EPA RCRA ID: WVD004336343

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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

The West Virginia Department of Environmental (DEQ) is the lead agency for managing cleanups at this facility.

In 1989, EPA issued a Resource Conservation and Recovery Act corrective action permit to the company to proceed with site cleanup. EPA and the facility are working jointly to complete the requirements of the permit which include:

Conducting an RCRA Facility Investigation (RFI) of 46 Solid Waste Management Units and 21 Areas of Concern to determine the extent and nature of any contamination
Implementing Interim Measures which included: removal of contaminated soil at four Solid Waste Management Units capping one SWMU, implementing institutional controls at four SWMUS, and removing tanks at five SWMUS
Conduct a groundwater investigation including constructing a groundwater model
Conduct a Corrective Measures Study

The final RCRA Facility Investigation (RFI) report was submitted by Axiall in July 1998, for EPA. EPA reviewed and approved the Final RFI with revisions. A groundwater monitoring program has been approved and is presently in place. A Visualization of Groundwater Contamination Report was completed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in December 2004. This report provided information to help develop a groundwater management plan for the facility. A Revised Site Assessment Report was completed for the Marshall Army Chemicals Plant, a Formerly Used Defense Site that is located on the Axiall property. Information from this report helped to better characterize the contamination at the site. During 2009, Axiall conducted evaluations of some groundwater remedial technologies for potential interim measures implementation. Axiall is presently conducting field testing of in-situ remedial technologies. Axiall completed a pore-water/sediment sampling event on the Ohio River in October 2012. The results of that sampling effort were used to help develop the Final Remedy for this Facility.

On May 12, 2014, WVDEP placed a public announcement requesting comments on the proposed Final Remedy for this site. The thirty-day public comment period began on May 12, 2014, and ended June 13, 2014. All comments received by West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection (WVDEP) during the public comment period were reviewed and were addressed and incorporated into the Final Decision for this Facility. The Final Remedy for the Facility consisted of: a No Further Action component, a groundwater component, and facility-wide Institutional Controls. The No Further Action component consisted of no further investigation of SWMUs that the data demonstrated a no unacceptable risk determination to human health or the environment. The groundwater component requires groundwater monitoring until drinking water standards are met and maintenance of groundwater use restrictions at the Facility. The last component of the proposed Final Remedy is Facility-wide non-engineering Institutional Controls.

On July 30, 2019, the WVDEP conducted a Long Term Stewardship assessment to assess whether the remedy was implemented and protective of human health and the environment. WVDEP 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

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 in New Martinsville, West Virginia, the PPG Industries Site encompasses approximately 400 acres with an additional 3200 acres of undeveloped property. The facility was built in 1943 for production of chlorine, hydrogen and caustic chemical products. PPG currently uses it for the production of inorganic and organic chemicals. The PPG Industries Site borders the Ohio River in an industrial development with several other facilities. The nearest community is located within one mile of the facility. In January 2013, facility ownership transferred from PPG to Eagle Natrium. Eagle Natrium has subsequently bought by Axiall Corporation.

Contaminants at this Facility

The main contaminants in the groundwater and surface water are benzene, ethyl benzene, chlorobenzene, substituted chlorobenzene isomers and phenolic compounds.

Institutional and Engineering Controls at this Facility

Institutional Controls include:

Groundwater at the Facility shall not be used for any purpose other than 1) industrial use and non-contact cooling water and 2) the operation, maintenance, and monitoring activities required by WVDEP and/or the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, unless it is demonstrated to WVDEP, in consultation with EPA, that such use will not pose a threat to human health or the environment.

The Facility property shall not be used for residential purposes unless it is demonstrated to WVDEP, in consultation with EPA, that such use will not pose a threat to human health or the environment.

All earth moving activities, including excavations, will be managed in accordance with the Soils Management guidelines identified in the Institutional Control 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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