EPA RCRA ID: VAR000000125
On this page:
- 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.
In 1989, the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (VA DEQ) issued a notice of non-compliance to J.G. Wilson regarding the storage of hazardous waste in its plating tanks and baths. The hazardous waste was described as spent cyanide solution from electroplating operations and plating bath residues from the bottom of plating baths for which cyanides are used in the process.
In June 2010, a draft Statement of Basis (SB), Administrative Record (AR), and Groundwater Monitoring Plan are under development for a proposed Final Remedy for the J.G. Wilson Site. The Final Remedy proposed consists of Monitored Natural Attenuation (MNA) with Institutional Controls (ICs) to protect human health and the environment given current and anticipated land use of the site. The remedy would require Truxton to regularly conduct groundwater sampling and analysis, and to develop and maintain certain property restrictions known as ICs. The IC will consist of a groundwater use restriction. A Notice of ICs and Declaration of Restrictive Covenants will be established with the Clerk’s Office of the Circuit Court of Chesapeake upon issuance of the final remedy.
These controls will provide assurance that the land use, as currently known and anticipated, does not change without additional investigation or work and prior notification to the EPA. EPA’s proposed decision represents “Construction Complete with Controls” as described in EPA’s “Final Guidance on Completion of Corrective Action Activities at Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) Facilities”, (68 FR 8757, February 25, 2003).
On September 1, 2009, VA DEQ determined that contamination from groundwater and human exposures risk were under control.
On August 13, 2010, EPA issued the Final Decision and Response to Comments. Under the Final Remedy, some concentrations of contaminants will remain in the groundwater at the Facility above levels appropriate for residential and domestic uses. As a result, the Final Remedy will require the Facility to implement Institutional Controls (ICs) in order to restrict use of the groundwater to prevent human exposure to contaminants which remain in place. In addition ICs will require the implementation of a groundwater monitoring plan to monitor progress towards attaining the groundwater cleanup standards.
An Environmental Covenant (EC) for implementation of the Final Decision was finalized on September 18, 2012.
On March 13, 2017, the VDEQ conducted a Long Term Stewardship assessment to assess whether the remedy was implemented and protective of human health and the environment. VDEQ determined that the remedy institutional and engineering controls have been fully implemented and no control deficiencies were identified.
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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| Human Exposure Under Control Human Exposure Under Control(CA725) | ||
| Groundwater Migration Under ControlGroundwater Migration Under Control (CA750) | ||
| Remedy DecisionRemedy Decision (CA400) | ||
| Remedy ConstructionRemedy Construction (CA550) | ||
| Ready for Anticipated Use Ready for Anticipated Use (CA800) | ||
| Performance Standards AttainedPerformance Standards Attained (CA900) | ||
| Corrective Action Process TerminatedCorrective Action Process Terminated (CA999) |
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Cleanup Activities Pertaining to a Portion of the Facility
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Facility Description
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The former J.G. Wilson facility located at 120 Jefferson Street in Chesapeake, Virginia has been identified as a key to Chesapeake’s South Norfolk Borough redevelopment. According to various documents, the site was developed around 1905, as a manufacturing facility for metal and wood overhead doors. The J.G. Wilson Company filed for bankruptcy in 1991 and its property was acquired by Environmental Solutions, Incorporated (ESI). ESI decommissioned the site and demolished the last of the manufacturing buildings, in the mid-1990’s. The property presently is vacant.
The J.G. Wilson property is bounded to the north by a former Chesapeake Products fertilizer operation, to the west by the estuarine Elizabeth River Southern Branch, to the south by Poindexter Street and City-owned property that houses the Jordan Bridge tollgate office, and to the east by a Norfolk-Portsmouth Beltline Railroad maintenance facility and Standard Engine and Transmission. The former J.G. Wilson office building, recently demolished and removed from the site, was located at the northwest corner of Truxton Street and Jefferson Street.
In December 2003, Urban Design Associates presented the Poindexter Corridor Strategic Development Plan to the Chesapeake Economic Development Department. The J.G. Wilson property was proposed as South Norfolk’s waterfront connection, offering residential (condominium) living and retail and commercial office space. The purpose of the ongoing RCRA CA is to remediate the site to acceptable levels that will be protective of public health as it pertains to the proposed future land use, including commercial office space, retail, and residential (multi-family housing).
Contaminants at this Facility
The primary contaminants of concern (COCs) based on past operations are arsenic and lead.
Institutional and Engineering Controls at this Facility
An institutional control in the form of an environmental covenant was finalized on September 18, 2012. The environmental covenant includes the following activity and use limitations: no groundwater from the upper aquifer shall be used for any purpose except environmental monitoring and testing. In the event that the current owner wishes to utilize groundwater as a drinking water source, then the current owner will be required to sample groundwater to confirm that the contaminants' concentrations, which include lead and arsenic, remain below their respective maximum contaminant levels (MCLs), and present the results to EPA for written approval to proceed. The recorded environmental covenant is included in the Documents and Reports section of this web page.
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?
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Areas Subject to Control(s) |
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Institutional ControlsNon-engineering controls used to restrict land use or land access in order to protect people and the environment from exposure to hazardous substances remaining in the site/or facility. (CA 772) |
Informational DevicesInformational Devices (ID) |
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Engineering ControlsEngineering measures designed to minimize the potential for human exposure to contamination by either limiting direct contact with contaminated areas or controlling migration of contaminants. (CA 770) |
Groundwater ControlGroundwater Control (GW) |
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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.