Massachusetts Superfund (NPL) Sites
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Location: Fairhaven, Bristol County
Narrative: Atlas made tacks, nails, and similar items. It closed in 1985. Releases of heavy metals, cyanide, and other chemicals affected soils, groundwater, and a wetland.
Contaminants: Cadmium · Chromium · Cyanide · Ethylbenzene · Lead · Nickel · PAHs · PCBs · Pesticides · Toluene · Zinc
Location: Holbrook, Norfolk County
Narrative: Baird & McGuire occupied a 20-acre site, where they mixed, packaged, and stored a variety of products like pesticides, disinfectants, soaps, waxes, and solvents. Operations ceased in 1983.
Contaminants: Arsenic · Chlordane · DDT · Lead · PAHs · VOCs
Location: Franklin, Norfolk County
Narrative: Manufactured rubber and plastic products. Wastes have contaminated soil, and contaminated groundwater from the facility affects nearby properties and wetlands.
Contaminants: Lead · Mercury · SVOCs · Zinc
Location: Walpole, Norfolk County
Narrative: Industrial activity on this site dates back to the 1600s; products included hides, textiles, and asbestos brake linings. Some of the waste products ended up in two lagoons.
Contaminants: Arsenic · Asbestos · Lead · Nickel · SVOCs · VOCs
Charles George Reclamation Trust Landfill
Location: Tyngsborough, Middlesex County
Narrative: Leaching from the landfill affected the wells of nearby landowners. EPA provided a water line to affected residents, capped the landfill, and is collecting and processing leachate and contaminated groundwater.
Contaminants: Arsenic · Benzene · 2-Butanone · 1,4-Dioxane · PAHs · Tetrahydrofuran
Location: Danvers, Massachusetts
Narrative: Used for treatment and disposal of leather manufacturing wastes from about 1903 into the 1980s. Wastes were disposed of in two on-site landfills and a lagoon. The Crane River bisects the site.
Contaminants: Arsenic · Asbestos · Cadmium · Chromium · Dioxin · 1,4-Dioxane · Lead · Mercury · PAHs · Tetrahydrofuran · VOCs · Zinc
Location: Shirley, Ayer, Lancaster, and Harvard, Middlesex and Worcester Counties
Narrative: Investigations at this large facility revealed more than fifty areas of contamination.
Contaminants: Arsenic · Cadmium · Chromium · Lead · Mercury · PCBs · Pesticides · SVOCs · VOCs
Location: Groveland, Essex County
Narrative: Valley Manufacturing Products Co. made metal parts, screws, and cable connectors, and was the main source of contamination. The company disposed of its liquid wastes in buried leach fields and on the ground, and had an underground trichloroethene storage tank that leaked. Many of these chemicals leached to groundwater, and eventually unacceptable levels of trichloroethene reached the water wells of the Town of Groveland.
Contaminants: Trichloroethene
Hanscom Field/Hanscom Air Force Base
Location: Bedford, Concord, Lexington, and Lincoln, Middlesex County
Narrative: A large property that experienced many chemical releases over the years that have affected soil, sediments, wetlands, and groundwater.
Contaminants: Benzene · 1,2-Dichloroethene · Ethylbenzene · PAHs · Petroleum hydrocarbons · Toluene · Trichloroethene · Vinyl Chloride · Xylenes
Location: Haverhill, Essex County
Narrative: Landfill that accepted a wide variety of wastes. More than 6,000 drums of waste were removed, and the landfill capped. Groundwater monitoring and methane capture continue.
Contaminants: VOCs
Location: Westborough, Worcester County
Narrative: Wood treating facility that contaminated sediments, surface water, and groundwater with creosote.
Contaminants: Creosote · PAHs
Location: North Woburn, Middlesex County
Narrative: Property was once home to several chemical and glue manufacturing facilities. Products included insecticides, acids, and various other organic chemicals. Soils are contaminated with metals. Groundwater and nearby wetlands are also affected.
Contaminants: Ammonia · Arsenic · Benzene · Chromium · Lead · Toluene
Location: North Billerica, Middlesex County
Narrative: A large industrial complex, home to many industries, landfills, and wastewater lagoons. Soil, groundwater, and surface water are all contaminated.
Contaminants: Arsenic · Cadmium · Lead · PCBs · Petroleum hydrocarbons · Selenium
Location: Boston and Milton
Narrative: A 3.7 mile stretch of the Lower Neponset River containing contaminated sediments.
Contaminants: PCBs
Location: Amesbury, Essex County
Narrative: Former manufacturer of metal parts, circuit boards, and electroplated materials. Wastes were released into a nearby stream, onto the ground, and into dry wells and leach fields.
Contaminants: Arsenic · Chromium · PAHs · Tetrachloroethene · Trichloroethene
Natick Laboratory Army Research, Development and Engineering Center
Location: Natick, Middlesex County
Narrative: Army laboratory in operation since 1949. Past waste disposal practices led to contamination of soil, surface water, and groundwater.
