The Lincoln Metals Site (the Site) is an inactive brass foundry that operated in Lincoln, Talladega County, Alabama from 1956 to 2001. The facility was built circa 1947.
The Site includes a 1.73 acre fenced foundry, two residential properties, a public park and an adjacent drainage ditch. The old foundry property is located at 248 Foundry Road, in the City of Lincoln, Talladega County, Alabama. The old foundry contains one dilapidated building, of approximately 21,000 square feet. Within the building structure there exist heavy machinery including; silos, ore milling and processing stations, electric arc melting pots, and other industry equipment used in the foundry process. External to the building there are areas where contaminated process material is buried and piled. Areas within the fenced foundry property include partially covered sand piles, areas where remnants of slag, broken sand casting ladles, sand caste molds, faucet fittings fragments, and piles of other process debris which have been abandoned.
Contamination from the foundry property has migrated off-site via surface water migration patterns. The off-site contamination is being displaced to the lowest and least obstructed path into an adjacent drainage ditch. The drainage is consistent with the surrounding flooding and surface water flow patterns, all of which flow from southeast to northwest, across the property and into the adjacent drainage ditch.
The geological formations at the Site provide a north-northwest ground/surface water flow across the Site. Groundwater depth ranges from zero to 25 feet, averaging six (6) to ten (10) feet below the land surface. The Site is located at 33o36’54” north latitude and 86o06’40” west longitude.
On January 19, 2005, ADEM submitted a CERCLIS Pre-Screening report for the Heartland Faucet / Lincoln Metals facility to EPA Region 4’s CERCLA Remedial program. By 2006, ADEM indicated that all State means of addressing the concerns at this Site had been exhausted. In December 2006, the Lincoln Metals facility was referred to ERRB for further assessment.
In January 2007, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Emergency Response and Removal Branch’s (ERRB) On-Scene Coordinators (OSC) conducted a Removal Site Evaluation (RSE) at the Site. The RSE and analytical results, determined that CERCLA hazardous substances (lead, arsenic and chromium) exist and continue to migrate from the old foundry property to the adjacent drainage pathway causing a potential threat to the environment and public health.
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