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Centredale Manor Restoration Project
This site is not a Federal Facility.
Site Type: Long Term/National Priorities List (NPL)
CENTREDALE MANOR RESTORATION PROJECT
North Providence, Rhode Island
Providence County
| Street Address: | 2072 AND 2074 SMITH STREET (ROUTE 44) |
| Zip Code: | 02911 |
| Congressional District(s): | 01 |
| EPA ID #: | RID981203755 |
| Site ID #: | 0101388 |
| Site Aliases: |
Street Address:
2072 AND 2074 SMITH STREET (ROUTE 44)
Zip Code:
02911
Congressional
District(s):
01
EPA ID #:
RID981203755
Site ID #:
0101388
Site Aliases:
Site Responsibility:
Federal, Potentially Responsible Parties
NPL LISTING HISTORY
Proposed Date
10/22/1999
Final Date
02/04/2000
Initial Action
EPA started a time-critical removal action in January 1999 and completed this removal action in the Spring of 2000. Time-critical removal activities at the Site included: sampling; clearing; the erection of fencing; a Flood Evaluation Study of the Site and surrounding area; designing and implementing interim soil caps for specific areas of the Site; and community outreach. Another time-critical removal action to design and build a third soil cap as part of reconstruction of a former tailrace was started by the PRPs during the Fall of 2003 and was largely completed in the Fall of 2004. Maintenance of the capped tailrace is on-going.
Entire Site
EPA began initial Remedial Investigation (RI) activities at the site in August 1999, including a pilot tree swallow study done during the spring of 2000. Additional Site evaluations for an ecological risk assessment and human fish consumption were performed, including biota testing and additional tree swallow studies. During the fall of 2000 through summer of 2001, EPA also conducted a source area investigation, including installation of monitoring wells, collecting surface and downhole geophysical data, and collecting and analyzing soil and groundwater data. In the summer and fall of 2002, EPA conducted additional groundwater and soil testing as well as geomorphic and geophysical investigations of the Woonasquatucket River. In the spring of 2003, EPA conducted a sediment core investigation which included age-dating of the cores and corresponding dioxin analyses. Draft human health and ecological risk assessments reports were completed in the fall of 2004 and are available at the site information repositories. Evaluation of the data is on-going. In the fall of 2004, EPA also initiated the process of formulating potential remedial alternatives for long-term cleanup of the site.
Non-time critical removal action
EPA started a non-time critical removal action in February 2000, when the Agency signed an Approval Memorandum for the performance of two Engineering Evaluation/Cost Analyses (EE/CAs). These two EE/CAs were later combined into one, resulting in an EE/CA report issued in September 2000 which recommended restoration of the Allendale Dam and removal of dioxin-impacted soil and floodplain sediment from residential and recreational-use properties. Following a 60-day public comment period, EPA issued an Action Memorandum on January 18, 2001, approving the removal action. Implementation of the non-time critical removal action (NTCRA) began in the summer of 2001 with reconstruction of the Allendale Dam, and restoration of the Allendale Pond. This work was completed in February 2002. Following additional sampling of soil along the Woonasquatucket River in the spring and summer of 2002, removal of contaminated soil from residential and recreational-use properties was completed in the winter of 2002. Final restoration activities were completed in the fall of 2003.
Previous Private Actions
From 1970 to 1986, the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (RIDEM) conducted or supervised several investigations at the property. In November 1981, a Notice of Violation and Order was issued by RIDEM to the then-property owners for violations of the State Hazardous Waste Management Act. This Order required that the property owners immediately identify all hazardous material on-site, then dispose of all hazardous wastes off-site. It is not known if the property owners ever attempted to comply with this Order. In February 1982, according to RIDEM records, approximately 400 drums were excavated from the Site. Of these, about thirty drums had chemical residue which had to be analyzed. The empty drums were crushed and sent to a solid waste facility and at least eight drums containing hazardous material were manifested off-site. In 1982, RIDEM required that prior to the construction of Centredale Manor, soil samples be collected in the area of the building footprint. As a result of this sampling and analysis, approximately 6,000 cubic yards of soil were excavated and disposed of as non-hazardous solid waste.
