EPA RCRA ID: VAD981043011
On this page:
- Cleanup Status
- Facility Description
- Contaminants at this Facility
- Institutional/Engineer Controls
- Enforcement and Compliance
- Related Information
- Contacts for this Facility
Cleanup Status
Note: The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (VDEQ) is the lead agency for managing cleanups at this facility.
A Confirmatory Sampling Plan (CSP) was conditionally approved by the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) on June 10, 2010. Results of the CSP implementation were submitted to the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) and the EPA in a Confirmatory Sampling Report (CSR) by Environmental Consulting and Technology, Inc. (ECT) dated September 14, 2010. The DEQ approved the results provided in the CSR in a letter to Safety-Kleen dated February 3, 2011.
The DEQ reviewed all available Facility data and determined that there were no unaddressed releases of hazardous waste or hazardous constituents from the Facility. The decision represents "Corrective Action Complete without Controls". A Statement of Basis (SB) was public noticed on July 18, 2011, which proposed Corrective Action Complete without Controls. No comments were received and the final decision regarding the Facility was approved on September 29, 2011, as part of a Class 2 Permit Modification for incorporating the decision into the facility's Hazardous Waste Management Permit. The DEQ determined that its decision for the Facility is protective of human health and the environment and that no further corrective action or controls are necessary at this time.
Cleanup Actions or environmental indicators characterizing the entire facility are shown below. It is not intended as an extensive list of milestones/activities. This listing, and all the data on this page, come from EPA’s RCRAInfo and are refreshed nightly to this page. For this table and the Cleanup Activities Pertaining to a Portion of the Facility table that follows, 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
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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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Since the early 1980's, the Safety-Kleen facility has been providing solvent distribution, collection and reclamation services to companies primarily engaged in automobile repair, industrial maintenance, photo processing and dry cleaning. The business activities conducted at the facility relate to the leasing and servicing of Safety-Kleen parts cleaning equipment, the collection and distribution of solvents, the collection of paint wastes, and the collection and management of industrial wastes. The solvents are distributed from and returned to the service center, where separate aboveground storage tanks are utilized for the storage of clean and used parts washer solvent, and waste oil. Additional space is designated for the storage of drums containing various waste streams including both clean and used immersion cleaner, dry cleaner wastes, photographic processing wastes, and paint wastes. The stored materials are periodically removed from the facility and transported to other facilities for reclamation or other method of disposal. No reclamation or disposal activities are performed at the Chester facility.
Groundwater investigation activities performed at the Facility during the mid-1990's showed low-level volatile organic compounds (VOCs) detected in groundwater sampled from two on-site groundwater monitoring wells and one nearby residential water well.
In mid-July 1998, Safety-Kleen installed two new groundwater monitoring wells (MW-4 and PZ-5) to confirm the direction of the groundwater flow, and to further evaluate groundwater quality conditions. Three additional rounds of groundwater monitoring well samples were taken and analyzed in July 1998, January 1999, and July 1999. Thereafter, an additional round of groundwater monitoring well samples were taken and analyzed in August 2002. In 2002, Virginia DEQ review of the analytical results of groundwater samples collected during the sampling events completed through 2002 indicated a downward trend in the concentration of the two VOC contaminants of concern, tetrachloroethene and 1, 1-dichloroethene, was evident. The sampling reports dated August 1999 and September 2002 confirmed there were no groundwater detections exceeding the drinking water standards (MCLs).
Concurrent with the groundwater monitoring activities, on October 2, 1998, as an Interim Measure, Safety-Kleen completed the connection of the private residence to the Chesterfield County public water supply, and disabled the residential water well. Drinking water samples collected from this residential well were found to contain the same VOCs that were also found in Safety-Kleen's two groundwater monitoring wells.
Contaminants at this Facility
Based on available information there are no known contaminants of concerns or risk.
Institutional and Engineering Controls at this Facility
Institutional Controls were not required at the site.
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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Control(s) in Place? |
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
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.