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The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) is the public law that creates the framework for the proper management of hazardous and non-hazardous solid waste. Corrective action is a requirement under RCRA that facilities that treat, store or dispose of hazardous wastes, or did so in the past, investigate and clean up hazardous releases into soil, groundwater, surface water and air. For more information, and for more information on RCRA-specific terms used on this page, please visit EPA’s umbrella RCRA web page or EPA’s RCRA Corrective Action page.

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 11, 2013. Following removal of contaminated soil and further environmental monitoring, a risk assessment was conducted, indicating that no significant risk exists at the site.

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  

Action	Status	Date of Action
Human Exposure Under Control Human Exposure Under Control(CA725)
Groundwater Migration Under ControlGroundwater Migration Under Control (CA750)
Remedy DecisionRemedy Decision (CA400)
Remedy ConstructionRemedy Construction (CA550)
Ready for Anticipated Use Ready for Anticipated Use (CA800)
Performance Standards AttainedPerformance Standards Attained (CA900)
Corrective Action Process TerminatedCorrective Action Process Terminated (CA999)

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Facility Description

The site was used for the manufacturing of optic fibers and instruments. Part of the on-site manufacturing processes involved glass grinding and polishing. The glass and grinding slurry effluent from these processes was formerly discharged via drainage trenches in the building floor to an unlined surface impoundment.

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This approximately 48 acre facility is located in a mainly residential area of Sturbridge, MA. According to the US Geological Survey's National Hydrography Dataset, this facility is located in the Upper Quinebaug River watershed and the nearest fresh surface water body is located approximately 47 feet away. Geology in this area has been observed to be dominated by mica schist and amphibolite formations.

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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?

Control(s) Type		Control(s) in Place?	Areas Subject to Control(s)
Institutional ControlsInstitutional ControlsNon-engineering controls used to restrict land use or land access in order to protect people and the environment from exposure to hazardous substances remaining in the site/or facility. (CA 772)	Informational DevicesInformational Devices (ID)
	Governmental Controls Governmental Controls  (GC)
	Enforcement and Permit ToolsEnforcement and Permit Tools  (EP)
	Proprietary ControlsProprietary Controls (PR)
Engineering ControlsEngineering ControlsEngineering measures designed to minimize the potential for human exposure to contamination by either limiting direct contact with contaminated areas or controlling migration of contaminants. (CA 770)	Groundwater ControlGroundwater Control (GW)
	Non-GroundwaterNon-Groundwater (NG)

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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

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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.

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