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Advance Plating Works

 
Site Contact:
Shelly Lam
On-Scene Coordinator

(Lam.Shelly@epa.gov)

Site Location:
1005 E. Sumner Avenue
Indianapolis, IN 46227
 response.epa.gov/advanceplatingworks

On September 20, 2011, the Marion County Public Health Department (MCPHD) responded to an abandoned building complaint from the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department (IMPD) following several trespassing incidents. Prior to entering the building, MCPHD observed numerous drums outside the facility, which was a former plating shop. MCPHD requested assistance from the Indiana Department of Environmental Management (IDEM) and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

EPA On-Scene Coordinator (OSC) Shelly Lam responded to the former Advance Plating Works on September 20th. EPA documented numerous drums and plating vats outside; drums and vats inside the former plating shop; and drums and totes inside a warehouse building. OSC Lam also documented that the Site was open and trespassing and metal scrapping had occured.

Many drums were unlabled. However, labled drums included hydrochloric acid, sulfuric acid, potassium cyanide, oxidizing, and flammable materials.

EPA initiated emergency response actions on September 20th that included staging drums and other containers in the warehouse building and securing the Site.


OSC Lam overseeing loading of waste Hazardous waste drums loaded for disposal Cleaned wastewater treatment room Berms around door during pressure washing activities Air monitoring equipment in Zinc plating room ERRS pressure washing ceiling of Zinc plating room ERRS power-washing containers prior to shipping ERRS moving containers ERRS shoveling up floor sweepings ERRS checking containers ERRS power-washing Polishing Room Cleaned bag house Cleaned bag house ERRS power-washing Polishing Room Cut-up drums and other containers ERRS cutting piping Baghouse Baghouse Baghouse Zinc/Nickel Plating Room after power-washing ERRS sweeping Polishing Room Segregated waste storage Cyanide waste storage Non-characteristic waste and acid liquid storage Flammable liquid storage Ballasts from fluorescent lights AreaRAE monitoring decontamination area Crew supervising and assisting confined space entry Confined space entry into pit in former laboratory Material removed from pit in former laboratory Air monitoring during confined space entry Confined space entry to clean pit in former laboratory Sump in wastewater treatment area Clean sump in wastewater treatment area Clean tank in wastewater treatment area ERRS cleaning sump in former zinc and nickel plating room Decontamination Area Exclusion Zone Wastewater treatment area ERRS cleaning Vat 4 Decontamination area ERRS cleaning out Vat 4 Temporary lighting in former plating area Temporary lighting in wastewater treatment area Temporary lighting in wastewater treatment area START inventorying small containers Small containers Fencing that had been cut Removal Action sign Garage door that had been tampered with ERRS sampling drum ERRS sampling drum ERRS sampling drum Staged empty containers Staged acid drums Staged neutral drums Staged oxidizer drums Staged cyanide drums Staged small containers Staged base/caustic drums Drum of unknown solids Drum of hydrogen peroxide OSC Lam inventorying drums START marking drums Drum of potassium cyanide Drum of cyanide Drums stored in warehouse Drums of caustic soda and hydrochloric acid Bag house Vault Containers of sodium gluconate solution Drum fan Drum of oxidizing and corrosive materials Spill recovery drum Propane storage Drums stored outside Corroded drum Drum of chromic acid flake Drum of hazardous waste Containers of flammable materials Totes Full drums without tops Drums of toxic materials Drums stored inside warehouse Bulging drum Cyanide storage area Drum of cyanide Drum of hydrochloric acid Drum of potassium cyanide and corrosive material Tote of corrosive material Drum of chromic acid Drum of sulfuric acid Drums inside the building Plating vat Drum of caustic soda Drums staged outside Missing fence where trespassers and metal scrappers entered site Open door where metal scrappers have been entering building
For additional information, visit the Pollution/Situation Report (Pol/Sitreps) section.