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Chemetco Superfund Site Removal Action

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Demolition work of former grit building.<br />Date Taken: 12/4/2013<br />Category: Site Photo<br />Latitude: <br />Longitude: <br />Tags:
Large pieces called "skulls" to be removed from the slag pile for copper content.<br />Date Taken: 12/4/2013<br />Category: Site Photo<br />Latitude: <br />Longitude: <br />Tags:
Demolition of the former grit kiln.<br />Date Taken: 12/4/2013<br />Category: Site Photo<br />Latitude: <br />Longitude: <br />Tags:
Moving slag materials to create work areas and haul roads.<br />Date Taken: 12/10/2013<br />Category: Site Photo<br />Latitude: <br />Longitude: <br />Tags:
Haul road and location for the location of the forthcoming slag crushing circuit.<br />Date Taken: 12/4/2013<br />Category: Site Photo<br />Latitude: <br />Longitude: <br />Tags:
Excavator searching for skulls and creating the haul road.<br />Date Taken: 12/3/2013<br />Category: Site Photo<br />Latitude: <br />Longitude: <br />Tags:
Loading scrap steel with magnet.<br />Date Taken: 12/9/2013<br />Category: Site Photo<br />Latitude: <br />Longitude: <br />Tags:
Loading pieces of copper containing skulls into containers.<br />Date Taken: 12/10/2013<br />Category: Site Photo<br />Latitude: <br />Longitude: <br />Tags:
Removing concrete foundation pedestals near the loading dock. <br />Date Taken: 12/10/2013<br />Category: Site Photo<br />Latitude: <br />Longitude: <br />Tags:
Construction of loading dock for super-sack bagging circuit.<br />Date Taken: 12/10/2013<br />Category: Site Photo<br />Latitude: <br />Longitude: <br />Tags:
Assembly of conveyor belt for the super-sack bagging system located in the former tank building. <br />Date Taken: 12/11/2013<br />Category: Site Photo<br />Latitude: <br />Longitude: <br />Tags:
PLC control panel for "super-sack" bagging operation. <br />Date Taken: 1/2/2014<br />Category: Site Photo<br />Latitude: <br />Longitude: <br />Tags:
Weighing hoppers for material bagging operation. <br />Date Taken: 1/2/2014<br />Category: Site Photo<br />Latitude: <br />Longitude: <br />Tags:
Air monitoring station. <br />Date Taken: 1/14/2014<br />Category: Site Photo<br />Latitude: <br />Longitude: <br />Tags:
Side-view of the crushing circuit that includes magnetic separation of iron containing materials. <br />Date Taken: 1/14/2014<br />Category: Site Photo<br />Latitude: <br />Longitude: <br />Tags:
Overland conveyor leading to screening plant just before the surge pile conveyor. <br />Date Taken: 1/14/2014<br />Category: Site Photo<br />Latitude: <br />Longitude: <br />Tags:
Side-view of crushing and separation circuits during the initial bump testing. <br />Date Taken: 1/14/2014<br />Category: Site Photo<br />Latitude: <br />Longitude: <br />Tags:
Safety inspection of the overland conveyor. <br />Date Taken: 1/14/2014<br />Category: Site Photo<br />Latitude: <br />Longitude: <br />Tags:
Employees of Precision Crushing, Inc., surveying the crushing circuit during bump/shakedown testing. <br />Date Taken: 1/14/2014<br />Category: Site Photo<br />Latitude: <br />Longitude: <br />Tags:
Pivot conveyor used for the surge pile related to 1-inch minus product sizing. <br />Date Taken: 1/14/2014<br />Category: Site Photo<br />Latitude: <br />Longitude: <br />Tags:

Demolition work of former grit building. Large pieces called Demolition of the former grit kiln. Moving slag materials to create work areas and haul roads. Haul road and location for the location of the forthcoming slag crushing circuit. Excavator searching for skulls and creating the haul road. Loading scrap steel with magnet. Loading pieces of copper containing skulls into containers. Removing concrete foundation pedestals near the loading dock. Construction of loading dock for super-sack bagging circuit. Assembly of conveyor belt for the super-sack bagging system located in the former tank building. PLC control panel for Weighing hoppers for material bagging operation. Air monitoring station. Side-view of the crushing circuit that includes magnetic separation of iron containing materials. Overland conveyor leading to screening plant just before the surge pile conveyor. Side-view of crushing and separation circuits during the initial bump testing. Safety inspection of the overland conveyor. Employees of Precision Crushing, Inc., surveying the crushing circuit during bump/shakedown testing. Pivot conveyor used for the surge pile related to 1-inch minus product sizing. First day that 1-inch minus materials were processed/crushed/separated coming off the surge pile conveyor. Surge pile at the end of materials processing. Loading crushed material into final sizing/screening plant just ahead of the bagging operations. Aerial photo showing the crushing/separation/conveyor/bagging circuit. Loading Zinc Oxide Bunker materials into supersacks. Loading/removing Zinc Oxide Bunker materials with the long reach excavator. Loaded copper block material into ocean-tight container. North loading dock area. Drying Zinc Oxide Bunker materials with fans inside the Fines Building. Drying Zinc Oxide Bunker materials with heat lamps. Drying approach to Zinc Oxide Bunker materials inside the Fines Building. Fred Weber Inc., mobile screening plant separating 1-inch minus from higher content copper blocks. Mobile screening plant located