Superfund Record of Decision (EPA Region 9): Nineteenth Avenue Landfill, Phoenix, AZ. (First remedial action), September 1989. Final report

Technical Report · Fri Sep 29 04:00:00 EDT 1989

OSTI ID:7016930

The 213-acre Nineteenth Avenue Landfill is in an industrial area of Maricopa County, Phoenix, Arizona. State permitted landfill operations were conducted from 1957 to 1979 during which time approximately nine million cubic yards of municipal refuse, solid and liquid industrial wastes, and some medical wastes and materials containing low levels of radioactivity were deposited in the landfill. The State ordered the landfill closed in 1979 due to the periodic inundation of the landfill by flood waters from the Salt River Channel. Subsequently, the city covered the site with fill, stockpiled soil for final capping, installed ground water monitoring wells, built berms around the landfill, and installed a methane gas collection system. The remedial action is designed to mitigate threats resulting from flooding of the landfill, which has occurred intermittently since 1965. The primary contaminants of concern in the soil/refuse include VOCs such as toluene and xylenes.

• Research Organization: Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC (USA). Office of Emergency and Remedial Response
• OSTI ID: 7016930
• Report Number(s): PB-90-220534/XAB; EPA/ROD/R--09-89/042
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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ALKYLATED AROMATICS
ARIZONA
AROMATICS
CONTAMINATION
DOCUMENT TYPES
FEDERAL REGION IX
GROUND WATER
HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
HYDROCARBONS
HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
LAWS
LIQUID WASTES
LOW-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTES
MANAGEMENT
MATERIALS
MATTER
MITIGATION
MONITORING
MUNICIPAL WASTES
NORTH AMERICA
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
POLLUTION
POLLUTION LAWS
PROGRESS REPORT
RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS
RADIOACTIVE WASTES
REMEDIAL ACTION
SANITARY LANDFILLS
SITE SURVEYS
SOILS
SOLID WASTES
SUPERFUND
TOLUENE
USA
VOLATILE MATTER
WASTE DISPOSAL
WASTE MANAGEMENT
WASTES
WATER
WATER POLLUTION
XYLENES