Superfund Record of Decision (EPA Region 3): Rhinehart Tire Fire Dump, Operable Unit 2, Winchester, VA. (Second remedial action), September 1992

Technical Report · Tue Sep 29 04:00:00 EDT 1992

OSTI ID:5853869

The Rhinehart Tire Fire Dump site is located in a 22-acre drainage area of a sparsely populated rural area in western Frederick County, Virginia. Surface water runoff flows into a north-south tributary that discharges to Hogue Creek, which is 4,000 feet downstream. Bedrock is noted to be highly fractured, and the ground water flow in the overburden aquifer is toward Massey Run. From 1972 to 1983, the site owner conducted a tire disposal operation, which consisted of transporting discarded tires from various locations and storing them on a 5-acre wooded slope behind his home. An estimated 5 to 7 million tires that had been accumulated caught on fire in October 1983 and burned until July 1984. As a result of the fire, a free-flowing oily-tar, which contained anthracene, benzene, cadmium, chromium, ethylbenzene, napthalene, nickel, pyrene, toluene, and zinc, began to seep out of the tire pile into Massey Run and on to Hogue Creek.

• Research Organization: Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC (United States). Office of Emergency and Remedial Response
• OSTI ID: 5853869
• Report Number(s): PB-93-963921/XAB; EPA/ROD/R--03-92/160
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
540250* -- Environment
Terrestrial-- Site Resource & Use Studies-- (1990-)
ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES
ALKYLATED AROMATICS
ANTHRACENE
AQUIFERS
AROMATICS
ARSENIC
BENZENE
CADMIUM
CHROMIUM
CONDENSED AROMATICS
CONTROL
DECISIONS AND ORDERS
DEVELOPED COUNTRIES
DRAINAGE
ELEMENTS
ENVIRONMENTAL TRANSPORT
FUELS
GROUND WATER
HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
HYDROCARBONS
HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS
LAWS
MANAGEMENT
MASS TRANSFER
MATERIALS
METALS
NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
NICKEL
NORTH AMERICA
OILS
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
OTHER ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
OVERBURDEN
OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
POLLUTION
POLLUTION CONTROL
POLLUTION LAWS
PYRENE
PYROLYSIS PRODUCTS
PYROLYTIC OILS
REMEDIAL ACTION
RESIDUES
RUNOFF
RURAL AREAS
SEMIMETALS
SOILS
SOLID WASTES
SYNTHETIC FUELS
TIRES
TOLUENE
TRANSITION ELEMENTS
US EPA
US ORGANIZATIONS
US SUPERFUND
USA
VIRGINIA
WASTE DISPOSAL
WASTE MANAGEMENT
WASTES
WATER
WATER POLLUTION
ZINC