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Community Relations Community Relations Site List Grant Industries / Stor Dynamics
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Grant Industries / Stor Dynamics
125 Main Street
Elmwood Park, Bergen County
Preferred IDs (PI#s): 003426/217600
BLOCK: 804 LOT: 6
Community Relations Coordinator: Heather Swartz (609) 984-7135
SITE DESCRIPTION/RESOLUTION OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS:
As
of 28 June 2004
Grant Industries has operated a chemical manufacturing plant at this
site since 1967. It is approximately 1,000 feet from the Garfield Municipal
Well Field, where a ground water treatment system is removing volatile
organic contaminants from the supply wells. Grant Industries was identified
as a Potentially Responsible Party for the contamination at the well field
due to documented incidences of chemical spills and discharges between
the mid-1970s to the early 1990s and the presence of volatile organic
compounds in the ground water at the site. LaPlace Chemical Company and
the former Stor Dynamics facility, both located adjacent to Grant Industries,
have also been identified as Potentially Responsible Parties for the well
field contamination. The Responsible Parties for LaPlace Chemical Company
are addressing their site under the supervision of NJDEP’s Responsible
Party Remediation Element. In 1994, NJDEP’s Remedial Response Element
began a Remedial Investigation and Remedial Action Selection (RI/RAS)
to delineate the contamination at the Grant Industries property, identify
remedial alternatives and evaluate the facility’s possible role in the
contamination of the Garfield well field. A separate RI/RAS was conducted
concurrently for the Stor Dynamics property. NJDEP determined based on
the RI that there was no significant contamination in the soil at Grant
Industries, but high levels of chlorinated volatile organic compounds
were present in the ground water at an area of the property adjacent to
LaPlace Chemical. NJDEP implemented a ground water Interim Remedial Measure
(IRM) between 2001 and 2002 that entailed extracting ground water from
a recovery well in the area of the Grant Industries property where high
levels of contaminants were present and sending it off site for treatment
and disposal.
In 2002, NJDEP completed the RI/RAS for the Grant Industries and Stor
Dynamics sites and the responsible Parties for LaPlace Chemical Company
completed an RI/RAS for their facility. Additional rounds of ground water
sampling are being conducted in preparation for selecting a final remedial
action to address the contaminated ground water at all three sites. NJDEP
plans to issue a Decision Document outlining the final remedial action
to address the ground water in 2003.
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