Enforcement Highlights
Since January 1999, EPA has conducted a number of PRP search activities. These have included locating and interviewing persons familiar with former operations at the site and conditions of the property at 2072 and 2074 Smith Street prior to and during construction of the apartment complexes. EPA also obtained a title search and reviewed RIDEM files, old newspapers and fire department records to determine historic information about former releases at the Site. In 1999 and 2000, EPA issued over thirty 104(e) information request letters and conducted several administrative depositions. In Spring 2000, EPA issued a Unilateral Administrative Order (UAO) to five potentially responsible parties, ordering them to complete time-critical removal activities. All five parties complied with the Order. EPA approved their Completion of Work report in September, 2000. In March 2001, EPA issued another ten additional 104(e) information request letters, and also issued a second UAO to the same five potentially responsible parties as in 2000, ordering them to implement the non-time critical removal action approved in the EPA's January 18, 2001 Action Memorandum. In 2001 and 2002, EPA issued a number of additional 104(e) information request letters. In March 2002, EPA notified eleven additional parties of their potential responsibility with regard to the Site. In September 2003, EPA entered into a third Administrative Order on Consent with ten PRPs who agreed to implement and finance another time-critical removal action within the former tailrace. In October 2003, EPA issued a third UAO, ordering two additional companies to participate in this removal action. These additional parties are complying with the Order.
Disclaimer
Instructions about PDF
Allendale Surface (0 - 1 ft) Borings, April 26, 2004 (726KB) nbsp
Allendale Subsurface (1 - 2 ft) Borings, April 26, 2004 (239KB) nbsp
Allendale Subsurface (2 - 3 ft) Borings, April 26, 2004 (232KB) nbsp
Allendale Subsurface (>3 ft) Borings, April 26, 2004 (229KB) nbsp
Lyman Mill Surface (0 - 1 ft) Borings, April 26, 2004 (604KB) nbsp
Lyman Mill Subsurface (>1ft) Borings, April 26, 2004 (232KB) nbsp
Allendale and Lyman Mill Water Depths (0.5 ft contour interval) April 26, 2004 (555KB) nbsp
Allendale Soft Sediment Thickness (0.5 ft contour interval) April 26, 2004 (306KB) nbsp
Lyman Mill Soft Sediment Thickness (0.5 ft contour interval) April 26, 2004 (306KB) nbsp
Draft Baseline Ecological Risk Assessment Fact Sheet, December 2004 (927KB) nbsp
Draft Baseline Human Health Risk Assessment Fact Sheet, October 2004 (1,965KB) nbsp
Woonasquatucket River Site Update on Fishing Advisory, August 2003 (606KB) nbsp
Woonasquatucket River Tree Swallow Study Update, January 2002 (663KB) nbsp
December 2002 Site Update (141KB) nbsp
September 2002 Site Update (151KB) nbsp
Allendale Dam Reconstruction is Complete, Spring 2002 (323KB) nbsp
Allendale Dam Reconstruction, November 2001 (420KB) nbsp
Recent Press Releases about this project (if any) nbsp
Final NPL Listing nbsp
Administrative Record Index nbsp
View Records of Decision (RODS) on-line (EPA HQ) nbsp
Action Memorandum: Non-Time Critical Removal Action, January 2001 nbsp
NPL Site Narrative at Listing: nbsp
Action Memorandum for Non-Time Critical Removal Action, January 2001 (Acrobat Format) nbsp
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EPA Remedial Project Manager:
Anna Krasko
Address:
1 Congress Street, Suite 1100 (HBO)
Boston, MA 02114
Phone #:
(617) 918-1232
E-Mail Address:
krasko.anna@epa.gov
EPA Community Involvement Coordinator:
Angela Bonarrigo
Address:
1 Congress Street, Suite 1100 (HIO)
Boston, MA 02114
Phone #:
(617) 918-1034
E-Mail Address:
bonarrigo.angela@epa.gov
State Agency Contact:
Louis R. Maccarone II
Address:
RIDEM, Office of Waste Management
235 Promenade Street
Providence, RI 02908-5767
Phone #:
401-222-2797
E-Mail Address:
louis.maccarone@dem.ri.gov
Threats and Contaminants
Dioxin was first identified in 1996 from fish collected from the Woonasquatucket River. Since that time, EPA has documented elevated levels of contaminants including dioxin, PCBs, Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs), semi-VOCs, and metals in numerous media including soil, sediment, wetlands and surface water at the site. Persons or wildlife which come into contact with these media could be at potential risk.
Cleanup Approach
The site is being addressed in two stages: Immediate (removal) actions and long term (remedial) actions for cleanup of the soil, sediment, surface water and groundwater.
