Superfund Sites in Reuse in Pennsylvania
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A.I.W. Frank/Mid-County Mustang
The 16-acre A.I.W. Frank/Mid-County Mustang Superfund site is in Exton, Pennsylvania. It includes the 15-acre A.I.W. Frank property and the 1-acre Mid-County Mustang property. Starting in 1962, manufacturing of Styrofoam cups and plates took place on the A.I.W. Frank property. Twenty years later, manufacture of refrigerators, freezers and warming cabinets for the food service industry followed. In the 1940s, auto repair facilities and body shops opened on the Mid-County Mustang property. Disposal of used solvents and degreasers on both properties resulted in contamination of soil and groundwater. EPA added the site to the National Priorities List (NPL) in 1989. Cleanup activities included soil removal, demolition of a building damaged by fire, and extraction and treatment of groundwater. EPA also connected nearby homes to the public water supply. Today, grass and concrete cover the vacant A.I.W. Frank property. An auto repair shop and a mulch company remain active on the Mid-County Mustang property. A parking lot and a small lawn area are also on the property. In 2015, the township rezoned both site properties to allow residential and office uses. In 2019, a developer received approval to build townhomes and renovate two historic single-family homes – the Lochiel Farms House and Tenant House – on part of the site.
Last updated December 2023
As of December 2023, EPA had data on one on-site business. EPA did not have further economic details related to this business. For additional information click here.
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Austin Avenue Radiation Site
The Austin Avenue Radiation Superfund site is in Lansdowne Borough, East Lansdowne Borough, Upper Darby Township, Aldan Borough, Yeadon Borough and Darby Borough, Pennsylvania. The site includes 40 privately owned properties. W.L. Cummings Radium Processing Company refined radium on site from 1915 to 1925. The company mixed radioactive wastes generated on site into fill material and building materials. These materials were used at 40 properties, resulting in contamination. EPA added the site to the National Priorities List (NPL) in 1992. EPA removed materials contaminated with radioactive waste and demolished contaminated houses. EPA also removed contaminated soil from 21 properties and rebuilt 11 houses. EPA completed cleanup activities in 1998 and returned properties to owners. Eleven properties are in continued residential use. Residents from eight of the demolished homes chose to relocate permanently. Area municipalities acquired these eight properties for public use. A developer built new homes on three properties. EPA completed cleanup and took the site off the NPL in 2002.
Last updated December 2023
As of December 2023, EPA had data on one on-site business. This business employed 8 people and generated an estimated $610,000 in annual sales revenue. For additional information click here.
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Avco Lycoming (Williamsport Division)
The 28-acre Avco Lycoming (Williamsport Division) Superfund site is in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. Manufacturing facilities have been on site since the early 1900s. Past operations included a bicycle and sewing machine facility, a sandpaper plant, a tool and die shop, and a silk plant. Avco Corporation began making aircraft engines at the site in the 1920s. Activities resulted in contamination of groundwater. EPA added the site to the National Priorities List (NPL) in 1990. Groundwater treatment is ongoing. A business continues to make aircraft engines on site. An auto body shop is also on site.
Last updated December 2023
As of December 2023, EPA had data on one on-site business. This business employed 530 people and generated an estimated $222,019,000 in annual sales revenue. For additional information click here.
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Bally Ground Water Contamination
The 20-acre Bally Ground Water Contamination Superfund site is in Bally, Pennsylvania. It includes the former Bally Engineered Structures (BES) plant. From 1972 to 1995, BES made insulated refrigeration panels on site. From about 1955 to 1965, the company and its predecessors put solvent wastes in on-site impoundments. Groundwater under the site supplies drinking water to residents in Bally and Washington Townships. After a water quality inspection found groundwater contamination, EPA added the site to the National Priorities List (NPL) in 1987. With EPA oversight, the site’s potentially responsible parties (PRPs) led cleanup activities. Cleanup included groundwater pumping and treatment, air stripping, and long-term monitoring. In 2003, studies found more groundwater contamination. The PRPs disconnected the contaminated municipal supply well. In 2010, the PRPs built a new municipal supply well and connected it to the water supply. The PRPs also put in a system to prevent contaminated groundwater vapor from entering buildings at the former BES facility. Long-term indoor air monitoring is ongoing. After the BES facility closed in 1995, the buildings were subdivided for commercial reuse. Current tenants include commercial and light industrial businesses.
Last updated December 2023
As of December 2023, EPA had data on 8 on-site businesses. These businesses employed 21 people and generated an estimated $3,607,890 in annual sales revenue. For additional information click here.
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Bendix Flight Systems Division
The 64-acre Bendix Flight Systems Division Superfund site is in South Montrose, Pennsylvania. From 1952 to 1996, the plant made coat hangers, wiring harnesses for military equipment, and aircraft instruments such as circuit boards. Operators put solvent wastes in a lagoon northeast of the plant or dumped them on the ground in a series of small trenches. Investigations from 1984 to 1987 found soil and groundwater contamination. In 1987, EPA added the site to the National Priorities List (NPL). Cleanup included groundwater treatment, soil aeration and removal, and continued monitoring of surface water, groundwater and residential wells. In 2008, a vapor intrusion study found that indoor air contaminants posed an unacceptable health risk to the workers in the manufacturing building. The manufacturing building was later demolished. The site is now vacant. The site’s ecological resources include a pond, wetlands, and South Branch Wyalusing Creek.
Last updated December 2023
As of December 2023, EPA did not have economic data related to on-site businesses, or economic data were not applicable due to site use. For additional information click here.
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Berkley Products Co. Dump
The 5-acre Berkley Products Co. Dump Superfund site is in Denver, Pennsylvania. From the 1930s to 1965, a privately owned municipal waste landfill was on site. Operators burned or buried municipal waste on site. In 1965, Lipton Paint and Varnish Co., a subsidiary of Berkley Products Co., bought the site. The firm buried municipal waste, organic solvents, paint wastes, resins and pigment sludge on site. When operations stopped in 1970, operators covered the site with soil, seeded the soil and sold the property. EPA found plastic production wastes in groundwater, soil and leachate. Further investigations found contamination from heavy metals. EPA added the site to the National Priorities List (NPL) in 1989. Cleanup activities included capping the landfill and installing monitoring wells. EPA completed cleanup and took the site off the NPL in 2007. EPA continues to review the progress of the remedy every five years. In 2014, EPA found a compound, 1,4-dioxane, not detected during initial investigations. In 2018, EPA put in two carbon filtration tanks and a water-softening unit to treat water in a residential well. The area remains in continued use. A residence is on site.
Last updated December 2023
As of December 2023, EPA did not have economic data related to on-site businesses, or economic data were not applicable due to site use. For additional information click here.
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Berks Landfill
The Berks Landfill Superfund site is in Spring Township, Berks County, about 7 miles southwest of Reading. From the 1950s to the 1980s, a municipal landfill was on site. The landfill included a 47-acre eastern area and a 19-acre western area. Landfilling ended in 1986. Operators closed and capped the landfills. After investigations found groundwater contamination, EPA added the site to the National Priorities List (NPL) in 1989. With EPA oversight, the site’s potentially responsible parties led cleanup activities in 2000. Cleanup included repairing the leachate collection system, relining three leachate ponds, repairing the eastern landfill soil cover, putting in a sentinel well and gas monitoring probes, planting trees and wetland vegetation, and putting in access roads. After cleanup, EPA took the site off the NPL in 2008. Long-term monitoring of the landfills and groundwater is ongoing. Open green space, trees and vegetation cover the landfills. The property owner uses a building at the site as a workshop.
Last updated December 2023
As of December 2023, EPA had data on one on-site business. EPA did not have further economic details related to this business. For additional information click here.
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Berks Sand Pit
The 4-acre Berks Sand Pit Superfund site is in Longswamp Township, Pennsylvania. It is a contaminated groundwater plume under a residential and undeveloped wooded area. The Berks Sand Pit was used for residential refuse disposal until 1978. Industrial waste was allegedly disposed of around the pit until 1982, when area residents reported a chemical taste and odor in their drinking water. Contaminants in groundwater included chemicals typically found in solvents and degreasers. EPA added the site to the National Priorities List (NPL) in 1984. Cleanup activities include pumping and treating contaminated groundwater and temporarily connecting four homes to an alternate water supply. Monitoring of residential wells is ongoing. The site remains in continued residential use. Logging also takes place on site.
Last updated December 2023
As of December 2023, EPA did not have economic data related to on-site businesses, or economic data were not applicable due to site use. For additional information click here.
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Boarhead Farms
The 120-acre Boarhead Farms Superfund site is in Bridgeton Township in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. From 1969 to 1976, site owners improperly stored and disposed of hazardous materials in burial pits, drums and on the ground surface. These practices contaminated groundwater, surface water and sediment as well as nearby residential wells. EPA added the site to the National Priorities List (NPL) in 1989. EPA removed the most harmful waste in the 1990s. In the early 2000s, the potentially responsible parties (PRPs) completed more cleanup activities. These efforts included groundwater treatment, removal of more buried drums and placement of water treatment systems on some residential wells. By 2004, PRPs completed the soil and source cleanup. In 2019, they began putting in new groundwater extraction wells. These wells remain active. The groundwater extraction and treatment system continue to operate. Continued site uses include a home, a livestock stable, a commercial storage building and a cell phone tower. The eastern part of the site includes wooded wetlands.
Last updated December 2023
As of December 2023, EPA did not have economic data related to on-site businesses, or economic data were not applicable due to site use. For additional information click here.
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BoRit Asbestos
The BoRit Asbestos Superfund site is in Ambler, Pennsylvania. From the 1930s to the early 1960s, a nearby asbestos product manufacturing plant disposed of asbestos and other industrial solid wastes on site. The site includes a 3-acre asbestos waste pile, a reservoir and a former park. The park closed after the discovery of asbestos contamination. EPA added the site to the National Priorities List (NPL) in 2009. From 2008 to 2017, EPA stabilized the banks of three water bodies that cross the site to prevent the spread of contamination, covered the asbestos waste pile and the park area with a liner and grassy cover, and treated reservoir water prior to its discharge into a nearby creek. EPA then reinforced the reservoir walls and covered the surface of the area with clean fill. The asbestos waste pile and former park parcels are vacant. The former park parcel will likely serve as a township park in the future. The reservoir parcel now hosts the Wissahickon Waterfowl Preserve, a bird sanctuary with a bird-viewing area and walking trails.
Last updated December 2023
As of December 2023, EPA did not have economic data related to on-site businesses, or economic data were not applicable due to site use. For additional information click here.
Breslube-Penn, Inc.
The Breslube-Penn, Inc. Superfund site is near Coraopolis, Pennsylvania. It includes a 7-acre source property and groundwater contamination that extends off the property. Wiseman Oil Company and later Breslube-Penn, Inc. ran a used-oil processing facility at the site from 1977 until about 1986. The companies stockpiled waste from this process at the facility. Improper waste disposal at the facility contaminated groundwater, surface water, soil and sediment. In 1984, Allegheny County Health Department inspectors found sludge and oil built up in diked areas around several storage tanks. Cleanup work began in the late 1980s and early 1990s, under agreements with the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources and EPA. In 1994, EPA removed about 6,400 tons of contaminated waste from the site. EPA added the site to the National Priorities List (NPL) in 1996. The site’s potentially responsible parties (PRPs) are cleaning up the site with EPA oversight. The PRPs dug up contaminated soil and put it in a capped waste management area on site. The PRPs completes a pilot study and cleanup of groundwater contamination to be in place of biological techniques. As part of the cleanup, construction of a new wetland on site replaced a contaminated wetland. The site includes a part of the Coraopolis District Sportsmen’s Association’s property. It offers an archery and shooting range as well as land for hunting. Part of the Montour Trail, the country's longest suburban rail-trail, is also on site.
Last updated December 2023
As of December 2023, EPA did not have economic data related to on-site businesses, or economic data were not applicable due to site use. For additional information click here.
