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Title: Superfund Record of Decision (EPA Region 7): John's Sludge Pond, Wichita, KS. (First remedial action), September 1989. Final report

Abstract

The Johns' Sludge Pond site is in a relatively undeveloped area in the city of Wichita, Sedgwick County, Kansas. During the 1950s and 1960s the Super Refined Oil Company used the sludge pond for the disposal of waste oil and up to 15,000 cubic yards of oily sludge generated by the oil recycling and reclamation operation. Because sulfuric acid was used to refine waste oil for recycling, the wastes dumped into the pond were very acidic. Additionally, high lead concentrations and low PCB concentrations (less than 50 ppm) were also detected in the sludge. As surface water flowed into the pond, an extremely acidic layer of water formed on top of the sludge which often overflowed into nearby surface waters. The city subsequently built berms to prevent further surface runoff. In 1983 EPA ordered the city to undertake interim cleanup activities which consisted of excavating and solidifying the sludge using cement kiln dust with redeposition of the treated sludge into a compacted clay-lined cell followed by capping using a compacted clay cap. Surface and ground water monitoring following the interim action have not detected any contaminant levels that would require further action.

Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC (USA). Office of Emergency and Remedial Response
OSTI Identifier:
7229875
Report Number(s):
PB-90-162629/XAB; EPA/ROD/R-07-89/025
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
02 PETROLEUM; 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; 29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY AND ECONOMY; KANSAS; WATER POLLUTION; PONDS; CONTAMINATION; SURFACE WATERS; WASTE OILS; WASTE DISPOSAL; CHLORINATED AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; ECOLOGICAL CONCENTRATION; HAZARDOUS MATERIALS; INDUSTRIAL WASTES; LEAD; LIQUID WASTES; PROGRESS REPORT; REMEDIAL ACTION; SITE SURVEYS; SULFURIC ACID; SUPERFUND; AROMATICS; DOCUMENT TYPES; ELEMENTS; FEDERAL REGION VII; HALOGENATED AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS; INORGANIC ACIDS; LAWS; MANAGEMENT; MATERIALS; METALS; NORTH AMERICA; OILS; ORGANIC CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; ORGANIC HALOGEN COMPOUNDS; OTHER ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; POLLUTION; POLLUTION LAWS; USA; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WASTES; 020900* - Petroleum- Environmental Aspects; 540320 - Environment, Aquatic- Chemicals Monitoring & Transport- (1990-); 290300 - Energy Planning & Policy- Environment, Health, & Safety

Citation Formats

. Superfund Record of Decision (EPA Region 7): John's Sludge Pond, Wichita, KS. (First remedial action), September 1989. Final report. United States: N. p., 1989. Web.
. Superfund Record of Decision (EPA Region 7): John's Sludge Pond, Wichita, KS. (First remedial action), September 1989. Final report. United States.
. 1989. "Superfund Record of Decision (EPA Region 7): John's Sludge Pond, Wichita, KS. (First remedial action), September 1989. Final report". United States.
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abstractNote = {The Johns' Sludge Pond site is in a relatively undeveloped area in the city of Wichita, Sedgwick County, Kansas. During the 1950s and 1960s the Super Refined Oil Company used the sludge pond for the disposal of waste oil and up to 15,000 cubic yards of oily sludge generated by the oil recycling and reclamation operation. Because sulfuric acid was used to refine waste oil for recycling, the wastes dumped into the pond were very acidic. Additionally, high lead concentrations and low PCB concentrations (less than 50 ppm) were also detected in the sludge. As surface water flowed into the pond, an extremely acidic layer of water formed on top of the sludge which often overflowed into nearby surface waters. The city subsequently built berms to prevent further surface runoff. In 1983 EPA ordered the city to undertake interim cleanup activities which consisted of excavating and solidifying the sludge using cement kiln dust with redeposition of the treated sludge into a compacted clay-lined cell followed by capping using a compacted clay cap. Surface and ground water monitoring following the interim action have not detected any contaminant levels that would require further action.},
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year = {Fri Sep 22 00:00:00 EDT 1989},
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