Mid-Atlantic Corrective Action

Archer Creek Foundry
Virginia Casting Industries (VCI)

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• Institutional Controls
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EPA ID: VAD000820506
Location:
1132 Mount Athos Rd.
Lynchburg, VA 24504
Property Area 193 Acres
Congressional District:
Other Names: Intermet - Archer Creek Foundry
LAST UPDATE: September 2016

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Status

The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (VDEQ) has prepared a Corrective Action Statement of Basis (SB) [PDF, 10 pages, 6.8 MB] About PDF]for the Virginia Casting Industries (formerly Intermet) Archer Creek Foundry (ACF) to solicit public comment on its proposed final remedy. VDEQ's proposed decision requires the Facility to maintain certain property mechanisms known as Institutional Controls (ICs) and Engineering Controls (ECs). Persons wishing to comment on DEQ’s proposed remedy must submit comments to DEQ within the 30-day comment period ending October 19, 2016.

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Background

The 193 acre facility was a small castings foundry that manufactured metal parts for automobiles, heavy trucks, small internal combustion engines, computers, industrial tools, and household appliances. The facility was owned by Intermet Corporation from 1973 to 2009 when operations ceased, then sold to Virginia Casting Industries in 2010. The facility managed hazardous and non-hazardous wastes and completed numerous cleanup activities since 1998. Currently, the property consists of large concrete pads delineating the footprint of former structures, several derelict structures, a closed solid waste landfill, and elements of a former wastewater treatment system.

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Contaminants and Risks

Numerous hazardous chemicals, non-hazardous chemicals, and petroleum products were historically used during the manufacturing process. The raw chemicals and petroleum products were stored in small aboveground storage tanks (ASTs), 55-gallon dmms, and carboys. The hazardous and non-hazardous wastes generated at the facility were stored in ASTs, 55-gallon dmms, carboys, and small containers pending disposal/treatment.

Wastes stored at the facility were generated during research and development, product quality assurance testing, and product manufacturing.  Solid non-hazardous wastes generated at the facility included commercial wastes (trash, cardboard, pallets, drums, bags, etc. ), foundry production wastes (used sand, used^broken cores, carbide slag, cupola slag, used refractory, baghouse dust, used air pollution bags or filters, used grinding wheels), and waste fluids (oil, metal cleaner, mst preventive testing fluids, spent scrubber liquid, etc. ). Commercial waste was disposed off-site through contracted trash hauling services to either Campbell County landfill or City of Lynchburg landfill. Foundry production wastes were formerly disposed at the on-site landfills or off-site Falwell landfill (an industrial captive landfill used only by the Lynchburg Foundry Lower Basin Plant and Archer Creek Plant) until the landfills were full. After the landfills were fall, the foundry production wastes were disposed in commercial and local landfills (Amelia, Old Dominion, Fluvana County, Campbell County, and City of Lynchburg). A review of the disposal records by ACF indicates that off-site disposal began in Febmary 2002, with some on-site disposal continuing until October 2002.

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