Brunswick Wood Preserving Site

Brunswick, Georgia

Site Description

Brunswick Wood Preserving is an 84 acre site which treated wood from 1958 to
1991. Wood was treated using pentachlorophenol (PCP), creosote, and copper-
chromium-arsenate (CCA), which left the soil and groundwater at the site
contaminated. In March 1991 Georgia's Environmental Protection Division
finalized the RCRA Facility Assessment of the site. However, the company had
declared bankruptcy in February of that year and the following month EPA's
Emergency Response and Removal Branch (ERRB) responded to a fire at the
facility. There are six municipal wells within a four mile radius; these municipal
wells and most, if not all, of the private wells in the vicinity draw water from the
deeper aquifer. In addition, the site is adjacent to the tidally influenced Burnett
Creek.

Current Site Status and Cleanup Actions to Date

•	The Operable Unit One (OU1) remedial design for capping (2pp, 526K)
and subsurface barriers to address site soil and groundwater
contamination was completed in November 2004. The cleanup for OU1
is scheduled to begin in the first quarter of Fiscal Year 2007.

•	OU2 activities to assess potential ecological risks will be performed
after the OU1 remedial action is completed. Further excavations will be
conducted as part of OU1.

•	Subsequent to the March 1991 fire, ERRB began a removal action that
lasted until April 1995. All but a few of the site structures were
demolished and removed; sludges were dewatered; wastewater was
treated; drums and lab wastes were disposed off-site; poles, lumber,
equipment, and scrap were recycled and/or salvaged; and large areas
of contaminated soil and sludge were excavated (2pp, 530K).

Excavated soils and sludge were stored in four waste cells created on-
site.

•	The State of Georgia also conducted their own removal action in 1996-
97, which consisted of having three of these waste cells transported and
disposed off-site. A new railroad spur was installed on-site to facilitate
the state's removal action.

•	Private wells have been sampled extensively in the area since 1991,
and annually since 2000; residential soils were also sampled in the Site
vicinity, as part EPA's Community Based Environmental Protection
Project; Burnett Creek sediments and biota have also been sampled as
part of the RI/FS activities. No public health concerns were identified as
part of this sampling.

Current Funding Status

•	EPA spent approximately $11.9 million on its 1991-95 removal action.

•	The State of Georgia spent approximately $18.5 million on its 1996-97
removal action.

•	In September 2006, EPA allocated approximately $1.15 million the OU1

Key

Accomplishments

•	EPA completed a
study determining
the full nature and
extent of
contamination in
June 2001.

•	The Remedial
Design for OU1
completed in
November 2004.

For more information on
the projects at this site,
please read the
Brunswick Wood
Preserving Fact Sheet
on the Region 4
Superfund website.


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PR 0^1

Remedial Action, including the in-situ chemical oxidation (2pp, 172K)
groundwater treatment and operation and maintenance components.


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