United States
Environmental Protection
Agency

OSWER/OSRTI
Washington, DC 20460

* * *Proposed Site * * *

September 2012

MATLACK, INC. Woolwich Township, New Jersey

Gloucester County

® Site Location:

The Matlack, Inc. site is located on Route 322 in Woolwich Township, Gloucester County in southwestern New
Jersey.

jx Site History:

The site operated from 1962 to 2001 as a truck terminal and chemical tank trailer (a.k.a tanker) cleaning facility. The
site's primary waste was generated during tanker cleaning operations, which involved the use of detergents, mild
caustic/acid solutions, and organic solvents to wash out tankers used for transporting liquid chemicals and hazardous
wastes. From 1962 until 1976, wastewater from the cleaning of the tanks was disposed of in an unlined sand and
gravel pit (referred to as "the unlined lagoon"). Use of the unlined lagoon was discontinued in 1976 when the lagoon
was filled in. After 1976 wastewaters were stored temporarily in a series of tanks for treatment.

I Site Contamination/Contaminants:	

Materials transported in the tankers and associated with the operation of the site include oils, organic solvents, resins,
acids and hazardous wastes. Soils in and around the unlined lagoon are contaminated with a variety of chlorinated
organic solvents and polycyclic biphenyls (PCB). Residual soil contamination in the area of the former wastewater
tanks includes naphthalene, bis2-ethylhexyl phthalate and PCBs.

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