EPA RCRA ID: WVR000001719
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 lead agency for managing cleanups at this facility is the West Virginia Department of Environment (DEP).
A Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) Post Closure Care Permit, EPA ID# WVR000001719, was issued to Chemical Leaman Tank Lines on June 30, 1999. CLTL did not submit a Part B Application for renewal and their RCRA Post Closure Care Permit expired on September 30, 2009.
Quality Carriers, Inc. (QCI), as successors to Chemical Leaman Tank Lines, is addressing their RCRA Corrective Action (CA) obligation through the use of the West Virginia Voluntary Remediation Program (VRP). On September 9, 2011, the WVDEP approved QCI’s application to participate in the VRP A Site Assessment/RCRA Facility Investigation Work Plan was approved on July 6, 2012. West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection (WVDEP) is reviewed the Remedial Action Work Plan and HHERA in December 2015.
On June 9, 2020 , EPA issued a final cleanup Remedy for the Facility, as explained further in the Statement of Basis. includes the following components: 1) natural attenuation with continued groundwater monitoring until drinking water standards or background levels are met; 2) compliance with and maintenance of groundwater and land use restrictions to be implemented through institutional controls; 3) vapor intrusion mitigation requirements in specified areas; and 4) compliance with a soil and groundwater management plan to restrict activities in known contaminated areas.
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 Chemical Leaman facility is on the fall line of the flood plain for the Kanawha River.
The total area of the property is approximately 142-acres with facility situated on an approximately 10-acres portion of developed/improved land; the remainder of the property is comprised of steep, heavily wooded hillsides.
In 1963, Chemical Leaman Tank Lines, Inc. purchased the Institute facility from Union Carbide and constructed a tanker truck washing facility. In 1993, Quality Systems, Inc. (QSI) began operating the tank washing business. In 1998, Chemical Leaman Corporation and Montgomery Tank Lines, Inc. merged and operations at the facility continued under the names Quality Carriers, Inc. and Quality Systems, Inc. Under this structure, Quala Systems continued as the operating entity for the tank washing operations.
Currently, the property is owned by Quality Carriers, Inc., which has no operations at the Institute site. Trucking operations are managed by an affiliate partner, under contract to QCI; and the tank washing operation is operated by the same affiliate partner, using another name, but under agreement with Quala Systems.
Contaminants at this Facility
The facility had a drum burial area and a disposal pit area.
The drum burial area includes a drum excavation area (.10 acres) where approximately 500 drums of waste and impacted soil were excavated; a bioremediation area (0.56 acres) where an estimated 2,400 cubic yards (yd3) of impacted soil was placed into eight bio-cells constructed on-site for biological treatment; and, a treated soil stockpile (0.11 acres) where approximately 2,200 yd3 of soil that met Land Disposal Restrictions (LDRs) were deposited.
A disposal pit, located along the dirt access road to the upper area of the wastewater treatment plant, was discovered during a 1994 subsurface investigation.
From August 2003 to October 2005, the Facility conducted an in-situ bioremediation of the groundwater in the buried drum excavation area.
Historical investigations have concluded that constituents of potential concern at the Facility include 1,1-dicloroethene, benzene, chlorobenzene, trichloroethene, and vinyl chloride.
Institutional and Engineering Controls at this Facility
Institutional controls include:
- Natural attenuation with continued groundwater monitoring until drinking water standards or background levels are met;
- Compliance with and maintenance of groundwater and land use restrictions to be implemented through institutional controls;
- Vapor intrusion mitigation requirements in specified areas;
- Compliance with a soil and groundwater management plan to restrict activities in known contaminated areas.
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.