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Brodhead Creek
The 12-acre Brodhead Creek Superfund site is in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. From 1888 to 1944, a coal gasification plant was on site. The plant produced coal tar wastes. Waste disposal practices contaminated groundwater, soil and creek sediments. EPA put in an underground slurry wall to contain the coal tar wastes during early response actions. EPA added the site to the National Priorities List (NPL) in 1983. Cleanup included the use of a coal tar recovery system. The system removed over 2,000 gallons of coal tar before EPA determined that federal cleanup standards could not be attained at the site. Restrictions prevent the use of groundwater and prohibit excavation without prior written approval from EPA. EPA and the site’s potentially responsible parties (PRPs) completed the cleanup. EPA took the site off the NPL in 2001. Monitoring is ongoing. PRPs led removal actions in 2008 and 2012 to address coal tar seeps caused by creek erosion. The creeks at the site provide habitat for fish, waterfowl and other wildlife. Anglers visit the site to fish the creeks. A flood control levee runs across the site. There is a trail on top of the levee. An electrical substation and gas company offices are also on site.
Last updated December 2023
As of December 2023, EPA had data on one on-site business. This business employed 5 people and generated an estimated $242,920 in annual sales revenue. For additional information click here.
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Brown's Battery Breaking
The 14-acre Brown’s Battery Breaking Superfund site is in Hamburg, Pennsylvania. The facility recycled batteries from 1961 to 1971. The state found high levels of lead in children living at the site. EPA found that past site operations contaminated groundwater, surface water and soil with lead and related metals. In 1983, EPA temporarily relocated residents living on site. EPA added the site to the National Priorities List (NPL) in 1986. In 1993, after more testing, EPA permanently relocated residents and a business. Cleanup included removal and treatment of contaminated soil, removal of battery casings, and treatment of groundwater. Commercial businesses lease the two site buildings for office and workspace. Part of the site is a protected conservation area that provides habitat for migratory birds and other wildlife. A cleaned-up residential property remains in continued use.
Last updated December 2023
As of December 2023, EPA had data on one on-site business. EPA did not have further economic details related to this business. For additional information click here.
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Butz Landfill
The 13-acre Butz Landfill Superfund site is in rural Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. Site owners ran an 8.5-acre municipal landfill on site from the mid-1960s to 1973. In 1984, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (PADEP) investigated the landfill. PADEP found that unpermitted landfill operations had contaminated groundwater with solvents and volatile organic compounds. Residents near the site used groundwater wells as a drinking water source. PADEP and EPA supplied residents with bottled water and carbon filtration systems. EPA added the site to the National Priorities List (NPL) in 1989. From 1992 to 1993, EPA built a water supply system for affected homes. EPA turned over ownership of the water supply system to a local authority in 1995. Groundwater affected by the site extends over a 195-acre area. EPA put in a groundwater treatment system at the site in 2001. From 2007 to 2014, EPA assessed groundwater vapors in homes near the site. EPA found that the vapors do not pose an immediate threat. During cleanup, crews came across bog turtles, a protected wildlife species. After visits by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, EPA changed the design of the groundwater treatment system. EPA relocated a discharge structure and built about 3 acres of new wetlands to protect the bog turtle population. PADEP took over operation and maintenance activities at the site in 2011. Part of the former landfill area is in use for heavy equipment and landscaping storage. The groundwater treatment plant is also on site. The rest of the site property is wooded. People use it occasionally for firewood collection, all-terrain vehicle riding and hunting. A cow sanctuary and several residential properties are also on site.
Last updated December 2023
As of December 2023, EPA had data on one on-site business. EPA did not have further economic details related to this business. For additional information click here.
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C & D Recycling
The 45-acre C & D Recycling Superfund site is in Foster Township, Pennsylvania. For 20 years, a metal-reclamation plant was on site. It burned lead and plastic-cased telephone cables to reclaim the copper wire. Sampling found high concentrations of heavy metals in soil and sediment. EPA added the site to the National Priorities List (NPL) in 1987. Cleanup included the removal, stabilization and off-site disposal of contaminated soil and sediment. With EPA oversight, the site’s potentially responsible parties (PRPs) demolished site infrastructure and removed wastes and cable casings. They also added erosion control measures and replanted the area. The PRPs completed the cleanup in 1999. Cleanup and restoration activities restored the site to its natural state and institutional controls were put in place to prevent areas of the site from being zoned for residential or commercial use. In 2006, Green Meadows Conservancy purchased most of the site. It plans to maintain the area as a wildlife preserve. Homes are on other parts of the site. EPA took the site off the NPL in 2018.
Last updated December 2023
As of December 2023, EPA did not have economic data related to on-site businesses, or economic data were not applicable due to site use. For additional information click here.
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Centre County Kepone
The 32-acre Centre County Kepone Superfund site is in State College, Pennsylvania. A chemical manufacturing facility made pesticides and other chemicals at the site from 1958 to 2004. Operators put wastewater and sludge in drums and lagoons on site. Investigations found that hazardous materials leaked from the lagoons. These practices caused contamination in groundwater, soil, surface water and drainage ditch sediments. EPA added the site to the National Priorities List (NPL) in 1983. In 1999, the potentially responsible parties (PRPs) led cleanup activities. EPA provided oversight. Cleanup included putting in a groundwater extraction and treatment system, upgrading surface water management controls, and disposing of contaminated soil, sediment, and waste materials. In 1998, EPA monitored the construction of a shopping center next to the site property. Construction included cleanup and redevelopment of part of the drainage ditch into a storm drainage system, a sidewalk and a vehicle access lane. After EPA updated the cleanup plan for soil in 2003, PRPs put in a soil vapor extraction system to remove contaminants from subsurface soil at the site. EPA oversees groundwater extraction and treatment, associated monitoring, and intermittent operation of the soil vapor extraction system at the site. EPA took an 8-acre area of the site (the Administration Parcel) off the NPL in 2004. This area included an administration building, a parking lot and open areas. In 2011, the site owner sold about 19 acres of the site property (the Redevelopment Parcel) to a developer. A roofing company uses a warehouse building on site for material storage and sales. A heating-and-cooling-supply business occupies a smaller former warehouse building. A self-storage facility is planned for the remaining part of the site.
Last updated December 2023
As of December 2023, EPA had data on 2 on-site businesses. These businesses employed 12 people and generated an estimated $5,708,003 in annual sales revenue. For additional information click here.
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Chem-Fab
The Chem-Fab Superfund site is in Doylestown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. From 1965 to the early 1990s, an electroplating and metal-etching facility was active on site. Its operations generated wastes that contaminated soil and groundwater. EPA added the site to the National Priorities List (NPL) in 2008. Cleanup actions include removing drums of waste, removing and treating contaminated soils, and backfilling with clean fill. They also include putting in a vapor mitigation system to reduce concentrations of volatile organic chemicals (VOCs) in indoor air and building a groundwater extraction and treatment system. In 2023, the site was added to those selected by EPA to receive cleanup funding under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL). With this funding, EPA is already initiating work on backlogged remedial construction projects and accelerating cleanups at NPL sites. This funding will be used to accelerate the construction of the site’s groundwater extraction and treatment system. Groundwater monitoring is ongoing. The site is zoned for commercial use. Current site uses include an office park with three buildings that host a pet groomer, a dog daycare service, a hair salon and an architecture firm.
Last updated December 2023
As of December 2023, EPA did not have economic data related to on-site businesses, or economic data were not applicable due to site use. For additional information click here.
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Craig Farm Drum
The 117-acre Craig Farm Drum Superfund site is in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania. From 1958 to 1963, drums containing still bottoms from resorcinol production at the nearby Koppers Chemical Company, Inc. facility were disposed in two abandoned strip mining pits at the site. As a result, soil, surface water, and groundwater were impacted. EPA added the site to the National Priorities List (NPL) in 1983. Cleanup included groundwater collection and treatment, and removal, solidification, and placement of treated waste and contaminated soil in a landfill on site. A 1-acre wetland was created to replace wetlands destroyed during construction of the landfill. EPA deleted the site from the NPL in 2013.
Last updated December 2023
As of December 2023, EPA did not have economic data related to on-site businesses, or economic data were not applicable due to site use. For additional information click here.
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Crater Resources, Inc./Keystone Coke Co./Alan Wood Steel Co.
The Crater Resources, Inc./Keystone Coke Co./Alan Wood Steel Co. Superfund site is in Upper Merion Township, Pennsylvania. The 95-acre area consists of four inactive quarries. Beginning in 1919, Alan Wood Steel Company put wastes from its coking facility in three of the quarries. In 1977, Keystone Coke Company bought the Alan Wood Steel Company. It continued to dispose of wastes at the site until 1981. From 1969 to the late 1970s, state agencies led investigations that found contaminated wastes, liquids, soil and sediment in the quarries. Groundwater was also contaminated. EPA added the site to the National Priorities List (NPL) in 1992. Cleanup included removal of contaminated soil and sediment and capping. Groundwater cleanup and monitoring is ongoing. A commercial office park known as Renaissance Park is now on site. A small part of an adjacent golf club is also on site. In 2018, one of the property owners and EPA reached an agreement for the owner to finish the cleanup, paving the way for redevelopment. In 2020, the King of Prussia District and Upper Merion Township expanded the district’s boundary to include Renaissance Park. There are plans to improve transportation and pedestrian infrastructure, streetscapes and signage, and public and special-event spaces at the site. Construction is anticipated to begin in the fall of 2023 on a residential complex partially on the OU1 capped area.
Last updated December 2023
As of December 2023, EPA had data on 24 on-site businesses. These businesses employed 1,330 people and generated an estimated $618,178,239 in annual sales revenue. For additional information click here.
For more information:
- Reuse Fact Sheet: Crater Resources, Inc./Keystone Coke Co./Alan Wood Steel Co. Superfund Site (PDF)
- Superfund Site Profile Page
Crossley Farm
The 209-acre Crossley Farm Superfund site is on Blackhead Hill in Hereford Township, Pennsylvania. From the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s, the Bally Case and Cooler Co. plant sent drums containing liquid waste to Crossley Farm for disposal. A 1983 investigation by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources found hazardous chemicals in residential wells near the site. In 1992, EPA added the site to the National Priorities List (NPL). The state issued an initial health advisory for the contaminated wells and provided clean water to residents. In 1995, cleanup included the removal of contaminated soil and buried drums. In 2000, EPA put in carbon filtration systems to remove contaminants from drinking water at 55 homes. Construction of the site’s groundwater treatment system finished in July 2012. Groundwater treatment is ongoing. In 2015, EPA put in vapor intrusion mitigation systems at 20 homes. EPA is remediating a source area on the farm and has initiated a remedial action to pump additional wells to an existing treatment system. The property is still used as a farm. The farm now grows corn and soybeans. In December 2021, the site was among those selected by EPA to receive cleanup funding under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL). With this funding, EPA is already initiating work on backlogged remedial construction projects and accelerating cleanups at NPL sites.
Last updated December 2023
As of December 2023, EPA did not have economic data related to on-site businesses, or economic data were not applicable due to site use. For additional information click here.
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Croydon TCE
The Croydon TCE Superfund site covers a 3.5-square-mile area between Croydon and Bristol townships in Pennsylvania. It includes residential and business areas as well as several industrial complexes. In 1985, EPA found solvents and degreasers in groundwater and in eight residential wells. EPA added the site to the National Priorities List (NPL) in 1986. EPA connected homes affected by groundwater contamination to the public water supply. From 1995 to 2009, a groundwater treatment system put in by EPA reduced contamination. EPA and the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (PADEP) are exploring ways to complete groundwater cleanup. PADEP finished a pilot study of bio-stimulant injections in 2018. In 2016, the Heritage Conservancy took ownership of a former industrial property at the site. The property is known locally as Croydon Woods. In May 2019, the Heritage Conservancy held a ribbon cutting for the opening of Croydon Woods Nature Preserve at the site. The preserve is one of the last remaining coastal plain forests in the state. It provides publicly accessible green space in a developed area of Bucks County. Many mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians live in the forest. It is also a migratory stop for traveling birds. The Heritage Conservancy works closely with a local Little League club and nearby Keystone Elementary School to provide field trips and education opportunities. In 2019, EPA gave the Heritage Conservancy its Excellence in Site Reuse award, recognizing the organization’s outstanding work supporting site reuse. Other reuses on site include two marinas and a boat launch. Athletic fields owned and used by Franklin D. Roosevelt Middle School are on site. Cedar Avenue Park and CVS Park offer a walking trail, a playground and a basketball court. Continued uses at the site include residential, commercial, ecological and industrial areas. The 2021 Five-Year Review report found the OU2 remedy is currently protective of human health and the environment. There are no direct exposures to contaminated groundwater. Institutional controls are in place to restrict current and future use of groundwater for potable purposes. Groundwater monitoring is ongoing. For the remedy to be protective over the long term, the following actions need to be taken: 1) EPA will issue a decision document after the evaluation of the results of the MNA evaluation and ISB pilot study conducted by PADEP; and 2) Implement any required modifications to the remedy.
