Hazardous Waste Cleanup: Mactac - Scranton Facility in Moosic, Pennsylvania
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- Cleanup Status
- Site Description
- Contaminants at this Facility
- Institutional/Engineer Controls
- Land Reuse
- Site Responsibility
Cleanup Status
EPA is currently reviewing the existing environmental information to determine if further investigation and/or corrective action will be required at the site. EPA will first focus on the health and groundwater impacts, if any, presented by the facility. On July 14, 2015, EPA determined that the Human Health Exposures Under Control had been met.
Site Description
MACtac is a specialty coater of a variety of papers, films, and foils utilizing solvent based, aqueous based, hot melt, and 100% solid silicone systems. The coatings are currently applied by four production coaters using state of the art coating technologies. There are approximately 25 different coatings used at the facility.
The facility was established on January 4, 1963 by Litton Business Systems, under the name of Communication Papers.
The facility does not have a history of unaddressed spills that would indicate surface soil contamination. Currently, there is no storage or manufacturing located in an area that would impact surface soils. Groundwater seeps through fractured bedrock to former mine shafts in the Scranton area. Due to this groundwater situation, contamination is not suspected.
There are no surface water bodies or sediment located near the facility. A certain amount of residual contamination exists in the area of the former underground storage tank farm. It was not feasible to excavate these soils due to their location immediately adjacent to a water tower structure. The tank closures received Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (PADEP) approval in the 1990s.
Contaminants at this Facility
Due to the lack of site wells and subsurface soil contamination associated with the former underground storage tank farm, there is a potential for groundwater contamination. It is not expected that this potential contamination would be significant, since the most contaminated soil from this area was excavated and there is residual contamination remaining.
Institutional and Engineering Controls at this Facility
The need for institutional controls has yet to be determined.
Land Reuse Information at this Facility
The site under continued use.
Site Responsibility at this Facility
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) Corrective Action activities at this facility have been conducted under the direction of EPA Region 3.