   specially funded program established in 1978 under which the Department
   of Defense (DOD) has been identifying and evaluating its past hazardous
   waste sites and  controlling the migration of hazardous contaminants from
   these sites.  DOD has  completed Phase I (records search).  Phase II
   (preliminary survey) is  underway.   Remedial work is also underway.   The
   fire training pit has  been  drained,  and the dike surrounding it has
   been used as fill.

        Other parts of DGSC  acquired Interim Status under the Resource
   Conservation and Recovery Act when DGSC filed Part A of a permit application.

        Status (July 1985);  What DGSC hopes will be the final phase of
   DOD's equivalent of a  remedial  investigation started in May 1985.  This
   field work includes the  installation of monitoring wells to define
   upgradient contamination  and  to further define the sources of contamination.
   In addition to the monitoring wells, many bore holes will be drilled to
   collect soil samples to confirm the  existence and locations of known or
   suspected contaminant  sources.
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                        FIRST PIEDMONT CORP. ROCK QUARRY
                         Pittsylvania County, Virginia

        Conditions at listing (April 1985):  The First Piedmont Corp.  Rock
  Quarry covers 4 acres next to the town of Beaver Park,  Pittsylvania
  County, Virginia.   The site is on a wooded hill that slopes downward
  towards Lawless Creek, which is used for recreational fishing.

        First Piedmont Corp. leased the quarry in March 1970.   Between
  April 1970 and July 1972, First Piedmont disposed of 15,000 gallons of
  liquid waste consisting of solvents, water, carbon black, and detergent
  into  the guarry.  The waste was generated by Goodyear Tire  & Rubber Co.
  Disposal was approved by the Pittsylvania County Health Department.  In
  1972, following a fire on the site, Virgina State Health Department
  ordered it to close.

        In July 1983, EPA detected elevated lead levels in ponded  water,
  drums, and waters of Lawless Creek.  In addition, 4-
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Hazardous waste site listed under the
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA)("Superfund?')
                      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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Hazardous waste site listed under the
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA)C'Superfund")
                             .  BANGOR ORDNANCE DISPOSAL
                                Bremerton, Washington

      Conditions at listing (October 1984); The Bangor  Naval Submarine Base
 is near Bremerton, Kitsap County, Washington.  Site A  is  a 6-acre hazardous
 waste site on the base used by the Explosive Ordnance  Disposal Team as a
 test range.  Between 1965 and 1973, the U.S. Navy demilitarized over
 2 million pounds of explosive ordnance at this base.   Surface water and
 shallow ground water are contaminated with cyclonite  (RDX) and trinitrotoluene
 (TNT).  The site is 0.5 miles from Hood Canal, a sensitive marine environment.
 A small residential community lies 0.5 miles to the north in one possible
 direction of ground water flow.

      Bangor 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 completed an initial assessment study of Bangor  during June 1983.
 The assessment concluded that further investigation  is needed at the Ordnance
 Disposal Site as well as other sites on the facility.   Further investigation
 will determine the extent of contamination and define  any action necessary
 to control remaining contamination and/or clean up the site,  The Navy
 has undertaken corrective actions to direct surface water away from the
 site and away from the residential community.

  t,   Status (July 1985); Bangor has developed a scope  of  work to study
 contamination on the installation.  The study began  in the summer of
 1985.
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 Hazardous waste site listed under the
 Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA)("Superfund"l
                         FORT LEWIS (LANDFILL NO. 5)
                              Tacona, Washington

     Conditions  at listing (October 1984);  Fort Lewis is located near
Tacona  in  Pierce County, Washington, on the eastern shore of the southern
part of Puget Sound.   It has been a U.S. Army facility since 1917.  Industrial
operations at Fort Lewis have included maintenance of aircraft and vehicles,
repair  and refurbishing of weapons, and neutralization of caustic paint-
stripping  waste  and battery acids.  Prior to the mid-1970s, wastes were
disposed of in on-site landfills covering an area of 225 acres.  These
disposal sites may have received hazardous wastes such as spent solvents,
plating wastes,  pesticides, and PCBs.  The State has detected hazardous
chemicals  in water samples from Landfill No. 5, which covers 104 acres of
land leased from Weyerhaeuser Co.  The Army has installed 11 monitoring
wells near the landfill.

     Other operations  at Fort Lewis received Interim Status under the
Resource Conservation  and Recovery Act when the Army filed Part A of a
permit  application.

     Fort  Lewis  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 fron
these sites.   In 1983,  the Army completed Phase I (records search), which
recommended no further action at that time.

     Status (July 1985);  This specific area is not being investigated at
this time  due  to a higher priority study associated with a known contami-
nation  problem on and  off the installation.  However, in 1985, a ground
water investigation in the northwest corner of Fort Lewis (not Landfill #5)
found trichloroethylene in ground water.  This investigation has gone
forward  with Defense Environmental Restoration Funds, not the IRP.
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Hazardous waste site listed under the
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980(CERCLA)("Superfund")
               MCCHORD AIR FORCE BASE (WASH RACK/TREATMENT AREA)
                               Tacona, Washington

        Conditions at listing (October 1984); McChord Air  Force Base covers
   about 6,000 acres just south of Taccma in Pierce County, Washington.   It
   is on an upland plain, 5 miles east-southeast of Puget  Sound.  Since
   1940, almost 500,000 gallons of hazardous substances have been used and
   disposed of on the base.  Th Air Force has detected, chloroform, benzene,
   arsenic, chromium, and mercury in test wells on the base, as well as  in
   surface drainage (Clover Creek) leaving the base.

