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NEW YORK », NEW JERSEY* KONG •LOS ANGELES • LONDON • MIAMI • BVRIS • SAN FRANCISCO • TOKYO • PASSAIC RIVER STUDY AREA POTENTIALLY RESPONSIBLE PARTY INVESTIGATION SUMMARY OF EVIDENCE PERTAENING TO: AT&T TECHNOLOGIES 100 CENTRAL AVENUE KEARNY, NEW JERSEY PREPARED BY: KROLL ASSOCIATES, INC. PARSIPPANY, NJ JULY, 1996 853890002 WESTERN ELECTRIC COMPANY 10 CENTRAL AVENUE KEARNY, NEW JERSEY TABLE OF CONTENTS tion Title Page No. 1.0 INTRODUCTION ............................... 1 2.0 SUMMARY OF CONCLUSIONS ..................... 2 2.1 Executive Summary Chart ...................... 3 3.0 SUMMARY OF OPERATIONS ....................... 4 3.1 Site History and Location ...................... 4 3.2 Products and Operation ........................ 6 3.3 Raw Materials and Wastes ...................... 7 4.0 DISCHARGE HISTORY ........................... 9 5.0 DETECTED ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINANTS ........ 11 5.1 Inorganics ............................... 13 5.2 Organics ................................ 15 6.0 SUMMARY .................................. 17 EXHIBITS 1. Western Electric press release dated January 27, 1983. • Establishes dates of occupancy and product history. 2. AT&T letter dated May 24, 1984, to Anthony J. Me Man on, Chief Bureau of Industrial Site Evaluation NJDEP and copy of Agreement between AT&T and Union Minerals and Alloy Corp. dated April 16, 1984. • Establishes Site ownership. 3. Dun & Bradstreet report for RTC Properties, Inc. • Establishes current Site owner/operator. 4. Excerpt from the International Directory of Company Histories for the AT&T Company. • Establishes Site owner and potential products manufactured. 853890003 Exhibits - Continued 5. Affidavit of Daniel Bartel • Establishes products and operations, piping network to river and discharge history. 6. Excerpts from the Environmental Cleanup Plan AT&T Technologies, Inc. dated November 1984. Prepared by Environmental Research & Technology, Inc. • Provides description of plating operations and waste water treatment plant. 7. 1950 Sanborn Maps I • Establishes process locations. 8. AT&T Initial ECRA Notice Submission dated February 6, 1984 and Environmental Evaluation Measurement Plan Kearny Works AT&T Technologies dated May 1984. • Establishes site ownership, products and operations, raw materials and wastes, and discharge history. 9. Kearny Fire Department document (not dated) • Provides list of raw materials. 10. Interstate Sanitation Commission Compliance Monitoring Report, October 1982. • Provides information on the plating operation, waste water treatment plant and facility outfalls. 11. EPA NPDES Permit Renewal Application • Identifies outfalls to the Passaic River and potential discharge mechanisms. 12. Excerpts from the Amended Environmental Clean-up Plan, Kearny Works AT&T Technologies, Inc., June 1985. Prepared by Dr. William A. Duvel Jr. P.E. • Establishes existence of soil, sediment and ground water contamination. Also establishes that historical spills of hazardous substances occurred. 13. Excerpts from the Remedial Proposal for Contaminated Soil at Former Drum Storage Pad ECRA Case NO. 84025 dated February 1993. • Establishes existence of soil contamination and potential discharge mechanisms. 14. NJDEP letter to AT&T dated August 11, 1992 and AT&T letter and attachments to NJDEP dated September 3, 1992. • Identifies waste storage area and establishes potential discharge mechanisms. 15. RSL Consulting Engineer, P.C., 1992 Sewer Map for South Kearny. • Identifies outfalls to the Passaic River and potential discharge mechanisms. 16. Site Hydrogeologic Conditions Kearny Works AT&T Technologies, Inc. Dated March 25, 1985 and Revised June 17, 1985. • Provides potential discharge of contaminated groundwater to the Passaic River. 853890004 1.0 INTRODUCTION This Summary of Evidenpg Pertaining to the Western Electric Company ("Western Electric") presents in summary form, evidence of Western Electric Co.'s discharge of hazardous substances to the Passaic River Study Area. Western Electric, a company owned by AT&T since 1882, was merged into AT&T Technologies, Inc. in 1984. AT&T has assumed responsibility for the remediation of this facility. Relevant supporting materials, including Sanborn Maps, affidavit of a knowledgeable person, and documents obtained from various sources including the NJDEP, are included as Exhibits to this Summary of Evidence and are referenced as appropriate in the text. The sediment sampling data was produced to EPA in January 1994 and April 1996. This