)865$3 200.1e Shpack_Landfill_01.06_0136_a ATLAS TACKcORP EPAREGIONI BnsCounty MASSACHUSETTS EPA IDMAD001026319 Site Description The Atlas Tack Corporation formerly manufactured cut and wire tacks steel nails and similar items on 12-acre site in Fairhaven From the 1940s until the late 1970s wastes containing cyanide and acid heavy metals including high levels of arsenic were discharged into an unlined neutralizing feet of the and to saltwater lagoon located approximately 200 east manufacturing building adjacent filled tidal marsh in Buzzards Bay Estuary Other contaminated areas at the site include wetland former dump and other chemical spills The area is residential and commercial Approximately 7200 live within miles of the site people live within mile radius and approximately 15150 people Site Responsibility The site is being addressed through Federal and potentially responsible Final Date 02/21/90 Threats and Contaminants that leached from the site The groundwater is contaminated with cyanide and toluene lagoons The on-site soil is contaminated with volatile organic compounds VOCs lead including toluene and ethyl benzene heavy metals including chromium cadmium ______ aromatic and nickel pesticides polychiorinated biphenyls and polycyclic _______ PCBs direct contact with contaminated hydrocarbons PAHs Trespassers are at risk through soil or ingestion of shellfish in the area The marsh south of the lagoon and estuarine areas in Buzzards Bay are also contaminated causing an ecologic risk to the wildlife Cleanup Approach on The site is being addressed in two phases initial actions and long-term remedial phase focusing cleanup of the entire site ATLASTACK CORP January 1998 Response Action Status installed fence around Initial Actions In late 1992 the potentially responsible party J__ the site to control access the and extent of site Entire Site The EPA is conducting an investigation into nature contamination Currently the EPA is conducting the feasibility study to identify be appropriate alternatives for cleaning up the site with final remedy expected to selected in late 1998 Environmental Progress immediate risk while The EPA has determined that the public and the environment are not at site continue and final alternatives are being investigations at the Atlas Tack Corp cleanup determined Site Repository Fairhaven Public Library Center Street Fairhaven MA 02719 ATLAS TACK CORP January 1998 METADATA TITLE National Priorities List NPL Site Summary Sheets IDENTIFICATION NUMBER N/A sites located in EPA ABSTRACT Site Summary Sheets provide general information on NPL Region at NPL Sites PURPOSE To provide information on progess Region ORIGINATOR Regional Project Manager RPM PUBLICATION DATE OF PAPER DOCUMENT 01/01/98 ACCESS CONSTRAINTS Read Only/Download 573-9696 AVAILABILITY Contact Patti Ludwig Region Data Administrator at 617 COVERAGE N/A TIME PERIOD OF OVERAGE 01/01/98 12/31/98 POINT OF CONTACT FOR MORE INFORMATION Paul Craffey RPM 617 223-5581 RESPONSIBILE PARTY N/A DATE OF WEB DOCUMENT CREATION AGENCY SUPPLEMENT INFORMATION N/A EXPIRATION DATE 12/31/98 ATLAS TACK CORP January 1998 BAIRD MCGUIRE EPAR EGION MASSACHUSETTS Street in northwest Holbrook EPA lOll MA0001041987 ./ .T /y/ Site Description The Baird McGuire facility is located on 20-acre site in Holbrook and operated as chemical mixing and batching company from 1912 to 1983 Later activities included mixing packaging storing and distributing various products including pesticides disinfectants soaps floor waxes and solvents Some of the raw materials used at the site were stored in tank farm and piped to the laboratory or mixing buildings Other raw materials were stored in drums on site Waste disposal methods at the site included direct discharge into the soil nearby brook wetlands and former gravel pit Hazardous wastes historically were disposed of in an on-site lagoon and cesspool Also such included on site were two lagoons open to rain and large areas of buried wastes as cans debris lab bottles and hundreds of bottles of chemicals The lagoon area has been capped with clay The on-site buildings were in various states of disrepair and unsecured early activities conducted by EPA included demolishing all but one of the buildings and the tank farms The tank farm area was temporarily capped The site is completely fenced and groundwater recirculation system was operated to contain the groundwater plume until permanentremedies were impIemented The.site is 500 feet west of the Cochato River The Cochato River had at one time been diverted into the Richardi Reservoir water system serving nearly 90000 people in the Towns of Holbrook Randolph and Braintree Currently the Cochato River is not being used as supply source for the Richardi for is located Reservoir The South Street well field