Drackett Inc.

East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania

The Road to Reuse

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The 22-acre facility located in
East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania
was home to Drackett Inc.,
a manufacturer of household
products including air
fresheners, drain, glass, and
toilet bowl cleaners. During
Drackett Inc.'s operation of
the facility, two separate waste
treatment units were used in
the disposal of wastewater
produced by industrial
operations. The two waste
treatment units served distinct
production areas through a
series of floor drains. The
drainage was collected in
underground tanks that were
used to settle solids prior to
the disposal of the wastewater
into injection wells. The
wastewater was classified as a
RCRA hazardous waste due to
its corrosive nature.

On August 25, 1983, the
Pennsylvania Department of
Environmental Protection
(PADEP) certified the facility

Approximate total acres
and current use

Approximate Acres in
Reuse: 10

Current Use:
Manufacturing

as closed after closure activities
were successfully completed.
These activities involved the
removal of hazardous waste
and debris, decontamination
of tanks and injection wells,
disconnection of piping to
tanks, and sampling tanks,
injection wells and monitoring
well. To prevent future use the
injection wells and tanks were
filled with sand.

Post-closure monitoring of
groundwater, conducted
from 1983 throughl9S9,
detected organic compound
contaminants in groundwater.
PADEP concluded that the

contamination originated off-
site and that nearby residential
wells were not affected and
released the facility from
further corrective actions.
Groundwater contaminant
levels do not pose human
health or environmental
risks. On August 31, 1999,
the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA)
issued a Final Determination
that further corrective action
at the facility was not required,
acknowledging the successful
completion of all required
closure activities.

On November 27, 1983, the
property's title was transferred
to Diamond Aerosol. In 1994,
Hayward Laboratory, the
current owner and operator,
bought the property to use the
facility to produce cosmetic
moisturizers.



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For More Information
EPA Region 3 Contact: Khai Dao,
(215) 814-5497, dao.lchai@epa.gov

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