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Readburn Wood Tar Site

 
Site Contact:
Dan, Harkay
OSC

(harkay.dan@epa.gov)

Site Location:
2222 Readburn Road
Hancock, NY 13856
 response.epa.gov/Readburn

The Readburn Wood Tar Site is a private residential property that was once the location of a wood “acid factory”. As a result of the wood acid factory process, a waste product (non-combustible wood tar) collected in unlined drainage channels and was disposed of in wooden pits. Soil borings and test pits revealed buried wood tar within the drainage channels, and in two pits, one within the banks of Read Creek which forms the Site’s eastern boundary. During periods of warm weather, the wood tar rises to the surface and migrates to the creek.


Location of former wood-acid factory (from Readburn Road looking SE) 2222 Readburn Road (looking north) Wood Tar within wooden pipe Wood tar in test pit Wood tar in test pit Backfill in SE corner Backfilling in Grids A & B Backfilling Grids A&B Grids A&B (looking West) Site (looking NW) Site fence along Read Creek Site fence along southern boundary Perimeter air monitoring station Upwind air monitoring/sampling locations Stabilizing western bank Stabilization of the western bank Loading of first truck Beginning of excavation in SE corner Wood tar Excavation in SE corner Contrast between contaminated and native soils Generated stockpile Readburn topsoil spreaded/and swale incoorporated southern border of the site. Topsoil being delivered/spread
For additional information, visit the Pollution/Situation Report (Pol/Sitreps) section.