EPA Region III Area Wide One Cleanup Program Pilot Little Elk Creek Investigation, Cecil County, MD. Sites of Concern

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1 EPA Region III Area Wide One Cleanup Program Pilot Little Elk Creek Investigation, Cecil County, Sites of Concern Updated 05/18/2005 Site Name and Former and Current Lead Program Environmental Status Elkton Farm Firehole 183 Zeitler Road, Cecil County FUDS - Burn pits for munition wastes Currently cultivated farm land Residential development planned buried munitions chromium, mercury, arsenic, lead, TCE, EPA Emergency Removal contact explosive Charlie Fitzsimmons compounds PCE gw plume may be flowing under GE Railcar property Geophysical study complete PA/SI Complete Summer EPA assisting with Superfund Removal authorities July 1,

2 Maryland Sand Gravel and Stone Cecil County, Sand and gravel quarry used for industrial waste disposal NPL site Debra Rossi, EPA Primarily, VOCs in gw and soil Neighboring residential wells recently tested - no exceedances of drinking water standards found Further investigation of gw on the eastern edge of the site to Mill Creek is planned Thiokol/ATK Fireworks and WWII RCRA Corrective Action Soil, gw and surface Gw pump and treat Tactical Systems munitions manufacture water impacted installed for TCE Route 40 Linda Holden, EPA plume Elkton, Pesticide manufacture Pesticides, PCE, TCE Additional/expanded Part of Triumph Currently an operating site investigation Industrial Park. manufacture of rocket concluded in 11/02 fuel and systems for the space and defense industries July 1,

3 GE Railcar/ Fireworks and WWII RCRA Corrective Action On-site GW Site investigation P&R Railcar munitions manufacture impacted, and off- completed in Service Barbara Smith, EPA site GW possibly Currently 505 Blue Ball Rd Rail car cleaning and impacted. Limited investigating whether Elkton, repair facility on-site soil impacts. contaminated gw is moving off-site, and Part of Triumph Facility closed Benzene, in-situ gw Industrial Park. chlorobenzene, remediation options. chlorinated solvents Route 7 Owned by New Jersey program Barium, sw SI conducted in 1983 Chemical Dump Fireworks Co and again in M W OF PCE in gw NFRAP ROUTE 40 Quarry Cecil County, Disposal site for fireworks, munitions by-products and scrap rubber. Burn pits and ash dump. July 1,

4 W.L. Gore Fireworks and WWII VOCs State removal action Left Bank Site munitions manufacture in 1997 (buried Cecil County, Dump site for Galaxy drums) SW contamination Chemical in the 1960s Part of Triumph Industrial Park Currently, light industry and warehousing New Jersey Fireworks site 1726 Old Philadelphia Rd Cecil County, Fireworks manufacture Now a fireworks packaging plant - no manufacture. Active facility, may be regulated as a haz waste generator? program Barium, soil Waste disposal areas Old fireworks being stored on site Still under investigation Keystone Fireworks Fireworks manufacture Located across from New Jersey fireworks. Facility is abandoned 3 contaminated residential wells near the sitefamilies are on bottled water No assessments done yet. July 1,

5 Maryland Cork Land formerly owned Possible PCE plume PA/SI planned Part of Triumph by Triumph Explosives under site E to investigate, Industrial Park Site has been used for manufacture of cork since 1946 Crouse Bros Mechanical repair TCE plume under PA/SI Excavating Rubble dump site -could be from Water lines installed 415 West Pulaski Thiokal or dumping Hauled waste for to nearby residences Highway from Galaxy Galaxy Chemicals Chemicals NFRAP Elkton,. Residential wells contaminated with TCE July 1,

6 Central Chemical Part of Triumph Industrial Park Former pesticide production Former hazardous waste incinerator 10 yrs ago PCE plume from GE rail car site migrating under Central Chemical site Deed restriction placed on gw use E issued No Further Action determination in 1994 During 1990spesticide blender/mixer, no production Currently - Aquafin Ionics Manufacturing facility, VOCs in August 2004, E 801 Elkton Blvd historical mixed uses groundwater issued No Further Action Determination Elkton, with restrictions on future gw use Vicon Fireworks and Chlorinated Site being addressed Route 213 & ordnance manufacture solvents and under voluntary Dogwood Rd inorganics in gw cleanup program Elkton, No explosives found July 1,

7 RMR, JMR Corp Manufacturing facility, VOCs in 655 North Bridge historical mixed uses groundwater St PCBs and metals Elkton, Dwyer Property Route 279 & Blue Ball Rd FUDS - Fireworks and WWII munitions manufacture Battery manufacture Currently abandoned VOCs, chlorinated solvents, and inorganics in gw PA/SI 1989 Expanded site investigation complete 2000 RI/FS under development July 1,