EPA RCRA ID: PAD015139470
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- 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.
Wrightsville, PA (Facility). The Facility is currently owned and occupied by the Wrightsville Water & Sewer Authority (the Authority).
On September 22, 2017, EPA determined that contamination in groundwater and human exposures risk from contaminants were under control.
On 3/18/2020, EPA announced a proposed remedy under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, as amended (RCRA), for the former EPY Facility. The proposed remedy for the Facility consists of activity and use limitations with proposed remedial actions that include some flexibility as necessary to accommodate potential future uses. These proposed remedial actions were defined in the Statement of Basis (SB).
On 5/1/2020, the EPA issued its final decision in the Final Decision and Response to Comments (FDRTC). The FDRTC specified that implementation and compliance of land and groundwater use restrictions with proposed remedial actions that include some flexibility as necessary to accommodate potential future site uses will be the Final Remedy.
On August 22, 2023, the EPA conducted a Long Term Stewardship assessment to assess whether the remedy was implemented and protective of human health and the environment. Portions of the remedy have been completed, and the remaining remedy is on schedule to be implemented by January 2026.
Cleanup Background
An Environmental Indicator (EI) Inspection Report was completed in September 2010. It was determined that there was insufficient information available to determine if current human exposures and migration of groundwater are under control due to a lack of any environmental investigations or information.
The Authority entered the Facility into the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (PADEP) Land Recycling and Environmental Remediation Standards Act through a Notice of Intent to Remediate submitted November 7, 2011. At that time, the Authority also elected to participate in the EPA/PADEP One Cleanup Program Memorandum of Agreement.
The Authority applied for and was selected to receive a Brownfields Grant in 2013. The grant was used to perform an investigation to address the information needed to determine if human health and the environment are protected. Since that time, several iterations of investigations have occurred by the consultant, ARM Group Inc. EPA used quarterly data submitted during these investigations to make determinations that the Migration of Contaminated Groundwater Under Control and Current Human Exposures Under Control EIs were under control in 2017.
A Remedial Investigation Report and Cleanup Plan (Report) submitted in October 2018 and revised in January 2019 summarizing site characterization activities and proposed remedial work. Both EPA and PADEP approved the Report under the One Cleanup Program in 2019.
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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Electro-Platers of York was an electroplating facility that was contracted by various businesses who supplied EPY with prefinished metal components for custom electroplating. EPY conducted operations at the facility from 1968 until December 21, 2004. The facility experienced an industrial fire which destroyed EPY’s production facility and damaged the finished work warehouse connected to the north end of the production facility building. EPY became a dissolved entity in 2004.
The facility was comprised of 6 acres and 48,000 square feet of facility space during its operation. The original building was expanded in the early 1980s to accommodate increased production capacity. The site is located with the western side on Water Street and the southern side along the former extension of Willow Street at 209 East Willow Street, where the former Wrightsville Hardware Company existed. The site is bordered on the northeast by the Susquehanna River and on the north and west/southwest by residential properties. A baseball field is in the northern vicinity of the property and the Wrightsville sewage treatment plant is to the south.
Contaminants at this Facility
Contaminants identified at the Facility exceeding PADEP Statewide Health Standards include Trichloroethene (TCE), Vinyl Chloride (VC), and Chromium in groundwater as well as Acrolein, Methylene Chloride, TCE, Benzo(a)pyrene, Arsenic, Cadmium, Lead, Nickel and Zinc in soils.
Institutional and Engineering Controls at this Facility
Institutional Controls proposed by the EPA in the Statement of Basis include prohibitions on use of potable groundwater, residential construction , other building and excavation restrictions.
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.