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Callaway & Son Drum Services
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Photos/Multimedia
Former process area at Callaway & Sons site.
- Additional Site Photos
- Site Video
Additional Resources
- Site Cleanup Terms - can be found in EPA's glossary
- EPA Guides to Cleanup Technologies
- Superfund Community Involvement (PDF) (17 pp, 130K, About PDF)
Site Summary Profile
EPA ID: FLD094590916Location: Lake Alfred, Polk County, FL
Lat/Long: 28.098050, -081.714720
Congressional District: 12
NPL Status: Proposed: 02/04/00; Final: 05/11/00
Affected Media: Ground water, Soil, Surface water
Cleanup Status: Construction Complete: Physical cleanup activities have been completed.
Site Reuse/Redevelopment: Potential for future use
Site Manager: Galo Jackson (jackson.galo@epa.gov)
Site Background
The Callaway & Son Drum Services (CSDS) site is located at 890 East Lake Alfred Drive in Lake Alfred, Polk County, Florida. CSDS was a family business that operated from mid-1977 through early 1991 as a refurbisher and reseller of used 55-gallon oil and citrus drums. Operations ceased in February 1991 when the facility came to the attention of the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) after an application was submitted to operate and construct an industrial wastewater treatment and disposal system for discharge of rinse water used in its drum cleaning process. In December 1994, CSDS was auctioned and sold due to unpaid back taxes.
CSDS comprises approximately 9.5 acres and includes three major structures, which are now in dilapidated condition: a former office building, a drum cleaning structure and a sandblasting and painting structure. An approximately 45,313 square feet percolation pond was located east of the drum cleaning area, and received rinse water from drum cleaning operations.
Polk County currently retains ownership to one of the CSDS site parcels. In 2004, Don C. Livingston of Haines City, Florida purchased one of the site properties at a tax sale.
This site is being addressed through federal actions.
Threats and Contaminants
Analytical results of drum, soil and ground water samples collected during several sampling events at the CSDS facility revealed the presence of facility-related hazardous constituents. Several hazardous substances were detected in ground water: 1,2-dichloroethene, tetrachloroethene, trichloroethene, xylene, trans-1,2-dichloroethene and vinyl chloride. All hazardous substances detected in ground water samples:
- were either also present in the drum samples;
- were degradation products of hazardous substances present in the drums;
- were hazardous substances related to the resin solution; or
- were hazardous substances related to drum processing activities that occurred at the CSDS facility.
Site Cleanup Plan
The Callaway & Son Drum Services site was listed as a final on the National Priorities List (NPL) in May 2000.
Short-term cleanup actions to clean up contaminated drums were initiated in December 2001.
In late 2003, the remedial investigation (RI) was finalized, including an ecological risk assessment. A number of unidentified and tentatively identified contaminants were found, primarily in the vicinity of the former drum cleaning area. At the request of FDEP, EPA has re-sampled the area of the former drum cleaning area in an effort to better identify these contaminants and determine whether there is any risk associated with them. This information will be added as a supplement to the RI.
The more sophisticated analytical work was completed during the spring of 2005. Research on the potential toxicity of the contaminants identified was completed in late 2005. In early 2006, non-target laboratory standards were procured for re-analysis of the site’s soil. The results indicated that, although standards were available for a limited number of the suspected contaminants, those that were quantified appeared to be below levels of concern. At the request of FDEP, a similar exercise with the site’s ground water was completed during the summer of 2007.
In September 2007, EPA, with concurrence of the FDEP, issued a No Further Action Record of Decision (ROD). The site is scheduled for deletion from the NPL during the summer of 2009.
Cleanup Progress
In December 2001, EPA removed and disposed of approximately 2,500 empty and partially empty drums from the CSDS site. The majority of drums were empty. They were recovered from the banks of a pond.
In the 2007 ROD, EPA determined that the previous drum cleanup actions at the site have eliminated any threats posed by the site. Moreover, EPA determined that no materials were left on site constituting principal threats to human health or the environment at the site.
No further cleanup action is expected.
Enforcement Activities
Between 1984 and 1997, FDEP took numerous enforcement actions against Mr. Callaway, then the owner of CSDS, Inc. These are described in the 2007 Record of Decision.
Since 2001, EPA has conducted activities to identify potentially responsible parties (PRPs), including, but not limited to, sending Section 104(e) Information Request Letters (under the Superfund law), to parties connected with the CSDS site, taking the depositions of several past employees of CSDS, and sending Notice Letters to identified PRPs.Community Involvement
EPA has conducted a range of community involvement activities at the CSDS site to solicit community input and to ensure that the public remains informed about site activities throughout the site cleanup process. Outreach activities have included public notices and information meetings on cleanup progress and activities.
Fact Sheets
- Reuse Fact Sheet (PDF) (1 pg, 177K, About PDF)
Future Work
Although no further cleanup action is expected at the site, EPA may authorize ground water monitoring to verify that no unacceptable exposures to risks posed by the site occur in the future.
Site Administrative Documents
Site Repository
For more information or to view any site-related documents, please visit the site information repository at the following location. As new documents are generated, they will be placed in the information repository for public information.
Lake Alfred Public Library
195 Pomelo Street
Lake Alfred, Florida 3385