Response Action Status
| Initial Action | EPA started a time-critical removal action in January 1999 and completed this removal action in the Spring of 2000. Time-critical removal activities at the Site included: sampling; clearing; the erection of fencing; a Flood Evaluation Study of the Site and surrounding area; designing and implementing interim soil caps for specific areas of the Site; and community outreach. Another time-critical removal action to design and build a third soil cap as part of reconstruction of a former tailrace was started by the PRPs during the Fall of 2003 and was largely completed in the Fall of 2004. Maintenance of the capped tailrace is on-going. |
| Entire Site | EPA began initial Remedial Investigation (RI) activities at the site in August 1999, including a pilot tree swallow study done during the spring of 2000. Additional Site evaluations for an ecological risk assessment and human fish consumption were performed, including biota testing and additional tree swallow studies. During the fall of 2000 through summer of 2001, EPA also conducted a source area investigation, including installation of monitoring wells, collecting surface and downhole geophysical data, and collecting and analyzing soil and groundwater data. In the summer and fall of 2002, EPA conducted additional groundwater and soil testing as well as geomorphic and geophysical investigations of the Woonasquatucket River. In the spring of 2003, EPA conducted a sediment core investigation which included age-dating of the cores and corresponding dioxin analyses. Draft human health and ecological risk assessments reports were completed in the fall of 2004 and are available at the site information repositories. Evaluation of the data is on-going. In the fall of 2004, EPA also initiated the process of formulating potential remedial alternatives for long-term cleanup of the site. |
| Non-time critical removal action | EPA started a non-time critical removal action in February 2000, when the Agency signed an Approval Memorandum for the performance of two Engineering Evaluation/Cost Analyses (EE/CAs). These two EE/CAs were later combined into one, resulting in an EE/CA report issued in September 2000 which recommended restoration of the Allendale Dam and removal of dioxin-impacted soil and floodplain sediment from residential and recreational-use properties. Following a 60-day public comment period, EPA issued an Action Memorandum on January 18, 2001, approving the removal action. Implementation of the non-time critical removal action (NTCRA) began in the summer of 2001 with reconstruction of the Allendale Dam, and restoration of the Allendale Pond. This work was completed in February 2002. Following additional sampling of soil along the Woonasquatucket River in the spring and summer of 2002, removal of contaminated soil from residential and recreational-use properties was completed in the winter of 2002. Final restoration activities were completed in the fall of 2003. |
| Previous Private Actions | From 1970 to 1986, the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (RIDEM) conducted or supervised several investigations at the property. In November 1981, a Notice of Violation and Order was issued by RIDEM to the then-property owners for violations of the State Hazardous Waste Management Act. This Order required that the property owners immediately identify all hazardous material on-site, then dispose of all hazardous wastes off-site. It is not known if the property owners ever attempted to comply with this Order. In February 1982, according to RIDEM records, approximately 400 drums were excavated from the Site. Of these, about thirty drums had chemical residue which had to be analyzed. The empty drums were crushed and sent to a solid waste facility and at least eight drums containing hazardous material were manifested off-site. In 1982, RIDEM required that prior to the construction of Centredale Manor, soil samples be collected in the area of the building footprint. As a result of this sampling and analysis, approximately 6,000 cubic yards of soil were excavated and disposed of as non-hazardous solid waste. |
| Enforcement Highlights | Since January 1999, EPA has conducted a number of PRP search activities. These have included locating and interviewing persons familiar with former operations at the site and conditions of the property at 2072 and 2074 Smith Street prior to and during construction of the apartment complexes. EPA also obtained a title search and reviewed RIDEM files, old newspapers and fire department records to determine historic information about former releases at the Site. In 1999 and 2000, EPA issued over thirty 104(e) information request letters and conducted several administrative depositions. In Spring 2000, EPA issued a Unilateral Administrative Order (UAO) to five potentially responsible parties, ordering them to complete time-critical removal activities. All five parties complied with the Order. EPA approved their Completion of Work report in September, 2000. In March 2001, EPA issued another ten additional 104(e) information request letters, and also issued a second UAO to the same five potentially responsible parties as in 2000, ordering them to implement the non-time critical removal action approved in the EPA's January 18, 2001 Action Memorandum. In 2001 and 2002, EPA issued a number of additional 104(e) information request letters. In March 2002, EPA notified eleven additional parties of their potential responsibility with regard to the Site. In September 2003, EPA entered into a third Administrative Order on Consent with ten PRPs who agreed to implement and finance another time-critical removal action within the former tailrace. In October 2003, EPA issued a third UAO, ordering two additional companies to participate in this removal action. These additional parties are complying with the Order. |
Environmental Progress
The construction of the fence and the capping of contaminated soil at the Brook Village and Centredale Manor properties, combined with the construction of a fence between residential homes and known areas of contamination in the Allendale Pond area, have reduced the potential immediate threats to the public health and environment near the Site while additional removal actions and investigations for the final cleanup activities are underway. Removal of contaminated floodplain soil from residential areas along Allendale and Lyman Mill ponds, reconstruction of the Allendale Dam and restoration of the Allendale Pond has reduced human exposures to soil, contaminated sediments at the bottom of the pond, and stabilized the erosion of this sediment to minimize migration further downstream.
