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- 8737. ***Final Site*** March 2012


### CONTINENTAL CLEANERS Miami, Florida

Miami

- Dade County

 **Site Location :** 
The Continental Cleaners site i s located at 798 NW 62 nd Street in the City of Miami

, Miami -Dade County, Florida, and

is on the so utheast corner of NW 62 nd Street (Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard) and NW 8 th Avenue. The site is in the Liberty City neighborhood and it is surrounded by residential and commercial properties.

 **Site History:**
Laundry and dry cleaning operations were conducted at the site from approximately 1967 to 2005. The facility is currently used as a pickup and drop off location for offsite dry cleaning. In the 1990s, local environmental officials found dry cleaning chemicals had been released to the ground and ground water. N umerous studies have documented tetrachloroethene (PCE), a common dry cleaning solvent and its breakdown products in the soil and ground water at the site. The facility was determined by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) to be ineligible to participate in the state Drycleaner Solvent Program. Subsequently, the site was referred by the FDEP to the EPA for Superfund evaluation.

 **Site Contamination/Contaminants:**
PCE was found at high concentrations in the floor drain and in ground water at the site. Trichloroethene (TCE) and

cis -1,2- dichloroethene (DCE) were also detected at concentrations two and three times the level of PCE in the groundwater. TCE and DCE are breakdown products of PCE. The ground water concentration s of these volatile organic compounds (VOCs) significantly exceed state and federal drinking water standards.

 **Potential Impacts on Surrounding Community/Environment :**  The site is approximately half an acre. Contamination may exist beneath the building and in the back of the facility in

s oils down to the ground water table. The ground water is contaminated on the site, and it is likely to have migrated offsite. The aquifer beneath the site is the sole source of municipal drinking water for southeast Florid a.

 **Response Activities (to date):**
There have been a number of investigations conducted by the Miami

- Dade County Department of Environmental Resources (DERM) and the FDEP. Waste discharge violations and enforcement issues were identified by the DERM.

How ever, no cleanup activities have taken place at the site.

 **Need for NPL Listing:**

The S tate of Florida referred th e site to the EPA to allow for a comprehensive cleanup to address all of 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 etter of support for placing this s ite on the NPL from the s tate

.