Louisiana Superfund Site: Combustion, Inc.
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Some Superfund sites are on the National Priority Site Lists. The National Priorities List ("NPL") is the list of hazardous waste sites in the United States eligible for long-term remedial action financed under the federal Superfund program. Environmental Protection Agency regulations outline a formal process for assessing hazardous waste sites and placing them on the NPL. The NPL is intended primarily to guide the EPA in determining which sites warrant further investigation.
Sites are listed on the NPL upon completion of Hazard Ranking System (HRS) screening, public solicitation of comments about the proposed site, and after all comments have been addressed. EPA may delete a final NPL site if it determines that no further response is required to protect human health or the environment. Sites where a remediation was completed through the Superfund program are typically deleted from the NPL.
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Combustion, Inc.
This site is not a Federal Facility.
Combustion Inc. Superfund Site
1EPA Publication Date: October 4, 2005Combustion Inc. Superfund Site
Livingston Parish, Louisiana
EPA Region 6
Epa Id# Lad072606627
Site ID: 0600472
Contact: Katrina Higgins-Coltrain 214.665.8143
State Congressional District: 6
Fact Sheet Updated: September 2005
Current Status
The Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (LDEQ) and the Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) are working with the potentially responsible parties to complete the Remedial Design. The final
Remedial Design Work Plan was submitted and accepted by the Agencies on August 15, 2005.
Currently, the potentially responsible parties are working on drafting the design documents detailing the
planting, sampling, and monitoring of the trees as well as the monitoring and sampling of the ground
water.
Benefits
An Expedited Removal Action was completed during late 1992 through 1993. This removal action
eliminated unacceptable health risks associated with soil, sludge and waste for future industrial workers
and future residents.
The Expedited Removal Action addressed the following.
Approximately 25,700 tons of soil and 2,000 tons of debris and foundation materials were excavated
and disposed offsite.
Approximately 8,000 tons of solidified sludge and paraffin and approximately 3,400 linear feet of
pipeline were excavated and disposed offsite.
Approximately 58,086 gallons of oil was sent offsite for energy recovery.
18 above ground and 12 underground storage tanks were emptied of contents, dismantled, and
recycled.
Approximately 11.3 million gallons of wastewater were treated and discharged.
Site Description
Location: Dubose Oil Company and subsequently Combustion, Inc. operated primarily as used oil
reclamation facility from the late 1960s until the early 1980s. The site is approximately 3
miles northeast of Denham Springs, Louisiana, at Milton Road and Burgess Road.
Population: There are approximately 1,000 residents that live within a 1-mile radius of the site. The
immediate residential properties are located along the northern, eastern and western
boundaries and consist of 36 homes.
Setting: The site is the location of a former waste oil recycling facility consisting of a small
processing plant (Process Area), a Pond Area, and a connecting pipeline. Two basic
operational processes existed at the site: oil reclamation and wastewater treatment. The
oil reclamation activities were performed in the former Process Area. The 2.5-acre
Process Area contained 16 aboveground storage tanks (ASTs), a small tanker-truck, 11
underground storage tanks (USTs), a boiler, boiler shed, pump shed, and associated
foundations, piping, sumps and containment walls. The wastewater treatment system in
the former Pond Area treated storm water runoff and excess water from hydrocarbon
recycling activities contaminated by oil or oily wastes. The 6.5-acre Pond Area contained
Combustion Inc. Superfund Site
2EPA Publication Date: October 4, 2005two ASTs, one UST, and 14 interconnected ponds (Ponds A through N) with a total
surface area of approximately 2.4 acres and an estimated capacity of approximately 4
million gallons.
Hydrology: Two water bearing zones, the upper and lower water-bearing zones, are identified in the
vicinity of the former Process Area. Based on interpreted boring logs, these zones are
hydraulically connected, although varying degrees of separation occur. The top of the
upper water-bearing zone is generally encountered at depths ranging from 4 to 18 feet
below ground surface (bgs) and the base is variable but no greater than 30 feet bgs. The
top of the lower water-bearing zone is encountered at depths of 26 to 42 feet bgs but is
usually near 30 feet bgs, and the base is encountered at depths of 59 to 102 feet bgs.
