United States Environmental Protection Agency
Region I
POLLUTION REPORT

Subject: 

This final Pollution Report (POLREP) documents the completion of the time-critical cleanup of contaminated soils at the Apco Mossberg Company, Inc. Superfund Site, located at 100-101 Lamb Street in Attleboro, Massachusetts.  The 11-acre property was a former automobile-parts manufacturing facility.  The available data indicates that the hazardous materials on-site are linked to former manufacturing activities conducted on the property between 1900 and 1987.

EPA has completed its excavation of contaminated surface soils at the Apco Mossberg Site.  The final loads of contaminated materials were transported off-site on September 8, 2005.  The Site was secured and all remaining equipment and supplies were demobilized on September 9, 2005.

In total, EPA has:

- excavated and removed 6,361.36 tons of metal-contaminated soils;
- disposed of 61.24 tons of PCB-contaminated debris;
- collected and removed discarded chemical process drums and vats, paint cans, aerosol canisters, compressed gas cylinders, and acid-filled batteries; and
- treated over 50,000 gallons of contaminated water and discharged clean water to the Ten Mile River.

All contaminated materials removed from the site have been transported to EPA-approved recycling or disposal facilities.  The excavated areas have been backfilled with clean fill materials and topsoil, seeded and mulched.  The revegetated areas have been watered thoroughly to help the vegetation take hold.

In addition, EPA has partnered with the State of Massachusetts and the City of Attleboro to accomplish the following:
- The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection removed two abandoned underground storage tanks on site, approximately 200 tons of oil-contaminated soil, and over 4,500 gallons of oily water; and
- The City of Attleboro removed non-contaminated solid waste from the site.

EPA will leave extensive property documentation with the City and State to help local leaders determine appropriate future uses of the Site.

Lamb and Thatcher Street residents joined project officials at City Hall on September 19, 2005 for a community meeting.  Attleboro officials responded to questions related to property redevelopment and future use, and EPA On-Scene Coordinator Melanie Morash present a slide show of the cleanup from start to finish.