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BEOIrilWO ! NYSDEC Site ID # 360003 OCT - 2 1995 ! NYS-DHC . REGION 3-NEWgVLTZ Citizen Participation Plan for the Magna Metals Site Inactive Hazardous Waste Disposal Site Town of Cortlandt Westchester County, New York Prepared by: ^jj FOSTER WHEELER ENVIRONMENTAL CORPORATION August 1995 >, i JV S)*SW.Mj NYSDEC Site ID # 360003 Citizen Participation Plan for the Magna Metals Site Inactive Hazardous Waste Disposal Site Town of Cortlandt Westchester County, New York Prepared by: ^jj] FOSTER WHEELER ENVIRONMENTAL CORPORATION August 1995 TABLE OF CONTENTS Page 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1-1 2.0 BACKGROUND 2-1 2.1 Site Location and Description 2-1 2.2 Abbreviated Site History 2-1 3.0 PROJECT DESCRIPTION 3-1 3.1 Overview 3-1 3.2V RI/FS Program 3-1 3.3 Habitat-Based Assessment 3-2 3.4 Remedial Investigation/Feasibility Study Report 3-2 3.5 Project Schedule 3-2 4.0 CONTACT LIST 4-1 4.1 Surrounding Properties 4-1 4.2 Local Officials 4-1 4.3 Local Media 4-1 5.0 IDENTIFICATION OF PROJECT CONTACTS 5-1 6.0 DOCUMENT REPOSITORY 6-1 6.1 Location of Repository 6-1 6.2 List of Documents 6-1 7.0 DESCRIPTION OF CITIZEN PARTICIPATION ACTIVITIES FOR EACH ELEMENT OF THE REMEDIAL PROGRAM 7-1 7.1 FSAP Fact Sheet 7-1 7.2 RI/FS Report Fact Sheet 7-1 7.3 Public Meeting 7-1 8.0 GLOSSARY OF KEY TERMS AND MAJOR PROGRAM ELEMENTS 8-1 8.1 Glossary of Key Terms 8-1 8.2 Definitions of Significant Remedial Program Elements and Terms 8-2 APPENDIX A Public Contact List M0354.doc 1 LIST OF FIGURES Figure 2-1 Location Map 2-2 Figure 2-2 Site Plan 2-3 Figure 3-1 Project Schedule 3-3 M0354.doc ii 1.0 INTRODUCTION Presented herein is the Citizen Participation Plan (CPP) for the Remedial Investigation/Feasibility Study (RI/FS) to be performed at the Magna Metals site (the site) by Foster Wheeler Environmental Corporation (Foster Wheeler Environmental). The site is a Class 2 on the New York State Registry of Inactive Hazardous Waste Disposal Sites. The purpose of the RI/S being performed at the site is to access the nature and extent of contamination, identify contaminant migration pathways, determine possible environmental/ecological risks and evaluate remedial alternatives. Foster Wheeler Environmental will be working with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) and New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) during implementation of the RI/FS. NYSDECs role will include oversight of the field activities and review of the reports generated by Foster Wheeler Environmental. NYSDOH will provide additional input on the proposed field activities with particular emphasis on any potential public health issues. As part of the RI/FS program, Foster Wheeler Environmental will conduct a citizen participation program. The citizen participation program promotes public understanding of NYSDECs and NYSDOH's responsibilities, planning activities and remedial activities. It provides an opportunity for the public to provide input into the RI/FS process ensuring that the remedial program is comprehensive, addresses the public needs and concerns and is protective of human health and the environment M0354.doc 1-1 2.0 BACKGROUND 2.1 Site Location and Description The site is located in the Town of Cortlandt, Westchester County, New York near the intersection of Furnace Dock Road and Maple Avenue. Nearby towns include Peekskill, two miles northeast and Croton-on-the-Hudson, five miles southwest. The Hudson River is located three miles west of the site. Road access to the site is more than adequate as several routes are available including Route 9/9A, Bear Mountain Parkway, and the Taconic Parkway (see Figure 2-1). Locally, the site is part of a larger commercial property having several operating businesses which currently include: Con Edison and Silverman Furniture. The Croton Egg Farm is located west of the site. To the north, south and east are residential areas. Also to the north-northwest is an inactive emery mine. A wetland area with a stream, a tributary and on-site pond is located between the site and residential area south of the site. Figure 2-2 presents the site plan. """ 2.2 Abbreviated Site History This section summarizes the existing information. One of the goals of the RI/FS to be conducted is to complete the data gaps evident in the following historical discussion. Metal plating, polishing, and lacquering operations were conducted at the Magna Metals site from 1955 to 1979. The site was formerly owned by ISC Properties, Inc. and is currendy owned by Baker Properties, Inc. During operation, iron, lead, copper, nickel, and zinc chlorides, cyanides, and sulfates were discharged to a series of leaching pits. Spent trichloroethylene (TCE) was drummed and removed, but some was allegedly discharged to the septic system. A water