EPA RCRA ID: PAD000824805

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• Cleanup Status
• Facility Description
• Contaminants at this Facility
• Institutional/Engineer Controls
• Enforcement and Compliance
• Related Information
• Contacts for this Facility 

Cleanup Status

Note: The EPA  is the lead agency for managing cleanups at this facility.

In September 2015,  EPA's determined that no further investigation or cleanup is required. EPA has determined that its proposed decision is protective of human health and the environment and that no further corrective action or land use controls are necessary at this time. 

Cleanup Actions or environmental indicators characterizing the entire facility are shown below. It is not intended as an extensive list of milestones/activities. This listing, and all the data on this page, come from EPA’s RCRAInfo and are refreshed nightly to this page. For this table and the Cleanup Activities Pertaining to a Portion of the Facility table that follows, a blank in the Status column could mean the action either has not occurred or has not been reported in RCRAInfo.

Cleanup Activities Pertaining to the Entire Facility  

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Facility Description

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The Facility property consists of approximately 8 acres and is surrounded by light industrial and commercial establishments in a business park.

Since its start in 1979, the Facility has been owned by a number of entities, including; BetzDearborn, Hercules Hydrocarbon Holdings (Hercules), and General Electric. J&J Properties of Langhorne, LLC currently owns the Facility. Throughout its operation, the Facility produced a variety of specialty chemicals, including several hundred types of liquid polymers and blended products in batch operations from dry and liquid materials that were formulated to meet customer-specific applications. The Facility operated as a captive storage facility and had other permits for stormwater, air emission sources, and tank operations. Wastes generated included ignitable, corrosive and chromium materials. The bulk of the hazardous waste generated was wastewater. Approximately 500,000 gallons of chromium/corrosive wastewater were generated annually. The Facility operated a hazardous waste container storage area and a 20,000-gallon above storage tank (AST) under a RCRA Part B Permit. The container area and the AST were closed in 2002 under PADEP oversight. The AST was subsequently used for storage of non-hazardous wastewater. The Facility also had three 20,000-gallon underground storage tanks (USTs) used for storing heating oil. 

In May 2004, Betz notified PADEP that operations ceased, that the Facility was closed, and the Facility property was turned over to Hercules. Hercules hired a commercial property broker, and potential buyers were identified to use the facility for operations other than chemical processing. Since 2007, International Refrigeration Products, Inc. and National Refrigeration Products operate a warehouse and a machine assembly operation at the Facility. Neither entity is known to generate hazardous waste. 

Contaminants at this Facility

Several investigation/remediation events were performed at the Facility between 1990 and 2005. In 1990, the investigations focused on releases from the three fuel oil Underground Storage Tanks (USTs)  to the surrounding soil and groundwater. Subsequent analysis  concluded that no apparent adverse environmental impacts had occurred beyond those attributed to the USTs that were previously remediated

Institutional and Engineering Controls at this Facility

Insitutional Controls were not required. 

Institutional and Engineering Controls help ensure human exposure and groundwater migration are under control at a cleanup facility.   Where control types have been reported by states and EPA in EPA’s RCRAInfo, they are shown below.  Not all control types are needed at all facilities, and some facilities do not require any controls.  Where there are blanks, the control types may not be needed, may not be in place, or may not be reported in RCRAInfo.

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Enforcement and Compliance at this Facility

EPA’s Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance (OECA) provides detailed historical information about enforcement and compliance activities at each RCRA Corrective Action Site in their Enforcement and Compliance Historical Online (ECHO) system. 

RCRA Enforcement and Compliance Reports from ECHO

Related Information

For more information about this facility, see these other EPA links:

• RCRA information in EPA’s Envirofacts database
• Information about this facility submitted to EPA under different environmental programs as reported in EPA’s Facility Registry Services
• Alternative Names for this facility as reported by EPA programs in EPA’s Facility Registry Services
• Cleanups in My Community  provides an interactive map to see EPA cleanups in context with additional data, and lists for downloading data
• Search RCRA Corrective Action Sites  provides a search feature for Corrective Action Sites

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Contacts for this Facility

EPA Region  implements and enforces the RCRA Corrective Action program for   and federally recognized tribes.

For further information on this corrective action site, use the Contact Information for Corrective Action Hazardous Waste Clean Ups listings that are accessible through Corrective Action Programs around the Nation.

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