Sixty-Second Street Dump

• Site Profile
• Administrative Record Index (PDF): ROD (1 pp., 31K), Amend 9 pp., 351K), Deletion (2 pp., 96K)
• Additional Site Documents including Five Year Reviews, Records of Decisions (ROD) and Explanation of Significant Differences (ESD).
• 62nd Street Dump Reuse Fact Sheet (PDF: 1pp, 624K)
• For documents not available on the website, please contact the Region 4 Freedom of Information Office (http://www.epa.gov/region4/foiapgs/submit.htm).

Site Background:
The 62nd Street Dump Site is located in Tampa, Hillsborough County, Florida, north of Columbus Drive and just west of 62nd Street. The site is a five and one-half acre private landfill formerly used for the disposal of industrial waste. The Site is located in an area with mixed residential and light industrial land use. The Site is bounded on the west by a series of small shallow ponds formed for fish breeding. To the east and south of the Site are residential areas interspersed with light commercial and industrial operations. To the north of the Site is undeveloped land. The current landowner operates an automobile scrap yard on the southern portion of the Site.

In March 1984, the FDER and the EPA entered into a Cooperative Agreement to conduct a Remedial Investigation/Feasibility Study (RI/FS) at the site. The RI was conducted in 1986 by a team of several consulting firms consisting of Mayes, Sudderth & Etheredge, Inc., Fred C. Hart Associates, Inc., Universal Engineering Testing Company, Inc., and Compuchem Laboratories, Inc. The field activities were conducted in two phases. Phase I was conducted in February 1986, and consisted of construction and sampling of 12 test pits across the site. Phase II was conducted in July and August 1986 and involved installing and sampling 14 groundwater monitoring wells, sampling 10 domestic wells, sampling surface water and sediment from the fish ponds, and sampling on-site surface soils.

Camp, Dresser, & McKee, Inc. (CDM) was contracted by FDER in August 1988 to conduct a Feasibility Study (FS) for the Site. It was determined that waste buried at the Site fall into two categories: auto part/battery (non-cement) wastes and cement waste. The disposal of the non-cement waste at the Site has resulted in the release of hazardous substances including antimony, arsenic, cadmium, chromium, copper, lead, and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in the soil. The surficial aquifer both on-site and off-site is also contaminated with cadmium, chromium, and lead above health-based levels. The cement wastes represent little threat through either direct contact or leaching to groundwater.

The remedy includes: 1) Solidification/Stabilization of the battery wastes, shredded auto parts, and contaminated soils (approximately 48,000 cubic yards); 2) No treatment of the on-site cement wastes since they present little threat through either direct contact or leaching to groundwater; 2) Capping of the entire site (approximately 5.5 acres) with a two-foot vegetative soil cover underlain by an impermeable membrane; and 3) Institutional controls or other land use restrictions to ensure the integrity of the cap and the treated soils. All work was completed under the Consent Decree for Remedial design and Remedial Action.

Cleanup Progress: Construction Completed:
At this point, the construction activities associated with the remedy have been completed. More than 100 tons of waste and soil was treated. Currently, the groundwater is being monitored annually for site-related contaminants. The site was deleted from the NPL on October 1, 1999.   The last 5-Year Review was completed on September 22, 2004.  The 2009 5-Year Review is underway and expected to be completed by September, 2009.