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EPA Cleanup of NL Industries
Phase 2 Residential  Properties - Update 2011
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  Community Update
                                                               March 2011
 Our Goal is to Keep You
 Informed

 Public participation is essential
 to the success of the EPA
 superfund program. If you have
 any questions regarding EPA's
 response activities at this site,
 please contact Arlene
 Anderson, On-Scene
 Coordinator (OSC), at
 (732) 906-6803 or email Arlene
 at:
 anderson.arlene@epa.gov
 You can also call Mike Basile,
 EPA's Community Involvement
 Coordinator, at (716) 551-4410,
 or email Mike at:
 basile.michael@epa.gov
 Regional Public Liaison
 EPA, Region 2, has designated
 a Regional Public Liaison for
 you to call should you have
 concerns or complaints about
 the Superfund program. Please
 call (888) 283-7626.
 For information on the
 Superfund process, please visit
 EPA's website at:
 www.epa.qov/superfund
 Information on the various tools
 and resources available to
 community groups, as well as
 fact sheets about other sites
 can be found there.
  The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 2 is providing you
  with this update on the status of their cleanup of lead contaminated soils at the Phase 2
  Residential Properties on the east and west sides of Transit Road in the Village of
  Depew, NY.

  The site consists of 66 residential properties, 64 of which are located east of Transit Road
  on Tyler, Rumford, Brewster, and Lincoln Streets as well as Walden Avenue and two
  properties west of Transit Road on George Urban Blvd. and Harvard Avenue.

  In 2009, 34 residential properties were remediated and the remaining 32 were completed in
  2010. EPA  removed over 11,000 tons of lead contaminated soils and restored with clean
  topsoil, new shrubs/trees, and installation of sod.

  As a reminder to residents who had their property remediated in 2010, the one year
  maintenance requirement is soon approaching. If you have had any problems associated
  with the work that EPA completed in 2010 on your property, you are asked to contact
  Arlene Anderson, On-Scene Coordinator. In addition, those residents who received
  reimbursement,  EPA is only responsible for sod-service.

  The On-Scene Coordinator and support team will be back in Depew to inspect the
  neighborhoods that were remediated during the later April to mid-May timeframe 2011.

  On-Scene Coordinator, Arlene Anderson can be reached at EPA's Edison Field Facility,
  New Jersey at (732) 906-6803. Community Involvement Coordinator, Mike Basile, can be
  reached at EPA's Western New York Public Information Office, Buffalo, NY at (716)
  551-4410.

  Overview of the Site

  The Site is located in an industrial and residential area in Depew, New York.  In early
  1998, NYSDEC approached Norampac, Inc. ("Norampac"), a member of Cascades Group,
  regarding the elevated PAHs and metals detected at the former NL property in 1987 and
  requested that Norampac conduct a subsurface investigation on their property.
                             Normapac & NL Industries, Inc. ("NL") extended the investigation to residential
properties to the north of Walden Avenue and west of Transit Road.  Lead contaminated residential properties were
identified and were later distinguished as the Phase 1 Residential Properties or Phase 1 area.

A total of 36 properties on Transit Road, Walden and Harvard Avenues, as well as Bostwick Place, W. Third and W. Second
Streets were found to have lead-contaminated soil that required remediation. These residential properties were remediated
by NL in 2005 under an Administrative Order on Consent ("AOC") executed by EPA on September 29, 2004.
                                 www.epa.gov/region2/superfund/npl/nlindustries

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