The Foote Mineral Co. Superfund Site is the former location of the Foote Mineral Company's Frazer facility. The Eastern portion of the property contained the operating facility which was used primarily to process lithium containing ores and manufacture lithium metal and compounds. Due to decades of lithium waste disposal in an on-site former quarry, a plume of lithium contamination stretched in a line almost directly east of the property extending nearly two miles.
In 2002, residential water well samples from homes that had been recently built in the area of the plume showed unacceptable levels of lithium and bromate (contaminant also found in groundwater beneath the Foote property and downgradient). The Site owner, Frazer Exton Development, LLC, immediately provided bottled water to the affected residences. A Determination of Imminent and Substantial Endangerment was signed by EPA on August 9, 2002, and an Administrative Order by Consent for a Removal Response Action, was issued on September 30, 2002 to the site owner to provide a public waterline extension and service connections to the affected homes.
After the waterline was constructed it was transferred to the Philadelphia Suburban Water company for continued operation and maintenance.