part of the municipal water supply Holbrook within 1500 feet of the site and was shut down in 1982 Site Responsibility The site is being addressed thmugh Federal and State actions Final Date 09/08/83 Threats and Contaminants The groundwater is contaminated with pesticides and organic and inorganic chemicals Studies found significant levels of volatile organic compounds VOCs other organic compounds arsenic and pesticides including DDT and chlordane in the Cochato River sediments The contamination is highest on site or within approximately 500 feet downgradient of the current site fence Site soils were found to be contaminated with January1998 VOCs polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons PAH5 other organic compounds pesticides Dioxin also has been detected in dioxin and heavy metals such as lead and arsenic area shut down in 1982 wetland soils The last operating well in the South Street well field was because of unacceptably high levels of organic contamination The area of the site is in site soils and dioxin contamination fl fenced however high levels of pesticides sporadic of or direct pose an imminent threat to public health through accidental ingestion contact The continues to ______ with the contaminated soils or groundwater groundwater plume contaminate the Cochato River sediments however no significant health risk was found based on human contact with contaminated sediments Contaminated sediments were found to be acutely toxic to aquatic life Cleanup Approach actions and four remedial The site is being addressed in five stages immediate long-term phases and sediments the of an alternate water addressing the cleanup of the groundwater soil and provision supply Response Action Status Immediate Actions The EPA completed hydrological study in connection with action taken included the removal of 1020 cubic yards of 4- this site The initial response of hazardous waste ton of waste creosote 25 gallons of waste coal tar 155 pounds drums of corrosives solid hazardous waste 47 drums of flammable liquids and solids and construction of installation of Additional activity included clay cap groundwater of and extensive soil interception/recirculation system installation of 5700 feet fencing and seeded The site is groundwater surface water and air sampling The site was graded capped secured by fence to limit contact with contaminants contamination Groundwater The final cleanup remedy chosen to address groundwater Treated involves pumping groundwater and treating it at an on-site treatment plant On- and off-site is groundwater is discharged to the aquifer located on site groundwater and treatment was monitored new 300000 gallon-per-day groundwater pump discharge plant of were constniéted and began operating in 1993 Approximately 40 million gallons groundwater is to last treated during the plants first year of operation Operation of the treatment plant expected into the next decade Soil In 1992 the EPA awarded contract to OHM Remediation Services Corporation in for construction of mobile soil incinerator trail burn of the incinerator was held Burn the mobile incinerator January 1995 Following acceptance of the Trial results June 1995 the incineration of began full scale incineration of contaminated soils in OHM completed June 1997 Demobilization of approximately 248000 tons of contaminated soil and sediment on 17 and areas the mobile incinerator began immediately The site is now graded topsoil placed upland have been re-seeded Wetlands have also been restored and planted BAIRD MCGUIRE January1998 for Sediments The groundwater discharge is believed to be partially responsible ____ Field in contamination of Cochato River sediments and adjoining wetlands investigations runoff from the 1987 and 1988 determined that contaminated groundwater and surface of contamination the wetlands adjacent to the site The site continue to be the principal sources of the contaminants of recommended alternatives for final surface investigations defined concern and determined that site contaminants were being water and sediment cleanup The investigations also down-river In late 1989 remedy was effectively trapped in river sediments and were not migrating cubic of sediments on selected that includes excavating and incinerating approximately 1500 yards activities were in site Design of cleanup actions was completed in 1991 Construction completed that further contamination occurs 1995 Sampling of the river will continue for 30 years to ensure no that will reactivate Water Supply In 1990 the EPA selected final cleanup remedy of the Donna Road Aquifer thereby replacing the loss caused by contamination Design Construction of the well-head this remedy began in 1991 and was completed in late 1994 treatment system is expected to begin in 1998 least