EPA RCRA ID: PAD003026663
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
The facility submitted a Summary of Previous Investigation and Conceptual Site Model Report to EPA and Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (PADEP) in January 2014. EPA is currently evaluating this report to determine if any data gaps still exist and whether all corrective action requirements have been met.
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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The ALCOA Fastener Division, Lancaster Works facility manufactured products such as rivets, threaded fasteners, screw machine parts, and bottle caps during its period of operations from 1953 through 1987. For the majority of that time period, spent process solutions containing hexavalent chromium and cyanide were discharged to an on-site wastewater treatment plant consisiting of pH adjustment, chromium reduction facilities, a clarifier, two sludge impoundments and a polishing impoundment. ALCOA stopped its anodizing operations at the facility in 1985 and closure of the hazardous waste impoundments was accomplished and approved by PADEP in 1988.
Volatile organic compounds (VOCs), primarily trichloroethylene (TCE) have been found in the groundwater in the vicinity of a former vapor degreaser. The degreaser was removed in 1987 and contaminated soils were removed from the area around and beneath the unit. A recovery well was used from 1998 through 2012 to keep the plume within the site boundaries and to ensure that the plume does not impact the wetlands and surface water tributary on site. The recovered groundwater was treated at an on-site air stripper before being discharged under an NPDES permit to an on-site wetland pond and a receiving stream. The recovery system has been shutdown on a trial basis since April 2012 to determine whether TCE and other contaminant concentrations would increase in the absence of further pumping. TCE concentrations, after briefly spiking immediately after the shutdown, appear to exhibit a downward trend in the more recent groundwater monitoring events.
ALCOA ceased all manufacturing activities at the facility in 1987 and all on-site buildings, with the exception of the air stripper storage building were torn down in 1992. By 2002, the site had been redeveloped as the Red Rose Commons shopping center.
Impacted soils were removed from the area of the former vapor degreaser in 1987. The facility has been fully redeveloped into a shopping center, eliminating the potential for direct exposure to any potential remaining residual contamination. Groundwater beneath the facility is still found to contain TCE at concentrations above the maximum contaminant level (MCL) of five ug/l. However, groundwater is not used as a source of potable water in the vicinity of the site and the present levels of TCE in the groundwater are not suspected to be of vapor intrusion concern.
Institutional and Engineering Controls at this Facility
The need for institutional or engineering controls has yet to be determined.
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.