The site represents no apparent public health hazard for chemical contamination. Some contamination of groundwater, soils, surface water and sediments have been detected however no completed exposure pathways have been identified and contaminant concentrations are low.
Physical hazards exist on site, however, that represent a public health hazard.
Investigations of the site were initiated after a fire in 1980 destroyed many of the buildings on site and a large number of barrels containing hazardous substance were found. In 1983, these barrels were removed as well as an unknown amount of soil. Metals including antimony, arsenic, copper, lead and vanadium have been detected in groundwater monitoring wells on site. Follow up sampling of monitoring wells using a method to reduce sampling generated particles in the water resulted in lower concentrations of all these metals. These same contaminants have not been detected in the new public water supply wells or the old town well.