Health assessment for Tri-State Plating, Bartholomew County, Columbus, Indiana, Region 5. CERCLIS No. 006038764. Preliminary report
The Tri-state Plating site is listed on the National Priorities List. For over 40 years, the site was the location of metal-plating operations. Numerous violations of city ordinances regarding waste disposal resulted in the forced closing of the plant in 1984. The environmental contamination on-site consists of cadmium (1,600 ppm), total chromium (26,000 ppm), copper (7,200 ppm), lead (81,000 ppm), and nickel (2,400 ppm), in surface soil from an area where plating wastes were dumped; and arsenic (17 ppm), cadmium (117 ppm), chromium+3 (1,700 ppm), chromium+6 (120 ppm), lead (10,300 ppm), nickel (331 ppm), cyanide (133 ppm), and manganese (1,310 ppm) in areas not identified as spill areas. The environmental contamination off-site consists of arsenic (7 ppm), barium (141 ppm), cadmium (125 ppm), chromium3 (295 ppm), lead (142 ppm), manganese (898 ppm), and nickel (292 ppm) in soil adjacent to the site; total chromium (47 ppm), lead (43 ppm), and nickel (14 ppm) in residential garden soil; and chromium (0.37 ppm), arsenic (0.002 ppm), manganese (0.2 ppm) in ground water taken from industrial wells and public water supply wells. A ground water monitoring well at the site boundary has shown chromium contamination (no figures available). The site is considered to be of potential public health concern because of the risk to human health caused by the possibility of exposure to hazardous substances via contaminated soil and ground water.
- Research Organization:
- Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, Atlanta, GA (USA)
- OSTI ID:
- 5219482
- Report Number(s):
- PB-90-106782/XAB
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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