MLB Properties and Amtrak own industrial site with asbestos and vermiculite

Between October 2000 and August 2001, the Response and Prevention Branch (RPB) conducted sampling investigation activities at the Site to determine the potential health threat posed by amphibole asbestos-containing materials, which were generated at the former W.R. Grace/Zonolite facility. Soil contaminated with asbestos has been detected at levels as high as forty percent in surface soils.

This industrial site consists of two primary parcels of land, one 4.24 acre parcel owned by MLB Properties, LLC (MLB) and presently leased to an affiliated company, Accurate Document Destruction, Inc. (ADDI), and the other owned by Amtrak railroad.

The overall site is approximately 8.4 acres and contains a large one-story brick building with an office portion, a warehouse structure housing paper and cardboard recycling machines, and a loading dock for off-site shipment of baled paper and cardboard products. The remaining portions of this industrial property are a parking lot and a heavily wooded area with dense undergrowth vegetation.

The Site is predominately in an industrialized setting with the nearest residential community 0.25 - 0.40 miles to the west. There are approximately 742 people (87% white, 8.2% African-American, 4.5% Hispanic, and 3.5% Asian) within a one-half mile radius of the Site. A total of 9,080 people live within a one mile radius of the Site. The property itself is unsecured (unfenced) and trespassers could easily enter the Site.