pollution investigation was performed in October 1978 by the Westchester County Health Department (WCHD). Five standing/wastewater samples were taken on October 3, 1978 and analyzed for pH, iron, copper, zinc, cadmium, chromium, cyanide, lead, manganese, and nickel. Concentrations of nickel, cyanide, zinc, copper, and iron exceeded groundwater standards. Lead concentrations exceeded groundwater standards in one sample, however, the detection limit used in the lead analyses was higher than the groundwater standard. Thus, lead concentrations could have been above the groundwater standards but below the detection limit Soil and bottom sediment samples were collected on the site and upstream and downstream of the site on October 13, 1978. These samples were analyzed for the same parameters as the water samples taken earlier in the month. Zinc and copper were the only metals present above the common range for native soils and oral exposure health based criteria. These metals were found in the two soil samples downslope of the wastewater overflow or site effluent WCHD returned on December 15, 1978 with NYSDEC and took five core samples from the sewage overflow area. These samples were analyzed for lead, copper, zinc, chromium and manganese. Zinc concentrations were above the common range for native soils in two samples. Copper concentrations also exceeded the common range for native soils in two samples. The other metals were found in concentrations below or within their common range for native soils. M0354.doc 2-1 I1 SCALE: r = 2000' ISC PROPERTIES FOSTER © WHEELER MAGNA METALS SITE FIGURE 2-1 FOSTER WHEELER ENVIRONMENTAL CORPORATION I SITE LOCATION MAP LEGEND O MONITORING WELLS (INCLUDES SOIL AND GROUNDWATER SAMPLES) £j MONITORING WELL (ONE UPCRADlENT LOCATION WILL BE SELECTED) • SURFACE SOIL • SURFACE WATER AND SEDIMENT • SEPTIC TANK/LEACH PIT SOIL APPROXIMATE 200 100 0 200 SCALE IN FEET SURFACE FEATURES FROM WESTCHESTER COUNTr. DEPARTMENT OF PLANNING AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH. SPRING 1990 6 TANKS/PITS LOCATED AS OF 3/28/91 TOPOGRAPHIC INTERPRETATION FROM NYSOEC. 1983 QUAORANGLE LOCATION SCALE: r«2000' ISC PROPERTIES FOSTER © WHEELER MAGNA METALS SITE FIGURE 2-2 FOSTER WHEELER ENVIRONMENTAL CORPORATION SITE PLAN Metal plating operations ceased in June 1979. That same month, NYSDEC ordered the industrial sludge to be removed from the pits on site. By the end of 1979, the leach pits (not septic and holding tanks) had been emptied by suction hose. On August 19, 1982, William Cosulich Consulting collected four leaching pit samples for selected trace metals, cyanides, phenols, sulfate, nitrates, and chlorides analyses by General Testing Corporation. The results indicated no apparent metal leaching problems. Sulfates, nitrates and chlorides were present at concentrations less than New York State (NYS) Ambient Water Quality Standards of 250, 10 and 250 ppm (parts per million). In addition, these inorganics generally have low toxicity and are present as background constituents. On December 29, 1982 and February 1, 2, and March 15, 1983, the WCHD conducted additional water pollution investigations on the property and in Furnace Brook immediately to the west of the property. Except for aesthetic considerations of iron and manganese concentrations at several locations, trace metals in surface water were not found to be elevated (i.e., when compared to NYS Ambient Water Quality Standards). However, several chlorinated volatile organics were detected in Furnace Brook; of major concern were the levels of trichloroethylene (TCE) in the septic tank, a leaching pit off the septic tank and at downstream locations along Furnace Brook and an unnamed tributary. On May 15, 1984 the NYSDEC Division of Environmental Enforcement resampled the site, specifically for metals and volatile organic analytes (VOAs). Sludge, sediment and/or surface water samples were collected at four locations along the brook/tributary, the septic tank, and three sludge pits. 3By comparing sediment/sludge sample results to typical soil background levels and surface water sample results to NYS Ambient Water Quality Standards, several observations can be made. Traetr mctals~in sediment samples indieated--simffiirMrend3M.cjt the 12 priority pollutants^were^ssenriaUy present at background levels (copper was slightly elevated). rSludge samples collected from two pits, however, contained elevated arsenic, selenium, cadmium, chromium, copper, nickel, silver and zinc.[EP toxicity tests for the two sludge samples resulted in concentrations below the allowable maximum EP toxicity concentration (and mostly less than detection limiO^The results of trace metal analyses for N¥S©EC samples basically confirm findings by thewCHD that metals known to be in the leaching pits have apparently not reached Furnace Brook.