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Superfund Program Implements the Recovery Act
Sigmon’s Septic Tank
Statesville, North CarolinaSite Description
The Sigmon’s Septic Tank site is located approximately five miles southwest of Statesville, NC. The site, which covers approximately 15.35 acres, is in a rural area where the primary source of drinking water is private and community wells. From 1970 to 1995, the owner of the site pumped residential, commercial and industrial septic wastes and sludges; installed and repaired septic tanks; and provided a variety of industrial waste removal services. Eight to ten unlined lagoons were used to hold the septic wastes. The lagoon sludges were excavated and piled adjacent to the lagoon area. The site’s affected media are soil and ground water. Vanadium is the most significant soil contaminant. Ground water contaminants above the Maximum Contaminant Level in the monitoring wells are arsenic, manganese, iron, vanadium and 1,4 dichlorobenzene.
Cleanup Activities to Date
EPA placed the site on the National Priorities List in 2005, and completed a short-term removal action in 2006 to install filters on residential wells in the site vicinity. In 2006, EPA selected the cleanup plan addressing the site’s contaminated soils, including stockpiles. EPA estimates that the total soil disposal volume will be 12,000 cubic yards, an amount which is based on an estimated 1,400 cubic yards in the soil waste piles and underlying soil, and 10,600 cubic yards of vanadium-contaminated surface soil located on-site and off-site. EPA will address the ground water cleanup approach for the site in a separate cleanup plan.
Recovery Act Project Activity
EPA will use the up to $5 million in Recovery Act funds allocated to this site to begin cleanup activities to address the contaminated soil. After being excavated, EPA will dispose of the contaminated soil off-site. EPA will backfill and re-vegetate the excavated area.
To find out more about:
- This Superfund site, go to: http://www.epa.gov/Region4/waste/npl/nplnc/sigmonsnc.htm
- Superfund and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, go to: http://www.epa.gov/superfund/eparecovery/index.html;
- EPA and ARRA, go to: http://www.epa.gov/recovery; and
- ARRA across the United States, go to: http://www.recovery.gov.