Superfund Record of Decision (EPA Region 2): King of Prussia Technical Corporation site, Winslow Township, Camden County, NJ. (First remedial action), September 1990
The 10-acre King of Prussia (KOP) site is an abandoned waste disposal and recycling facility in Winslow Township, Camden County, New Jersey. Past waste handling and disposal practices at the facility, as well as suspected illegal dumping of trash and hazardous materials after the facility closed, have resulted in organic and inorganic contamination of site soil, sediment, and ground water. Soil and ground water contamination were detected by the State in 1976, and subsequently confirmed by EPA during site investigations conducted from 1978 to 1982. As a result of these investigations, buried plastic containers and visibly contaminated soil west of the lagoons were excavated and removed in late 1989 or 1990. However, several additional discrete areas of contamination have been identified including: metal-contaminated soil adjacent to the lagoons, lagoon sludges, swale sediment, and soil near the tankers; VOC-contaminated soil in the drum disposal area; organic- and metal-contaminated ground water; and possible contamination of the surface water and sediment in the river. The Record of Decision (ROD) addresses the first operable unit for the site, including the contaminated ground water, soil, sediment, sludges, drums and tankers. The primary contaminants of concern affecting the soil, sediment, sludge, debris, and ground water are VOCs including benzene, PCE, and TCE; and metals including chromium and lead.
- Research Organization:
- Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC (United States). Office of Emergency and Remedial Response
- OSTI ID:
- 5267673
- Report Number(s):
- PB-91-921503/XAB; EPA/ROD/R--02-90/113
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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540220 -- Environment
Terrestrial-- Chemicals Monitoring & Transport-- (1990-)
540320* -- Environment
Aquatic-- Chemicals Monitoring & Transport-- (1990-)
AROMATICS
BENZENE
CHLORINATED ALIPHATIC HYDROCARBONS
CHROMIUM
CONTAMINATION
DEVELOPED COUNTRIES
ELEMENTS
ENVIRONMENTAL TRANSPORT
FEDERAL REGION II
GROUND WATER
HALOGENATED ALIPHATIC HYDROCARBONS
HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
HYDROCARBONS
HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS
LEAD
MANAGEMENT
MASS TRANSFER
MATERIALS
MATTER
METALS
NEW JERSEY
NORTH AMERICA
ORGANIC CHLORINE COMPOUNDS
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
ORGANIC HALOGEN COMPOUNDS
OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
POLLUTION
REMEDIAL ACTION
SEDIMENTS
SOILS
SUPERFUND
TRANSITION ELEMENTS
USA
VOLATILE MATTER
WASTE DISPOSAL
WASTE MANAGEMENT
WATER