EPA RCRA ID: VAD058205170
On this page:
- Cleanup Status
- Facility Description
- Contaminants at this Facility
- Institutional/Engineer Controls
- Enforcement and Compliance
- Related Information
- Contacts for this Facility
Cleanup Status
Note: The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (VDEQ) is the lead agency for managing cleanups at this facility.
A Final Decision and Response to Comments (FDRTC) document was developed by the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) and signed on May 19, 2021. The Final Corrective Active Remedy Decision requires the facility to conduct long-term groundwater monitoring and implement institutional and engineering controls. The controls include restricting groundwater use from beneath the property, residential use prohibition, site security fencing, “No Trespassing” signage, and maintaining building pad and asphalt cover in Exposure Areas 1 and 2.
The Final Remedy will be implemented through the forthcoming environmental covenant under the Virginia Uniform Environmental Covenants Act (UECA).
Cleanup Actions or environmental indicators characterizing the entire facility are shown below. It is not intended as an extensive list of milestones/activities. This listing, and all the data on this page, come from EPA’s RCRAInfo and are refreshed nightly to this page. For this table and the Cleanup Activities Pertaining to a Portion of the Facility table that follows, a blank in the Status column could mean the action either has not occurred or has not been reported in RCRAInfo.
Cleanup Activities Pertaining to the Entire Facility
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| Human Exposure Under Control Human Exposure Under Control(CA725) | ||
| Groundwater Migration Under ControlGroundwater Migration Under Control (CA750) | ||
| Remedy DecisionRemedy Decision (CA400) | ||
| Remedy ConstructionRemedy Construction (CA550) | ||
| Ready for Anticipated Use Ready for Anticipated Use (CA800) | ||
| Performance Standards AttainedPerformance Standards Attained (CA900) | ||
| Corrective Action Process TerminatedCorrective Action Process Terminated (CA999) |
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Cleanup Activities Pertaining to a Portion of the Facility
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Facility Description
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The Facility is located on an approximately 38.7‐acre property occupied by a 578,000‐square‐foot building that houses MW’s manufacturing, warehouse, and office operations. Smaller security guard house and office/personnel training buildings are located along the eastern edge of the property. A 10,000‐square‐foot truck maintenance building is located along the western property boundary. The Facility has been an industrial‐use site since the early 1900s and has been manufacturing windows since at least 1943.
Current operations include woodworking, treating wood surfaces, glass cutting/cleaning, fabricating vinyl, and assembling windows, screens, and doors. Wood was historically treated in one of three former dip‐tanks (former Dip‐Tank‐1, ‐2, and ‐3). Wood preservative solutions at the Site previously consisted of pentachlorophenol (PCP) in a mineral spirits carrier until 1985. PCP was discontinued in 1986; thereafter, the Facility treated wood using a mineral spirit‐based solution containing 3-iodo-2-propynyl butyl carbamate (IPBC) in addition to a water‐based wood preservative. The water‐based solution was discontinued in the late 1990s. Wood is currently treated in a closed‐loop vacuum pressure system in an aboveground lineal tank using the mineral spirit‐based solution containing IPBC.
Contaminants at this Facility
The primary contaminants of concern (COC) in soil and groundwater are polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH), pentachlorophenol (PCP), dioxin/furan, and metals.
Institutional and Engineering Controls at this Facility
Institutional controls include restricting groundwater use from beneath the property and residential use prohibition. Excavation and/or management of soil and groundwater in Exposure Area 1 shall be conducted in accordance with an Agency-approved Materials Management Plan. Required engineering controls include site security fencing, “No Trespassing” signage, and building pad and asphalt cover in Exposure Areas 1 and 2.
Institutional and Engineering Controls help ensure human exposure and groundwater migration are under control at a cleanup facility. Where control types have been reported by states and EPA in EPA’s RCRAInfo, they are shown below. Not all control types are needed at all facilities, and some facilities do not require any controls. Where there are blanks, the control types may not be needed, may not be in place, or may not be reported in RCRAInfo.
Are Controls in Place at this Facility?
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Control(s) in Place? |
Areas Subject to Control(s) |
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Institutional ControlsNon-engineering controls used to restrict land use or land access in order to protect people and the environment from exposure to hazardous substances remaining in the site/or facility. (CA 772) |
Informational DevicesInformational Devices (ID) |
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| Proprietary ControlsProprietary Controls (PR) | ||||
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Engineering ControlsEngineering measures designed to minimize the potential for human exposure to contamination by either limiting direct contact with contaminated areas or controlling migration of contaminants. (CA 770) |
Groundwater ControlGroundwater Control (GW) |
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Enforcement and Compliance at this Facility
EPA’s Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance (OECA) provides detailed historical information about enforcement and compliance activities at each RCRA Corrective Action Site in their Enforcement and Compliance Historical Online (ECHO) system.
RCRA Enforcement and Compliance Reports from ECHO
Related Information
For more information about this facility, see these other EPA links:
- RCRA information in EPA’s Envirofacts database
- Information about this facility submitted to EPA under different environmental programs as reported in EPA’s Facility Registry Services
- Alternative Names for this facility as reported by EPA programs in EPA’s Facility Registry Services
- Cleanups in My Community provides an interactive map to see EPA cleanups in context with additional data, and lists for downloading data
- Search RCRA Corrective Action Sites provides a search feature for Corrective Action Sites
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Contacts for this Facility
EPA Region implements and enforces the RCRA Corrective Action program for and federally recognized tribes.
For further information on this corrective action site, use the Contact Information for Corrective Action Hazardous Waste Clean Ups listings that are accessible through Corrective Action Programs around the Nation.