EPA RCRA ID: PAD003038544
On this page:
- Cleanup Status
- Facility Description
- Contaminants at this Facility
- Institutional/Engineer Controls
- Enforcement and Compliance
- Related Information
- Contacts for this Facility
Cleanup Status
Note: The EPA is the lead agency for managing cleanups at this facility.
On August 25, 1983, the Facility was certified closed by the PADEP (Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection) after closure activities were completed. Closure activities encompassed the entire facility, which included the proper closure of waste management units and related areas of concern. These activities involved hazardous waste and debris removal, decontamination of tanks and injection wells, disconnection of piping to tanks, and sampling of tanks, injection wells and monitoring wells. The injection wells and tanks were filled with sand to prevent future use.
After the certification of closure, the property's title was transferred to Diamond Aerosol on November 27, 1983. The property was later sold to Hayward Laboratory in 1994 who currently uses the facility to produce cosmetic moisturizers.
Subsequent to closure activities, post-closure monitoring was implemented by the Facility under the supervision of the PADEP. The program entailed groundwater monitoring at the Facility and nearby residential wells from 1983-1989. The post-closure monitoring detected organic compound contaminants in groundwater. However, after extensive monitoring, the PADEP concluded that the organic compound contamination originated off-site from an undetermined source. Most importantly, the groundwater monitoring showed that nearby residential wells were not impacted. Since there is no current human exposure to the contaminated groundwater, the moderate levels of contaminants do not pose human health or environmental risks. As a result, PADEP released the Surety Bond #8116-16-2, which releases the Facility from further corrective actions.
In its effort to define the source of groundwater contamination, the PADEP will continue to investigate nearby facilities to determine the source of the organic compound groundwater contamination.
Based on PADEP's determination that groundwater contaminant levels do not pose human health or environmental risks, and the organic compound contamination was not caused by releases at the Facility, U.S. EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) proposed that no further corrective actions are necessary at the Facility at this time.
On August 31, 1999, EPA issued a Final Determination stating that "no further corrective action is required at the facility at this time" to the former Drackett Inc. site in East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. The former Drackett Inc. facility successfully completed all required closure activities. This EPA determination ends the corrective action process at this facility.
Cleanup Actions or environmental indicators characterizing the entire facility are shown below. It is not intended as an extensive list of milestones/activities. This listing, and all the data on this page, come from EPA’s RCRAInfo and are refreshed nightly to this page. For this table and the Cleanup Activities Pertaining to a Portion of the Facility table that follows, a blank in the Status column could mean the action either has not occurred or has not been reported in RCRAInfo.
Cleanup Activities Pertaining to the Entire Facility
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| Human Exposure Under Control Human Exposure Under Control(CA725) | ||
| Groundwater Migration Under ControlGroundwater Migration Under Control (CA750) | ||
| Remedy DecisionRemedy Decision (CA400) | ||
| Remedy ConstructionRemedy Construction (CA550) | ||
| Ready for Anticipated Use Ready for Anticipated Use (CA800) | ||
| Performance Standards AttainedPerformance Standards Attained (CA900) | ||
| Corrective Action Process TerminatedCorrective Action Process Terminated (CA999) |
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Cleanup Activities Pertaining to a Portion of the Facility
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Facility Description
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The former Drackett Inc. facility is located in East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. Drackett Inc. manufactured household products that included air fresheners, drain, glass, and toilet bowl cleaners. During the time of operation, the Facility had two separate waste treatment units to dispose of wastewater produced from industrial operations. Each system consisted of a collection of floor drains serving distinct production areas. The collected wastewater drained to underground tanks that were used to settle solids prior to wastewater disposal to the injection wells. The wastewater was classified as a Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) hazardous waste due to its corrosive characteristics.
The property was later sold to Hayward Laboratory in 1994 who currently use the facility to produce cosmetic moisturizers.
Contaminants at this Facility
No contaminants of concern were detected above acceptable levels.
Institutional and Engineering Controls at this Facility
Institutional Controls were not required at the site.
Institutional and Engineering Controls help ensure human exposure and groundwater migration are under control at a cleanup facility. Where control types have been reported by states and EPA in EPA’s RCRAInfo, they are shown below. Not all control types are needed at all facilities, and some facilities do not require any controls. Where there are blanks, the control types may not be needed, may not be in place, or may not be reported in RCRAInfo.
Are Controls in Place at this Facility?
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Control(s) in Place? |
Areas Subject to Control(s) |
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Institutional ControlsNon-engineering controls used to restrict land use or land access in order to protect people and the environment from exposure to hazardous substances remaining in the site/or facility. (CA 772) |
Informational DevicesInformational Devices (ID) |
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Engineering ControlsEngineering measures designed to minimize the potential for human exposure to contamination by either limiting direct contact with contaminated areas or controlling migration of contaminants. (CA 770) |
Groundwater ControlGroundwater Control (GW) |
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Enforcement and Compliance at this Facility
EPA’s Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance (OECA) provides detailed historical information about enforcement and compliance activities at each RCRA Corrective Action Site in their Enforcement and Compliance Historical Online (ECHO) system.
RCRA Enforcement and Compliance Reports from ECHO
Related Information
For more information about this facility, see these other EPA links:
- RCRA information in EPA’s Envirofacts database
- Information about this facility submitted to EPA under different environmental programs as reported in EPA’s Facility Registry Services
- Alternative Names for this facility as reported by EPA programs in EPA’s Facility Registry Services
- Cleanups in My Community provides an interactive map to see EPA cleanups in context with additional data, and lists for downloading data
- Search RCRA Corrective Action Sites provides a search feature for Corrective Action Sites
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Contacts for this Facility
EPA Region implements and enforces the RCRA Corrective Action program for and federally recognized tribes.
For further information on this corrective action site, use the Contact Information for Corrective Action Hazardous Waste Clean Ups listings that are accessible through Corrective Action Programs around the Nation.