Current Site Status
EPA has completed initial time-critical removal actions at the Site including the construction of two interim soil caps, fencing-off these contaminated areas, and placing warning signs informing people not to eat the fish caught in the Woonasquatucket River. An additional time-critical removal action to cap and reconstruct a drainage swale (i.e., former tailrace) was also performed in accordance with a 2003 Administrative Order with ten PRPs. Additionally, several PRPs conducted non-time critical removal actions downstream from the main area of the Site. This non-time critical removal action included restoration of the Allendale Dam and Allendale Pond, which was completed in February 2002, and delineation and removal of contaminated soil from residential properties within the floodplain of the river, which was completed in Winter 2002/2003. EPA is continuing with the Remedial Investigation activities of the entire Site which commenced in 1999 and, in 2004, initiated analysis of remedial alternatives for the long-term cleanup.
Site Photos
View of the Centredale Site looking North along the Woonasquatucket River.
Photograph of the Reconstructed Allendale Dam.
Links to Other Site Information
| Disclaimer | Instructions about PDF |
| Allendale Surface (0 - 1 ft) Borings, April 26, 2004 (726KB) nbsp | ||
| Allendale Subsurface (1 - 2 ft) Borings, April 26, 2004 (239KB) nbsp | ||
| Allendale Subsurface (2 - 3 ft) Borings, April 26, 2004 (232KB) nbsp | ||
| Allendale Subsurface (>3 ft) Borings, April 26, 2004 (229KB) nbsp | ||
| Lyman Mill Surface (0 - 1 ft) Borings, April 26, 2004 (604KB) nbsp | ||
| Lyman Mill Subsurface (>1ft) Borings, April 26, 2004 (232KB) nbsp | ||
| Allendale and Lyman Mill Water Depths (0.5 ft contour interval) April 26, 2004 (555KB) nbsp | ||
| Allendale Soft Sediment Thickness (0.5 ft contour interval) April 26, 2004 (306KB) nbsp | ||
| Lyman Mill Soft Sediment Thickness (0.5 ft contour interval) April 26, 2004 (306KB) nbsp | ||
| Draft Baseline Ecological Risk Assessment Fact Sheet, December 2004 (927KB) nbsp | ||
| Draft Baseline Human Health Risk Assessment Fact Sheet, October 2004 (1,965KB) nbsp | ||
| Woonasquatucket River Site Update on Fishing Advisory, August 2003 (606KB) nbsp | ||
| Woonasquatucket River Tree Swallow Study Update, January 2002 (663KB) nbsp | ||
| December 2002 Site Update (141KB) nbsp | ||
| September 2002 Site Update (151KB) nbsp | ||
| Allendale Dam Reconstruction is Complete, Spring 2002 (323KB) nbsp | ||
| Allendale Dam Reconstruction, November 2001 (420KB) nbsp | ||
| Recent Press Releases about this project (if any) nbsp | ||
| Final NPL Listing nbsp | ||
| Administrative Record Index nbsp |
| View Records of Decision (RODS) on-line (EPA HQ) nbsp | ||
| Action Memorandum: Non-Time Critical Removal Action, January 2001 nbsp |
| NPL Site Narrative at Listing: nbsp | ||
| Action Memorandum for Non-Time Critical Removal Action, January 2001 (Acrobat Format) nbsp | ||
North Providence Union Free Library, 1810 Mineral Springs Ave., North Providence RI 02911
Marion J. Mohr Memorial Library, 1 Memorial Avenue, Johnston, RI 02919
EPA New England Records Center, One Congress Street, Boston, MA 02114 (617) 918-1440
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| EPA Remedial Project Manager: | Anna Krasko |
| Address: | 1 Congress Street, Suite 1100 (HBO) Boston, MA 02114 |
| Phone #: | (617) 918-1232 |
| E-Mail Address: | krasko.anna@epa.gov |
| EPA Community Involvement Coordinator: | Angela Bonarrigo |
| Address: | 1 Congress Street, Suite 1100 (HIO) Boston, MA 02114 |
| Phone #: | (617) 918-1034 |
| E-Mail Address: | bonarrigo.angela@epa.gov |
| State Agency Contact: | Louis R. Maccarone II |
| Address: | RIDEM, Office of Waste Management 235 Promenade Street Providence, RI 02908-5767 |
| Phone #: | 401-222-2797 |
| E-Mail Address: | louis.maccarone@dem.ri.gov |
source: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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