The Site is a former potato farm which is currently inactive. The Site contains two buildings (the Garage and the Potato Storage Building), a trailer, a pond, an unpaved road, a wetland area, grassy areas, and wooded areas. The buildings were used for storage of produce and farm equipment and for farm vehicle maintenance. They are constructed of tin, wood, cinderblocks, and transite (asbestos). The buildings are in disrepair, and the building closest to the street (the potato storage building) is falling apart. Much of the transite on the walls and ceiling has fallen to the floor and is disintegrating resulting in chrysotile asbestos being exposed to the environment. The buildings contain farm equipment and approximately 15 drums and containers. An empty aboveground 20,000 gallon underground storage tank (UST) is located between the two buildings, and another 10 drums and containers are located throughout the property. The ground under several drums is not sealed with asphalt, and oil and/or hazardous materials have been released to the soil. There is no fence or other access restrictions to prevent people from entering the Site.
According to the EPA Region I Environmental Justice Mapping Tool, the Site is not in an environmental justice area.
On August 13, 2007, EPA's site specific contractor, Charter Environmental (Charter), mobilized to the site to begin removal activities. The first activity included constructing a drum/container staging area inside the former garage. Charter then collected the drums and containers and placed them in the staging area. Drums and containers that were empty were also collected and placed in a separate bay of the garage.
The drums and containers with content were then sampled for waste stream assessment and then for disposal analysis.
A 20,000 gallon AST, a former gasoline UST, and two approximately 275 gallon ASTs were sampled for analyses. In addition, START collected soil samples from under the leaking drums to assess the soil for hazardous materials.
Three propane cylinders and five truck and car batteries were brought to the transfer station at the Worthington DPW for recycling.
On August 21, 2007, Charter began the second phase which involved cleaning up broken and disintegrating asbestos containing transite building material that lay on the ground and in the rubble of the disintegrating buildings. Charter filled two 20 yard roll-offs with the ACMs.
Air monitoring during the ACM removal did not detect levels of fibres above the site standard of 0.1 fibres/cubic meter.
The analytical data will be assessed to determine which waste streams are hazardous substances and are to be removed by Charter and which streams are oil and could be removed by the State.
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