Chromium clean-up in Abington township, Scranton, PA
May 1, 2007, Scranton, PA
Scranton - According to The Times Tribune,
almost 13 years after it was declared a Superfund site, work began this week to
remove contaminated soil and debris near the former Precision National Plating
Co. site. LFR Inc., which is contracted by Precision to clean the site, is
removing soil and debris left from the site.
Precision opened its plant
at 198 Ackerly Road in 1956 and began to manufacture platings for locomotive
crankshafts and cylinder linings. These products contained chromium, a metallic
chemical used in manufacturing that has been linked to health problems,
including cancer. It leaked into soil and eventually found its way into the
groundwater. Precision began providing bottled water to affected homes in 1992
and installed a public water line in about 1997.
In 1994, the plant was
declared a Superfund site. It closed in 1999. Today, what remains of the
building are a concrete slab and four walls, which were once the basement.
Likely chromium-contaminated, the walls will be broken up and removed. Last
year, 250,000 gallons of a calcium polysulfide solution were injected into the
soil and groundwater near Precision. The solution binds with the hexavalent
chromium in the soil, rendering it immobile and turning it nontoxic. Anything
contaminated will stay at the site until covered transport trucks take the
materials to an undetermined hazardous waste facility. That could take several
weeks, however.
Residents should not worry about another evacuation like
the one that forced 18 neighbors from their homes in August, he said.
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