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Solvay Solexis Incorporated
Other (Former) Names of Site - Ausimont USA Incorporated, National Steel Company (Pennwalt)
| EPA Identification Number: | NJD980753875 | |
| Facility Location: | 10 Leonards Lane, Thorofare, New Jersey |
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| Facility Contact: | Virginia Hubert, (609) 251-3426 | |
| EPA Contact | Sin-Kie Tjho, (212) 637-4115, tjho.sin-kie@epa.gov | |
| New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) Case Manager: | Myrna Campion, (609) 633-1337 | |
| Last Updated: | December 2003 | |
| Environmental Indicator Status: |
Human Exposures Under Control has been verified. |
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Site Description
The Solvay Solexis site is located on Crown Point Road in West Deptford Township, New Jersey, a mostly industrial area surrounded by rural and residential setting. National Steel Company operated at the site before it was sold to Ausimont (known as Pennwalt at that time) in 1969. Currently, Solvay Solexis manufactures chloroflourocarbon (Kynar®), which is a plastic used in chemical process equipment, wire and cable installation. Solvay Solexis' operation generates various hazardous wastes which are managed under a permit from New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) for on-site hazardous waste storage and incineration.
Although the current facility name is Solvay Solexis, Inc., the name Ausimont will be used in describing the historical activities to avoid confusion.
Potential Threats and Contaminants
Ausimont had managed chemical wastes from its processes on-site in unlined surface impoundments (man-made "ponds" in which contaminants in liquid settle to the bottom). Releases from the impoundments and spills and discharges of chemical waste at the site resulted in soil and groundwater contamination. Groundwater contaminants include chloromethane, trichlorofluoromethane, chloroform and carbon tetrachloride. Soil contaminants include 1,1-dichloroethene and some metals like lead and copper.
Cleanup Approach and Progress
From 1990 to 1992, the company cleaned up the contaminated soil by excavating it and shipping it off-site to a waste disposal facility. Ausimont then backfilled the excavated areas with clean soil.
Solvay Solexis is currently investigating the groundwater contamination at the site to determine how far it extends.
The investigation need to be completed to define the hydrogeology and groundwater contamination both on-site and off-site. Based on the contaminant concentration levels, the rate at which the contaminated groundwater is moving and the distance the plume of contaminated water has migrated, an appropriate final remedy will be selected. Institutional controls (e.g., a deed notice for residual soil contamination and a Classification Exceptions Area for remaining groundwater contamination) will be imposed at areas with residual contamination and a long-term groundwater monitoring system will be developed to ensure that the groundwater contamination is contained.
Site Repository
Copies of supporting technical documents and correspondence cited in the site fact sheet are available for public review at the following location:
New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection
Division of Solid & Hazardous Waste
Records Center
401 E. State Street, 6th Floor
Trenton, NJ 08625
Telephone: (609) 777-3373
The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) makes available its public records through formal request under the Open Public Records Act (OPRA).