next to the copper products mountain. Disassembly of the former Pilot Testing Plant demonstration of the Open area designated for construction location for the forthcoming Fred Weber Inc., mobile screening plant relocated to the base of the mountain for increased yield of copper metal bearing materials. Site preparation related to the footing system used for the base of the hammer mill. Excavation for wet processing system footings. Fabricated steel to be used for the footings and wet processing system supports. Placement of structural steel support of the base to the Support beams assembly for the base foundation to the forthcoming wet processing equipment. Base footing structural steel assembly continues. First concrete pour of dead-man footing for the base to the hammer mill. Concrete forms used with structural steel beams to support the hammer mill. Concrete forms for next phase of footings. Concrete footing curing. Specialized equipment sent from China. Unloading specialized mining equipment delivered to the site. Erection of structural steel continues. Close-up of the hammer mill. Moving UMBM out of the way for the forthcoming wet processing system. Wet processing equipment assembly continues. Spraying site contact water to evaporate and control dust. Removing waster from the South Polishing Pond. Large hole in the South Polishing Pond from hydrostatic pressure from the on-site deep well. Conveyor assembly. Wet Processing assembly. Discharge chute for wet processing wastewater and suspended solids. Screw auger clarifier. New mobile crushing and screening plant. Assembly of the feed conveyor. Servicing the wear pads on the Installation of a new Installation of fencing to upgrade site security. Unloading the metallic Greg James of All Purpose Steel Constriction Inc. standing in front of the Concentrated copper, tin and bronze Stockpiled Density separation system in operation. Example of metallic pay containing high copper, tin and bronze. Copper slag mountain in the background of the wet density separation system. Iron oxide (fines) that can contain lower concentrations of copper tin and bronze. Revert recovery with hand sorting station in conjunction with PowerScreen separation of both large, intermediate and small sized slag. Specification sheet of a Didion roller-crusher unit. This is a small Reverts staged and awaiting loading into containers after torch cutting to reduce the size. Large reverts awaiting loading. Tank house with walls removed awaiting financing for replacement. Reverts awaiting loading into containers. Spec sheet of the Didion roller-crusher. Processed MBM materials returned from the Didion International facility in St. Peters, Missouri. Processed MBM from Didion International. GenCorp Services vehicle that was overloaded. Excavator sifting slag materials visually searching for reverts. Sifting slags materials in an attempt to find large pieces of reverts. Searching for reverts. Large amounts of slag must be relocated when searching for reverts. Sifting for reverts. Traffic lanes inside the former facility that require dust control measures. Didion provided auger and belt conveyor. Didion Roller Crusher (pilot sized) Electrical connections are made. Uprights are drilled fastened into the existing floor. Uprights are bolted to the existing floor in the Tank House. Mounting hardware for the roller crusher. Didion roller crusher almost ready for trial run to process MBM. Inlet side of the Didion roller crusher. Didion nearing complete assembly. Side view. Crews loading the Ball Mill. Bag-house filtering system that was not decontaminated prior to delivery to the Chemetco Site. Filtering system label as: Attention-All dust must be emptied prior to return or customer will be charged for cleaning. All waste returned will be handled as hazardous and billed as such. Ball mill set in place on the eastern side of the site. Hydraulic breaker attempts to reduce the size of large MBM chunks. Still sifting/searching for reverts of high value. A Brucker Gun (XRF) collecting information on large MBM chunks. Breaking large pieces of MBM. Processed MBM returned from Photo showing the extensive amount of dust from heaving equipment inside the site. Universal wastes placed into trash container. These mercury containing lights were ultimately removed. Slag dust accumulated under the Didion roller crusher. Didion roller crusher is not operating at this time. Accumulated dusts inside the Tank House building. Reverts awaiting load-out. Reverts awaiting load-out. Areas of the slag pile where benching, sloping or shoring should occur. GenCorp employees attempting to locate the bottom of the slag pile on the Northeastern side of the site. Evidence of Slag material subsidence. Evidence of other solid waste materials generated while searching for reverts. Solid wastes not properly managed when removed during revert recovery. Plastic, concrete and scrap steel set off to the side. Waste plastic materials set-off to the side. Container is staged but not being used. Waste rubber pieces set off to the side. Employee from Didion inside the roller crusher removing the wear rings from the outlet side. Wear rings on the inlet side allegedly prematurely failed and broke. Worn wear rings. Looking down the roller crusher. Worn-out wear rings. Worn-out wear rings. Debris pile staged for eventual loading, transportation and off-site disposal.