In November 2015, EPA began a time-critical removal action at the Hoosier Wood Preservers Site in Indianapolis, Indiana. The facility operated from 1969 to 2013 as a wood treating business that used chromated copper arsenate (CCA) and borate in pressurized wood treatment cylinders. Historically, the facility also used creosote and pentachlorophenol to treat wood. The facility has been abandoned since 2013.
The time-critical removal will consist of excavating arsenic-contaminated soil, contaminated material from the floor of the Wood Stacker Building, and ash from the former Drip Pad Building, and investigating subsurface geophysical anomalies near the former processing building.
