EPA RCRA ID: VAD023741705
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 Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (VDEQ) is the lead agency for managing cleanups at this facility.
On October 20, 1992, Atlantic Research Corporation (ARC) signed a Final Administrative Order on Consent for Corrective Measures Implementation (CMI Order) at ARC’s former Facility leased from Gainesville Associates, located at 5945 Wellington Road, Gainesville, Virginia 20155. The CMI Order requires that corrective measures at the Facility follow a Corrective Measures Implementation Plan (CMI Plan). Since 1992, ARC has implemented the CMI Plan in various phases, and has documented the results in various reports including work plans, supplemental site investigation, risk assessment, and interim measure reports, and other documents that have been reviewed and approved by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
In a June 14, 2018 letter, EPA indicated that ARC has satisfactorily completed corrective actions undertaken at the Facility pursuant to the CMI Order, Sections VI. H7 and I8. The letter also noted that ARC has satisfactorily completed Interim Measures (IMs) as set forth in the December 20, 2013 EPA-approved IM Report to address perchlorate and other constituents of concern in soils. EPA approved ARC’s Human Health Risk Assessment in October 2016 that identified and defined specific areas of the Site that exceed risk management levels for residential use. Given that contaminants remain in soil at the Facility above residential risk management levels, and at concentrations above risk-based standards in groundwater, ARC submitted a revised Corrective Measures Implementation Workplan (CMI) to implement the Final Facility-wide remedy, including land use restrictions, that was approved by EPA December 17, 2018.
The Facility is currently zoned for heavy industrial use (M-1), including an approximately 181 acre parcel sold to Sharpless Enterprises, LLC in 2017, and has been so zoned since the initial adoption of the Prince William County Zoning Ordinance. ARC continues to lease the remaining western part of the Facility (approximately 235 acres) from the property owner, Gainesville Associates. Gainesville Associates has indicated that it intends to make the entire Facility suitable for unrestricted use and has reported to EPA that it has removed all potentially-restricted soils from the Sharpless Parcel.
ARC continues to operate and manage a groundwater extraction and treatment system (Northern Deep Treatment System) with performance monitoring at on-site monitoring wells locations, including monitoring wells located at the downgradient property boundary. Constituents of concern (COCs) currently meet risk-based cleanup standards at the downgradient property boundary and there has been no off-site groundwater or surface water contaminant migration detected. The groundwater extraction system includes approximately 53 monitoring wells that are sampled semi-annually or annually.
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 Facility operated as a solid fuel rocket propellant and rocket motor production plant primarily under contracts with the DOD from 1951 to 2005, when the Facility was decommissioned by ARC. Early operation of the Facility was conducted by Susquehanna Corporation, until ARC became the operator in February 1972. Operations included rocket and missile production, testing, research and development, and thermal treatment areas for the disposal of waste propellant. The original site is approximately 416 acres in area
Contaminants at this Facility
Based on the risk calculations, the following COCs are included in groundwater monitoring: Tetrachloroethylene (PCE), 1,1-Dichloroethene (1,1-DCE), Methylene Chloride, 1,1,1-Trichloroethane, 1,1,2-Trichloroethane, 1,1-Dichloroethane (1,1-DCA), 1,2,3-Trichloropropane, 1,2-Dichloroethane (1,2-DCA), Benzene, Carbon Tetrachloride, Chloroethane, cis-1,2-Dichloroethene, Trichloroethene (TCE), Vinyl Chloride (VC), Perchlorate and 1,4-Dioxane. The following COCs exceed vapor intrusion screening levels: PCE, TCE, VC, Benzene, 1,1-DCA, 1,2-DCA, and 1,1-DCE.
Institutional and Engineering Controls at this Facility
Institutional Controls (IC) Include:
- Groundwater use restriction on the entire Facility
- Soil is restricted on the specific areas of the western parcel identified on figures included as part of the IC plan.
- Vapor Intrusion controls are required for a specific area shown on a figure of the IC plan representing groundwater exceeding VISL.
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? |
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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.