Contaminants: Arsenic · Barium · Chromium · Copper · Freon 113 · Lead · Mercury · Naphthalene · VOCs · Zinc
Naval Weapons Industrial Reserve Plant
Location: Bedford, Middlesex County
Narrative: Spills and waste disposal practices from a wide variety of activities led to contamination of soil and groundwater.
Contaminants: Benzene · Ethylbenzene · Tetrachloroethene · Toluene · Trichloroethene · Xylenes
Location: New Bedford, Fairhaven, Acushnet, and Dartmouth, Bristol County
Narrative: An 18,000 acre tidal estuary with sediments that are contaminated with PCBs and heavy metals.
Contaminants: Heavy Metals · PCBs
Location: Concord, Middlesex County
Contaminants: PCBs · Uranium · VOCs
Location: Ashland, Middlesex County
Contaminants: Heavy Metals · VOCs
Location: Wilmington, Middlesex County
Contaminants: Acetone · Ammonia · Benzene hexachloride · Bis(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate · Chromium · N-nitrosodimethylamine · N-nitrosodiphenylamine · Pesticides · Petroleum hydrocarbons · Trimethylbenzenes · Trimethylpentenes
Otis Air National Guard Base/Camp Edwards
Location: Falmouth, Bourne, Sandwich, and Mashpee, Barnstable County
Contaminants: Carbon Tetrachloride · 1,2-Dibromoethane · Dichloroethenes · Heavy Metals · PAHs · PCBs · Pesticides · Petroleum hydrocarbons · Tetrachloroethene · Trichloroethene
Location: Palmer, Hampden County
Contaminants: Benzene · Methylene Chloride · PCBs
Location: North Dartmouth, Bristol County
Contaminants: Lead · Methylene Chloride · PCBs · Toluene · Trichloroethene · Vinyl Chloride
Location: Lanesborough, Berkshire County
Contaminants: Benzene · PCBs · Trichloroethene · Vinyl Chloride
Location: Lowell, Middlesex County
Contaminants: Dioxins · Heavy Metals · PCBs · Pesticides · SVOCs · VOCs
South Weymouth Naval Air Station
Location: Weymouth, Abington, and Rockland, Norfolk and Plymouth Counties
Contaminants: Heavy Metals · VOCs
Location: New Bedford, Bristol County
Contaminants: PAHs · PCBs · VOCs
Location: Tewksbury, Middlesex County
Contaminants: PCBs · Pesticides · SVOCs · VOCs
Location: Attleboro, Bristol County
Narrative: A former plating facility in operation from 1940 to 2007. During the first thirty years of operation, the facility discharged wastes into a wetland immediately to the south.
Contaminants: Chromium · Lead · VOCs
Location: Woburn, Middlesex County
Contaminants: Arsenic · PAHs · PCBs · Pesticides · Tetrachloroethene · Trichloroethene
W. R. Grace & Co. Inc. (Acton Plant)
Location: Acton and Concord, Middlesex County
Contaminants: Arsenic · Benzene · Bis(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate · 1,1-Dichloroethene · 1,4-Dioxane · Ethylbenzene · Manganese · Vinyl Chloride
Cannon Engineering Corporation (Bridgewater)
Location: Bridgewater, Bristol and Plymouth Counties
Narrative: Used beginning in 1974 for storage and incineration of hazardous wastes. Operations ended in 1980, sometime after conviction of the owners for illegal disposal practices.
Contaminants: Benzene · Dioxins · Heavy Metals · Lead · Manganese · Methylene Chloride · PAHs · PCBs · Pesticides · Selenium · Silver · Toluene
Deleted: 2013
Fort Devens - Sudbury Training Annex
Location: Sudbury, Maynard, Hudson, and Stow, Middlesex County
Contaminants: PCBs · Pesticides · VOCs
Deleted: 2002
Location: Mansfield, Bristol County
Narrative: A former wood treating facility, though the site saw other uses including bulk chemical storage and transfer.
Contaminants: Arsenic · Chromium · Copper · Dioxins · Furans · PAHs · Pentachlorophenol · Phenols
Deleted: 2018
Materials Technology Laboratory (US Army)
Location: Watertown, Middlesex County
Contaminants: PAHs · PCBs · Pesticides
Deleted: 2006
Location: Norwood, Norfolk County
Contaminants: PCBs
Deleted: 2011
Plymouth Harbor/Cannon Engineering Corp.
Location: Plymouth, Plymouth County
Contaminants: Lead · PAHs
Deleted: 1993
Location: Salem, Essex County
Contaminants: Arsenic · Chromium · PCBs · SVOCs · VOCs
Deleted: 2001
Location: Attleboro and Norton, Bristol County
Contaminants: Arsenic · Barium · Cadmium · Chromium · Copper · Lead · Manganese · Nickel · Radium · Trichloroethene · Uranium · Vinyl Chloride
Deleted: 2017
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