EPA RCRA ID: WVD074968413

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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 lead agency for managing cleanups at this facility is the West Virginia Department of Environment (DEP).

The Site was listed on the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Information System (CERCLIS) in February 1983 following Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) inspections that revealed numerous waste handling violations. The West Virginia Department of Natural Resources (WVDNR) performed a Preliminary Assessment (PA) in 1984 following remedial activities performed by Morton Thiokol, Inc. as part of a 1982 closure plan. The PA recommendations included further investigation of the groundwater, surface water, and soil pathways, as well as the potential migration of contamination to offsite properties. RCRA violations continued under new ownership by Newell Specialty Chemicals (NSC) from 1984 through 1997 resulting in the indictment of two senior managers on charges of fraud and illegally transporting and disposing of hazardous waste. NewChem, Inc. (NewChem) purchased the facility in 1997 as part of a bankruptcy agreement. NewChem assumed all environmental liability for the Site and removed all drummed waste that remained from NSC’s activities.

Site investigation activities were conducted at the site from May 1 through May 4, 2006. During the sampling event, 26 soil/sediment and 25 surface water/groundwater samples were collected. Low levels of organic and inorganic contaminants were identified in various media on-site and off-site. Additional sampling of selected monitoring wells was conducted during December 2009. The results of that sampling event revealed some low level volatile organic contamination in a couple of wells. Based on the results of the 2006 and 2009 investigations a remedy solution consisting of the in-situ treatment of impacted wells and groundwater monitoring until acceptable water quality standards are attained has been selected. The consultant for the NewChem facility submitted a Remedial Implementation Plan to EPA on March 1, 2013.

On August 25, 2011, EPA issued a Statement of Basis (SB) in which it explained the information gathered during environmental investigations at the Facility, and in which it described the Proposed Final Remedy for the Facility which included Institutional Controls. Since no comments were received during the public comment period, this became the Corrective Action Final Decision was made on November 11, 2011.

On April 2, 2019, the EPA conducted a Long Term Stewardship assessment to assess whether the remedy was implemented and protective of human health and the environment. EPA 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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The facility is now operated by NewChem, a subsidiary of Deltech Resins Company. NewChem performs custom organic chemical manufacturing, solvent recovery and drying, as well as production of powder biocides. The primary site features are as the follows:

Laboratory and service building
Warehouse
A 13,400 square-foot clean water storage reservoir
Process buildings
Two bulk storage tank farms encompassing approximately 20 above-ground storage tanks (ASTs)
Support building; including shop, compressor room, and boiler room
Hazardous waste drum storage pad

The Site is 13.71 acres, approximately six acres of which are the manufacturing portion of the facility. The remainder of the Site is wooded. The manufacturing portion of the facility consists of a production area that is gated and fenced and a drum storage area located west of the production area, also gated and fenced. The Site is relatively flat with a steep hillside at the western edge of the property that leads down to a former gravel quarry and ponds remaining from quarrying operations; beyond is the Ohio River located approximately a half mile from the Site. Access to the Site is via State Route two.

Contaminants at this Facility

The main contaminant is trichloroethene (TCE) in groundwater.

Institutional and Engineering Controls at this Facility

Institutional Controls include:

Restriction on the use of groundwater beneath the Facility for potable purposes or any other use that could result in human exposure, unless such use is required by the Final Remedy;
Restriction on well drilling at the Facility without prior EPA approval, to prevent inadvertent exposure to the contaminated groundwater and adverse affects to the Final Remedy; and
A restriction that the Facility not be used for any purpose other than industrial unless it is demonstrated to EPA that another use will not pose a threat to human health or the environment and EPA provides prior written approval for such use.

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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