Last updated December 2023
As of December 2023, EPA did not have economic data related to on-site businesses, or economic data were not applicable due to site use. For additional information click here.
For more information:
- Region 3 Excellence in Site Reuse Award: Croydon TCE Site
- Site Redevelopment Profile: Croydon TCE Site (PDF)
- Superfund Site Profile Page
CryoChem, Inc.
The CryoChem, Inc. Superfund site is in Worman, Pennsylvania. CryoChem, Inc. opened a metal fabrication facility at the site in 1962. The 19-acre area includes several production and storage buildings and an office complex. During operations, metal-cleaning waste drained into nearby surface waters. In 1985, EPA led a site investigation and found contaminants in a production well, nearby residential wells, groundwater, surface water and soil. EPA added the site to the National Priorities List (NPL) in 1989. Groundwater treatment consists of extraction, treatment and discharge to surface water. Area homes have carbon filtration systems on their wells. A company leases the property. It continues to run a metal fabrication facility on site. A well-drilling contractor also has offices and an equipment yard on the adjacent property.
Last updated December 2023
As of December 2023, EPA had data on one on-site business. This business employed 42 people and generated an estimated $9,510,000 in annual sales revenue. For additional information click here.
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Dorney Road Landfill
The Dorney Road Landfill Superfund site occupies 27 acres in Upper Macungie Township, Pennsylvania. A small part of the site extends into Longswamp Township. An iron mine was originally on site. Then, a municipal and industrial landfill was on site from 1952 to 1978. It received industrial sludge, batteries and petroleum products. State-led investigations found contaminants in soil, leachate and groundwater. EPA added the site to the National Priorities List (NPL) in 1984. Cleanup activities included landfill capping and installation of a passive gas vapor venting system. Cleanup also included regrading, stormwater management, building restrictions and wetlands restoration. After sampling found site groundwater met national drinking water standards, EPA took the site off the NPL in 2018. Groundwater monitoring and landfill cap inspections are ongoing. The site’s 14 acres of wetlands, including about 7 acres of open-water habitat, are now well established with native plants. The wetlands attract waterfowl and pollinators.
Last updated December 2023
As of December 2023, EPA did not have economic data related to on-site businesses, or economic data were not applicable due to site use. For additional information click here.
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Douglassville Disposal
The 52-acre Douglassville Disposal Superfund site is in Douglassville, Pennsylvania. A waste-oil recycling facility was on site from 1941 to 1986. Operators kept waste oil sludge in lagoons and mixed sludges into soils. The sludge washed into the Schuylkill River during flooding in 1970 and 1972. Leaking drums were on site from 1979 to 1982. Investigations found contaminants in groundwater, surface water, soil and river sediments. EPA added the site to the National Priorities List (NPL) in 1983. Cleanup activities include dismantling the tank farm and processing equipment as well as capping the former waste lagoon and contaminated soil areas. Cleanup is ongoing. Part of the site is in recreational reuse. The Pottstown-Reading section of the Schuylkill River Trail runs through the site. Other area activities include hiking, biking and hunting. There are wetlands on several parts of the site.
Last updated December 2023
As of December 2023, EPA did not have economic data related to on-site businesses, or economic data were not applicable due to site use. For additional information click here.
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Drake Chemical
The 8-acre Drake Chemical Superfund site is in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania. A plant made chemicals on site from the 1960s to 1981. Operators filled open areas with chemical sludge, resulting in widespread soil contamination. Groundwater and structures also contained contamination. In 1983, EPA added the site to the National Priorities List (NPL). EPA removed soil from the leachate runoff area and directed runoff into a sewer line in 1986. Cleanup also included digging up a drainage lagoon, treating contaminated soil on site, demolishing buildings and other structures, and taking materials off site for disposal. Groundwater treatment is ongoing. A commercial storage facility is active on site.
Last updated December 2023
As of December 2023, EPA had data on one on-site business. EPA did not have further economic details related to this business. For additional information click here.
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Dublin TCE Site
The Dublin TCE Superfund site is in Dublin Borough, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Over the last 50 years, several manufacturing facilities have operated within the 4.5-acre area. Kollsman Motor Corporation reportedly used and disposed of solvents on site. In 1986, Bucks County Health Department found contamination attributed to site operations in drinking water wells. EPA added the site to the National Priorities List (NPL) in 1990. EPA completed construction of an alternate water supply for affected homes and businesses in 1998. This enables continued use of homes and businesses above the area of groundwater contamination. The site’s potentially responsible party is working with EPA to treat groundwater contamination. The site owner uses the property to store and repair antique cars and leases space to other businesses. Cleanup activities are ongoing at this site.
Last updated December 2023
As of December 2023, EPA did not have economic data related to on-site businesses, or economic data were not applicable due to site use. For additional information click here.
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East Mount Zion
The East Mount Zion Superfund site is in Springettsbury, Pennsylvania. From 1955 to 1972, a 10-acre landfill accepted municipal and industrial waste on site. The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (PADEP) tried to close the landfill in the 1960s and early 1970s. After extensive legal action, landfill closure followed in 1972. Improper waste disposal practices contaminated groundwater. EPA added the site to the National Priorities List (NPL) in 1984. EPA’s cleanup included capping the landfill, placing institutional controls on site to protect the cap, and monitoring landfill gas and groundwater. Monitoring is ongoing. In 2016, PADEP worked with EPA and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to replace the vegetative cover on the landfill with native species. The site is in ecological reuse. The native plants benefit butterflies, bees and birds in the area. They also discourage the presence of groundhogs on site, protecting the cap from digging damage.
Last updated December 2023
As of December 2023, EPA did not have economic data related to on-site businesses, or economic data were not applicable due to site use. For additional information click here.
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East Tenth Street
The East Tenth Street site is in an industrial area of Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania. Rayon and cellophane manufacturing started at the 36-acre area in 1910. Marcus Hook Business and Commerce Center obtained the property in 1986. The firm sold or leased many parcels and buildings and divided the site into 23 separate lots. Improper disposal and mishandling of materials during past industrial operations and demolition activities resulted in groundwater and soil contamination. EPA proposed adding the site to the Superfund program’s National Priorities List (NPL) in 1994. EPA did not finalize the site’s listing on the NPL because the state pursued cleanup under Pennsylvania’s Land Recycling and Environmental Remediation Standards Act. Cleanup activities included securing and removing asbestos, removing old transformers and contaminated cement from buildings, and putting up fencing to limit site access. Today, the Marcus Hook Fire Department is active on site.
Last updated December 2023
As of December 2023, EPA had data on one on-site business. This business employed 30 people. For additional information click here.
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Eastern Diversified Metals
The 26-acre Eastern Diversified Metals Superfund site is in Rush Township, Pennsylvania. From 1966 to 1977, Eastern Diversified Metals disposed of waste materials from copper and aluminum electrical wires on site. It used a water treatment plant to collect and treat shallow groundwater. Occasional overflows resulted in runoff into the Little Schuylkill River, a fishing and recreation resource. After investigations, EPA added the site to the National Priorities List (NPL) in 1989. Cleanup included removing contaminated materials, putting in a runoff collection and treatment system, and consolidating and capping a large waste pile. Cleanup finished in 2008. Groundwater monitoring is ongoing. Cleanup of the property with the former processing building finished in 2005. Part of the site is available for commercial and industrial use.
Last updated December 2023
As of December 2023, EPA did not have economic data related to on-site businesses, or economic data were not applicable due to site use. For additional information click here.
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Elizabethtown Landfill
The Elizabethtown Landfill Superfund site is near Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania. From 1958 to 1973, an unlicensed landfill operated in a former sandstone quarry at the 16-acre site. It accepted industrial and municipal wastes from nearby businesses and communities. Improper waste disposal resulted in contaminated groundwater and surface water. EPA added the site to the National Priorities List (NPL) in 1989. Cleanup activities included landfill capping, installation of methane control vents, a leachate collection system, and a groundwater extraction and treatment system. The Elizabethtown Area Water Authority built a water storage tower on site, outside the capped area, to supply water to the surrounding area. West Donegal Township uses the site’s asphalt cap for its National Night Out annual community event. Other areas affected by the groundwater plume remain in continued residential, agricultural and commercial use.
Last updated December 2023
As of December 2023, EPA did not have economic data related to on-site businesses, or economic data were not applicable due to site use. For additional information click here.
Enterprise Avenue
The 57-acre Enterprise Avenue Superfund site is in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. For five years, the city of Philadelphia used the area to dispose of incinerator residue, fly ash and bulky debris. Several waste-handling companies also illegally buried drums containing industrial and chemical wastes there. Improper disposal practices resulted in the contamination of soil and groundwater. EPA added the site to the National Priorities List (NPL) in 1983. The city removed contaminated soil, water and drummed waste material, and capped the landfill. After cleanup, EPA took the site off the NPL in 1986. The groundwater extraction and treatment system ran from 2002 to 2008. Operation and maintenance activities for the cap and groundwater monitoring are ongoing. In 1999, the Philadelphia Department of Aviation completed a 5,000-foot commuter runway for the Philadelphia International Airport on site. The runway reduces flight delays and traffic congestion at the airport. Institutional controls in place restrict site uses to airport-related uses only.
Last updated December 2023
As of December 2023, EPA had data on one on-site business. EPA did not have further economic details related to this business. For additional information click here.
Fischer & Porter Co.
The 6-acre Fischer & Porter Co. Superfund site is in Warminster Township, Pennsylvania. Fischer & Porter Company (F&P), a producer of flow meters and process control equipment, ran testing and manufacturing operations on site. In the early 1980s, EPA found contamination in industrial supply wells on site and in public water supply wells in Warminster Township and the borough of Hatboro. EPA also found contamination beneath a homeowners’ co-op. EPA added the site to the National Priorities List (NPL) in 1983. Cleanup activities included putting in groundwater treatment systems for industrial wells and public water supply wells. The contamination has since moved away from the homeowners’ co-op. Developers bought site buildings and renovated them. They now host offices and warehouse space. F&P (now ABB Instrumentation) continues to lease office space at the site. It also runs groundwater pumping-and-treatment operations. Starting in 2000, a company purchased undeveloped parts of the site and entered into a Prospective Purchaser Agreement (PPA) with EPA. A PPA encourages the redevelopment of previously contaminated property by addressing purchaser liability concerns. The company built two buildings, providing over 100,000 square feet of office, manufacturing and warehouse space. Commercial and manufacturing businesses remain active on site.
Last updated December 2023
As of December 2023, EPA had data on 6 on-site businesses. These businesses employed 690 people and generated an estimated $102,825,000 in annual sales revenue. For additional information click here.
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Foster Wheeler Energy Corp./Church Road TCE
The Foster Wheeler Energy Corp./Church Road TCE Superfund site is at the Crestwood Industrial Park in Mountain Top, Pennsylvania. From 1953 to 1984, the Foster Wheeler Energy Corporation (FWEC) made large pressure vessels on site. EPA investigations found that manufacturing practices contaminated soil and groundwater. In 1991, FWEC, the potentially responsible party, put in a system to pump and treat groundwater. Groundwater treatment and monitoring are ongoing. In 2004, groundwater sampling found contamination in 36 private residential wells along Church Road. FWEC provided affected homes with an alternative water supply. They were connected to the public water supply in 2007. EPA is addressing the site through the Superfund Alternative Approach, an alternative to adding a site to the National Priorities List (NPL). EPA released the site’s interim cleanup plan in 2018. With EPA oversight, FWEC leads cleanup activities. Cleanup includes treatment and capping of contaminated soil, sediment removal from the former wastewater treatment pond, and continued groundwater treatment and monitoring. Institutional controls prevent potential exposure to contamination. The former FWEC facility and surrounding properties have been in industrial reuse since 1989. Other areas of the site remain in residential and commercial use.
Last updated December 2023
As of December 2023, EPA had data on one on-site business. EPA did not have further economic details related to this business. For additional information click here.
