United States Environmental Protection Agency
Region III
POLLUTION REPORT

Subject: 

See previous POLREPs for Site description information.

Neither Stoney Creek Technologies nor any other Respondent to EPA's Orders or Potentially Responsible Party is conducting response actions due to bankruptcy, financial inability, or other reasons; therefore, EPA continues to use its own contractor resources to conduct response actions at the Site.  

The OSC continues to estimate that the remaining chemical inventory within the tanks at the Site is approximately 200,000 gallons and consists primarily of lower viscosity materials and tank heels in about 100 tanks.

OSC Dominic Ventura is currently preparing to assume lead OSC responsibilities at the Stoney Creek Technologies Site.

ERRS contractor continued consolidation of material that can be pumped in tanks in the SACI area.  As of September 10th, the material from T-226, T-225, T-212, T-330 and most of T-331 has been transferred and consolidated into T-204. The consolidated material will temporarily remain in T-204 until a final disposal solution is determined.

Contractors made an entry into T-331 to manually remove contents which were too viscous to be pumped out with a vacuum truck.  Approximately five drums of material were generated.  
    
The ERRS contractor completed removal of chemical material from the drum storage pad in the northeastern portion of the site. Areas of the drum pad cleaned during this removal effort include the pad surface area, the trench adjacent to the pad, and the drum filling catch box. Approximately 250 gallons (5 drums) of chemical material was removed from the drum storage pad.
  
ERRS contractors continued draining and steaming of process lines and filters in the SACI area.

The OSC directed ERRS to drain the material from T-229; a thick resin material (Beckosol).  To date, 47 drums have been generated.

The transfer and disposal of all "white oil" contents occurred on August 16th, 2010.  This material had been saved in case of an oleum spill.

The OSC continues to coordinate with EPA Pre-Remedial personnel presently evaluating the Site for possible NPL listing.

Complete off-Site disposal of drummed wastes.  

Continue to clear pipelines of remaining chemical inventory, consolidate and prepare materials for disposal.

Continue consolidation of remaining tank heels or drumming of tank heels for disposal.

Continue to monitor, treat, and discharge excess waters from the Site into Stoney Creek and prevent oily material from migrating from the Site into Stoney Creek via discharges onto the adjacent public roadway.

Prioritize the remaining removal actions and coordinate with Pre-Remedial regarding possible NPL listing.

START contractor will implement site wide drainage characterization sampling to assist the OSC in determining water quality issues throughout the Site and develop a database for use in determining the level of decontamination required to assure good quality discharge from the Site to Stoney Creek. .

START contractor will implement site wide subsurface soil sampling with the use of a Geoprobe in order to visually confirm areas of subsurface contamination contributing to the surface release of oily materials to Stoney Creek.  This effort will also include evaluation of contamination in the rail ballast along the industrial sidings serving the Site.

Disposal activities include disposal from individual tanks, tank consolidations, and a variety of drums.  Single manifests may include wastes from multiple sources.  Wastes are primarily disposed as corrosive (acids and caustics), flammable (items containing solvents), and non hazardous (primarily oil-based materials).