Oklahoma Superfund Site: Hardage/Criner
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Do you need a Toxic Tort Lawyer in The Sooner State? The US EPA has designated Hardage/Criner in Oklahoma as a Superfund site because of its amounts of environmental toxins and harm to the environment. 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 Oklahoma may place you and your loved ones more vulnerable to developing a disease from exposure to the site and experiencing a loss of value for your property, but action is being taken to fight back: The EPA says,
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Hardage/Criner
This site is not a Federal Facility.
1EPA Publication Date: May 4, 2005
Hardage/Criner
Oklahoma
Epa Id# Okd000400093
Site ID: 0600988
Epa Region 6
Congressional District 04
McClain County
Other Names:
Hardage Landfill
Criner Landfill
Criner/Hardage Waste Disposal
Updated: April 2005
Site Description
Location: 3/4 mile west of Criner, Oklahoma, on Highway 122, 30 miles southwest of
Oklahoma City, McClain County.
Population:Approximately 20 within a 1 mile radius of the site.
Setting:Rural, agricultural area; nearest residence is at site boundary.
Hydrology:Bedrock is fractured shale/sandstone; fracturing contested by Potentially
Responsible Parties (PRPs). The Site is adjacent to (but not on) North Criner
Creek floodplain. The North Criner Creek alluvial aquifer is a source for drinking
water remote downstream.
Present Status and Issues
Hardage Site Remedy is in the Operation and Maintenance Phase.
EPA completed the 5-year Review of the Court-ordered Hardage Site Remedy in
September 2002. The remedy was found to be currently protective of human health and
the environment.
Wastes and Volumes
Waste
Ground Water
Soil(parts per million)
1,2 - dichloroethane350 ppm180 ppm
1,1,2 - trichloroethane 54 ppm170 ppm
tetrachloroethane 24 ppm16,000 ppm
trichloroethene 36 ppm1,500 ppm
toxaphene ---160 ppm
Other site contaminants include arsenic, solvents, pesticides, Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs),
oils, paint sludge, ink, and heavy metals.
Volumes in the 60 acre permitted area includes:
Main pit: Two acres, 15-20 feet thick.
Liquids - 1,800,000 gallons
EPA Publication Date: May 4, 2005 2HARDAGE/CRINER
Waste fill/sludges 174,000 cubic yards
Sludge mound: 1.5 acres, 15-20 feet thick.
Drum mound: 0.8 acres, 30-40 feet thick; may contain over 20,000 drums.
Site Assessment and Ranking
Npl Listing History
Site HRS Score: 51.01
Proposed Date: 10/81
Final Date: 9/08/83
NPL Update: No. 1
Site Assessment conducted 1980. EPA filed suit in 1980, expanded suit in 1982 to include
CERCLA Section 106. Site Operator had permit issued by the Oklahoma State Department of
Health (OSDH), now Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality (ODEQ). Site was fenced
and access restricted by operator.
Site Map and Diagram
Hardage/Criner
3 EPA Publication Date: May 4, 2005The Remediation Process
Site History:
Waste pits received bulk, drummed liquids, and sludges.
The site was divided into source control and management of migration operable units in
1985.
The Hardage Steering Committee (HSC), a group of potentially responsible parties (PRPs)
performed studies on site from fall 1986 through 1988, proposing a cap and slurry wall
contrary to EPA's Record of Decision (ROD) signed in November of 1989.
September - November 1987, the Potentially Responsible Party (PRP) provided an
alternate water supply to residents southwest of the site.
March 1988, PRP erected a fence at the site to restrict public access.
Court opinions on liability, past costs and remedy were rendered August 9, 1990.
Liability and past costs were decided in favor of the United States while the court selected
the PRP proposed remedy.
The liable parties filed appeals over past costs and one party appealed its liability;
however, the decisions were upheld.
Contaminant seeps have been documented on site and are covered when found. Seeps in
the borrow pit area have forced the PRPs to investigate additional methods for collecting
ground water for treatment and deep well injection.