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Havertown PCP
The approximate 12 to 15-acre Havertown PCP Superfund site is in Havertown Township, Pennsylvania. From 1947 to 1991, National Wood Preservers (NWP)ran a wood-treating facility at the site. The company reportedly discharged liquid wastes on the ground and in a large diameter well. Sampling found contamination in groundwater, surface water and soil. Some of the contaminated groundwater flowed into a nearby creek referred to as Naylors Run. EPA added the site to the National Priorities List (NPL) in 1983. Cleanup included the removal and disposal of hazardous liquid, solid and sludge wastes. It also included removal of all buildings and capping of the contaminated soil on the NWP and adjacent property which was completed under a Non-Time Critical Removal Action (NTCRA) in 1997. An interim groundwater treatment plant (GWTP) was completed in 2001. The final groundwater remedy expanded the GWTP in 2010. Groundwater extraction and treatment is ongoing. In 2019, EPA initiated a Time Critical Removal Action (TCRA) to address additional groundwater and soil contamination that had recently occurred in a residential area near the Site. The TCRA increased the volume of groundwater being collected, which exceeded the original GWTP’s capacity. As a result, a temporary groundwater treatment system (TGTS) was installed under the TCRA and the GWTP was demolished to allow room for an expanded new GWTP. EPA initiated a Non-Time Critical Removal Action (NTCRA) in April 2023 to construct an expanded GWTP and install additional groundwater extraction wells. The NTCRA is expected to be complete in 2025. Ecological monitoring of Naylors Run took place from 2009 to 2019. Several measures showed improvement in the stream’s water quality. Several land uses are now on site. Demolition of the former Philadelphia Chewing Gum Corporation factory made way for the Freedom Valley YMCA. The $22 million facility, which has three pools, a gymnasium, a wellness center, locker rooms, an indoor track, and an educational care center, opened in October 2013. A paved recreation trail connects the YMCA to the nearby Pennsy Trail. In 2015, EPA Region 3 recognized the YMCA facility’s leadership with its Excellence in Site Reuse award. EPA, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (PADEP) and Haverford Township supported and monitored the construction of a storage facility on the capped area at the site which was expanded in 2019. Several mixed-commercial use properties exist around the Site including office and industrial rental space that is currently fully utilized. Continued site uses include residential homes, recreational open space, a restaurant, convenience store, and several auto repair facilities. EPA, PADEP and Haverford Township continue to work with interested parties to support the site’s return to safe and beneficial use.
Last updated December 2023
As of December 2023, EPA had data on 4 on-site businesses. These businesses employed 437 people and generated an estimated $10,949,040 in annual sales revenue. For additional information click here.
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- Reuse and Benefit to Community: Havertown PCP Site (PDF)
- Site Redevelopment Profile: Havertown PCP Site (PDF)
- Region 3 Excellence in Site Reuse Award: Havertown PCP Site
- Superfund Site Profile Page
Hebelka Auto Salvage Yard
The 20-acre Hebelka Auto Salvage Yard Superfund site is about 9 miles west of Allentown, Pennsylvania. From 1958 to 1979, an automobile junkyard and salvage facility was on site. Its operation involved junk cars, used storage tanks, and miscellaneous scrap metal, tires, empty drums and debris. The facility accumulated about 1,000 cubic yards of used battery casings, most broken and empty, in two large piles at the site. These activities contaminated sediment, soil and sludge with lead. EPA added the site to the National Priorities List (NPL) in 1987. The primary environmental threat at the site was lead contamination from the two piles of used battery casings. There were also 3,300 cubic yards of associated lead-contaminated soil. The battery casings were removed from the site and recycled when possible. Lead-contaminated soil was dug up and taken to an off-site facility for treatment before disposal in a permitted landfill. After cleanup, EPA took the site off the NPL in 1999. A commercial salvage yard is active on site.
Last updated December 2023
As of December 2023, EPA did not have economic data related to on-site businesses, or economic data were not applicable due to site use. For additional information click here.
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Heleva Landfill
The 93-acre Heleva Landfill Superfund site is in North Whitehall Township, Pennsylvania. Open-pit iron ore mining operations in the late 1800s left four open, water-filled pits at the site. A sanitary landfill was on site in 1967. It accepted general mixed refuse, including paper, wood, and orchard wastes. The landfill also accepted unconfirmed types and amounts of industrial wastes, including solvents. After the landfill’s closure in 1981, operators capped the wastes in place. Site activities contaminated groundwater. EPA added the site to the National Priorities List (NPL) in 1983. Cleanup included installation of a new landfill cover, a passive gas venting system and a groundwater pump-and-treat system. It also included extension of the public water supply to homes affected by the contamination. Groundwater treatment is ongoing. A landscaping business is active on site. Hay harvesting also takes place on site.
Last updated December 2023
As of December 2023, EPA had data on one on-site business. EPA did not have further economic details related to this business. For additional information click here.
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Hellertown Manufacturing Co.
The 9-acre Hellertown Manufacturing Co. Superfund site is in Hellertown, Pennsylvania. Champion Spark Plug Company made spark plugs on site from 1930 to 1975. Improper waste disposal practices contaminated soil and groundwater with hazardous chemicals. The Pennsylvania Department of Health and the Delaware River Basin Commission documented potential contamination in 1970. In 1989, EPA added the site to the National Priorities List (NPL). Cleanup activities included installing a cap over a former lagoon and treating groundwater. The site is not in use. EPA is working with the state and property owner to facilitate the development of a three-story medical building on site. Preliminary plans have been submitted to EPA and site development is slated to begin in late 2023.
Last updated December 2023
As of December 2023, EPA did not have economic data related to on-site businesses, or economic data were not applicable due to site use. For additional information click here.
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Henderson Road
The 7-acre Henderson Road Superfund site is in Upper Merion Township, Pennsylvania. In the 1970s, O’Hara Sanitation Company used the area for waste storage and recycling, vehicle maintenance and parking, and office facilities. Operators used a former industrial water supply well to dispose of industrial liquid wastes. EPA identified groundwater contamination and a contaminated landfill at the site. EPA added the site to the National Priorities List (NPL) in 1984. Cleanup for groundwater included extraction and treatment system and vapor extraction system. For the landfill, the cleanup included capping the landfill, groundwater and leachate monitoring. EPA finalized the Record of Decision ROD) Amendment in 2023 for Operable Unit 1. The ROD Amendment replaces the groundwater extraction and treatment system with in-situ bioremediation to treat the remaining groundwater contamination. A waste management company is now on site. It has offices and a maintenance garage on site.
Last updated December 2023
As of December 2023, EPA had data on one on-site business. This business employed 6 people and generated an estimated $29,983,000 in annual sales revenue. For additional information click here.
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Industrial Lane
The Industrial Lane Superfund site is near Easton, Pennsylvania. It includes an industrial area and a 30-acre sanitary landfill. An unlined landfill was on site from 1961 to 1988. Its operations resulted in groundwater contamination. Iron ore extraction and iron works operations may also have contributed to the contamination. In 1983, EPA found groundwater contamination in local wells. EPA added the site to the National Priorities List (NPL) in 1984. Cleanup activities included connecting affected homes to the public water supply, closing the unlined municipal landfill and treating contaminated groundwater. A permitted, lined landfill remains active on site. Groundwater contaminants have been reduced by pumping three extraction wells and it is near the MCL Levels required. The active landfill built over the 30-acre old landfill is still operating.
Last updated December 2023
As of December 2023, EPA had data on one on-site business. EPA did not have further economic details related to this business. For additional information click here.
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Jacks Creek/Sitkin Smelting & Refining, Inc.
The 115-acre Jacks Creek/Sitkin Smelting & Refining, Inc. Superfund site is in a rural agricultural area in Mifflin County, Pennsylvania. From 1958 to 1977, Sitkin Smelting Company ran a smelting and precious metals reclamation facility on site. Investigations found lead and other metals in site soils. Sediment contamination along Jacks Creek, a recreation area for fishermen, prompted a fish consumption advisory. EPA added the site to the National Priorities List (NPL) in 1989. Cleanup included demolishing site buildings, removing underground storage tanks, ash material, transformers and drums, removing and treating contaminated soil, and putting a multi-layer cap in place. It also included floodplain and wetland restoration. Monitoring is ongoing. A scrap-metal recycling facility remains active on site. Restored wetland areas, including six vernal pools, provide ecological habitat for amphibians, reptiles and birds. People fish in the creek year-round. A trucking repair facility, a scrap-metal recycling company and a church remain active on other parts of the site.
Last updated December 2023
As of December 2023, EPA had data on 2 on-site businesses. These businesses employed 88 people and generated an estimated $10,603,970 in annual sales revenue. For additional information click here.
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Jackson Ceramix, Inc
The 235-acre Jackson Ceramix, Inc Superfund site is in the borough of Falls Creek, Pennsylvania. From 1917 to 1985, the facility made and painted chinaware. Chemicals and metals used in the process included lead and other metals, as well as organic compounds. Poor chemical handling practices at the plant as well as repeated wastewater discharges led to the contamination of soils, sediments, groundwater and surface water. EPA added the site to the National Priorities List (NPL) in 2005. Falls Creek Park and baseball field are partially on site. EPA’s Superfund Redevelopment Program (SRP) provided reuse planning assistance for borough-owned properties in 2019. The profile summarizes reuse goals, site assets and reuse suitability, and provides an overview of tools available to support reuse. EPA continues to work closely with the borough and prioritized cleanup of the areas designated for redevelopment. In 2023, the site was added to those selected by EPA to receive cleanup funding under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL). With this funding, EPA is already initiating work on backlogged remedial construction projects and accelerating cleanups at NPL sites.
Last updated December 2023
As of December 2023, EPA did not have economic data related to on-site businesses, or economic data were not applicable due to site use. For additional information click here.
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Keystone Sanitation Landfill
The 70-acre Keystone Sanitation Landfill Superfund site is a privately owned property in a rural part of Union Township in Adams County, Pennsylvania. The owners, who live in a home on site, started operating a landfill on site in 1966. It accepted construction debris, white goods and some hazardous wastes. The landfill expanded to cover about 48 acres at the time of its closure in 1992. Investigations found contaminants in groundwater, surface water and sediments. EPA added the site to the National Priorities List (NPL) in 1987. Cleanup addressed groundwater around the landfill and at the home and extraction of contaminated vapor in the soils. Operation of the groundwater extraction and treatment system began in 2000. Operation of the landfill gas extraction system began in 2003. Both systems remain in operation. A low-permeability soil cover was placed over the landfill and seeded with grass as part of the cleanup. The single-family home on site remains occupied.
Last updated December 2023
As of December 2023, EPA did not have economic data related to on-site businesses, or economic data were not applicable due to site use. For additional information click here.
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Kimberton
The 45-acre Kimberton Superfund site is in East Pikeland Township, Pennsylvania. Starting in 1947, operators made resins, textiles and asphalt products on site. From 1947 to 1959, they disposed of various residues in eight lagoons. Investigations confirmed contamination of soil and groundwater. EPA added the site to the National Priorities List (NPL) in 1983. Cleanup workers removed drums, dug up lagoons and treated residential wells. The site’s potentially responsible parties provided an alternate source of drinking water to 25 nearby homes and businesses until completion of public water supply connections in 1992. Groundwater treatment began in 1993 and is ongoing. A facility began making asphalt roofing products on site in 1969. It remains active on site today.
Last updated December 2023
As of December 2023, EPA had data on one on-site business. This business employed 300 people and generated an estimated $78,490,000 in annual sales revenue. For additional information click here.
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Lehigh Electric & Engineering Co.
The 5.5-acre Lehigh Electric & Engineering Co. Superfund site is in Old Forge, Pennsylvania. Before the 1970s, a coal processing facility was on site. From the mid-1970s to 1981, Lehigh Electric & Engineering Company ran a repair and storage yard for electrical equipment on site. Site activities contaminated soil and groundwater. EPA added the site to the National Priorities List (NPL) in 1983. EPA removed all surface debris before demolishing site buildings. EPA also removed contaminated soil and backfilled removal areas with clean soil before capping and revegetating the area. Groundwater monitoring is ongoing. The site is not in use. The site is now used to support a recreational trail along the Lehigh River.
Last updated December 2023
As of December 2023, EPA did not have economic data related to on-site businesses, or economic data were not applicable due to site use. For additional information click here.
