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Miller Plating Site

 
Site Contact:
Kevin Turner
OSC

(turner.kevin@epa.gov)

Site Location:
1551 Allen Lane
Evansville, IN 47710
 response.epa.gov/millerplating

Miller Plating, LLC Site is located at 1551 Allen Lane, Evansville, Vanderburgh County, Indiana (the Site. Miller Plating Electroplating Inc. began operation in 1916 in downtown Evansville. The corporation moved to its present location in 1965.

The Site processed a variety of parts offering the following finishes: Electroless Nickel, Bright Acid Tin, Black Chrome, Sulfamate Nickel, Bright Nickle, Copper, Gold Silver, and Anodizing. The facility operated its own wastewater treatment facility. On December 31, 2007 the facility ceased its plating operation due to bankruptcy.


Containers for off site disposal. Containers being loaded for off site disposal. Drums staged for off site disposal. Lab packing. Main Plating line post removal activities. Cyanide sludge and liquid cyanide separating. View of corrosion taking place with the metal walkway stand located in the Waste Water Treatment Building. View of signs from reactions that caused the deterioration portions of the Waste Water Treatment Building. Waste Water Treatment Building. ERRs completed the removal activities in the Waste Water Treatment Building. The cyanide sludge staged for off site disposal. ERRS decontaminating activities within the wheel line room. The gross decon and repair of the main plating line. Sand removed from the Sand Filters located in Waste Water Treatment. Trenches located in the Wheel Room. The sump located in the wheel room pit being pumped out. Completion of the removal activities in Bldg#2. Staging the deconned debris. Cleaning the floor of the lower level in waste water treatment building. Cutting an access hole in the bottom of sand filters in order to remove the sand that remained within. Located in waste water treatment building. Removal activities in the waste water liquid chemical storage building. Clean soil backfilled in the excavated area. Excavated soil stockpile. Soil removal from a past spill of liquid “silver strip”. ERRS removing overhead pipes. Small containers stored for lab-packing. Power washing trench in Wheel Room. ERRS removing pipes in the wheel room pit. Sandbagged WWT loading dock area Partially demolished WWT building Clarifiers in WWT building Perimeter air monitoring During demolition of WWT building Poly drums and empty vats Small containers collected and relocated and inventoried Poly tank with unknown liquid Poly tank with unknown liquid Cabinet located in lab with solids
For additional information, visit the Pollution Report (POLREPS) section.