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Beulah Landfill
National Information
Photos/Multimedia
Model airplane facilities at Fritz Field, located on the northern half of Beulah Landfill.
- 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: FLD980494660Location: Pensacola, Escambia County, FL
Lat/Long: 30.513060, -087.345130
Congressional District: 01
NPL Status: Proposed: 06/24/88; Final: 02/21/90; Deleted: 6/22/98
Affected Media: Ground water
Cleanup Status: Deleted from the NPL: Physical cleanup activities have been completed.
Site Reuse/Redevelopment: One portion of the site is in recreational reuse; another portion of site remains unused.
Site Manager: Erik Spalvins (spalvins.erik@epa.gov)
Site Background
The Beulah Landfill Superfund Site is an approximately 101-acre site located about 10 miles northwest of downtown Pensacola, Florida. The site is surrounded by sparse piney woods to the east, north, and west and remains basically undeveloped at this time. A timber company owns a majority of the surrounding property which it utilizes as timber plantations.
Escambia County operated the landfill from 1950 to 1984. Prior to the landfill’s closure in 1999, the site’s northern and southern sections were run independently. The northern landfill, used from 1950 to 1960, accepted mostly municipal trash. The southern sludge disposal pits began receiving domestic septic tank wastes in 1968 and continued to take municipal trash, industrial waste, demolition debris, and municipal sludges until 1984 when the State ordered a halt to operations at the pits. The site was listed on the National Priorities List (NPL) in 1990 and deleted from the NPL in 1998.
The Escambia County Solid Waste Department was responsible for carrying out the cleanup of this site. The Solid Waste Department continues to oversee the site and perform regular ground water monitoring.
Threats and Contaminants
A range of organic and inorganic contaminants were found in all media sampled at the site. Pentachlorophenol (PCP) was listed as a contaminant of concern (COC) in ground water at the site. The primary COCs identified in soils and sludges were polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), pesticides, PCP and metals including aluminum, zinc, iron, lead, chromium, nickel, and zinc.
The Baseline Risk Assessment conducted in the early 1990s showed that there is no unacceptable risk to human health or the environment at the site. An environmental risk assessment found that actual or threatened releases of hazardous substances for the site did not pose an imminent danger to the environment.
The 2008 Five-Year Review determined that the selected remedy for the site continues to be protective and poses no unacceptable risk to human health and the environment.
Site Cleanup Plan
After the site was listed on the NPL in 1990, EPA entered into an agreement with the potentially responsible parties to perform investigations which determined that, with the exception of ground water monitoring, EPA’s response at the site was complete.
The Record of Decision (ROD) for Beulah Landfill was signed in September 1993 and selected a "no action" remedy. This determination means that no action was necessary under the Superfund law to ensure protection of human health or the environment. The ROD also noted that closure of the landfill would occur in accordance with Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) requirements and with continued ground water and surface water monitoring.
Cleanup Progress
Landfill closure activities began in 1985. These were interrupted from 1988 to 1993 during the Superfund investigation. In September 1993, the ROD was signed and landfill closure procedures were again started. Closure of the Beulah Landfill was completed in 1999.
Closure of the landfill included installation of impermeable caps, or covers, over waste materials: a clay cap on the northern portion and a synthetic cap on the southern portion. Closure procedures also included initiation of the ground water and surface water monitoring program on a semi-annual basis. This monitoring began in 1994 and has continued on a semi-annual basis to the present.
The site was deleted from the NPL in 1998.
Five-Year Reviews were conducted at the site in 1998, 2003, and 2008 to determine whether the remedy at a site remains protective of human health and the environment. The most recent Five-Year Review determined that the selected remedy for the site continues to be protective and poses no unacceptable risk to human health and the environment.Enforcement Activities
In 1991, an administrative order was signed with Escambia County Division of Solid Waste
Management to perform a Remedial Investigation/Feasibility Study and a subsequent Baseline Risk Assessment.Community Involvement
EPA has conducted a range of community involvement activities at the Beulah Landfill 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) (2 pp, 672K, About PDF)
Future Work
Operation and maintenance (O&M) for the site occurs under FDEP oversight and includes erosion control, grounds maintenance, landfill gas monitoring, and repairs. O&M also includes implementation of the ground water and surface water monitoring plan as stated in the FDEP landfill closure permit. The Escambia County Division of Solid Waste Management is responsible for developing, funding, and implementing all O&M activities.
The next Five-Year Review is due September 2013.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.
George Stone Vocational School
2400 Longleaf Dr.
Pensacola, FL 32526
Administrative Record Index
- OU-1 (PDF) (22 pp., 898K, About PDF)
- Deletion (PDF) (2 pp, 67K, About PDF)
For documents not available on the website, please contact the Region 4 Freedom of Information Office.