OSWER/OSRTI Washington, DC 20460



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***Proposed Site*** May 2013 

### CRISTEX DRUM Oxford , North Carolina Granville County

 **Site Location :**  The Cristex Drum site is a 22

- acre property with a 150,000 sq uare -foo t former manufacturing building, located in an industrial area on Industry Drive in Oxford, North Carolina.

 **Site History:** The business was operated as a warp knit fabric mill from 1965 to 1986. The mill changed names over the years from Steinfeld Mills to IMI Knits and then finally to Cristex, Inc., in 1981. The mill engaged in knitting, dyeing and finishing of nylon acetate Tricot, and dry cleaning of the manufactured fabrics. Since 1986 the building has been used primarily as warehouse space.

 **Site Contamination/Contaminants:**

There are observed releases o f tetrachloroe th ene ( PCE ), trichloroethene ( TCE ), dichloroethene ( DCE ) , vinyl c hloride, benzene, chlorobenzene and heavy metals to soils and ground water from the former textile operations. The majority
of the soil contamination is located underneath the b uilding. A wastewater lagoon which received several spills from the facility is located on the property. In 1998, the lagoon dam was breached

, releasing approximately 400,000 gallons of contaminated lagoon contents to surface water.

 **Potential Impacts o n Surrounding Community/Environment**  **:**
PCE con centrations are increasing in deep monitoring wells and may pose a risk to private and/or commercial drinking water wells to the south and east. The southeastern edge of the ground water plume is uncharacteri zed and may present increased vapor intrusion risk for the nearby Oak Ridge apartmen ts . O bserved releases of lead, chromium, ma nganese, vanadium and nickel have been documented in the adjacent wetlands, and the breached lagoon continues to discharge

to surface water

.

 **Response Activities (to date):**

The EPA conducted an emergency removal of 26 buried drums and 137 drum carcasses discovered at the rear of the property in 1997. The former building owners had attempted site characterization and removal of two abo ve-ground storage tanks and an oil water separator beneath the building under the State Inactive Hazardous Sites program. These former owners withdrew from the program in 2004 because of lack of funding.

 **Need for NPL Listing:**

The s tate of North Carolina referred th e site to the EPA to allow for a comprehensive cleanup to address all the human health and environmental risks posed by the s ite . Other federal and state cleanup programs were evaluated , but are not
viable at this time

. The EPA received a l ette r of support for placing this s ite on the NPL from the s tate

.

[The description of the site (release) is based on information available at the time the site was evaluated with the HRS. The description may change as additional information is gathered on the sources and extent of contamination. See 56 FR 5600, February 11, 1991, or subsequent FR notices.]

For more information about the hazardous substances identified in this narrative summary, including general information regarding the effects of exposure to these substances on human health, please see the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) ToxFAQs. ATSDR ToxF AQs can be found on
the Internet at http://w ww.atsdr.cdc.gov/toxfaqs/index.asp or by telephone at 1

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- ATSDR or 1

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