Superfund record of decision (EPA Region 3): Lindane Dump Site, Harrison Township, Allegheny County, PA. (First remedial action), March 1992. Final report
Description
The 61.8-acre Lindane Dump is located in the Allegheny River Valley in Harrison Township, near Natron, Pennsylvania. In 1985, Pennsylvania Salt Manufacturing Company (later known as Pennsalt, then Pennwalt) used the site for waste disposal of mining tailings and cinders. Tailings from the mining operations and cinders (bottom ash) from steam and electrical power generation at the plant were placed onsite, and sulfuric acid was produced at the Pennsalt plant. The operation was discontinued prior to 1920 and resultant cinder and slag, along with cryolite ore tailings, BHC (Lindane) filter cake residuals containing pesticides, and waste sulfuric acid containing DDT were disposed of onsite. The ROD addresses contaminated soils and controlling ground water and surface water contamination. The primary contaminants of concern affecting the soil and ground water are VOCs, including benzene, and the pesticide Lindane. The selected remedial action for the site are included
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MF available from INIS under the Report Number; Also available from NTIS Prices: PC A05/MF A01.
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Publishing Information
- Imprint Pagination
- 79 p.
- Report number
- PB--93-963909/XAB
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 25043635
- Subject category
- S58: GEOSCIENCES;
- Descriptors DEI
- ALLEGHENY RIVER; BENZENE; CONTAMINATION; DDT; GROUND WATER; HAZARDOUS MATERIALS; LAND POLLUTION; LINDANE; MANUFACTURING; MINERAL INDUSTRY; MINES; MINING; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PENNSYLVANIA; PESTICIDES; POLLUTION CONTROL; POWER GENERATION; REMEDIAL ACTION; SITE CHARACTERIZATION; SOILS; SULFURIC ACID; TAILINGS; US EPA; US SUPERFUND; WASTE DISPOSAL; WASTES; WATER POLLUTION
- Descriptors DEC
- AROMATICS; CONTROL; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; HYDROCARBONS; HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS; INDUSTRY; INORGANIC ACIDS; INORGANIC COMPOUNDS; INSECTICIDES; LAWS; MANAGEMENT; MATERIALS; NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS; NORTH AMERICA; ORGANIC CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; ORGANIC HALOGEN COMPOUNDS; OXYGEN COMPOUNDS; POLLUTION; POLLUTION LAWS; RIVERS; SOLID WASTES; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; SURFACE WATERS; UNDERGROUND FACILITIES; US ORGANIZATIONS; USA; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WATER
Optional Information
- Secondary number(s)
- EPA/ROD/R--03-92/147.