EPA RCRA ID: MDD069396711
The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) is the public law that creates the framework for the proper management of hazardous and non-hazardous solid waste. Corrective action is a requirement under RCRA that facilities that treat, store or dispose of hazardous wastes, or did so in the past, investigate and clean up hazardous releases into soil, groundwater, surface water and air. For more information, and for more information on RCRA-specific terms used on this page, please visit EPA’s umbrella RCRA web page or EPA’s RCRA Corrective Action page.
On this page:
- Cleanup Activities
- Facility Description
- Institutional/Engineering Controls
- Enforcement and Compliance
- Related Information and Publicly Available Electronic Records
- Contacts for this Facility
Cleanup Activities
In late 2002 and early 2003, EPA, the Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE), and the developer, (Harbor East Development Group), negotiated an agreement to limit liability for the developer. After a public notice period, the agreement known as the Prospective Lessee Agreement became effective on May 5, 2003.
Construction for Phase I of the RCRA Redevelopment project, now known as Harbor Point, started in late 2007. The opening of the first building, a seven story office building known as the Thames Street Wharf Building, was celebrated on June 10, 2010. Built to house financial services firm, Morgan Stanley, the building is currently also home to Johns Hopkins Medicine International.
In the summer of 2012, Harbor Point Phase I project continued with the construction of the 21-story tower known as the Exelon Building. The Exelon Building, completed in May, 2016, is a LEED Gold buildingwhich will house the headquarters for Exelon’s Constellation business unit plus Exelon’s 24-hour, 65,000 square foot trading floor. The building also includes a 39,000 square feet of street-level retail and 103 residential units and 750 –car park garage.
Habor Point Phase II construction commenced in the spring of 2016. Phase 2 includes Point Street Apartments, a 16-story building which will contain 289 residential units and 18,000 square feet of street-level retail and amenity space. This 215,000 square foot building will open in late 2017. Phase 2 will also include a 206,100 square foot office building with 30,000 square feet of ground floor retail, and another 120,840 square foot office building.
EPA approved the detailed development plan for the third and final phase of the Harbor Point project in September, 2016. Wills Wharf- a 222,000 square foot hotel with 12,730 square feet of street-level retail, 438,199 square foot office tower with 16,000 square feet of street-level retail, and a 346,000-square foot apartment tower with 10,200 square feet of street-level retail. The Phase III construction project is expected to be complete in 2022.
Total buildout of this mixed-use RCRA redevelopment project, including office and residential buildings, specialized retail, hotel space, approximately 9.5 acres of parks and open space, off-street parking and a waterfront promenade, is projected to occur over the next 10 years with a total project cost of approximately $1 billion. The completed project will create 7,100 construction jobs and 6,600 permanent jobs.
Prior to any redevelopment on the property, conceptual and detailed design plans must be approved by EPA and MDE. EPA and MDE will approve the redevelopment only if it is found that it will not interfere with the corrective measures, or the monitoring for the corrective measures, and that increased risks to the health or the environment will not result from the conditions at the site.
Cleanup Actions or environmental indicators characterizing the entire facility are shown below. This listing, and all the data on this page, come from EPA’s RCRAInfo and are refreshed nightly to this page. For this table, 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
| Action | Status | Date of Action |
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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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Located in Baltimore, Maryland, the Honeywell Baltimore Site, (now known a Harbor Point), was constructed in the mid-nineteenth century on approximately 18 acres of waterfront property in close proximity to Baltimore's Inner Harbor. Chrome ore was processed at the Site for the production of chromium chemicals until 1985. The Site was purchased by the Allied Chemical Company in 1954. Investigations in the early to mid-1980's found large quantities of chromium migrating from the Site into the Harbor and into the groundwater below the Harbor.
On September 29, 1989, EPA and the State of Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE) entered into a Consent Decree with Allied-Signal Inc. for further investigation and remediation of the Site. The Consent Decree anticipated that the final remedy would include onsite containment of contaminated soil and groundwater through construction of a deep vertical hydraulic barrier and a multi-media cap (“containment structure”). The Consent Decree specified that the remedy attain two performance standards - a surface water performance standard and a groundwater gradient performance standard. The surface water performance standard requires that the concentration of total dissolved chromium in the surface water be reduced to 50 parts per billion (“ppb”) for each surface water sample location by arithmetically averaging the samples taken at three depths (top, middle and bottom). The groundwater gradient performance standard requires that the groundwater level inside the containment structure be 0.01 foot lower than the water level outside of the containment structure based upon hourly measurements averaged over a 30-day period. In 1992, remedies were selected for four areas at and around the Baltimore Works Site (the Former Manufacturing Area, the Southeast Quadrant, a Newly Acquired Contiguous Property, and Wills Street by Dock Street). Allied Signal, (now Honeywell), remains perpetually responsible for maintaining the containment structure and monitoring the environment around the property.
The primary contaminant in the soil and groundwater is chromium.
Institutional and Engineering Controls at this Facility
Institutional Controls include a groundwater monitoring, multi-media containment cap, and restrictions on excavation.
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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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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| Proprietary ControlsProprietary Controls (PR) | |||
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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 and Publicly Available Electronic Records
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.