EPA RCRA ID: CTD002590461
On this page:
- Cleanup Activities
- Facility Description
- Institutional/Engineering Controls
- Enforcement and Compliance
- Related Information and Publicly Available Electronic Records
- Contacts for this Facility
Cleanup Activities
The facility achieved a "Remedy Construction Complete" determination on September 29, 2011. Underground storage tanks and contaminated surficial soils were excavated and disposed of off site. Other contaminated soils were capped in place, and a land use restriction was recorded.
Cleanup Actions or environmental indicators characterizing the entire facility are shown below. This listing, and all the data on this page, come from EPA’s RCRAInfo and are refreshed nightly to this page. For this table, a blank in the Status column could mean the action either has not occurred or has not been reported in RCRAInfo.
Cleanup Activities Pertaining to the Entire Facility
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Facility Description
The site was originally owned and operated by Aspinook Mills, a textile manufacturer, from approximately 1893 to 1964. Aspinook Mills operated two coal-fired boilers, and disposed of the coal ash in an on-site landfill. Southwire Company purchased the site in 1970, and manufactured wire products on the site through 1996. Facility operations resulted in the generation of used oils, wastewater treatment sludge, and plating sludges; a hazardous waste storage area was operated on site. Southwire sold part of the property to Live Wire, Inc. in 1996 and a second portion of the facility to Summit Hydropower, Inc. in 1997.
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This approximately 67 acre facility is located in a commercial area of Jewett City, CT. According to the US Geological Survey's National Hydrography Dataset, this facility is located in the Lower Quinebaug River watershed and the nearest fresh surface water body is located on or immediately adjacent to the property. Geology in this area has been observed to be dominated by mafic gneiss formations.
Institutional and Engineering Controls at this Facility
Institutional and Engineering Controls help ensure human exposure and groundwater migration are under control at a cleanup facility. Where control types have been reported by states and EPA in EPA’s RCRAInfo, they are shown below. Not all control types are needed at all facilities, and some facilities do not require any controls. Where there are blanks, the control types may not be needed, may not be in place, or may not be reported in RCRAInfo.
Are Controls in Place at this Facility?
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Enforcement and Compliance at this Facility
EPA’s Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance (OECA) provides detailed historical information about enforcement and compliance activities at each RCRA Corrective Action Site in their Enforcement and Compliance Historical Online (ECHO) system.
RCRA Enforcement and Compliance Reports from ECHO
Related Information and Publicly Available Electronic Records
For more information about this facility, see these other EPA links:
- RCRA information in EPA’s Envirofacts database
- Information about this facility submitted to EPA under different environmental programs as reported in EPA’s Facility Registry Services
- Alternative Names for this facility as reported by EPA programs in EPA’s Facility Registry Services
- Cleanups in My Community provides an interactive map to see EPA cleanups in context with additional data, and lists for downloading data
- Search RCRA Corrective Action Sites provides a search feature for Corrective Action Sites
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Contacts for this Facility
EPA Region implements and enforces the RCRA Corrective Action program for and federally recognized tribes.
For further information on this corrective action site, use the Contact Information for Corrective Action Hazardous Waste Clean Ups listings that are accessible through Corrective Action Programs around the Nation.