On this page we'll discuss how Brick Landfill became a Superfund site but before I get into that discussion, here is a little background about the process and the National List of Superfund sites.
NPL of National Priorities List. Is the Federal list of Superfund sites throughout the United States. Sites are first proposed to the National Priorities List (NPL) in the Federal Register. EPA then accepts public comments on the sites, responds to the comments, and places on the NPL those sites that continue to meet the requirements for listing. About the NPL
How Sites are Placed on the NPLSites are first proposed to the National Priorities List (NPL) in the Federal Register. EPA then accepts public comments on the sites, responds to the comments, and places on the NPL those sites that continue to meet the requirements for listing.
Section 300.425(c) of the NCP, the Federal regulation by which CERCLA is implemented (55 FR 8845, March 8, 1990), provides three mechanisms for placing sites on the NPL:
- The first mechanism is EPA's Hazard Ranking System (HRS).
- The second mechanism for placing sites on the NPL allows States or Territories to designate one top-priority site regardless of score.
- The third mechanism allows listing a site if it meets all three of these requirements:
- the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) of the U.S. Public Health Service has issued a health advisory that recommends removing people from the site;
- EPA determines the site poses a significant threat to public health; and
- EPA anticipates it will be more cost-effective to use its remedial authority (available only at NPL sites) than to use its emergency removal authority to respond to the site.
Brick Township Landfill -Site Discovery
Background and History
The Brick Landfill is located between Sally Ike Road (route 549) and the Garden State Parkway to the west. (see the map on Images Page) The 42 acre site is situated in a residential area with housing units adjacent to the site on the northeast and southwest directions with new housing construction underway.
The Landfill accepted both residential and commercial waste during the early 1970's
The EPA added the Brick Township Landfill site in Brick Township, New Jersey to the Superfund National Priorities List on September 1, 1983 because hazardous chemicals were found in the soil and ground water.
Preliminary Assessment/Site Inspection.
Contaminants from the 42 acre landfill seeped into the ground water and eventually migrated in a southeastern direction as far as 3,500 feet from the landfill source area. This site was previously operated as the McCormick's Dump, French's Landfill as well finally as the Brick Township Landfill.
During the previous 30 years of operation it was reported that the site accepted disposed materials that included municipal solid waste, commercial wastes, bulky and incompatible debris, industrial wastes, bulk liquid solids, sewage and septic wastes. The predominant materials dumped on record were municipal solid wastes and bulk liquid wastes. However there were and indeterminate number quantity of 55 gallon drums. Historic examples identified by NJ Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) representatives in 1981 included; Engine oil, lubricants, Sea-10, Automatic Transmission Fluids, Anti-Freeze, Resin, Aldrin and Herbicides.
Documents recently recovered from archives at the DEP and the Township of Brick show that estimated quantities of total septic wastes material dumped into the site range from 31,000 gallons to 37,200,000 gallons during a period from 1969 to 1979. In 1972 the Public Utilities Commission reduced allowable sewage on a daily basis to 75,000, therefore it is estimated that that the total gallonage disposed of from 1975 through 1978 was approximately 12,000,000 annually or 63,000,000 gallon total.
After ceasing operations at the site in May of 1979, Brick Township covered the landfill with two-feet of clean soil. Subsequently, under the direction of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, Brick Township removed 55 gallon drums, 10,000 gallon storage tanks and fenced off the landfill. In 1981 the NJDEP preformed a site inspection to assess the condition of the inactive site. In December 1982, the Brick Landfill was added tot he United States Environmental Protection Agency's National Priority List (NPL)
Images and artifacts of this investigation can be found in the Images Page of this Blog. They include Groundwater Flow, Maps of the landfill and affected areas as well as well locations and sampled contaminants. and will add visual corroboration tot his narrative.
*NOTE*
Data for this section and Blog was taken from the Remedial Investigation/Investigation Report Workplan of May 2002 Volumes 1-7 by Primary Contractor-Birdsall Engineering, Inc of Belmar, NJ. Patricia Calvert Project manger, Thomas Rospos PE Brick Township Engineer. Case # NJD 980505176 contained at the Brick Township Branch of the Ocean County Library System and from the USEPA web site for data for the Brick Landfill.
Background and History
The Brick Landfill is located between Sally Ike Road (route 549) and the Garden State Parkway to the west. (see the map on Images Page) The 42 acre site is situated in a residential area with housing units adjacent to the site on the northeast and southwest directions with new housing construction underway.
The Landfill accepted both residential and commercial waste during the early 1970's
The EPA added the Brick Township Landfill site in Brick Township, New Jersey to the Superfund National Priorities List on September 1, 1983 because hazardous chemicals were found in the soil and ground water.
Preliminary Assessment/Site Inspection.
Contaminants from the 42 acre landfill seeped into the ground water and eventually migrated in a southeastern direction as far as 3,500 feet from the landfill source area. This site was previously operated as the McCormick's Dump, French's Landfill as well finally as the Brick Township Landfill.
During the previous 30 years of operation it was reported that the site accepted disposed materials that included municipal solid waste, commercial wastes, bulky and incompatible debris, industrial wastes, bulk liquid solids, sewage and septic wastes. The predominant materials dumped on record were municipal solid wastes and bulk liquid wastes. However there were and indeterminate number quantity of 55 gallon drums. Historic examples identified by NJ Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) representatives in 1981 included; Engine oil, lubricants, Sea-10, Automatic Transmission Fluids, Anti-Freeze, Resin, Aldrin and Herbicides.
Documents recently recovered from archives at the DEP and the Township of Brick show that estimated quantities of total septic wastes material dumped into the site range from 31,000 gallons to 37,200,000 gallons during a period from 1969 to 1979. In 1972 the Public Utilities Commission reduced allowable sewage on a daily basis to 75,000, therefore it is estimated that that the total gallonage disposed of from 1975 through 1978 was approximately 12,000,000 annually or 63,000,000 gallon total.
After ceasing operations at the site in May of 1979, Brick Township covered the landfill with two-feet of clean soil. Subsequently, under the direction of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, Brick Township removed 55 gallon drums, 10,000 gallon storage tanks and fenced off the landfill. In 1981 the NJDEP preformed a site inspection to assess the condition of the inactive site. In December 1982, the Brick Landfill was added tot he United States Environmental Protection Agency's National Priority List (NPL)
Images and artifacts of this investigation can be found in the Images Page of this Blog. They include Groundwater Flow, Maps of the landfill and affected areas as well as well locations and sampled contaminants. and will add visual corroboration tot his narrative.
*NOTE*
Data for this section and Blog was taken from the Remedial Investigation/Investigation Report Workplan of May 2002 Volumes 1-7 by Primary Contractor-Birdsall Engineering, Inc of Belmar, NJ. Patricia Calvert Project manger, Thomas Rospos PE Brick Township Engineer. Case # NJD 980505176 contained at the Brick Township Branch of the Ocean County Library System and from the USEPA web site for data for the Brick Landfill.
Thank you! I wanted to do a report on this and the US EPA website has NOTHING listed about the monitoring well locations!
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