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Lindane Dump
The Lindane Dump Superfund site is in Harrison Township, Pennsylvania. It includes two areas: a 14-acre park property and a 47.5-acre area that includes a landfill. From 1850 to 1986, companies used the area for waste disposal. Wastes included materials from mining, chemical manufacturing, electrical generation, steel manufacturing and building demolition. EPA found contamination in groundwater, soil and leachate. EPA added the site to the National Priorities List (NPL) in 1983. Cleanup included capping of the site and leachate collection and treatment. Operation and maintenance activities are ongoing. Harrison Township built Alsco Community Park on site in 1977. After cleanup, the restored park reopened to the public in 1999. It now includes tennis courts, baseball fields, a park utility building, picnic areas, open space and parking.
Last updated December 2023
As of December 2023, EPA did not have economic data related to on-site businesses, or economic data were not applicable due to site use. For additional information click here.
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Lower Darby Creek Area
The Lower Darby Creek Area Superfund site is located along Darby and Cobbs creeks in Philadelphia County and Delaware County in Pennsylvania. It includes two landfills – Clearview Landfill and Folcroft Landfill. They were active from the 1950s to the 1970s. They accepted municipal, demolition and hospital wastes. Operators disposed of wastes and landfill material along the edges of the creek. The landfills likely affected creeks and wetlands through surface erosion, runoff and seeps. EPA added the site to the National Priorities List (NPL) in 2001. EPA’s Superfund Redevelopment Program (SRP) supported a reuse planning project at the site in 2010 and 2011. The project resulted in a reuse assessment outlining potential future use opportunities for the site. In 2011 and 2012, EPA excavated and disposed of almost 4,000 tons of highly contaminated waste that included polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). In 2016, EPA began cleaning up residential yards affected by Clearview Landfill and completed remediation of nearly 200 residential properties in 2021. Remediation of the Eastwick Regional City Park and Clearview Landfill began in 2019 and will be completed in 2023, with the exception of streambank stabilization work to be conducted in 2024. A total of 67 acres of land has been remediated which includes 46 acres of forested evapotranspiration cap, 5 acres of mitigation and restoration wetlands, 16 acres of municipal park and open space and over 3,000 feet of streambank. EPA is working with potentially responsible parties (PRPs) on cleanup plans for Folcroft Landfill which will address the landfill waste and contaminated groundwater. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service manages Folcroft Landfill as part of the John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge. EPA has conducted a human health and ecological risk assessment for aquatic parts of the site and has identified risks to several different types of aquatic life as well as from people who consume fish and snapping turtles. EPA issued a DO NOT EAT fish advisory for the LDCA Site in 2023 and is collaborating with community partners to support outreach. EPA is conducting further analysis of the aquatic portions of LDCA to further define the sources of contamination and address any potential areas that require remediation. EPA continues to work closely with the site’s Community Advisory Group and technical assistance grantee. In December 2021, the site was among those selected by EPA to receive cleanup funding under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL). With this funding, EPA is already initiating work on backlogged remedial construction projects and accelerating cleanups at NPL sites.
Last updated December 2023
As of December 2023, EPA had data on one on-site business. EPA did not have further economic details related to this business. For additional information click here.
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Metal Bank
The 10-acre Metal Bank Superfund site is in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A scrap metal and transformer salvage facility was on site. Salvaging metal and transformers resulted in releases of oil to the Delaware River, contaminating surface water and groundwater. EPA added the site to the National Priorities List (NPL) in 1983. Cleanup included excavation and off-site disposal of contaminated soil and sediment, removal and disposal of an underground storage tank, installation of a sheet pile wall along the banks of the Delaware River and installation of a marine caps to contain sediments in the Delaware River. Cleanup finished in 2010. Monitoring and maintenance activities are ongoing. In 2016, Revolution Recovery, a material recycling and recovery operation, expanded onto the site. In 2020, it partnered with Recycled Artist In Residency (RAIR), a nonprofit arts organization, allowing artists to use site materials for public art installations.
Last updated December 2023
As of December 2023, EPA had data on one on-site business. EPA did not have further economic details related to this business. For additional information click here.
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Metro Container Corporation
The Metro Container Corporation Superfund site is a 10-acre property in Trainer, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. Past industrial activities contaminated soil and groundwater at the property and sediments in the adjacent stream. EPA added the site to the National Priorities List (NPL) in 2012. Investigations and cleanup are ongoing. EPA started a removal action in 2013 to find and remove underground contamination sources. A group of potentially responsible parties (PRPs) completed the removal action in 2016. The PRPs are conducting the site’s remedial investigation and feasibility study (RI/FS) with EPA oversight. An industrial painting business stores supplies and conducts sandblasting and painting operations at the site.
Last updated December 2023
As of December 2023, EPA had data on one on-site business. This business employed 30 people and generated an estimated $5,000,000 in annual sales revenue. For additional information click here.
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Metropolitan Mirror And Glass Co., Inc.
The 8-acre Metropolitan Mirror and Glass Co., Inc. Superfund site is in an industrial area of Frackville, Pennsylvania. Starting in 1959, Metropolitan Mirror and Glass, Inc. made mirrors at the site until the company declared bankruptcy in 1982. Operators disposed of waste in four lagoons. Investigations found contamination in soil and groundwater. EPA added the site to the National Priorities List (NPL) in 1992. Cleanup activities included removing contaminated sediment from the lagoons and removing soil from the site. St. Jude Polymer Company recycled plastic bottles at the site from 1987 until its facility closed in 2010. The company maintained a plastics recycling center at the site and remained open throughout the cleanup. In 2005, after cleanup finished, EPA took the site off the NPL. A plastics recycling center operates on site.
Last updated December 2023
As of December 2023, EPA did not have economic data related to on-site businesses, or economic data were not applicable due to site use. For additional information click here.
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Middletown Air Field
The 500-acre Middletown Air Field Superfund site is located between Middletown and Highspire in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. From 1898 to 1966, the federal government owned and operated Army Camp George Gordon Meade and later Olmstead Air Force Base on site. Aircraft maintenance and testing took place at the site. These activities resulted in contamination of wells, groundwater and soil. EPA added the site to the National Priorities List (NPL) in 1986. EPA identified five disposal areas as potential sources of groundwater contamination. Cleanup included groundwater treatment and monitoring as well as use restrictions. After cleanup, EPA took the site off the NPL in 1997. Harrisburg International Airport opened on site in 1967. The airport remains in active use. Other site uses include a Pennsylvania State University campus, a Pennsylvania Air National Guard facility, apartments, commercial and industrial properties, and a storage and vehicle maintenance area for Middletown School District.
Last updated December 2023
As of December 2023, EPA had data on 41 on-site businesses. These businesses employed 1,628 people and generated an estimated $186,209,215 in annual sales revenue. For additional information click here.
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Mill Creek Dump
The 124-acre Mill Creek Dump Superfund site is in Millcreek, Pennsylvania. For 40 years, an unpermitted landfill for foundry sands, solvents, waste oils, and other industrial and municipal wastes was on site. Waste practices contaminated soil, sediments and groundwater. The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources closed the dump in 1981. EPA added the site to the National Priorities List (NPL) in 1984. Cleanup activities included groundwater treatment, soil capping, construction of a flood retention basin and wetlands replacement. In 1996, the site’s potentially responsible parties (PRPs) and Millcreek Township worked with EPA to modify the cap design to allow for development of a golf course. The golf course opened in 2001. In 2010, Erie International Airport used a 12-acre part of the cap and golf course for a runway expansion; the golf course was closed temporarily. The runway extension opened in November 2012. Millcreek Township reopened the golf course in 2019. It offers a driving range and a six-hole course.
Last updated December 2023
As of December 2023, EPA had data on one on-site business. This business employed one person and generated an estimated $1,401,000 in annual sales revenue. For additional information click here.
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Modern Sanitation Landfill
The 66-acre Modern Sanitation Landfill Superfund site is in the townships of Windsor and Lower Windsor in Pennsylvania. The site is part of the 372-acre Modern Landfill, an active permitted facility. In the 1940s, a landfill on site was in use for domestic dumping. From 1976 to 1979, the unlined facility reportedly received hazardous wastes. Later investigations found contamination in soil, groundwater, surface water, and private wells and springs. EPA added the site to the National Priorities List (NPL) in 1986. Cleanup activities included capping the original landfill area, landfill gas extraction, and groundwater extraction and treatment. Horizontal and vertical expansions of the permitted facility resulted in the construction of landfill cells on top of part of the site. Institutional controls restrict groundwater use and disturbance of the remedy. Operation and maintenance activities for the engineering controls and groundwater monitoring are ongoing. Municipal solid waste disposal operations remain active on site.
Last updated December 2023
As of December 2023, EPA had data on one on-site business. EPA did not have further economic details related to this business. For additional information click here.
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MW Manufacturing
The 15-acre MW Manufacturing Superfund site is in Valley Township, Pennsylvania. A copper-wire reclamation facility was on site from 1966 to 1983. Mechanical and chemical processes made hazardous wastes that were stored or dumped on the property. These activities contaminated groundwater, surface water, soil and sediment. EPA added the site to the National Priorities List (NPL) in 1986. Cleanup included removing and solidifying waste, treating groundwater, connecting affected homes to the public water supply, and placing land use controls on the site. Crews completed cleanup in 2005. Operation and maintenance of engineering controls and monitoring of groundwater and surface water are ongoing. In May 2012, Valley Township acquired the site property. It uses a concrete slab and garage for material and equipment storage. The site’s ecological resources include two wetlands.
Last updated December 2023
As of December 2023, EPA did not have economic data related to on-site businesses, or economic data were not applicable due to site use. For additional information click here.
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North Penn - Area 1
The North Penn - Area 1 Superfund site is located in Souderton, Pennsylvania. It is one of 12 Superfund sites in the North Penn area that contributes to areawide groundwater contamination. The site includes three properties with former dry-cleaning operations. EPA added the site to the National Priorities List (NPL) in 1989. As part of the Site’s remedy, EPA removed 482 tons of contaminated soil from two of the properties with former dry-cleaning operations. EPA also put in a groundwater extraction system. Additional investigations found high levels of contamination in a different monitoring well, EPA installed a new extraction system to remove contaminated water and discharge it to the sanitary sewer and discontinued extraction system use at the other well as contamination levels were consistently below clean-up values. EPA continues to monitor groundwater on a biannual basis. One of the former dry-cleaning facilities is reused as a restaurant and barber shop. The second is an active commercial facility with multiple tenants. The third site property, Parkside Apartments remains in continued residential use.
Last updated December 2023
As of December 2023, EPA had data on 3 on-site businesses. These businesses employed 28 people and generated an estimated $970,000 in annual sales revenue. For additional information click here.
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North Penn - Area 2
The 87-acre North Penn – Area 2 Superfund site is in Hatfield, Pennsylvania. From 1963 to 1986, the Ametek facility used a degreasing solvent in its manufacturing processes. In 1980, the North Penn Water Authority found site-related contaminants in on-site and downgradient wells. Facility operations contaminated soil and sediment. EPA added the site to the National Priorities List (NPL) in 1989. Cleanup efforts in 1987 and 1995 removed contaminated soil and sediments from the Ametek property. These efforts stabilized soil and sediments under a vegetated cap. In 2007, cleanup activities at the Steiert property included removal and disposal of contaminated soil and sediment. Additional cleanup at the Ametek facility included soil and sediment removal, upgrades to the groundwater pumping system, and a sub-slab depressurization system voluntarily installed to prevent vapor intrusion in a building on site. Penn Color now runs a pigment production operation at the former Ametek facility. An environmental consulting firm is also on site.
Last updated December 2023
As of December 2023, EPA had data on 3 on-site businesses. These businesses employed 106 people and generated an estimated $26,453,635 in annual sales revenue. For additional information click here.
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North Penn - Area 5
The 5-square-mile North Penn - Area 5 Superfund site is in Colmar, Pennsylvania. It is one of 12 Superfund sites identified in the North Penn area as contributing to areawide groundwater contamination. Since the late 1940s, various industries have been on Site. They include an electronic communication systems and components manufacturing facility, an automobile parts manufacturing facility, and smaller facilities associated with a variety of products and services. Investigations found industrial contamination in groundwater. EPA added the Site to the National Priorities List (NPL) in 1989. Cleanup is ongoing. Activities include remedial investigation and design of groundwater treatment and monitoring. Continued uses at the site include commercial and industrial businesses, homes, parkland and farmland.
