Even though this old Superfund site has been fully remediated, Blasterz still don't think we will have our kids playing here when it becomes a city park.
From the EPA website: (
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"BACKGROUND
The site is located in Greenville, Hunt County, Texas. The physical address for the site is 500 Forrester Street. The property is located along the I-30 frontage road. There are residential properties contiguous to the property on the east, residential properties to the north across Forrester St., I-30 frontage road and I-30 to south, I-30 frontage road and drainage pathways to Horse Creek, Sabine River and a private lake to the west.
The site is a former electrical transformer and specialty switch manufacturer. ESCO began operation on the property in the late 1940's and continued operation on this property until approximately 1970 when it relocated to another property in Greenville. During this time, ESCO
was leasing the property and building. In 1983, ESCO purchased this property and owned it until it defaulted for non-payment of taxes in 2001. ESCO filed for bankruptcy in 1990. The property is currently zoned light industrial. According to the city of Greenville Community Development Director, the city master plan shows the future land use for this property as low density residential/park/open space.
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CURRENT STATUS
On July 15, 2010, EPA placed a notice in the local paper for the Proposed Plan public meeting scheduled for July 22. On July 15, 2010, the 30 day Public Comment Period began and it ended on August 13, 2010.
During June 2010, The EPA received the following draft reports from the EPA remedial contractor, Remedial Investigation (RI), Feasibility Study (FS), Screening Level Ecological Risk Assessment (SLERA), Base Line Human Health Risk Assessment (BHHRA), and the Ground Water Fate and Transport Modeling Report. The EPA and TCEQ have completed the review of the draft documents and all documents were finalized by the end of September 2010.
The RI Work Plan was approved in February 2009. On May 14, 2009, all RI soil, creek sediment, creek water, and on-site ground water monitoring samples had been collected for Polychlorinated Biphenyl (PCB) analysis.
PREVIOUS TIME CRITICAL REMOVAL ACTIONS
During August 2008, through January 2009, the EPA conducted the first Time Critical Removal Action that included the removal of PCB contaminated soils from 6 adjacent residential properties located directly east of the site; the restoration of these same 6 properties; the fencing of the perimeter of the on-site property; the removal of 120 cubic yards of asbestos containing materials (ACM), placement of ripple dams/storm water controls in drainage pathways between residential properties and the site to reduce the potential for contaminated soil backflow on to clean areas during flooding situations; and, placed ripple dams at periodic locations on the site
drainage to reduce off-site soil migration. The EPA also assisted the county in removing the materials (hay, tires) stored in the on-site building for disposal.
During September 2009, through December 2009, the EPA conducted the second Time Critical Removal Action that included the removal of PCB contaminated soils from 3 residential properties and numerous adjacent road side drainage ditch grids and the restoration of the excavated properties.
RECORD OF DECISION
The Record of Decision (ROD) was signed on September 23, 2010.
The No Further Action is Necessary Record of Decision (ROD) Amendment and Explanation of Significant Differences (ESD) was signed on September 28, 2011."