EPA conducted an inspection of selected recovery wells located in the mound recovery
area in October 2001. The inspection documented that the selected recovery wells were
constructed according to their individual design plans.
Citizens interviews regarding the performance of the implemented remedy were held on
December 4, 1999 at the HSC Field House in Lindsay, Oklahoma (1/4 mile from the
entrance to the Hardage Site). A second meeting was hosted by the Hardage contractors
on February 26, 2002, with EPA and ODEQ present to address questions from the local
community regarding operational concerns at the facilty.
Health Considerations:
Contamination of surface water, ground water, and surface soils has been documented.
Potential for human exposure via direct contact, ingestion of contaminated soils, and
inhalation of contaminants.
Record of Decision
Signed: November 22, 1989
Opposed by ODEQ and PRPs
The Hardage Record of Decision (ROD) was signed by U.S. EPA in November 1989,
just prior to the trial. However, both the ODEQ and the PRP group, the Hardage Steering
Committee, opposed the EPA chosen remedy.
The issue was decided in Federal District Court in favor of the HSC.
The project has moved forward under a court-ordered remedy in lieu of a traditional
Rod.
The remedy is split into two operable units, one for source control and the second for
ground water migrating off-site.
EPA Publication Date: May 4, 2005 4HARDAGE/CRINER
Source Control:
Institutional Controls to restrict access.
Recovery of all pumpable liquids.
Separation of the phases recovered by an on-site separation system.
Off-site incineration of the phases recovered.
Eventual cap of the source area.
Ground Water:
Recovery of ground water migrating through the source area via a large trench.
Recovery of ground water down-gradient from the source area via recovery wells.
Cleaning the recovered water by air stripping and filtration.
Water to be cleaned to standards applicable for discharge to North Criner Creek.
Fencing and capping activities to date have been implemented by the PRPs.
By order of Federal District Court, all Remedial Design and Remedial Action (RD/RA)
activities will be under a single schedule.
Community Involvement
Community Involvement Plan: Developed 5/88
Open houses and workshops: 2/90
Original Proposed Plan: 3/86
Subsequent Proposed Plan and Public Meeting: 10/89
ROD Fact Sheet: 1/90
Milestone Fact Sheets: 2/90 (RD/RA); 11/29/99 (Announcement of 5-Year Review of
implemented remedy performance)
Citizens on site mailing list: 152
Constituency Interest: Concerned with ground and surface water contamination
Site Repository: Purcell City Library, 919 North 9th Street, Purcell, OK 73080
Technical Assistance Grant
Availability Notice: None - Pre-SARA site, little organized community interest, no
identified citizens groups in site area (rural setting).
Letters of Intent Received: None
Final Application Received: N/A
Grant Award: N/A
Current Status: No TAG activity
EPA Remedial Project Manager: Michael A. Hebert, 214/665-8315
State Contact: Hal Cantwell, (405) 271-7158.
EPA Community Involvement Coord.: Michael A. Hebert, 214/665-8315
EPA Attorney: James L. Turner, 214/665-3159
EPA Region 6 Ombudsman: Arnold Ondarza, 303-312-6777
EPA State Coordinator: Roberta Hirt, 214/665-8079
EPA Oversight Prime Contractor: currently no “contract” oversight being conducted.
PRP's On-site Contractor (Operation & Maintenance): Nationwide Environmental
Services, Mr. Benjamin Costello, (303) 232-2134.
EPA Ombudsman: Arnold Ondarza 1-800-533-3508
Hardage/Criner
5 EPA Publication Date: May 4, 2005Benefits
The initial actions taken by the PRPs to excavate or decontaminate soils and cap the
source areas as described above have reduced the potential exposure of nearby residents
to site wastes.
Additional protective activities include monitoring of attenuation in down-gradient wells,
tracking the volume of contaminants recovered and incinerated, and tracking the volume
of water recovered from trench and water wells.
source: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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