Community Relations Plan, Action Anodizing Plating and Polishing, Copiague, Suffolk County, New York
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RRNIE ^V-^tO ST4^ S Ui Q O ARCS II \ ^s^ m .^^ Contract No. 68-W9-00Si Community Relations Plan Action Anodizing Planting & Poiisliing Copiague, Suffolic County, New Yoric Malcolm Phrnie, Inc. 2 Corporate Park Drive White Plains, New York 10602 > o >-3 o o (March 1990 r>: a\ -n m ARCS II CONTRACT NO. 68-W9-0051 WORK ASSIGNMENT NO.001-2L3M SITE NAME: ACTION ANODIZING PLATING AND POLISHING COMMUNITY RELATIONS PLAN CONTRACTOR QA/QC SIGN-OFF Malcolm Pirnie, Inc. has reviewed this draft document in accordance with the contractor's ARCS II QAPP and is submitting it to USEPA, Region II in compliance with the require ments underwork Assignment No. 001-2L3M and Contract No. 68-W9-0051. This document has not been approved by USEPA Region II and is not Intended for release to the public. A^ .i^^^^i*-**^ ARCS II PMO OA MANAGER ARCS II PMO OPERATIONS MANAGER 6 1^ Date: 3no/iV Date: 9 PO/ /f?0 o ' o o TABLE OF CONTENTS Page 1.0 OVERVIEW OF COMMUNITY REUMIONS PU\N 2.0 SITE DESCRIPTION 2 2.1 Site Location 2 2.2 Site History 2 2.3 Current Conditions 8 3.0 COMMUNITY BACKGROUND 8 3.1 Community Profile 8 3.2 Community Involvement 9 3.3 Community Concerns 10 4.0 THE RI/FS PROGRAM 10 5.0 COMMUNITY RELATIONS ACTIVITIES 13 APPENDICES APPENDIX A - List of Contacts and Interested Parties A-1 APPENDIX B - Locations for Information Repositories B-1 .i and Availability Sessions > o o o o^ o LIST OF FIGURES Figure Following Page '". ' • • •' 2-1 Regional Map 2 2-2 Site Location Map 2-3 Action Anodizing Prior to 1980 2-4 Existing Site Plan 1989 5 > :-3 o o I-' O ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS AAPP Action Anodizing Plating and Polishing CRP Community Relations Plan LIRPB Long Island Regional Planning Board NPL National Priorities List NYC New York City NYSDEC New York State Department of Environmental Conservation RD/RA Remedial Design/Remedial Action RI/FS Remedial Investigation/Feasibility Study ROD Record of Decision SCDHS Suffolk County Department of Health Services sq. ft. square feet USEPA United States Environmental Protection Agency r. >-3 a a- III o 00 COMMUNITY RELATIONS PLAN Action Anodizing Plating And Polishing Hamlet of Copiague, Town of Babylon Suffolk County, New, York 1.0 OVERVIEW OF COMMUNITY RELATIONS PLAN This Community Relations Plan (CRP) identifies potential issues of community concern regarding the Action Anodizing Plating and Polishing (AAPP) site in the Town of Babylon, in the Hamlet of Copiague, New York. This docuitient outlines community relations activities to be conducted during the USEPA remedial investigation/feasibility study (RI/FS) for the site. AAPP was placed on the National Priorities List (NPL) in March 1989, and this listing was published in the local newspapers. Local officials are aware of the site's listing and are concerned that the community be kept informed but not alarmed unnecessarily if no contamination is discovered during site investigations. This draft CRP has been prepared to enable USEPA to develop a community relations program tailored to meet the needs of :the community affected by the AAPP site. The Plan focusses on activities designed to provide interested citizens and officials with up-to-date information about site activities and to address specific areas of community concerns. The Plan is based on community inten/iews conducted on November 14, 1989 with residents and officials in the Town of Babylon, NY. The remainder of this CRP consists of the following sections: 2.0 Site Description 3.0 Community Background 4.0 The RI/FS Program 5.0 Community Relations Activities > o o O ^3 2.0 SITE DESCRIPTION 2.1 Site Location ' ' The AAPP superfund site is located at approximate Latitude 40" 41.' and approximate Longitude 73° 24' (refer to Figures 2-1 and 2-2), in the Town of Babylon, in the Hamlet of Copiague, New York. Suffolk County occupies the eastern two-thirds of Long Island, and encompasses 900 square miles. (576,000 acres). The Town of Babylon is located iri southwest Suffolk County and encompasses approximately 53 square miles (33,920 acres) and is approximately 35 miles to the east of New York City (NYC). The Town is comprised of eight Hamlets: Copiague, Deer Park, East Farmingdale, North Amityville, North Babylon, North Undenhursf, West Babylon and Wyandanch-Whertley Heights; and three incorporated Villages: Amityville, Babylon and Lindenhurst. AAPP is located on a one-acre site at 33 Dixon Avenue in Copiague, New York and has been in operation since 1968. The site is approximately one mile east of the Nassau-Suffolk County line and one^half mile south of the Sunrise Highway. 