EPA RCRA ID: PAD002389559
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 2003, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a Final Determination that no further corrective action is required at this time at the Keystone Cement Company, Bath facility.
On July 1990, EPA issued a draft corrective action permit in which identified six areas the required further investigation to determine presence of contamination. Subsequently, Keystone conducted removal of soil on those areas. On September 2001, Keystone completed soil sampling of those areas within the plant to confirm that removal was satisfactorily completed. The results indicates that there are no contaminants above action levels in the areas evaluated.
Based on the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) Facility Assessment and the Environmental Indicator (EI) site inspection of the Facility, EPA has determined that corrective action is now complete without controls at the Facility. A more complete explanation of the conditions at the Facility can be found in the Administrative Record and the Statement of Basis.
EPA published a notice in local newspaper detailing the proposed Agency decision of no further corrective action. The thirty (30) day public comment period ended on July 14, 2003, and no comments were received during that time.
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
| Action | Status | Date of Action |
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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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Keystone Cement produces Portland and masonry cement on an 800-acre site along Route 329 in East Allen Township (just south of Bath), Northampton County, Pennsylvania. The manufacturing process at the site consist of four major steps: quarrying and crushing; grinding and blending; clinker production; and finishing grinding and packaging. Keystone operates two rotary cement kilns to produce clinker, the intermediate product, which is ground into cement. The daily clinker production at Keystone is approximately 2,00 tons per day.
Hazardous wastes are received from offsite (primarily from commercial hazardous waste fuel blenders) mostly by tank truck. Each shipment is analyzed for key parameters (e.g., heating value, chlorine content, PCB content) before it is unloaded by Keystone. The hazardous waste is then pumped to one of four permitted tanks where it is stored before being burned in the kilns as a fuel.
Contaminants at this Facility
In 1997, Keystone completed a multi-pathway human and an ecological risk assessment to characterize the impacts of its operations in the surrounding community. The assessment concluded that the chronic and acute risk predicted for the modeled exposure scenarios are lower that those considered acceptable thus no human exposure or environmental risk at the site.
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.