Last updated December 2023
As of December 2023, EPA had data on 8 on-site businesses. These businesses employed 749 people and generated an estimated $344,599,143 in annual sales revenue. For additional information click here.
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North Penn - Area 6
The North Penn - Area 6 Superfund site is an area of groundwater contamination in and around the borough of Lansdale, Pennsylvania. The site is one of several Superfund sites identified in the North Penn area as contributing to area-wide groundwater contamination. Investigations found chemicals related to solvents and degreasers in groundwater at the site. EPA identified 26 facilities in the Lansdale area as possible sources of contamination due to their use of site-related solvents. EPA added the site to the National Priorities List (NPL) in 1989. EPA extended the public water supply to 20 homes with contaminated wells. Cleanup activities addressed contaminated soil at several properties. Groundwater treatment is ongoing. In December 2021, the site was among those selected by EPA to receive cleanup funding under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL). With this funding, EPA is already initiating work on backlogged remedial construction projects and accelerating cleanups at NPL sites. Throughout early 2023, EPA plans to install new monitoring wells to conduct more groundwater plume investigations and improve the groundwater cleanup. Current site uses include light industrial, commercial and residential areas. EPA took the site’s 6.5-acre Administrative Parcel off the NPL in 2017. The owner of this parcel developed condominiums on the property. In 2021, EPA took the 1.66-acre Second Administrative Parcel off the NPL. The owner is developing residential areas on the property.
Last updated December 2023
As of December 2023, EPA had data on 11 on-site businesses. These businesses employed 154 people and generated an estimated $41,315,645 in annual sales revenue. For additional information click here.
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North Penn - Area 7
The 650-acre North Penn - Area 7 Superfund site is in North Wales, Pennsylvania. It is one of 12 Superfund sites identified in the North Penn area as contributing to areawide groundwater contamination. EPA added the site to the National Priorities List (NPL) in 1989. Cleanup activities include soil removal and soil treatment. Agreements between EPA and one property owner enabled soil removal and construction of an apartment complex. Cleanup of the Spra-Fin Inc. part of the site finished in 2011. EPA completed a sitewide Record of Decision (ROD) focused on the potential for harmful vapors to enter buildings in 2019. The ROD looked at residential, commercial, industrial and daycare properties. The ROD found that no action is needed. Cleanup planning for source area properties and sitewide groundwater studies are ongoing. Several industrial facilities and commercial companies are active on site, including a manufacturing company and a lawn fertilizer business. Single-family homes and apartments are also on site.
Last updated December 2023
As of December 2023, EPA had data on 7 on-site businesses. These businesses employed 460 people and generated an estimated $679,631,978 in annual sales revenue. For additional information click here.
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North Penn - Area 12
The North Penn - Area 12 Superfund site is in Worcester, Pennsylvania. It includes the 25-acre former Transicoil facility, a 12-acre former missile control facility and an area of associated groundwater contamination. Electric motor manufacturing took place at the site from 1952 to 1991. Transicoil disposed of solvent and waste oils in an underground storage tank, in the septic system and at times directly on the ground. In 1979, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources found high levels of solvent-based chemicals in monitoring wells at the Transicoil facility and in private wells around the facility. EPA added the site to the National Priorities List (NPL) in 1990. Cleanup activities included groundwater treatment and monitoring, the extension of the public water supply to affected homes and businesses, and institutional controls that prohibit the use of groundwater. In 1998, Techni-Tool, a distributor of equipment for electronics production, purchased the site property after signing a Prospective Purchaser Agreement with EPA. The company runs a distribution facility on site.
Last updated December 2023
As of December 2023, EPA had data on 2 on-site businesses. These businesses employed 74 people and generated an estimated $39,250,000 in annual sales revenue. For additional information click here.
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- Reuse and the Benefit to Community: North Penn Area 12 Superfund Site (PDF)
- Superfund Site Profile Page
Novak Sanitary Landfill
The 65-acre Novak Sanitary Landfill Superfund site is in a residential community near Allentown, Pennsylvania. This privately owned landfill was open from the late 1950s to 1990. It accepted demolition, municipal and industrial wastes. For 20 years, landfill operators put wastes in unlined trenches. Investigations found these activities contaminated soil and groundwater. EPA added the site to the National Priorities List (NPL) in 1989. Cleanup included fence installation, leachate collection, landfill venting and capping, groundwater monitoring, and land use controls. EPA completed the site’s landfill cap and leachate collection system in 2002. EPA took the groundwater part of the site off the NPL in 2019. The site property was purchased in 2020. Two homes are on the northernmost part of the site, outside of the fenced and capped landfill area. A utility easement also crosses the site.
Last updated December 2023
As of December 2023, EPA did not have economic data related to on-site businesses, or economic data were not applicable due to site use. For additional information click here.
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Old City Of York Landfill
The 178-acre Old City of York Landfill Superfund site is in Seven Valleys, Pennsylvania. From 1961 to 1975, the city of York operated a 56-acre landfill on site. It reportedly accepted industrial waste. In 1981, investigations found contamination from the landfill in groundwater and nearby domestic wells. EPA added the site to the National Priorities List (NPL) in 1983. Cleanup included restoration of 16 acres of soil cover that had eroded from the landfill, groundwater treatment, removal of contaminated sediment, and surface water monitoring. In 2000, treatment of groundwater ended and monitoring of natural processes to clean up groundwater began. A home is on site. The homeowner uses parts of the site for grazing horses and recreation.
Last updated December 2023
As of December 2023, EPA did not have economic data related to on-site businesses, or economic data were not applicable due to site use. For additional information click here.
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Palmerton Zinc Pile
The Palmerton Zinc Pile Superfund site is in Palmerton, Pennsylvania. The primary zinc smelting operations of two plants in Palmerton resulted in areawide contamination. The site includes Blue Mountain, a large smelting residue pile called the Cinder Bank and much of the surrounding valley north of Blue Mountain. For nearly 80 years, the New Jersey Zinc Company disposed of 33 million tons of smelting waste at the site. Smelting operations released heavy metals into the valley. Heavy metals contaminated dust, soil, shallow groundwater and surface water in Aquashicola Creek and the Lehigh River. The presence of lead in children’s blood samples triggered public health and environmental investigations. EPA added the site to the National Priorities List (NPL) in 1983. Cleanup included revegetation of Blue Mountain. Today, over 13,000 trees and native grasses cover approximately 3,000 acres of Blue Mountain. Other remedial actions at the Site include surface water diversion and treatment and soil cleanup on private properties. EPA finished community home and soil cleanups in 2005. Over 40 acres of wetlands were restored in 2015 and 2016, after soil removal. A hazardous waste recycler bought one of the smelters in 1981. It remains active on site today. In 2002, the Lehigh Gap Nature Center (LGNC) purchased over 750 acres of property along Blue Mountain. The site’s responsible parties, in cooperation with LGNC, began soil and erosion stabilization and revegetation efforts with native grasses in 2003. The refuge provides habitat for local wildlife and migratory species, as well as trails for hikers, birders and outdoor enthusiasts. It also offers programs in environmental education, wildlife viewing and native habitat restoration research. EPA Region 3 recognized LGNC’s efforts with its Excellence in Site Reuse award in 2014. A grant from the Green Mountain Energy Sun Club enabled LGNC to install solar panels at the center in 2018. In 2022, the Pennsylvania Solar Center presented LGNC with the Lodestar Award, a distinction given to Pennsylvania organizations leading the way with renewable energy investments.
Last updated December 2023
As of December 2023, EPA had data on 155 on-site businesses. These businesses employed 1,612 people and generated an estimated $265,554,147 in annual sales revenue. For additional information click here.
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Paoli Rail Yard
The Paoli Rail Yard Superfund site is in Paoli, Pennsylvania. The rail yard opened in the early 1900s, as a location for storage and maintenance of passenger rail cars pulled by steam engines. After conversion from steam to electric engines, mineral oil was used to insulate electronic components within transformers. In the 1950s, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) replaced mineral oil as an insulating fluid. In 1979, EPA banned the manufacture of PCBs and began to phase out their use. A program by the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) to replace PCBs in transformers finished by 1986. In the late 1970s, EPA and state agencies inspected the rail yard and found several areas of potential contamination. After release, the PCBs migrated to nearby residential properties and streams north of the rail yard. The Rail Companies, a collective comprising SEPTA, Amtrak and Conrail, were required to determine the extent of contamination and correct any problem areas. Sampling by the Rail Companies from 1980 to 1984 found PCBs in stream sediments and soils at the rail yard and some residential properties adjacent to the rail yard. EPA led a short-term cleanup action in 1988, removing 700 tons of soil with high concentrations of PCBs on nearby residential properties. EPA also built erosion-control and surface-water-detention structures to prevent future off-property migration of PCBs. EPA added the site to the NPL in 1990. The long-term cleanup action included excavation and encapsulation of contaminated soils from the rail yard property, construction of an on-site landfill for permanent disposal of the contaminated soils, installation of an asphalt cap over an area of soils contaminated with fuel oil, and removal or decontamination of buildings and structures on the rail yard property. It also included removing and encapsulating contaminated soils from residential properties and nearby streambeds in the on-site landfill, removing and treating contaminated groundwater, and monitoring groundwater. Apart from limited storage of equipment by Amtrak and SEPTA, the rail yard is not in use. An active rail line crosses the southern portion of the site.
Last updated December 2023
As of December 2023, EPA did not have economic data related to on-site businesses, or economic data were not applicable due to site use. For additional information click here.
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Presque Isle
The Presque Isle Superfund site is on the Presque Isle State Park peninsula in Erie County, Pennsylvania. From the early 1970s until the early 1980s, discharge of a toxic black liquid released contamination into the air, soil and shallow groundwater. Investigations found an unplugged natural gas well was the source of the discharge. The well was dug in 1910 and abandoned in 1920. The discharge contaminated soil and groundwater. EPA added the site to the National Priorities List (NPL) in 1983. Cleanup included plugging the leaking well with cement. Monitoring has not detected discharge since 1982. EPA took the site off the NPL in 1988. The former site area is now a beach in Presque Isle State Park, a public recreation area used for picnicking, swimming, and fishing.
Last updated December 2023
As of December 2023, EPA did not have economic data related to on-site businesses, or economic data were not applicable due to site use. For additional information click here.
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Price Battery Lead Smelter
The Price Battery Lead Smelter Superfund site is a 1.2-square-mile area in Hamburg, Pennsylvania. The Price Battery plant was on site from 1940 to the mid-1990s. Its operations contaminated the 9-acre plant and surrounding areas with lead, arsenic and antimony. EPA added the site to the National Priorities List (NPL) in 2005. EPA cleaned up 555 residential yards and decontaminated the interiors of 402 homes. EPA completed the residential part of the cleanup in 2013. The cleanup included homes as well as areas where children are likely to spend time, such as schools, churches and parks. The potentially responsible party completed the cleanup of the former Price Battery plant property in 2019. EPA’s ecological assessment of Kaercher and Mill creeks is complete and documented in the Price Battery OU3 Record of Decision signed April 28, 2023. The Remedial Design for the ecological component of the site is ongoing. Part of the site is in commercial reuse as a self-storage and parking business. A municipal parking lot is also on site.
Last updated December 2023
As of December 2023, EPA had data on 2 on-site businesses. EPA did not have further economic details related to these businesses. For additional information click here.
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Publicker Industries Inc.
The 40-acre Publicker Industries Inc. Superfund site is located along the Delaware River in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania along the Delaware River. Publicker Industries produced liquor and industrial alcohols at the site. The company later used the area as a petroleum product and chemical storage facility. Publicker Industries abandoned the site in 1986. Abandoned site equipment included tanks, drums, chemical laboratories, production buildings, warehouses, a power plant, and aboveground and underground process lines. Abandoned wastes posed a threat of fire and explosion. Site activities led to contamination of groundwater, soil and debris. EPA added the site to the National Priorities List (NPL) in 1989. Cleanup involved the removal and off-site disposal of contaminated debris and soil, the capping and sealing of groundwater wells, asbestos removal, and repair of electric and stormwater utilities. The site was one of the first in the country where a Prospective Purchaser Agreement (PPA) with EPA supported redevelopment and economic revitalization. In 1997, EPA recognized the site as the nation’s 500th Superfund site to achieve the construction completion milestone. In 2000, EPA took the site off the NPL. Today, site uses include a marine cargo container staging area for Port of Philadelphia operations.
