United States Environmental Protection Agency
Region II
POLLUTION REPORT


Date:
Thursday, June 30, 2005
From:
Dilshad Perera

Subject: 

Westwood Chemical
46 Tower Road, Middletown, NY
Latitude: 41.4687500
Longitude: -74.3772800


POLREP No.:
6
Site #:
WN
Reporting Period:
D.O. #:
13
Start Date:
3/3/2005
Response Authority:
CERCLA
Mob Date:
3/8/2005
Response Type:
Time-Critical
Demob Date:
 
NPL Status:
Non NPL
Completion Date:
 
Incident Category:
Removal Action
CERCLIS ID #:
Contract #
EP-W-04-055
RCRIS ID #:
NYD072715052
  

Site Description

See PolRep No.1


Current Activities

Offsite shipments of wastewater continued.  To date a total of approximately 158,000 gallons of wastewater has been shipped for offsite disposal.

Cutting-up fiberglass and poly tanks continued.  To date a total of 14 tanks have been cutup.

Segregation, identification and consolidation of Lab chemicals continue

Dismantling of known electrical equipment attached to tanks has been completed.

On June 23, 2005, the RM and OSC toured the Summit Research Labs facility in Huguenot, NY to evaluate their operation in anticipation of shipping material for reuse, pending the bank's removal of the lien on the proposed material, to the Huguenot facility.  The facility appeared to be operated responsibly.  The tour also served as background information as to how the Westwood facility would have operated, since the two facilities manufactured antiperspirant active ingredients and flocculent agents.

A compliance check of Summit Research Labs was conducted on June 29, 2005.  A non-financial record review was conducted by NYS on April 06, 2004; no violations were recorded.  On July 19, 2001 a CEI investigation was conducted; no violations were recorded.

Two 30 cubic yard roll-offs containing debris, chiefly, cut-up tanks and process lines were shipped off site for disposal.
Liquidator for the bank toured the site on June 29, 2005.

Site will demobed for the July 4th break from July 1st through July 8th. Site operations will resume on July 11th.  24-Hour site security will be maintained during the demobe period.

On June 21, 2005, the ERRS ceiling was raised to $1,585,000


Next Steps


      

  • The issuance of an RFP for the disposal of non-wastewater waste streams such as the in-process chemicals, off-spec product lines.

      

  • continue, lab chemical identification, inventorying and consolidation.

      

  • continue offsite shipment for disposal of wastewater.

      

  • continue cutting of the bulk tanks and shipping for offsite disposal.

      

  • sampling for disposal of drummed material.

response.epa.gov/westwood