Superfund Record of Decision (EPA Region 3): MW Manufacturing Site, Montour County, PA. (Subsequent remedial action), June 1992. Final report

Technical Report · Tue Jun 30 04:00:00 EDT 1992

OSTI ID:6719102

The 15-acre MW Manufacturing Site is a former copper recovery facility in Montour County, Pennsylvania. Land use in the area is mixed farmland and residential with a wetlands area, Mauses Creek, located 700 feet west of the site. The estimated 5,200 people who reside within 1/4 mile of the site use private ground water wells as their drinking water source. In 1982, the state performed an initial remedial investigation that revealed several areas posing potential threats to public health: the carbon waste pile; four wire-fluff waste piles; a surface impoundment; a buried lagoon; and contaminated soil, drums, and storage tanks. Based on the investigation, the site has been divided into three OUs to address cleanup of all contaminated media. The ROD (OU3) addresses the contamination of the groundwater and the adjacent wetland areas as the final remedial action at the site. The primary contaminants of concern affecting the ground water are VOCs, including PCE and TCE; and other organics, including halogenated aliphatics. The selected remedial action for the site is included.

• Research Organization: Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC (United States). Office of Emergency and Remedial Response
• OSTI ID: 6719102
• Report Number(s): PB-93-963904/XAB; EPA/ROD/R--03-92/153
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
540250* -- Environment
Terrestrial-- Site Resource & Use Studies-- (1990-)
AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS
CARBON
CONTAINERS
CONTAMINATION
COPPER
DEVELOPED COUNTRIES
DRINKING WATER
ECOSYSTEMS
ELEMENTS
GROUND WATER
HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS
LAND USE
LAWS
LEAD
MANAGEMENT
MANUFACTURING
MATERIALS
MATERIALS RECOVERY
METALS
NONMETALS
NORTH AMERICA
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
PENNSYLVANIA
POLLUTION
POLLUTION LAWS
PROCESSING
PUBLIC HEALTH
REMEDIAL ACTION
STORAGE
TANKS
TRANSITION ELEMENTS
US SUPERFUND
USA
WASTE DISPOSAL
WASTE MANAGEMENT
WASTE PROCESSING
WATER
WATER POLLUTION
WATER WELLS
WELLS
WETLANDS