Guest RaiD Posted April 26, 2002 Share Posted April 26, 2002 Is your city fucked up? i live within a mile of this place fliks will be up soon... ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Current Site Information (NPL Pad) Virginia EPA ID# VAD070358684 EPA Region 3 Warren County Front Royal Last Update: February 2002 10th Congressional District -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Current Site Status The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is overseeing the cleanup of the Avtex Fibers site. FMC Corp., a party responsible for some of the contamination at the site, has been closing zinc sludge and fly ash disposal areas since May 2001. The cleanup consolidates wastes and secures those wastes with a protective material where needed, a thick soil cover and vegetation (cap). The cleanup integrates the Conservancy Park Master Plan developed for the site. By regrading significant portions of the site, revegetating cleanup areas, and providing the ground work for future trails and roads, the baseline for the conservancy park will be provided. An approach to manage the remaining 10,500 cubic yards of debris generated from the EPA’s building demolition work is under review by the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality and the EPA. Since October 1999, FMC has managed approximately 104,800 cubic yards of waste and debris. These materials were either cleaned for potential reuse on-site or transported off-site for recycling or disposal. EPA signed an Action Memorandum on December 21, 2001 which approves decontamination of the remaining buildings and excavation of the remaining sewers. The agency is overseeing the cleanup of the remaining buildings, substructures and sewers which began in January 2002. Not only will this effort manage the remaining environmental threats, it will also facilitate the demolition and reduce costs associated with managing that debris. A Feasibility Study, which provides a detailed evaluation of cleanup options, which addresses viscose basins 1-8, a landfill and wastewater treatment plant, is in progress. EPA expects to propose a cleanup plan which addresses these areas this summer. EPA and FMC are evaluating groundwater data collected and developing strategies to address groundwater contamination associated with these basins. Methods to treat viscose leachate are under review as the Feasibility Study for groundwater and viscose basins 9-11 continues. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Site Description The Avtex Fibers site, located in Warren County, Virginia is a 440-acres plant that manufactured rayon and other synthetics from 1940 until 1989. Tons of rayon manufacturing wastes and by-products, zinc hydroxide sludge, and fly ash and boiler room solids were disposed on site in 23 impoundments and fill areas encompassing 220 acres. Waste disposal practices at the plant contaminated the groundwater under the site and in residential wells across the river from the site with carbon disulfide, phenol, sodium, and heavy metals including lead, arsenic, and cadmium. In 1989, the Virginia State Water Control Board linked polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) contamination in the Shenandoah River to the Avtex Fibers plant. Subsequently, Virginia revoked the plant's permit that allowed treated waste water to be discharged to the river. Shutdown of the Avtex Fibers plant followed this action. Approximately 1,300 people live within a 3-mile radius of the site and depend on ground water as a drinking water supply. A significant amount of waste has been disposed of in impoundments situated within the 100-year flood plain of the Shenandoah River. Site Responsibility This site is being addressed through a combination of Federal, State, and potentially responsible parties' actions. NPL Listing History This site was proposed to the National Priorities List of the most serious uncontrolled or abandoned hazardous waste site requiring long term remedial action on may October 15, 1984. The site was formally added to the list June 10, 1986, making it eligible for federal cleanup Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest RaiD Posted April 26, 2002 Share Posted April 26, 2002 here is a link with some pics of this place... http://olmsted.arch.virginia.edu/WebData/p...html/Intro2.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhubarb Posted April 26, 2002 Share Posted April 26, 2002 your location says none of your damn business but you make a post telling where you live down to a mile? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest RaiD Posted April 26, 2002 Share Posted April 26, 2002 i dont really give a damn if you know where i live... i got nothing to hide. i just put none of your damn business cause its more entertaining than Virginia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
omone Posted April 26, 2002 Share Posted April 26, 2002 my boy will probly be the one to clean up all that shit sucks for him but at least he gets paid $$$ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T.T Boy Posted April 26, 2002 Share Posted April 26, 2002 theres some neighborhood here thats like radioactive and all the plants are dying and no one can sell te property, its hilarious, dazzle will prolly know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Dazzle Posted April 26, 2002 Share Posted April 26, 2002 Yeah I think so. Those poor saps...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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