Horseshoe Road

Sayreville, New Jersey

Site Description

The Horseshoe Road site is a former chemical processing site located in
Sayreville, New Jersey, near the Raritan River. The area around the site
includes residential, commercial, and industrial properties. About 63 residential
properties are located within a 1/2 mile of the site, and about 14,000 people
obtain drinking water from public wells within 4 miles of the site.

The 12-acre site includes three adjacent areas: (1) the Horseshoe Road Drum
Dump; (2) the former Atlantic Development Corporation (ADC) facility; and (3)
the Sayreville Pesticide Dump. EPA grouped the areas together as one site on
the National Priorities List because of their proximity to each other. Also, EPA
grouped them together because of the assumption that the contaminants are
mixed together and present a risk to the same resources. The site first came to
EPA's attention in 1981, when a brush fire at the Horseshoe Road Drum Dump
revealed approximately 70 partially filled drums containing acetonitrile, silver
cyanide and ethyl acetate. The Horseshoe Road Drum Dump was used for
disposal from 1972 into the early 1980s.

Current Site Status and Cleanup Actions to Date

•	EPA and the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection
(NJDEP) have stabilized the site by removing more than 3,000 drums,
emptying and disposing of materials found in tanks and vats throughout
the site, and excavating and disposing of contaminated soils and debris.

•	EPA has demolished the buildings and other structures at the ADC
portion of the site.

•	The cleanup plan for the soils portion of the site was signed in 2004 and
called for excavation and off-site removal of contaminated soils some of
which are the source for ground water contamination.

•	The design for the soils cleanup was completed in September 2007.

•	EPA began work in 2007 to clean up the contaminated soils at the site.

Current Funding Status

• In Fiscal Year 2007, EPA obligated approximately $7 million for

cleaning up the soils portion of the site through excavation and off-site
removal.

For more information on this site, please read the Horseshoe Road Fact
Sheet on the Region 2 Superfund Web site.

Key

Accomplishments

•	EPA and NJDEP have
stabilized the site by
removing more than
3,000 drums, emptying
and disposing of
materials found in
tanks and vats
throughout the site,
and excavating and
disposing of
contaminated soils and
debris.

•	EPA has demolished
the buildings and other
structures on the ADC
portion of the site.

•	Building materials and
other surface debris
have been disposed
of.

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