SCE’s crews are wrapping up the Polymer Superfund Site in Tonawanda, NY. Over 16,000 tons of contaminated soils were shipped to Canada as part of this project. Over 9,940 man-hours were worked on this project without incident or accident including work in Level B recovering unknown drums.

SCE mobilized to the site on March 14th, 2011 for site set up and preliminary work activities.

The project also included:

• Dismantling and removing the on-site treatment system building and equipment.

• Demolishing and disposing of the buildings located within and surrounding the biotreatment cell.

• Removing and disposing of groundwater monitoring wells, recovery wells and all associated underground piping within the excavation limits.

Polymer Applications operated on the 6.7 acre site from 1968 through 1988. Its activities included the manufacture of products for use in the automotive, paint and coatings industries.

In July 1988, a fire severely damaged the process and tank farm areas of the site, releasing an estimated 70,000 gallons of a phenol/solvent mixture.

Since that time, both the Environmental Protection Agency and the DEC have performed cleanup actions at the site, including removing 3,537 tons of contaminated concrete and 8,500 tons of contaminated soil.