Last updated December 2023
As of December 2023, EPA had data on one on-site business. EPA did not have further economic details related to this business. For additional information click here.
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Raymark
The 7-acre Raymark Superfund site is in Hatboro, Pennsylvania. From 1948 to 1972, a metal fabrication shop was on site. Operators put treated wastes and untreated wastewater from electroplating and degreasing processes in unlined lagoons. They also stored a volatile organic compound in outdoor and aboveground tanks on site. These storage and disposal practices resulted in groundwater contamination. EPA added the site to the National Priorities List (NPL) in 1989. Cleanup workers put in a groundwater treatment system. They also put a cap in place to contain remaining waste. In 2005, C&L Rivet Company bought the site property. It runs a metal fabrication facility on site. In 2013, an EPA study verified that harmful vapors from groundwater contamination do not affect structures at or near the site. Other commercial and industrial businesses are also active on site.
Last updated December 2023
As of December 2023, EPA had data on 8 on-site businesses. These businesses employed 42 people and generated an estimated $6,663,860 in annual sales revenue. For additional information click here.
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Recticon/Allied Steel Corp.
The 5-acre Recticon/Allied Steel Corp. Superfund site is in East Coventry Township, Pennsylvania. It includes two properties – the former Recticon facility and the Allied Steel facility. Recticon, a subsidiary of Rockwell International, made silicon wafers at the site from 1974 to 1981. Allied Steel Products Corporation made steel at the site from 1972 to 1988. These activities contaminated wells on site. EPA added the site to the National Priorities List (NPL) in 1989. Homes affected by contaminated groundwater used water filtration systems until their connection to the public water supply in 1999. Cleanup included removal and off-site disposal of contaminated soils as well as groundwater treatment. Longstreth Corporation bought the Allied Steel property after signing a Prospective Purchaser Agreement (PPA) with EPA in 2002. A PPA encourages the redevelopment of previously contaminated property by addressing purchaser liability concerns. The company operates a sports equipment business and store on site. A marble and granite showroom is on the Recticon property. Site groundwater has met cleanup goals since 2011. EPA took the site off the NPL in 2018.
Last updated December 2023
As of December 2023, EPA had data on 2 on-site businesses. These businesses employed 32 people and generated an estimated $6,886,000 in annual sales revenue. For additional information click here.
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Resin Disposal
The 26-acre Resin Disposal Superfund site is in Jefferson Borough, Pennsylvania. It includes a 2-acre landfill that received about 80,000 tons of industrial wastes from 1949 to 1964. Landfill operations resulted in contamination of soil, groundwater and surface water. EPA added the site to the National Priorities List (NPL) in 1983. Cleanup included landfill capping, fencing, and collection and separation of landfill liquids (leachate). After cleanup, EPA took the site off the NPL in 2003. After a series of leachate releases, the site’s potentially responsible parties upgraded the leachate collection system in 2016 and put in a secondary leachate collection trench in 2021. The site owner installed birdhouses to attract migratory birds. Native vegetation at the site provides habitat for wildlife.
Last updated December 2023
As of December 2023, EPA did not have economic data related to on-site businesses, or economic data were not applicable due to site use. For additional information click here.
Revere Chemical Co.
The 113-acre Revere Chemical Co. Superfund site is in Nockamixon Township, Pennsylvania. Revere Chemical Company ran a processing facility for acid- and metal-plating waste on site until 1970. The company stored hazardous wastes in drums, piles and unlined earthen pits. Wastes contaminated soil, groundwater and Rapp Creek, which flows through Nockamixon. EPA added the site to the National Priorities List (NPL) in 1987. EPA worked with the Pennsylvania Department of Health and the Revere Steering Committee, a group of 12 potentially responsible parties (PRPs), to clean up the site and support its return to beneficial use. The PRPs capped the contamination and planted wildflowers on top of the cap. In 2002, Nockamixon Township took ownership of the site. It is now wildlife habitat for migratory birds. The locality also permits recreational uses such as bird watching, hiking and stargazing on site.
Last updated December 2023
As of December 2023, EPA did not have economic data related to on-site businesses, or economic data were not applicable due to site use. For additional information click here.
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Rodale Manufacturing Co., Inc.
The 1.8-acre Rodale Manufacturing Co., Inc. Superfund site is in Emmaus, Pennsylvania. From the 1950s to 1975, Rodale Manufacturing made wiring devices and electrical connectors on site. Square D Co. took over operations in 1975. Square D Co. conducted similar operations until 1986, when operations at the site ceased. The disposal of electroplating waste and rinse water in on-site wells contaminated groundwater with hazardous chemicals. In 1981, operators removed wastes from three disposal wells and disposed of the wastes at federally approved hazardous waste facilities. EPA added the site to the National Priorities List (NPL) in 1991. In 1997, the potentially responsible party put in a groundwater pump-and-treat system to limit migration of contamination from the site due to the detection of contamination in some off-site private wells. The site’s long-term remedy included continued groundwater pumping and treatment and monitoring. Construction of the remedy finished in 2003. Operation and maintenance activities are ongoing. The Lehigh Line railroad line crosses the site.
Last updated December 2023
As of December 2023, EPA did not have economic data related to on-site businesses, or economic data were not applicable due to site use. For additional information click here.
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Route 940 Drum Dump
The 2.5-acre Route 940 Drum Dump Superfund site is in Pocono Summit, Pennsylvania. In the 1970s, as many as 600 drums of unknown materials were stored on site. In 1983, after the state was informed that some drums may have been buried on site, the state found volatile organic compounds (VOCs), chemical components of solvents, in on-site soils. Sampling also detected several organic chemicals in site groundwater, and 30 buried drums containing VOCs and heavy metals were discovered. Under state supervision in 1983, Landmark International, a potentially responsible party (PRP) for the contamination, put in monitoring wells, dug up and removed 100 drums, and stockpiled contaminated soils on site. From 1983 to 1984, EPA removed buried materials, bottles, broken containers and drums from the site, and disposed of them in an approved landfill. These early actions removed the source of contamination, reducing the potential for contamination of water supplies from the site. EPA added the site to the National Priorities List (NPL) in 1987. In 1988, stockpiled soil was treated. In 1990, EPA took over the investigation from the PRP. The investigation explored the nature and extent of soil and groundwater contamination. In 1992, EPA determined that no further cleanup actions were needed. EPA took the site off the NPL in 2000. A commercial freight trucking company is active on site.
Last updated December 2023
As of December 2023, EPA did not have economic data related to on-site businesses, or economic data were not applicable due to site use. For additional information click here.
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Ryeland Road Arsenic Site
The 7.3-acre Ryeland Road Arsenic Superfund site is in Heidelberg Township, Pennsylvania. It consists of five parcels of land. A chemical manufacturing facility operated on four parcels on the northern side of West Ryeland Road. Until 1942, Standard Chemical Works Corporation (SCWC) and Allegheny Chemical Corporation (ACC) made pesticides, fungicides, paints and varnishes there. In the late 1970s, residential development of the parcels began. SCWC and ACC used the fifth parcel, on the southern side of West Ryeland Road, mostly for waste disposal. Investigations found high levels of arsenic and lead in soil. EPA added the site to the National Priorities List (NPL) in 2004. Cleanup began in 2006. It included permanently relocating people from three homes, demolishing the vacated homes, and removing contaminated soil and taking it off site for disposal. The cleanup also removed contaminated soil from adjacent residential properties. EPA led innovative cleanup and restoration activities for the forested and wetlands-covered part of the site. This effort included fern plantings to remove arsenic from soil before it affects waterways and downstream properties. EPA studies now underway will guide a remedy for contaminated groundwater. EPA has restored the once-contaminated residential properties. Part of the site remains in agricultural and recreational use. In 2010, EPA transferred parts of the site to Heidelberg Township. The locality built a storage building on site. A local youth sports league uses it for equipment storage. In 2023, the site was added to those selected by EPA to receive cleanup funding under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL). With this funding, EPA is already initiating work on backlogged remedial construction projects and accelerating cleanups at NPL sites. In Fall of 2023, EPA will begin a remedial excavation to remove additional arsenic contaminated soils from the Site that were left in place from previous actions. This remedial action will be completed in the winter of 2023.
Last updated December 2023
As of December 2023, EPA did not have economic data related to on-site businesses, or economic data were not applicable due to site use. For additional information click here.
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Saegertown Industrial Area
The 100-acre Saegertown Industrial Area Superfund site is in Saegertown, Pennsylvania. From the mid-1950s to 1965, General American Transportation Corporation (GATX) cleaned and repaired railroad tank cars at the site. Saegertown Manufacturing Corporation began making small steel components on site in 1965. In 1980, the state identified contamination in a municipal supply well. EPA added the site to the National Priorities List (NPL) in 1990. Cleanup included on-site treatment for groundwater, sludge and soil contamination, removal of tons of soil and sludge from the GATX area, and treatment and disposal of contaminated soil and sludge. The site’s potentially responsible party (PRP) led the cleanup under EPA oversight. After cleanup, the PRP backfilled and reseeded site areas. Groundwater treatment is ongoing. The site remains in continued industrial use. LORD Corporation (acquired by Parker Hannifin Corporation in 2019) continues to produce adhesives, urethane coatings and rubber chemicals at the site. It recently expanded its facility. Today, Saegertown Manufacturing Company continues to operate on site.
Last updated December 2023
As of December 2023, EPA had data on one on-site business. This business employed 156 people and generated an estimated $44,911,236 in annual sales revenue. For additional information click here.
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Sharon Steel Corp (Farrell Works Disposal Area)
The 330-acre Sharon Steel Corp (Farrell Works Disposal Area) Superfund site is in Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Starting in 1900, the Sharon Steel Corporation used the area to dispose of furnace slag and sludge. From 1949 to 1981, site operators dumped millions of gallons of waste liquids (acids and oils) over the slag to try to neutralize the acid. Site activities contaminated soil and groundwater. EPA added the site to the National Priorities List (NPL) in 1998. In 2000, under the terms of a prospective purchaser agreement (PPA), EPA worked with a local company to enable the reuse of slag at the site for construction and road projects, this area is known as Operable Unit 01 South. In 2006, EPA divided the site into two areas so that site businesses (an asphalt plant and trucking company) could continue to operate during cleanup, this is known as Operable Unit 02. In 2006, EPA selected a remedy for part of the site (Operable Unit 01 North). It includes regrading, contouring and treatment of contaminated slag and sludge with a biosolids cap, stabilization of eroded riverbanks, land and groundwater use restrictions, and long-term groundwater, surface water and sediment monitoring. It also includes restoration of 100 acres of wetlands on the site. Remedy construction for the northern part of the site began in 2018 and finished in spring 2021. EPA is currently working on specific optimization measures on the completed remedial action prior to transferring long-term Operations and Maintenance activities over to the State. Commercial and industrial businesses remain active on site.
Last updated December 2023
As of December 2023, EPA had data on 3 on-site businesses. These businesses employed 9 people and generated an estimated $3,424,000 in annual sales revenue. For additional information click here.
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Stanley Kessler
The 3-acre Stanley Kessler Superfund site is in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania. A welding wire degreasing and repackaging business was on site from the 1960s to 2000. Operators improperly disposed of solvent degreasers. In 1979, sampling found contaminants in the Upper Merion Reservoir, a source of drinking water for the area. EPA added the site to the National Priorities List (NPL) in 1983. Cleanup included groundwater treatment. Groundwater treatment and monitoring are ongoing. An industrial supply wholesale merchant is now on site.
Last updated December 2023
As of December 2023, EPA had data on one on-site business. This business employed 22 people and generated an estimated $9,940,000 in annual sales revenue. For additional information click here.
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Strasburg Landfill
The 302-acre Strasburg Landfill Superfund site is in Chester County, Pennsylvania. A landfill on site received municipal and industrial wastes from 1978 to 1983. In 1983, the state found contamination in on-site monitoring wells and in a private well downgradient of the site. EPA added the site to the National Priorities List (NPL) in 1989. Cleanup activities included landfill capping, leachate collection and treatment, and fencing. Cleanup finished in 1999. EPA took the site off the NPL in 2019. The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection now maintains the cap and operates the leachate collection and treatment system. A conservation easement with the Natural Lands Trust protects 159 acres of privately owned land at the site. The land includes deciduous woodlands and a trout-breeding stream.
