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EPA Plans NY Superfund Site Cleanup

Published: 14 August 2008
 by Staff
NEW YORK -- The EPA has proposed a plan to continue the clean up of VOC contamination at the Computer Circuits Superfund site in Hauppauge, New York.

The Computer Circuits Corporation operated from this site from 1969 to 1977. Waste liquids from the circuit board manufacturing process were discharged to five industrial leaching pools. These waste liquids contained metals, acids, and solvents. Photographic chemicals and waste liquids were segregated and discharged into a separate industrial leaching pool. 
 
“EPA has been working on this site for some time now and we are seeing to it that this cleanup is solidly under way,” Regional Administrator Alan J. Steinberg said. “We feel that this proposed plan will further advance the work that EPA has been doing.”

The plan includes soil vacuum extraction (SVE) that extracts volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from soil near the north side of a one-story building on the property, as well as from underneath the foundation of the building. Furthermore, an additional SVE system is being installed to clean up a second area off the southeast corner of the building, which was also found to have residual VOC contamination. The EPA is also recommending long-term ground water monitoring through an existing network of monitoring wells. 
 
Soil and ground water monitoring in 1989 and again in the 1990’s disclosed metals including lead, silver, copper, nickel and zinc in the soil samples, and certain VOCs, including trichloroethylene (TCE) and tetrachloroethene were detected in the ground water samples.
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