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Environmental Protectior
Agency

National Priorities List (NPL)

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*Final Site

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OSWER/OSRTI
Washington, DC 20460

December 2013

HEMPHILL ROAD TCI'.

Gastonia, North Carolina

Gaston County

(?) Site Location:

The Hemphill Road TCE site consists of a Northwest (NW) parcel and a Southeast (SE) parcel along Hemphill Road
near the intersection of Forbes Road in South Gastonia, North Carolina, and an associated ground water contamination
plume.

Site History:

During the 1950s, the site owner reportedly used the SE parcel to recycle several thousand chemical drums. The owner
reportedly dumped drum residues onto the ground, then rinsed, burned and flattened the drums for sale as scrap metal.
The NW parcel was purchased in 1973 and the SE parcel in 1988 and was operated as Gastonia Industrial Truck.

I Site Contamination/Contaminants:

Trichloroethene (TCE)-contaminated ground water was discovered in 1988 in a private drinking water well near the
site. Follow-up investigation in 1989 revealed TCE contamination in an adjacent residence to the north on Hemphill
Road, as well as in the Gastonia Industrial Truck's facility production well. In 1999 TCE was found in the nearby
Kensington Estates community well. Source investigations on both the NW and SE properties revealed only trace
levels of TCE in soils on the SE parcel, indicating that a significant source of TCE may no longer remain in the soils.

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