Hazardous Waste Cleanup: Gulf Oil Corporation in Lansdale, Pennsylvania

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Cleanup Status

EPA sets national goals to measure progress toward meeting the nation’s major environmental goals.  For Corrective Action, EPA evaluates two key environmental indicators for each facility: (1) current human exposures under control and (2) migration of contaminated groundwater under control.  EPA determined on September 29, 1994 that both the Human Exposure and Groundwater Environmental Indicators have been met. No further action is needed at this former Gulf Oil facility.

 
 


 

 
 
 

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Site Description

Interactive Map of Gulf Oil Corporation in Lansdale, Pennsylvania


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The facility is now subdivided into three (3) properties. Soil sampling confirms that the soils at the former facility do not require corrective action. Groundwater contamination exists beneath the facility but it did not originate from the former facility. The contamination is part of a wide-spread groundwater contamination plume, primarily trichloroethylene (TCE) and tetrachloroethylene (PCE), that exists beneath this area of Lansdale. Superfund is handling the contaminated groundwater as part of the North Penn Area 6 Site study.

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Contaminants at this Facility

The contamination is part of a wide-spread groundwater contamination plume, primarily TCE and PCE, that exists beneath this area of Lansdale.

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Institutional and Engineering Controls at this Facility

Institutional controls were not required at the site.

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Land Reuse Information at this Facility

The site is being reused.

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Site Responsibility at this Facility

The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) Corrective Action activities at this facility have been conducted under the direction of EPA Region 3.

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