        The site of concern consists of two areas:  the liquid waste spill
   and disposal area adjacent to the wash rack and the industral waste
   treatment system.  The wash rack has been active since  the 1940s.  A
   wide variety of solvents, detergents, paints, and corrosion-removing
   compounds have been used there.  Industrial wastes from other sources
   also were directed to the wash rack.  The industrial waste treatment
   system includes an oil skimmer with two leach pits.  At times, oils were
   discharged directly into the leach pits, which had to be re-excavated
   because they were plugged from sludges and oils.

        McChord Air Force Base, the Lakewood Water District, and American
   Lake Gardens (a private development) get their drinking water from the
   aquifer partially underlying McChord.  (Lakewood was added to the NPL
   in September 1983 and American Lake Gardens in September 1984.)  Well
   over 10,000 people within 3 miles of the base depend on the aquifer for
   their.? drinking water.

       ;,The Air Force has investigated the contamination as part of the
   Installation Restoration Program, the specially funded  program established
   in ]^j,78 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 constructed
   numerous wells to verify the contamination.  Several contaminated areas
   have been found,  though specific sources are still being investigated.

        Status (July 1985);  This specific area is not being investigated
   at this time due  to a higher priority study associated  with the known
   contamination problem at American Lake Gardens potentially involving  the
   installation.
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 Hazardous waste site listed under the
 Comprehensive Environmental Response. Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLAJCSuperfund"
                       NAVAL AIR STATION WHIDBEY ISLAND
                                 (AULT FIELD)
                         Whidbey Island, Washington

      The Naval Air Station (NAS)  at Whidbey  Island in island County,
 Washington, was commissioned  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.  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,
 trichloroethane, 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 from the site, is
 used to irrigate 66 acres of  farmland.   A fresh-water wetland is within
 500 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 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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Hazardous waste site listed under the
Comprehensive Environmental Response. Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (C£RC
                      NAVAL AIR STATION WHIDBEY ISLAND
                              (SEAPLANE BASE)
                         Whidbey Island, Washington

      The Naval Air Station (MAS) at Whidbey Island  in  Island County,
 Washington, was commissioned 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  3
 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  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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 Hazardous waste site listed under the
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                           WYCKOFF CO.-EAGLE HARBOR
                        Bainbridge Island,  Washington

      The Wyckoff  Co.-Eagle  Harbor Site covers about 50 acres on Bain-
 bridge Island, Kitsap County,  Washington.  Wyckoff stores and uses penta-
 chloroohenol and  creosote to treat wood on the site.

      Until  1981,  waste water (over 23 million gallons) was discharged to a
 seepage basin on-site, and  sludge was buried on-site.   In 1981, a closed
 loop effluent system  was  installed.  The.company has identified some
 sludge disposal areas and removed the sludge.  However, sane sludge
 probably remains.

      Creosote-like materials are present  in subsoils at many points within
 the site to a depth of at least  30 feet,  according to tests conducted by
 a contractor for  Wyckoff.   Sediment samples from Eagle Harbor,  immediately
 adjacent to the facility, show high concentrations of aromatic'hydrocarbons
 that suggest a creosote origin.   Similar  contamination is also found in
 clam and crab tissue  from this area.   Most residents (over 100 people) in
 the Eagle Harbor  area rely  on  conmunity and private wells from the sea
 level aquifer for their drinking water.

      The harbor is used for fishing,  swimming, and boating.

      Several studies  are  in progress  by the company, the State, and EPA
 to determine the extent of  contamination.
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Hazardous waste site listed under trie
Comprehensive Environmental Response. Compensation, and LJabflty Act of 1980

                                 HAGEN FABM
                            Stoughton, Wisconsin

      The Hagen Farm covers 5 acres in the rural area southeast of  Stoughton,
 Dane  County,  Wisconsin.  The site is a former gravel pit that accepted
 wastes from 1950 to 1960 without a permit.  An investigation conducted  by
 Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (WDNR) in 1982 discovered   .
 approximately 13,000 uncovered sealed druns of waste material.   In 1984,
 WDNR  detected xylene, tetrahydrofuran, acetone, ethyl benzene, vinyl
 chloride, and other organic solvents in monitoring wells at  the  site.

      Private wells  supply water for 940 people within 3 miles of the farm
 and east of the Yahara River.  Stoughton1s water supply wells on the west
 side  of the river are not affected at present.  However, the contaminated
 aquifer is continuous under the river and may threaten these wells.

      In 1983, the Wisconsin Department of Justice filed an enforcement
 action against Uniroyal, Inc., and Waste Managanent of Wisconsin,  Inc.,
 asking for investigation and cleanup of the site.
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