Last updated December 2023
As of December 2023, EPA did not have economic data related to on-site businesses, or economic data were not applicable due to site use. For additional information click here.
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UGI Columbia Gas Plant
The 1.5-acre UGI Columbia Gas Plant Superfund site is in a light industrial and residential area 400 feet northeast of the Susquehanna River in southern Pennsylvania. From 1851 to 1949, Columbia Gas ran a manufactured gas plant (MGP) on site. Ownership of the property transferred to Pennsylvania Power and Light (PP&L) in 1932 and then to Lancaster County Gas Company in 1949. Lancaster County Gas merged with UGI Corporation, which owned the site until 1979. A boat dealership was on site from 1979 to 1994, when PP&L repurchased the property. During the years of gas manufacturing operations at the site, overflows from a tar separator went into an open ditch that led to the Susquehanna River. Local fishermen complained that the overflows covered their boats with tar. EPA added the site to the National Priorities List (NPL) in 1994. Wastes were placed under two concrete caps. Remaining areas were paved to prevent exposure to other MGP wastes. Regarding groundwater contamination, EPA found it was technically impracticable to remove it from the bedrock. A 2021 review of the remedy found that the concrete caps remain protective and prevent exposure to contaminated soil and groundwater. Monitoring of groundwater and site-related contaminants is ongoing. Columbia Borough purchased the former gas plant property and runs a vehicle maintenance garage and road salt storage facility on site. The Lancaster Water Authority has a surface water pumping station at the site. It provides water from the Susquehanna River for the city of Lancaster’s public water supply. A rail line owned by Pennsylvania Lines, LLC also crosses the site.
Last updated December 2023
As of December 2023, EPA had data on 2 on-site businesses. EPA did not have further economic details related to these businesses. For additional information click here.
Valmont TCE Site (Former - Valmont Industrial Park)
The Valmont TCE Superfund site (former - Valmont Industrial Park) is in West Hazleton, Pennsylvania. It consists of two contamination source areas on and near a 6-acre property at Valmont Industrial Park. It also includes an area of groundwater contamination. From 1978 to 2001, Chromatex made and coated upholstery fabric at the site. Spills of solvents used in site operations contaminated groundwater with volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). In 1987, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources found contamination in groundwater at the site and in several nearby residential wells. EPA connected homes to the public water supply. EPA added the site to the National Priorities List (NPL) in 2001. Cleanup activities have included soil removal, installation of residential vapor intrusion systems, soil vapor treatment at the source area, and ongoing groundwater monitoring and treatment. Land use restrictions limit groundwater use. EPA is planning to address contamination in the bedrock under the source areas. The site remains in continued use. A logistics company uses a warehouse for storage. Eighteen homes are also on site.
Last updated December 2023
As of December 2023, EPA had data on one on-site business. This business employed 4 people and generated an estimated $624,000 in annual sales revenue. For additional information click here.
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Voortman Farm
The 43-acre Voortman Farm Superfund site is in Upper Saucon Township, Pennsylvania. It included a large, contaminated sinkhole. Battery casings and other refuse were put in the sinkhole from 1979 to 1980. Disposal practices resulted in heavy metal contamination of sinkhole soils. EPA added the site to the National Priorities List (NPL) in 1982. In 1986, a fire prompted the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources to conduct an emergency response action. Cleanup activities included excavation and removal of refuse and contaminated soil, with materials taken off site for disposal. This action eliminated the source of contamination. After cleanup, EPA took the site off the NPL in 1989. The site is now in agricultural use for crop production.
Last updated December 2023
As of December 2023, EPA did not have economic data related to on-site businesses, or economic data were not applicable due to site use. For additional information click here.
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Wade (ABM)
The 3-acre Wade (ABM) Superfund site is located along the Delaware River in Chester, Pennsylvania. From 1950 to the early 1970s, a rubber recycling facility was on site. Until 1978, illegal industrial waste storage and disposal also took place at the site. Parties stored wastes in drums or dumped wastes directly onto the ground or into trenches. Waste disposal activities and a fire in 1978 contaminated groundwater and soil. EPA added the site to the National Priorities List (NPL) in 1983. Cleanup activities included removal of contaminated media for off-site disposal and capping and regrading of the site. The site was covered with topsoil and seeded to minimize erosion. EPA took the site off the NPL in 1989. In 2003, the Chester Parking Authority purchased and redeveloped the site as a parking area with a fishing pier as part of the city’s Barry Bridge Park complex. Redevelopment included resurfacing of areas for parking and green space and installation of a storm drainage system. A walking path along the river connects the site to Subaru Park, a Major League Soccer stadium.
Last updated December 2023
As of December 2023, EPA did not have economic data related to on-site businesses, or economic data were not applicable due to site use. For additional information click here.
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Walsh Landfill
The 7-acre Walsh Landfill Superfund site is along a forested ridge in Chester and Lancaster counties in Pennsylvania. From 1963 to 1976, an unpermitted landfill was on site. It accepted industrial and hazardous waste and municipal trash. Waste disposal resulted in contaminated groundwater and residential well water. EPA added the site to the National Priorities List (NPL) in 1984. EPA removed drummed waste and connected affected homes to a municipal water supply. In 2006, a group of potentially responsible parties (the PRP group) put in an evaporation/transpiration cover system at the site to reduce water infiltration through the landfill and further limit the potential for migration of contaminants into groundwater. The PRP group planted 4,100 deep-rooting hybrid poplar trees and shallow-rooting plants on top of the cover system. These plantings absorb rainwater and prevent potential cover damage from excess water collecting on top of the cover. Institutional controls restrict groundwater use and future land uses that could affect the integrity of the remedy. Most of the site is in ecological reuse; trees planted on the cover are at least 35 feet tall. The PRP group continues to inspect the site regularly. Groundwater monitoring is ongoing.
Last updated December 2023
As of December 2023, EPA did not have economic data related to on-site businesses, or economic data were not applicable due to site use. For additional information click here.
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Westinghouse Electric Corp. (Sharon Plant)
The 58-acre Westinghouse Electric Corp. (Sharon Plant) Superfund site is in Sharon, Pennsylvania. From 1922 to 1985, Westinghouse Electric made electrical transformers at the site. Spills during plant operations contaminated soil, groundwater and sediment in the nearby Shenango River. EPA added the site to the National Priorities List in 1990. With EPA oversight, the site’s potentially responsible parties completed cleanup activities for soil, groundwater and sediment. Monitoring is ongoing. Other industrial businesses, including a crankshaft manufacturer and a steel products manufacturer, are now on site.
Last updated December 2023
As of December 2023, EPA had data on 7 on-site businesses. These businesses employed 409 people and generated an estimated $104,799,902 in annual sales revenue. For additional information click here.
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Westinghouse Elevator Co. Plant
The Westinghouse Elevator Co. Plant Superfund site is in Cumberland Township, Pennsylvania. Starting in 1968, the Westinghouse Elevator Company made elevators and moving stairways at the site. Schindler Elevator Corporation took over the manufacturing plant in 1989. It continued manufacturing until 2013. Releases from manufacturing operations and waste material storage contaminated groundwater. EPA added the site to the National Priorities List in 1986. With EPA oversight, the site’s potentially responsible party (PRP) installed groundwater extraction and treatment systems to clean up groundwater contamination and prevent its spread. In 2005, with declining contaminant concentrations in the groundwater, the PRP stopped operating the off-plant treatment system. Operation of the on-plant treatment system is ongoing. Groundwater monitoring is also ongoing. In 2015, a buyer purchased the plant property. The former manufacturing building is being used for warehousing. The off-plant treatment system has been dismantled. Adams County uses the treatment system building for storage.
Last updated December 2023
As of December 2023, EPA had data on 2 on-site businesses. These businesses employed 7 people and generated an estimated $1,270,000 in annual sales revenue. For additional information click here.
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Westline
The 40-acre Westline Superfund site is in McKean County, Pennsylvania. From 1901 to 1952, Day Chemical Company was on site. It turned lumber into charcoal, methanol and acetic acid. In the early 1980s, EPA found toxic tar deposits from its operations in soil and groundwater. EPA removed the exposed tar. EPA added the site to the National Priorities List (NPL) in 1983. Cleanup included removal of several more tar deposits and groundwater monitoring. After cleanup, EPA took the site off the NPL in 1992. The Westline Inn is on site. It opened in an old house on site in 1975. The inn remained open during cleanup. Other parts of the site are in use for recreation activities such as fishing and hunting.
Last updated December 2023
As of December 2023, EPA had data on one on-site business. This business employed 33 people and generated an estimated $492,190 in annual sales revenue. For additional information click here.
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Whitmoyer Laboratories
The 22-acre Whitmoyer Laboratories Superfund site is in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania. For 50 years, a veterinary and pharmaceutical manufacturing plant was on site. Operators disposed of arsenic compounds in unlined lagoons. These practices contaminated soil, groundwater and surface water. EPA added the site to the National Priorities List (NPL) in 1986. Cleanup began in 1993. Cleanup included groundwater treatment and removal of buildings, contaminated soil and hazardous waste. In 2004, EPA entered into a Prospective Purchaser Agreement (PPA) with Jackson Township to help speed the township’s acquisition of the site property for recreational use. Jackson Recreational Park opened in 2005. It includes baseball and soccer fields as well as a scenic walking trail surrounded by vegetation. The trail connects the community with other local and regional natural resources such as Tulpehocken Creek and the historic Union Canal. In 2021, Fairlane Avenue Park opened on part of the site. It provides access to more recreation trails. In 2022, EPA shared plans for a new groundwater interceptor trench to capture groundwater impacted by arsenic. The groundwater will be pumped from the trench to a treatment plant. The trench will prevent the contaminated groundwater from discharging to Tulpehocken Creek. Construction of the groundwater interceptor trench began in April 2023 and is expected to be completed in September of 2023. In 2024, EPA anticipates sharing plans for a stream restoration project to remediate arsenic contaminated sediment from the Tulpehocken Creek.
Last updated December 2023
As of December 2023, EPA did not have economic data related to on-site businesses, or economic data were not applicable due to site use. For additional information click here.
For more information:
- Recreational Reuse and the Benefit to Community: A Beneficial Effects Economic Case Study for the Whitmoyer Laboratories Superfund Site (PDF)
- Whitmoyer Laboratories Superfund Site - Before and After Swiper Map
- Site Redevelopment Profile: Whitmoyer Laboratories Superfund Site (PDF)
- Superfund Site Profile Page
- Video: Whitmoyer Laboratories Site Redevelopment
York County Solid Waste And Refuse Authority Landfill
The 135-acre York County Solid Waste and Refuse Authority Landfill Superfund site is in Hopewell Township, Pennsylvania. From 1974 to 1985, the York County Solid Waste Authority (YCSWA) ran a permitted landfill on site. Disposal of municipal solid waste into the natural attenuation landfill cells led to the contamination of groundwater and nearby residential wells. The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (PADEP) found the contamination during investigations between 1982 and 1984. In 1985, PADEP ordered YCSWA to stop operations. EPA added the site to the National Priorities List (NPL) in 1987. YCSWA led the cleanup. Activities included groundwater treatment and use of carbon filtration systems in affected homes. Monitoring of the landfill’s gas ventilation system and groundwater wells, groundwater treatment, and landfill cap maintenance are ongoing. YCSWA also put legal controls in place to prohibit new wells and activities that could disturb the landfill cap. After cleanup, EPA took the site off the NPL in 2005. Hopewell Township and YCSWA reuse parts of the site for recreational and ecological purposes as well as alternative energy generation. Part of the site is included in the 200-acre Hopewell Area Recreation Complex. The complex includes trails, playgrounds, athletic fields, picnic pavilions, and wildlife habitat and viewing areas. The wildlife habitat attracts over 122 different species of birds, including raptors, woodpeckers and doves. In 2014, YCSWA and York County Solar Partners built a 2-acre solar array on another part of the site. It helps power the site’s groundwater treatment systems and office buildings. The array generates 300,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity annually.
Last updated December 2023
As of December 2023, EPA had data on one on-site business. This business employed 4 people. For additional information click here.
For more information:
- Site Redevelopment Profile: York County Solid Waste Landfill Superfund Site (PDF)
- Superfund Site Profile Page