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HE-10, Cortland County Three Superfund Sites 2002 Update

Site

Chemicals

Size in Acres

Status of Site

Rosen Dump

  • On Pendleton Street
  • Former site of Wickwire Company
  • Overlies sole source Aquifer

  • Paint and pesticides
  • Fluids from car crushing
  • Unknown industrial and municipal wastes
  • TCA/PCB
  • Trans 1,1 dichloroethane

20

Class 2:

Significant Threat

SCM

  • 30+private wells contaminated
  • City water threatened
  • Soil gas vent system in place
  • Ground water pump & treat system in place
  • Ground water remains contaminated

  • TCE
  • Xylene
  • Ethyl benzene

84

Class 4:

Requires Management

NYSEG Dump

  • Route 11, South Main Street in Village of Homer is contaminating:
  • Homer-Preble Principal aquifer
  • ground water &
  • Sediment in Tioughnioga River

  • Wood scrubber chips (cyanide)
  • Polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) (contaminant to aquifer)
  • Coal tar

2.2

Class 2:

Significant Threat

 

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