United States Environmental Protection Agency
Region I
POLLUTION REPORT

Subject: 

The Old Bondsville Factory Site is the former location of a textile mill located in Palmer and Belchertown, Massachusetts.   Covering about 12 acres, the Site is bordered to the north and west by residential properties, to the east by a dam across the Swift River, and to the south by Main Street in Palmer and Depot Street in Belchertown.

During an April 2008 Targeted Brownfields Assessment, EPA’s Brownfields program observed high levels of lead and arsenic in surface soils and referred the Site to the Emergency Planning and Response Branch (EPRB) in May 2008.  EPA conducted a removal site investigation on July 8-11, 2008 which confirmed the presence of high levels of arsenic and lead in surface soils.  The site investigation was closed on July 25, 2008 with the recommendation that a time critical removal action be conducted.  See polrep 1 for additional site background information.

See previous polreps for removal activities conducted prior to January 8, 2009.

On January 8, 2009, the Emergency Rapid Response Services (ERRS) contractor began loading out the stockpile of excavated soil.  Excavation of remaining grids of contaminated surface soils resumed on January 21, 2009.  Excavation and loadout activities were both completed on January 30, 2009.

In total, 136 grids of contaminated surface soils were excavated, generating 2,344 tons of contaminated soils.

Remaining removal activities planned for the spring of 2009 include backfilling and grading excavations with clean fill and applying loam and seed to disturbed areas.

The contractor will remobilize in the spring of 2009 complete the remaining removal activities.

From January 8, 2009 through January 30, 2009, 110 truckloads (2,344 tons) of contaminated surface soils were sent to the Clinton County landfill in Morrisonville, NY for disposal via landfilling.