This area of the site has an 8-foot high security fence and is not accessible to the public. Operations at the Revere Chemical site were initiated in 1963 and reportedly involved the recycling of spent chromic acid solutions, the recovery of copper from electric plating solution, and the reclamation of metals from printed circuit boards. In 1984, a fire at the site offices destroyed most company documents. Consequently, detailed descriptions of site operations are unavailable. The process area soils are contaminated with volatile organic compounds and metals.
Soil contamination decreases markedly with distance from the process area.
No VOCs were detected in the off-site residential groundwater samples. None of the Target Analyte List metals or hexavalent chromium concentrations detected exceeded Federal Primary Drinking Water Standards in the filtered or unfiltered groundwater samples collected from residential wells. There were no community health concerns or completed exposure pathways that indicated that a review of health outcome data was necessary. However, the Revere Chemical site currently represents an indeterminate public health hazard since groundwater flow direction has not been fully characterized and not all residential wells near the site have been sampled. The Phase 2A Groundwater Investigation now under review will eliminate these data gaps.