2.2 Site Histon/ AAPP has occupied the facilities at 33 Dixon Avenue since 1968, with most operations being anodizing, plating, polishing and painting. The operating facility includes approximately 3,000 square feet (sq. ft.) of floor area and 2,000 sq. ft. of office space. Attached to the facility is a 7,500 sq. ft. addition, which was built in 1984, and is presently used for storage (refer to Figures 2-3 and 2-4), > n !-3 o o o FIGURE 2- ACTION ANODIZING o o M M ACTION ANOOIZmO. PLATINO ANO POLISHING REGIONAL iMAP isasi^ NOT TO SCALE FIOUMC 2 •f :j'ts"" '1==^-i^y. *%!^ *> iid^^^'i*'^SiBirh Sch i \: ^iWj* iVisfcis- ' iaulr^ir O O J-P'?' -!'« ParK. ACTION ANOmZINa, PLATWO AND POUtMMO SOURCE: USaS AMTYVILLE OUADRANOLE SITE LOCATION MAP i^ass^ SCALE: r - 20«0' FtOUflE 2- GARBALOI AVE. PROPERTY BOUNDRY POSSIBLE LOGATION OF FORMER ^M.EACHING POOLS (4-6) ANODIZING AND PLATING PROCESS > o o o D'XON AVE ACTION ANOOtZma, PLATtNO AND POLtSHmO ACTION ANODIZING PRIOR TO 1980 PIRNIE NOT TO SCALE FIGURE 2- GARIBALDI AVE. PROPERTY BOUNDRY POSSIBLE LOCATION OF FORMER LEACHING POOLS (4-«) > O •1-3 o o ASSUMED LOCATION OF WASTE TROUGH (APPROX. 4' FROM en WEST WALL) 1984 ADDITION ACTION ANODIZINO. PLATMQ AND POLISHINa MAUGOyVi EXISTING SITE PLAN 1989 PIRNIE APPROXIMATE SCALE: 1*>33' Prior to 1968, the facility was operated by Unqua Fabricare, a commercial laundry service. From 1968 to date, AAPP has been involved primarily with sulphuric acid' anodizing of aluminum parts for the electronics industry, cadmium plating, chromate conversion coatings, metal dying and vapor degreasing. Liquid wastes ifrom the aforementioned processes include rinses from spent caustic and acidic solutions contaminated with cadmium, chromium, zinc and sodium cyanide. The rinses were stored in a concrete trough from which they were pumped into a low pressure steam boiler. The steam was condensed and reused as process make-up water. The solids from the rinse water were allowed to build up in the boiler tubes until the tubes became plugged (i.e., tubes plugged in approximately five years). Thereafter, the boiler was replaced with a new boiler. The concrete rinse holding trough had been used by the commercial laundry . as part of its drainage system. The trough connected to a septic tank on the north side of the building. Tank overflow fed into a series of four (4) to six (6) leaching pits on the east side of the original building. The bottom of the leaching pits were reportedly several feet above the ground water table. /\APP has stated that in January 1980 a pipe connecting the holding trough to the leaching system was accidentally broken, allowing the rinse water to discharge to the leaching pits. On January 11, 1980, AAPP was ordered by the Suffolk County Department of Health Services (SCDHS) to cease discharge immediately, and pump out and remove the contents of the entire leaching system. In the spring of 1980, /\APP contracted with the Patterson Chemical Company for the cleanup and closing of their , leaching system. This work was supervised and approved by SCDHS. On September 30, 1980, SCDHS notified AAPP that the vicinity wherein the leaching pits had been located could be back-filled with clean sand and gravel. Since 1980, AAPP reports that it has had its industrial waste hauled off-site for ^ disposal. In January 1986, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation "^ o (NYSDEC) issued a Phase I Investigation Report on AAPP. This included a site o investigation, preparation of a preliminary Hazard Ranking Score for the site, M development of a preliminary hydrogeologic model and preparation of a summary report. As a result of this investigation, the site was ultimately placed on the NPL. 2.3 Current Conditions AAPP is still engaged in the anodizing and plating business, and reports that their industrial wastes currently are stored on-site in double walled tanks for less than 90 days and then periodically hauled off-site. The area where the former leaching field was located is presently covered by the 7,500 sq. ft. addition constructed in 1984. The floor of the addition is a six-inch concrete slab which was placed over existing soil. When the addition was, built, four separate drainage systems were installed to collect surface runoff from the building's roof and two proposed parking lots (refer to Figure i2-4). The parking lots were never built and the roof drains were not connected to the drainage systems. The area proposed for the parking lots is currently an unpaved area overgrown with brush and weeds. 3.0 COMMUNITY BACKGROUND 3.1 Community Profile The history of Suffolk County has been profoundly influenced by it's proximity to New England and NYC, and by the sea which defines the County's borders on three sides. Suffolk's heritage is based on the procession of all races of people over the past 10,000 years, from Indians to explorers, pirates and colonists.