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Liedtka Trucking Inc. (PI#: 009558)

SITE SUMMARY

Site Name: Liedtka Trucking Inc.
Site Address: 1535 South Broadway
Town, County: Camden, Camden County
Case #: 00-11-29-0052-54
PI #: 009558

SITE BACKGROUND INFORMATION

The site consists of approximately 8 acres located on Block 344, Lot 21 and Block 458, Lots 3, 4, 10-12, 14-18. The geographic boundaries include Broadway, Jackson, Fourth, and Whitman Streets.

On October 27, 2005 the New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) entered into a Memorandum of Agreement with the Department. NJEA is under contract to purchase this 8-acre property from South Jersey Port Corporation (SJPC) and is seeking an Entire Site No Further Action Letter from the Department. Investigative and remedial activities will be carried out by NJEDA’s contract purchaser, American Community Partnerships, a non-profit training organization.

According to information contained in a 10/12/89 Preliminary Environmental Investigation Report by Geotech Environmental, Inc., Camden Lumber owned and operated the site until 1982, when it sold the property to Liedtka Trucking. Liedtka utilized the site for its Camden office along with truck storage, refueling, and repair. Liedtka acquired the vacant BP/Sinclair station on Lot 12 in 1983, removed the tanks, and demolished the building. Interstate Waste leased a portion of the repair shop and parking area from Liedtka for truck refueling. The Camden Board of Education also leased warehouse and parking space. In addition, Drum Service of Camden leased parking space for trailers containing empty drums; its on-site operations include drum storage and transfer for off-site cleaning or incineration. Finally, a portion of the property was once part of the Martin Aaron (MA) Superfund site. This portion of the site has since been removed from the MA Superfund project. MA used this area (under an arrangement with Liedtka Trucking) to park trailers containing drums. The drums were recycled at MA, though it is likely that they were checked for product on both of these sites. The contents of drums noted to contain product were handled at the MA site.

Liedtka sold the property to SJPC on February 2, 1990.

ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES

“Area of concern" (AOC) means any existing or former location where hazardous substances, hazardous wastes, or pollutants are or were known or suspected to have been discharged, generated, manufactured, refined, transported, stored, handled, treated, disposed, or where hazardous substances, hazardous wastes, or pollutants have or may have migrated.

Borings and test pits have been advanced across the site (Lots 11, 12, 14-18) with fill material noted as deep as 11.5 ft bgs. The fill material consists of ash and cinder, brick, glass and wood fragments. Soil sampling from within the fill material itself has revealed several metals (arsenic, lead barium and chromium) at concentrations above the Department's restricted use cleanup criteria, with the highest concentrations noted to be from the subsurface fill material.

Semi-volatile compounds (SVOCs) have also been noted across the site to exceed the restricted use soil cleanup criteria. Benzo (a) anthracene, Benzo(a) pyrene, Benzo (b) fluoranthene and Benzo (k) fluoranthene were the most notable. SVOC soil concentrations were observed to also be higher in the subsurface soil than surface soil. It is important to note that the concentrations of contaminants found on the portion of Lot 15 utilized by Martin Aaron are not significant with regard to the concentrations found elsewhere on the site.

SOIL

  • Metals - Arsenic in surface soils were as high as 46.4ppm, and as high as 457ppm at the MA site. Subsurface arsenic concentrations at SJPC were similar to the surface results. Subsurface arsenic at MA was as high as 103ppm. Lead concentrations in surface soils at SJPC were as high as 979ppm, with subsurface concentrations as high as 1,110ppm (similar result). MA lead surface concentrations were as high as 3,190ppm, with subsurface concentrations as high as 23,900ppm. Cadmium, Nickel, Silver and Zinc were not noted on the SJPC site, but were noted and exceeded criteria on the MA site.
  • PCBs/Pest - No PCB detections were noted in either surface or subsurface soil. PCBs (particularly arochlor 1254) were noted to exceed criteria at MA in both surface and subsurface soil. One detection of a pesticide (Dieldrin, not found on lot 15) was noted slightly above the residential criteria. Dieldrin, Aldrin and 4,4-DDE were found at several locations on the MA site above the restricted use cleanup criteria
  • Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) - No VOCs were detected in surface or subsurface soils . VOCs (benzene and several chlorinated VOCs) exceeded criteria in both surface and subsurface soils at MA
  • SVOC - Several SVOCs were noted to exceed criteria in surface and subsurface soil at both sites. The greatest concentrations were noted in subsurface soils. It is interesting to note that the SVOCs above criteria were the same at both sites, with the SJPC subsurface SVOC contamination detected at higher concentrations than at the MA site.

GROUND WATER

The only documented ground water impacts at the site were metals above the GWQS. Metals, VOCs, and SVOCs (one location for SVOCs) were detected above the GWQS pretty much across the site at MA. Note that ground water flow is generally from the SJPC toward MA.

Based on this review, it is believed that the contamination at SJPC is much more likely to be associated with historic fill, and appears to be ubiquitous, being found both in areas used by MA as well as areas not used by MA.

In the last year or so radiation has been found on the northern portion of the site (unimproved portion).

SITE CONTACT

Timothy J. Lizura
New Jersey Economic Development Authority
PO Box 990
Trenton, NJ 08625-0990
(609)292-0369

NJDEP CASE MANAGER

Cheryl Priest, Case Manager
NJDEP
Bureau of Field Operations – Southern Field Office
P.O. Box 407
Trenton, NJ 08625-0407
(609) 584-4162

NJDEP CONTACT

NJDEP
Office of Community Relations
P.O. Box 413
Trenton, NJ 08625-0413
(609) 984-3081 | (800) 253-5647