Florida Petroleum Reprocessors

• Site Profile
• Administrative Record Index (PDF): Removal 1 (2 pp., 64K), Removal 2 (2 pp., 54K,
  OU1 (14 pp., 943K)
• Site in Continued Use Fact Sheet (PDF, 1 pp., 146K)
• Additional Site Documents including Five Year Reviews, Records of Decisions (ROD) and Explanation of Significant Differences (ESD).
• 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 Florida Petroleum Reprocessors Superfund Site is a former waste oil reprocessing facility located at 3211 SW 50th Avenue, Davie, Florida. Operations were conducted at the facility from 1979 through 1992 under various names including Barry’s Waste Oil, Oil Conservationist, Inc., Florida Petroleum Reprocessors, and South Florida Fuels. Operations were reported to include the collection of waste oil (e.g., used motor oil, surplus fuels, marine oils and slops, hydraulic oils, aviation oils and fuels, and oil wastes from the local automotive, agricultural, and marine industry). Millions of gallons of waste oil were processed at this facility.

EPA completed a comprehensive investigation (Remedial Investigation (RI))) of the facility in 1998 and documented an extensive groundwater contamination emanating from the FPR facility. The RI documented a plume of groundwater contamination over 600 acres in size, extending into the Biscayne aquifer to a depth over 140-feet. The RI also documented high levels of contaminated soil and residual amounts on highly concentrated non-aqueous phase liquids (NAPL) at the facility. The RI also documented a pathway whereby these contaminants are believed to have migrated and resulted in the contamination of the Peele-Dixie Wellfield in 1986.  An engineering study (Feasibility Study (FS)) was also completed in 1998. During this study, EPA evaluated multiple approaches for the cleanup of the Site. EPA felt that it was critical that any cleanup approach address 1) the contaminated soil and residual NAPL that pose an ongoing source of groundwater contamination; 2) the large plume of groundwater contamination; and 3) the Peele-Dixie Wellfield.

A ROD was issued in March 2001 that selected a remedy designed to protect the Peele-Dixie wellfield from additional contaminants from the FPR facility and to address contaminated groundwater at the facility and aqueous plume. As discussed below, source areas identified in the RI are being addressed through removal actions. Consent Decree negotiations for the Remedial Design and Remedial Action were initiated in June 2001 with a group of larger-volume generators

Cleanup Progress: Removals Underway
In an effort to stabilize the site and prevent further groundwater impacts, three removal actions have been conducted and a fourth action planned. A removal action was conducted in 1997 in an effort to stabilize the site. Numerous containers including drums, horizontal and vertical bulk storage tanks were removed from the site. Liquids from the tanks were characterized and disposed of off-site in accordance with local regulations. A second removal action was conducted in 1999 that included the excavation and removal of approximately 6000 tons of highly contaminated soil from surface to a depth of approximately 15-feet below landsurface. A third removal action was started in 2001 that included the in-situ treatment of subsurface contaminants via chemical oxidation. This action was completed in 2003 and was very successful in removing the bulk of contaminants in the subsurface soil. A final removal action was planned to begin in 2004 that would have included the implementation of a bio-augmentation system to facilitate the treatment of contaminated groundwater at the facility. However, prior to the implementation of this work, the monitoring well network at the site was destroyed by the new property owner.

Rehabilitation of the groundwater treatment and monitoring was completed in April 2007.  Implementation of an enhanced bioaugmentation system was started in August 2007 in an effort to compete the treatment of groundwater contaminants at the FPR property. 

The Remedial Design was approved in September 2007 which provides for the long-term monitored natural attenuation of the aqueous groundwater plume that resulted from the migration of contaminants from the facility.  Although the ROD provides for the pumping and treating of contaminated groundwater, the effectiveness of the site cleanup thus far suggests that the pumping and treating of groundwater may not be needed.  After a period of monitoring a determination will be made whether or not monitored natural attenuation will be adequate for the completion of the groundwater cleanup.