EPA RCRA ID: WVD076826015
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 lead agency for managing cleanups at this facility is the West Virginia Department of Environment (DEP).
On March 31, 2014, the Facility submitted a Work Plan Addendum to further assess the chemicals of potential concern (COPC) in groundwater in the Spent Acid Plant Area and at each of the Land-Based units. This Work Plan Addendum will serve as a supplement to the original Workplan submitted in June 4, 2014, and approved by West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection (WVDEP) on June 25, 2012. The workplan addendum is under review by WVDEP. The facility completed a groundwater sampling and elevation levels of the groundwater and river in September/October 2015. This effort is in support of the evaluation for the “Groundwater under Control” Environmental Indicator determination, which is projected for November 2015.
A comprehensive summary report will be submitted pursuant to the schedule in the Voluntary Remediation Agreement (VRA) and modifications.
Insert text about the Cleanup Status at this facility]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 a 140-acre site north of the Guyandotte River about fifty feet from the property line. The southwest portion of the property is surrounded by the Huntington flood wall. A residential area is located less than a mile, southeast of the facility. The facility consists of:
- There are 37 solid waste management units (SWMUs).
- There are four areas of concern (AOC).
- The plan began operations in 1922 as the Inco Huntington Plan manufacturing various nickel alloys. The manufacturing process has remained the same since the facility began operations in 1922.
- The manufacturing comes from five main buildings, the melt shop building, primary mill building, strip mill building, bar and wire building and the cold draw building.
- There several solid waste management units (SWMU). This includes a container storage, former baghouse dust storage, former nitric-HF tank, waste holding, spent acid tank system, neutralization tank, former west tailing pond, three former lagoons, former landfill, waste pile, hydraulic oil recycling unit, multi-hearth roasting furnace area, former barium chloride area, existing west tailing pond, dewatering filter press, reslurry tank, multi-hearth furnace, equalization tank, picking rinsewater pre-treatment plants, equalization tank, reaction tank, clarifier, three sludge dewatering tank, satellite accumulation areas, pre-treatment plant, former strip mill/current spent acid tank, former electro plating tanks, sludge holding tank, former temporary sludge holding tank, trash dumpsters, parts washer, equipment boneyard, and vacuum truck washer area.
Contaminants at this Facility
There were four areas of concern (AOC). They are the former dip tank, seven underground storage tanks, the sulfuric acid spills/overfills, and a stained area.
The former dip tank has no evidence of a spill or release during the October 2009 Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) site visit or during a WVDEP or EPA file review.
For the seven underground storage tanks, no information was found in files reviewed indicated a release from these tanks or any sampling activities relating to their removal.
There was a release of sulfuric acid in April 1994. The facility reported the spill to the National Response Center and neutralized the spill with soda ash; no confirmatory samples were collected. A second sulfuric acid release occurred in July 1990. Soil sampling was recommended in May 1994 but there is no evidence in the files that this sampling was ever completed.
There was an area of black staining observed on the ground near the pre-treatment plant (one of the SWMU). The source or cause of this staining could not be determined during the 2009 RCRA site visit.
Institutional and Engineering Controls at this Facility
The need for Institutional Controls is yet to be determined.
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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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.