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Are you in need of a Toxic Tort Attorney in The Empire State? The US EPA has designated Endicott Village Well Field in New York as a Superfund site due to its levels of enviromental contamination and danger to the natural world. You can read the report for the site below.
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.
Living near Superfund Sites in New York may place you and your family more vulnerable to getting sick from proximity to the site and experiencing a loss of value for your property, but you can do something to to fight back: The EPA says,
[We have] set up a "Post Construction Completion" (or PCC) strategy to ensure that Superfund response actions provide for the long-term protection of human health and the environment. EPA's Post Construction Completion activities also involve optimizing remedies to increase effectiveness and/or reduce cost without sacrificing long-term protection of human health and the environment.Regardless, most of the Superfund sites continue to pose a threat the health of local residents.
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Below you can read the EPA report for the Endicott Village Well Field Superfund site. If you, a loved one, or someone in your community has suffered due to exposure to a Superfund site Endicott Village Well Field, or if your property has lost value because of pollution, you are better off with a toxic tort lawyer who knows the people of the State of New York . Get started by filling out this simple form. There is no obligation, and your case will be evaluated within 24 hours. To refer a friend, neighbor, or loved one, click here to let them know about the environmental toxic tort attorneys at Weitz & Luxenberg.
Endicott Village Well Field
This site is not a Federal Facility.
Endicott Village Well Field
New York
Epa Region 2
Endicott
Site Description
e Site is on land owned by the Village of Endicott (the En
Sewage Treatment Plant, the Endicott Landfill and the Tri
vinyl chloride and trace amounts of other volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in the
charge from the Ranney Well. The Village operates four wells that serve 45,000 people
and the Ranney Well supplies about half of the total drinking water of the system. The
Endicott Landfill is approximately 70 acres in size and was found to be the sour
contamination to the Ranney Well. The Endicott Landfill accepted municipal refuse and
industrial waste from approximately the late 1950's until 1977.
Site Responsibility:
Threats and Contaminants
The groundwater is contaminated with various VOCs. The primary VOCs identified are
dichloroethene, and vinyl chloride. Golf course ponds contain elevated
VOCs. The major health threat from the Endicott Well Field site was from
drinking contaminated water from the Ranney Well. However, with the implementation of
the various remedial actions the threat has been eliminated.
Cleanup Approach
This site is being addressed in four stages: initial actions and three long
phases focusing on cleanup of the public water supply, cleanup of the entire site, and
Response Action Status
Initial Action:
After contamination was detected, the Village of Endicott closed four of the
lateral supply lines to the Ranney Well and installed diffused air aeration equipment to
reduce vinyl chloride levels. Actions taken by the Village also
purge well and three monitoring wells to intercept and monitor groundwater contamination
before it reached the Ranney Well.
Public Water Supply:
The EPA selected the following methods for cleanup of the public
nstalling and operating an air stripper to remove volatile organic compounds
from the Ranney Well; treating contaminated groundwater, with discharge of the cleaned
water to the Village of Endicott Municipal Water Distribution System; and groundwater
monitoring. The remediation work was performed by the responsible parties. Construction
stripping tower was completed by the Village of Endicott in the Fall of 1991. In
February 1997, EPA determined that water taken from the Ranney Well was, with
treatment, meeting the cleanup standards and gave permission to the Village to discontinue
operation of the air stripper. The air stripper has treated more than 5.7 billion gallons of
Entire Site:
sponsible for the site contamination conducted a site
investigation and identified cleanup remedies to restore the aquifer and control the surface
source of contamination. Studies were undertaken in two phases, resulting in an interim
Groundwater Contamination:
In 1991, an interim remedy was selected, which includes:
remediation of the contaminated ground water by requiring extraction through a
Supplemental Purge Well and treatment through the Villag
Treatment Plant . This remedial action, implemented pursuant to a Consent Decree, was
completed in June 1995. To date approximately 55 million gallons of contaminated
groundwater have been treated. The system will remain in o
Source of Contamination:
The EPA selected the final remedy in 1992, which addresses
the source of the contaminated groundwater and includes capping the landfill, installing a
rolling and treating the leachate seep, monitoring the air and
groundwater quality, installing a fence around the landfill, and implementing institutional
controls to restrict future use of the landfill. In October 1996, the remedial action was
and approximately 8,260,000 tons of waste were contained. On September 26,
1997 EPA determined that all construction activities were completed at this site.
Site Facts:
In 1988, a Consent Order was signed with three of the parties potentially
e for site contamination to perform a study to determine the source and extent of
the aquifer contamination. A Consent Decree also was signed to perform the cleanup of the
well field. In 1991 EPA and the responsible parties negotiated a second Consent De
for installation of the Supplemental Purge Well. A Consent Decree to conduct the remedial
design/remedial action was also signed by the responsible parties in September 1993.
Cleanup Progress
ken to treat the groundwater reduced the risk of exposure to contaminants
through the water supply. After adding this site to the NPL, the EPA performed preliminary
investigations and determined that with site security measures in place, no other immediat
actions were required at the Endicott Village Well Field site. The construction of the air
stripper was completed in the Fall of 1991. The air stripper has treated more than 5.7 billion
gallons of contaminated groundwater. EPA approved the final desi
Purge Well on March 6, 1995. The treatment system was installed and is now in operation.
On December 11, 1995, EPA signed an Explanation of Significant Differences to
discontinue operation of the purge well that was installed in 1
upon data that concluded that the Supplemental Purge Well effectively captured
groundwater beneath and adjacent to the Endicott Landfill. In October 1996, the remedial
action for the landfill was completed and approximately 8
Site Repository
Endicott Village Clerk's Office, Municipal Building, Endicott, NY 13760
source: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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