Summary of Evidence reflects only the information collected to date, and therefore is not a complete or final analysis of the facts relevant to Western Electric's (and/or its successors-in- interest) liability for costs associated with the Passaic River. The text of this document is organized so as to provide only the relevant evidence indicating Western Electric to be a Potentially Responsible Party for the Passaic River Study Area. Section 2.0 provides an Executive Summary chart identifying the evidence presented within the text, as well as a summary of conclusions which have been reached based upon this evidence. Sections 3.0 and 4.0 summarize the operating History and Discharge History of the former Western Electric facility. Section 5.0 identifies environmental contaminants detected in Passaic River Study Area sediments adjacent to the former Western Electric facility. Section 6.0 presents a summary of these findings. 853890005 2.0 SUMMARY OF CONCLUSIONS The evidence presented in this document, which is summarized in the accompanying Executive Summary chart, supports the following conclusions: | • Numerous hazardous substances have been stored, used and/or produced at the former Western Electric facility during Western EJectric's tenancy. • There are several known and documented discharge pathways to the Passaic River Study Area from the former Western Electric facility. • The historic discharge of hazardous substances from the former Western Electric facility to the Passaic River Study Area has been documented. • Hazardous substances like and including those known to have been used at the former Western Electric facility are present in Passaic River Study Area sediments. Based on these conclusions, Western Electric and its' relevant successors-in-interest should be named as Potentially Responsible Parties for the Passaic River Study Area. 853890006 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - WESTERN ELECTRIC COMPANY (AT&T) (Al of May 30. 19%) DOCUMENTED DISCHARGES OTHER PATHWAYS TO HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES LOCATION AND HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES OF HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES DISCHARGE USED AT FACILITY FINANCIAL COMPANY YEARS TYPE OF OPERATION STORED/USED/PRODUCED AT TO FACILITY/RIVER HAZARDOUS •DENTIFIED IN PASS ATC VIABILITY OF OPERATION FACILITY SUBSTANCES RIVER SEDIMENTS ADJACENT TO SITE Weoera Electric (AT&T) Wenern Eleclric a) Hiatorkslly Ihe WE ammonia DnchareeitoRmy • Potential procesa wane copper ATAThu 100 Central Avenue located within me facility manufactured and boric acid water and/or spills cyanide reported asaeU Kearny, NJ southern puitiuu of • Prior to conatraclion of Ac discharged lo floor drains lead of over $87 the Pamk River product! that were utilized chlorofluorocarbon facility waate water treatment plant located in manufacturing (ncfcucy billion as of Current Owner/Ooerator: Study Ana on Ihe in the tdecommunkalion! chromium Irioxide in 1973 process waate water and auembly building! dial nickd 1995. Union Minerak A eaatern bank of Ihe indunry. k ia believed Conner genenlcd from plating operationa discharge lo die Paaaak •IVtS•BtltMBT* AUovt/RTC Properties nver extending front HIM WE facility alao cutting oil! waa diacharged to ihe Paaaak River River. zmc the Pauak River manufactured varioua cyanide via the facility atonn aewer lyilem. PCBs Study Aret mite 0.0 product! utilized byte * Site aotl and groundwaler petroleum hydrocarbon! lo approximately 0.7. U.S. Armed Forcei fluoboric acid • Wane water generated from die U contaminated with lorueoe during and after World flux manufacturing of acrewa waa volatile organk benzene Western Electric WarD. freon discharged to floor dnina located in compound!. Oroundwater xykne occupied the aile from hydrochloric acid building *I70 at the facility. TheM flow direction ii toward dw the 1920'ioVough Known Product! lacquer and thinner Boor dnina diacharged to the Pauaic River from die site. 19M. • Telecommunication lead fluobonte Paaaak River. Equipment (conneclon. mercury ten acu, nlaya, etc.) nkkel chloride • Hazardous aubatance diacharge lo • Tranafotmen nickel lulfMe the river via historical apilla • fcuulaied Cabfe/Win nitric acid adjacent lo storm aewer catch baaini * Screwi and FCBi diat diacbarge to the river. Botta paint! and amdge (aotventi and meula) • Telephone Switch perchtorethylene • On-iile contaminated soil or Board! pboephoric acid media transported to die Paasak poUuium cyanide River via Surface
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