EPA RCRA ID: VAD003114865

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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 Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (VDEQ) is the lead agency for managing cleanups at this facility.

EPA issued the Final Decision and Response to Comment (FDRTC) on November 16, 2012, for the Martinsville site. The FDRTC incorporated the remedy detailed in the Statement of Basis, which restricts the Facility to industrial use through compliance with and maintenance of institutional controls, restriction on groundwater use, continued maintenance of existing soil capping over ash piles, and recovery of trichloroethylene (TCE) from groundwater. Virginia DEQ (VA DEQ) issued a Corrective Action Permit in 2013 to implement the selected remedy.

In June 2014, the Corrective Measures Implementation Work Plan (CMI WP) was approved. The CMI WP provided a general description of the proposed remedial measures and presented an implementation schedule for the design and construction of the proposed soil and groundwater remedies. The final remedial measures selected are as follows:

Implement zero-valent iron clay treatment and installation, maintenance, and monitoring of a soil cap at (Solid Waste Management Unit (SWMU) H1.
Install, maintain, and monitor an asphalt cap at Area of Concern (AOC) Fire Training Area (FTA).
Implement soil vapor extraction treatment for source soils and enhanced biological stimulation of groundwater at AOC DuPont Precision Concepts (DPC).
Conduct the required inspection and maintenance of the existing soil and vegetative caps at nine SWMUs and AOCs.
Continue long-term groundwater and surface-water monitoring as necessary to evaluate remedial effectiveness until clean-up goals are met.
Implement additional institutional and engineering controls (ICs and ECs) as necessary to prevent current and potential future exposure to contamination.
In addition, inspection and maintenance of the asphalt cap at SWMU I, the Former Lab Disposal Pits, will be included in the final remedy for the site although this activity is not specifically required by the RCRA Permit.

An environmental covenant, pursuant to the Virginia Uniform Environmental Covenants Act (UECA; Va. Code, § 10.1-1238, et seq.), was recorded with the deed for the DuPont Martinsville site on July 22, 2014. The purpose of the UECA is to notify prospective purchasers of the site of land use restrictions. The current owner and future owners of the site are obligated to comply with the recorded restrictive covenant.

The 30%, 90%, and 100% Design Reports as required by the RCRA Permit were submitted and approved by VA DEQ. The 100% Design Report was submitted as a Class 1 permit modification incorporating the final design of the remedial measures.

A Long Term Stewardship Inspection was completed on May 2, 2017. VA DEQ determined that the remedy institutional and engineering controls have been fully implemented and no control deficiencies were identified.

On December 19, 2022, an environmental covenant was implemented for the facility.

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

Action	Status	Date of Action
(CA725)
(CA750)
(CA400)
(CA550)
(CA800)
(CA900)
(CA999)

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Cleanup Activities Pertaining to a Portion of the Facility

	Action	Area Name	Date of Action

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Facility Description

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Located on DuPont Road in Henry County, Martinsville, Virginia, the DuPont facility has been part of this Piedmont region community since the early 1940s. The site is situated within a stream meander of the Smith River, and covers approximately 550 acres. There are over 200 feet of topographic relief across the site.

Various types of waste have been generated and managed at the DuPont facility including nylon wastes, coal ash, spent finish oil, spent nitric and formic acids, and laboratory chemicals.

The site operated between 1941 and 1988, and was one of the world's largest nylon manufacturers. Currently, only the InvistaTM 60-person spinnerette production operation is active. All former nylon manufacturing buildings have been razed.

Contaminants at this Facility

Volatile organic compounds are the main constituents detected in groundwater at the site. These compounds primarily consist of solvents including carbon tetrachloride, tetrachloroethene and trichloroethylene.

Institutional and Engineering Controls at this Facility

Institutional Controls include:

Groundwater at the Facility shall not be used for any purpose other than industrial purposes.
The Facility property shall not be used for residential purposes.
No new groundwater wells shall be installed at the Facility.
All earth moving activities, including excavation, drilling and construction activities, in the SWMUs and AOCs listed shall be conducted according to the "Materials Management Plan".

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.

Are Controls in Place at this Facility?

Control(s) Type		Control(s) in Place?	Areas Subject to Control(s)	Documents available on-line:
(CA 772)	(ID)
	(GC)
	(EP)
	(PR)
(CA 770)	(GW)
(CA 770)

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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