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Arvada Treatment Center

 
Site Contact:
Todd DeGarmo
On-Scene Coordinator

(degarmo.todd@epa.gov)

Site Location:
5500 Fenton Street
Arvada, CO 80002
 response.epa.gov/ArvadaTreatmentCenter

The Arvada Treatment Center was a Colorado Department of Public Health and the Environment (CDPHE) RCRA permitted TSDF that provided commercial wastewater treatment services. Generally, the facility received wastewaters bearing mostly non-chlorinated, organic wastes and treated them via flocculation, sedimentation, followed by carbon filtration. The treated effluent was discharged to a nearby POTW. The facility went out of business and was undergoing a RCRA Closure under the direction of CDPHE. However, prior to the completion of the closure action the facility ran short of money and stopped work.


Overhead view of site and surrounded by community park and other industrial areas Arvada Treatment Center near park pictured during site investigation Abandoned steel tank pictured during site investigation Abandoned steel aboveground storage tank Sludge inside steel aboveground storage tank Abandoned hazardous waste Blue carbon filtration units pictured during site investigation Members of EPA and CDPHE during site investigation Three poly tanks picture during site investigation Smaller secondary containments found during site investigation Large concrete secondary containment pictured during site investigation Inside connex during site investigation Picture of secondary containment just before any work started Preparing carbon filtration system to treat water before going into frack tank Preparing crane to lift top of tank Cutting tank with nibbler Making final cuts to tank Top of tank being removed Top of tank being removed by crane Removing sludge from tank Removing sludge from tank continued Sludge moved to disposal container START contractor identifying properties of unknown chemicals left behind in connex Poly tank full of liquid Picture of liquid from top of poly tank. After liquid removed and top of tank cut off. Remaining sludge at bottom of tank. Large concrete secondary containment after being power washed Large concrete secondary containment after cleaning and showing blue filters have been removed. Smaller concrete secondary containment that contained poly and steel tanks after tanks removed and power washed Area after steel tank was removed and cleaned Post tank removal and cleaning. Area that contained poly and steel tanks Fence replaced after site work competed. Pictured from the park side.