Wastes And Volumes
The Expedited Removal Action addressed all principal threat wastes and contaminated soil and surface
water.
Groundwater beneath the former facilities in the Process Area has been impacted by site activities. Based
on sample results, the groundwater contains concentrations of volatile organics and semi volatile
organics. No non-aqueous phase liquid was detected at the top or bottom of the water column. The more
widely distributed constituent groups in this area are the semi volatile aromatic amines and volatile
chlorinated organics including 1,2-dichloroethane. The constituents are present in the groundwater to
approximately 30 feet bgs, and groundwater movement to the south has contributed to contaminant
migration approximately 500 feet beyond the former Process Area leaving approximately a 500-foot wide
zone between the plume edges and the southern site boundary.
National Priorities List
Proposal Date: June 20, 1986
Re-proposal Date: June 24, 1988
Final Listing Date: August 31, 1990
Site Map
Combustion Inc. Superfund Site
3EPA Publication Date: October 4, 2005Human Health And Ecological Risk Assessment
The numerical cleanup goals for the ground water are the Primary Drinking Water Maximum Contaminant
Levels (MCL). If an MCL was not available, then a risk-based standard was developed for that
contaminant.
Record Of Decision
The major elements of the remedy include:
1. Phytoremediation, as an enhancement to natural attenuation, will provide additional controls to
prevent further lateral migration of contaminants in the ground water. The phytoremediation will
include planting and maintenance of trees in a manner designed to inhibit movement of ground
water contaminants toward the downgradient perimeter and to degrade contaminants within the
plume. Establishment of the trees is expected to require two years. Once the trees have been
properly established, phytoremediation will be primarily a passive remediation. The Remedial
Design will specify tree species, planting density, and planting procedures.
2. Ground water in the upper and lower water-bearing zones in the vicinity of the former Process
Area will be monitored for volatile organic compounds and 2,4/2,6-toluenediamine (TDA)-related
compounds. Ground water analyses have led to the selection of two compounds as tracking
constituents. 1,2-dichloroethane (EDC) has been selected as the tracking constituent for the
volatile organic compounds (VOCs), while 2,4/2,6-TDA has been selected as the tracking
constituent for the aromatic amine compounds. The behavior of these compounds should be
indicative of the behavior of other similar compounds at the site.
3. Natural attenuation of the ground water will also be evaluated using biogeochemical monitoring
prior to each Five Year Review. Fate and transport modeling of the TDA and EDC plumes will
also be performed prior to the Five Year Review.
4. Ground water in Zone 1 and Zone 2 in the vicinity of the former Pond area will be monitored for
volatile organic compounds. This ground water monitoring program was presented in Appendix D
of the Feasibility Study (URS, 2001).
5.Appendix E of the Feasibility Study (URS, 2001) is a Site Long-Term Care Plan that provides a
framework for site upkeep during the remedial action.
6.Hot-spot treatment is selected as the contingency remedy to provide additional treatment in the
more highly contaminated areas of the ground water plume should the selected remedy fail to
meet the specified criteria when evaluated during the first Five Year review. The aromatic amines
will be treated utilizing hydrogen peroxide and an iron catalyst and the chlorinated alkanes will be
treated utilizing a hydrogen-releasing compound.
7.Institutional controls (ICs) in the form of conveyance notices to inform the public of Site conditions
and restrictions will be required for the pond area soils and the pond and process area ground
water. This IC will be enforced and monitored by LDEQ in accordance-with La. Rev. Stat. Aim. §
30:2039 (2000) and La. Admin. Code tit. 33 § 3525 (1999), which will require the owner(s) of the
facility property to record a notice in the mortgage and conveyance records of Livingston Parish.
Groundwater: The Record of Decision was signed by LDEQ
on April 30, 2004, and by EPA on May 28, 2004.
Combustion Inc. Superfund Site
4EPA Publication Date: October 4, 2005Site
EPA Remedial Project Manager: Katrina Higgins-Coltrain 214.665.8143 or 800.533.3508
EPA Site Attorney: Barbara Nann 214.665.2157 or 800.533.3508
EPA Regional Public Liaison: Arnold Ondarza 800.533.3508
LDEQ Louisiana State Contact: Todd Thibodeaux 225.219.3225
source: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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