United States Environmental Protection Agency
Region I
POLLUTION REPORT

Subject: 

Site Location

The Facemate Site, located at 5 West Main Street in the city of Chicopee, Hampden County, Massachusetts, includes 7 buildings, used for various stages of textile manufacturing, on an L-shaped area of 19.25 acres.  It is bordered on the north and west by the Chicopee River, on the south by the Chicopee Industrial Park(former Uniroyal Complex), on the southeast by mixed residential and commercial area, and on the east by commercial property.  Multiple family dwellings, apartments, and condominiums are located within 200 feet of the area.  Adjacent to the river and the Site are two water treatment pump stations and a flood-control dam.

The Site is not fully secure, only partially fenced-in, and hazardous materials are present in 3 of the buildings.  The area was used by Facemate Corporation to process and finish cotton fabrics (i.e., bleaching, dyeing, resin coating, fire retardant coating) until November 2003, when the company shut down operations due to bank foreclosure procedures and left the Site unoccupied.  Oil on the Site was used as either fuel for the plant boiler or lubricants for machinery used in the mill.  Bleaches, starches, dyes, acids, and resins were used in the cloth processing and finishing. Chlorinated solvents were used in the mill’s machine shops.  Tanks, vats, drums, and other containers of hazardous substances remain in these buildings.  Friable asbestos has been identified in several of the buildings, especially in the boiler room of the main mill building, and a debris pile of asbestos shingles and siding has been identified outside one of the buildings.  The Site has been abandoned since March 2004 without electricity, heat, water, or fire protection utilities.

Activities since the last POLREP

During the reporting period of this POLREP (3/28/05 - 5/5/05), the primary activities included the cleaning of the tanks that were previously identified by ERRS and placing all material generated into 55-gallon drums, and deconning all equipment in preparation for demobilization activities.

In addition to the drum, container, vat and tank work that has been going on by ERRS throughout the reporting period, the following activities have occurred:

∙ On 3/28/2005, an ERRS subcontractor completed lab packing activities.

∙ On 4/4/2005, an ERRS subcontractor began the ACM removal of the boiler room and the removal of ACM located on the floors of the Site.  Subcontractor was on site daily until ACM removal activities were completed.

∙ On 4/11/2005 and 4/18/2005, an ERRS subcontractor continued load out activities of the staged materials.

∙ On 4/26/2005, an ERRS subcontractor completed containment barrier encapsulating the ACM surrounding the large holding vats and completed the ACM removal activities for the Site.

∙ On 4/27/2005, an ERRS subcontractor completed load out of all remaining staged materials on site.

∙ On 4/28/2005, all site activities were completed and all personnel demobilized from the Site.

∙ On 5/5/2005, the ERRS Removal Manager completed demobilizing all of the equipment on the Site.

∙ On 6/16/2005, a final walk of the Site was conducted by the OSC, the ERRS Removal Manager, the property owner, and reps from the MA DEP and Chicopee Fire Dept.

The following lab pack information was included for each listed manifest:
RQ, Waste Caustic Alkali Liquids, NOS (Ammonium Hydroxide/Sodium Hydroxide)
Facemate – 1
(2) – solution with sodium hydroxide
(1) – sodium silicate (pH 13)
(1) – ammonium hydroxide (pH 13)
(1) – dye with sodium hydroxide
(13) – cream cleanser with sodium hydroxide
(3) – degreaser with sodium metasilicate (pH 13)
(1) – antifreeze
(1) – saline solution
(1) – coolant with eythlene glycol
Facemate – 8
(2) – dye solution with sodium hydroxide
(1) – triethanolamine
(1) – epoxy resin/silica
(2) – iodide reagent with potassium hydroxide
(2) – test solution with sodium hydroxide
Facemate – 12
(1) – sodium hydroxide solid
(1) – ammonia based cleaner
(1) – 2-n-octyl 4-isothiazolin-3 one (pH 10)
(1) – sulfide based dye for textile with hydroxide
(1) – molybdenum sulfide
(7) – alkaline sulfide dyes with hydroxide
Facemate – 4
(2) – sodium hydroxide solid
(2) – sodium hydroxide solution
(1) – sodium metasilicate based laundry detergent
(6) – ammonium hydroxide
(1) – latex
(1) – silicone solution
(6) – test solutions with ammonium hydroxide and potassium hydroxide
Facemate – 6
(2) – dye solutions with sodium hydroxide
(2) – ammonium hydroxide solution
(4) – ammonium hydroxide
(3) – cleaner with ammonium chloride (pH 13)
(1) – cleaner with sodium metasilicate
(3) – cleaner with ammonium chloride (pH 13)
(1) – cleaner with sodium metasilicate
(1) – cleaner with sodium metasilicate
(2) – cleaner with ammonium (pH 12.5)
(3) – sodium hydroxide, solid

RQ, Waste Oxidizing Liquids, Corrosive, N.O.S. (Sodium Hypochlorite/Sodium Hydroxide), 5.1, (8), UN3098 PGII
Facemate – 2
(1) – bleach with sodium hypochlorite, ammonium hydroxide
(2) – silver nitrate
(1) – potassium chromate
(1) – calcium hypochlorite

Waste Corrosive Liquids, Toxic, N.O.S. (Phosphoric Acid, Nitric Acid), 8, (6.1), UN2922, PGII
Facemate – 3
(1) – sodium silica, phosphoric acid
(1) – sulfuric acid
(2) – sulfuric acid
(1) – silver soldering flux with sodium fluoride
(1) – stannous chloride
(1) – stannous chloride
(13) – sulfuric acid
(1) – nitric acid

RQ, Waste Mercury, 8, UN2809, PGIII
Facemate – 5
(2) – mercury
(1) – thermostat with mercury

RQ, Waste Corrosive Liquid, Acidic, Organic, N.O.S. (Acetic Acid, Citric Acid), 8, UN3265, PGII
Facemate – 7
(2) – acetic acid
(4) – cleaner with citric acid
(2) – sulformic acid with starch
(5) – neutralizing solution with citric acid
(2) – organic dye with sulformic acid bagged
(1) – acetic acid
(1) – oxalic acid
(1) – fatty hydroxyethyl imidazoline
(3) – polyacrylic acid
(1) – polystyrene sulfonic acid sodium salt
(1) – rexyn-sulfenated polystyrene copolymer

Waste Pesticides Liquid, Flammable, Toxic, N.O.S. (Petroleum Stistillates, Xylene) 3, (6.1) UN3021, PGII
Facemate – 9
(1) – herbicide with pet dist, ethylbenzene, n-butanol, xylene, trimethylbenzene, 2-4-Bis(isopropylamino)-6-methoxy-S-triazine
(1) – bis(tri-n-butyltin) oxide, pet dist

Waste Toxic Solid, Inorganic, N.O.S. (Lead Acetate, Ammonium Acetate) 6.1, UN2811, PGII
Facemate – 10
(2) – lead acetate
(1) – ammonium acetate
(1) – lithium chloride (solid)
(1) – zinc chloride
(1) – lithium chloride (liquid)

Waste Toxic Liquids, Organic, N.O.S (Chloroform, Tetrachlorothlene), 6.1, UN2810, PGII
Facemate – 11
(1) – tetrachloroethalene
(1) – chloroform
(1) – phenyl hydrazine hydrochloride
(1) – nitrobenzene

Waste Sodium Dithionite, 4.2, UN1384, PGII
Facemate – 13
(1) – sodium hydrosulfite

RQ, Waste Potassium Cyanide, 6.1, UN1680, PI
Facemate – 14
(1) – potassium cyanide