Superfund Redevelopment Initiative

Superfund Sites in Reuse in Oklahoma

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Eagle Industries

The Eagle Industries Superfund site encompasses about 2 acres at 10901 S.E. 29th Street in Midwest City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma. From 1990 to the early 2010s, Eagle Industries inspected and repaired aircraft oxygen and fire extinguisher systems on site. During cleaning operations, the solvent trichloroethylene (TCE) was used. Facility operations resulted in soil and groundwater contamination. EPA added the site to the National Priorities List (NPL) in January 2018. Site investigations are ongoing. One nearby home has been connected to the public water supply. A residence is located on site and remains in continued use.
Last updated September 2019

As of December 2019, EPA did not have economic data related to on-site businesses, or economic data were not applicable due to site use. For additional information click here.

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Eagle-Picher Henryetta

The 70-acre Eagle-Picher Henryetta site is located in Henryetta, Oklahoma. From 1916 to 1968, the Eagle-Picher Mining and Smelting company operated a smelter that produced zinc, cadmium and germanium on the 70-acre property. Company operations left large piles of waste contaminated with heavy metals. The company donated the smelter property to the city of Henryetta (the City) in 1974. Unaware of the contamination in the waste piles, the City used soil from the site as fill material at locations across the community, including neighborhoods, schools and parks. Downwind residential properties were also impacted by air dispersion of heavy metals from stack emissions and windblown dust from the smelter facility. Site investigations in the mid-1990s found significant lead and arsenic contamination at the site and across Henryetta. Working in partnership with the Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality (ODEQ), EPA’s cleanup focused on removing contaminated soils and wastes and addressing residential areas affected by the site. Contaminated materials were consolidated on site. The remedy also included the placement of a clay cap, cover soil and vegetation over the contaminated material to protect public health. Shurden Leist Industrial Park has operated on site since 2006. The first industrial tenant, a motorcycle manufacturing company, opened for business in 2006. In 2007, in recognition of the project’s excellence and success, the Shurden Leist Industrial Park Project received the Phoenix Award for EPA’s South-Central Region. In 2015, EPA and ODEQ worked with the City on a Ready for Reuse Determination to support local interest in building a rural health care center at the site. The environmental status report for the site helped make possible a $1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for the health center’s construction. On October 26, 2018, the East Central Oklahoma Family Health Center, Inc. (ECOFHC) opened on the site. The community health center provides primary health, dental health and behavioral health care services. During the opening ceremony, EPA Region 6 presented their Excellence in Site Reuse Award to ECOFHC and the City.
Last updated September 2019

As of December 2019, EPA had data on 2 on-site businesses. These businesses employed 17 people and generated an estimated $1,958,000 in annual sales revenue. For additional information click here.

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Fourth Street Abandoned Refinery

The 27-acre Fourth Street Abandoned Refinery Superfund site is located in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. A waste oil reclamation facility operated on site from the 1940s to the early 1960s. EPA added the site to the National Priorities List (NPL) in 1989 because of soil and groundwater contamination. Cleanup actions addressed contaminated sludge, soil and sediments. EPA removed the site from the NPL in 2008. Karchmer Pipe and Supply Company, Inc. is an industrial facility that currently operates on site. The site also includes several property parcels; some are used by businesses and others are available for commercial and industrial redevelopment. EPA continues to work with interested parties to support the site’s safe and appropriate reuse.
Last updated September 2019

As of December 2019, EPA had data on 3 on-site businesses. These businesses employed 65 people and generated an estimated $11,197,000 in annual sales revenue. For additional information click here.

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Mosley Road Sanitary Landfill

Gas to energy plant Mosley Road Sanitary LandfillThe 72-acre Mosley Road Sanitary Landfill Superfund site is located near Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. A landfill for municipal, industrial and hazardous waste materials operated on the site since 1971. Over six months, operators put about 1.7 million gallons of hazardous waste materials from another site into unlined pits at the landfill. In 1984, Waste Management of Oklahoma (WMO) purchased the site property. After it reached capacity, WMO closed the landfill in 1987. Landfill operations resulted in groundwater contamination. EPA added the site to the National Priorities List (NPL) in 1990. WMO completed cleanup activities, which included repairing the landfill cap, adding a soil cover and installing a landfill gas management system. WMO also monitors groundwater. After cleanup, EPA removed the site from the NPL in 2013. Working closely with EPA and Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality, WMO implemented the first commercial facility for a renewable biogas and natural gas joint venture project. WMO built and operated a demonstration project at the neighboring East Oak Landfill in 2010. The technology converts methane gas into clean-burning diesel fuel and wax. In 2014, EPA Region 6 recognized WMO’s efforts with its Greenovations Award. The award recognizes innovative efforts and projects that have maximized environmental outcomes and minimized environmental impacts through greener cleanups, sustainability and reuse initiatives, and use of renewable and alternative energy resources. In early 2016, prospective developers signed final contracts for construction of the first full-scale commercial gas-to-liquid facility on site. Construction of the facility is expected to start in 2019. WMO anticipates that gas flows for the facility may continue for 30 years.
Last updated September 2019

As of December 2019, EPA did not have economic data related to on-site businesses, or economic data were not applicable due to site use. For additional information click here.

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Sand Springs Petrochemical Complex

The Sand Springs Petrochemical Superfund site is located in Sand Springs, Oklahoma. The 235-acre area is part of an industrial complex on the northern bank of the Arkansas River. Beginning in the 1900s, various industries operated on site, including oil refineries. In 1984, EPA ordered the emergency removal of contained drums and tanks from a 5.5-acre portion of the site. In 1986, EPA placed the site on the National Priorities List (NPL) to address soil and groundwater contamination and related wastes. In 1995, potentially responsible parties dug up, stabilized and disposed of petroleum waste material in an on-site landfill. EPA took the site off the NPL in 2000. Between 2004 and 2006, parties dug up and removed sludge material along the banks of the Arkansas River. Operation and maintenance activities at the site are ongoing. About 5 acres of the site is in reuse as a rail facility. The facility includes an area for shipment transfer, storing and loading. On the northern portion of the site, new owners recently purchased an old lumberyard with plans of redeveloping the property. Several companies continue to operate on site.
Last updated September 2019

As of December 2019, EPA had data on 13 on-site businesses. These businesses employed 311 people and generated an estimated $192,989,000 in annual sales revenue. For additional information click here.

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Tar Creek (Ottawa County)

Tar Creek (Ottawa County)The Tar Creek (Ottawa County) Superfund site (site) is located in northeast Oklahoma and consists of areas impacted by historical mining operations. The site is also part of the Tri-State Mining District, which spans parts of Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri. Mining for lead, cadmium and zinc began in the late 1800s and continued until the late 1970s. EPA placed the site on the National Priorities List (NPL) in 1983. The initial cleanup addressed the surface water degradation of Tar Creek and the threat of contamination to drinking water. Subsequent cleanups removed mining waste and contaminated soils from residential yards, plugged abandoned wells, removed abandoned mining chemicals and source materials, and funded residential relocation. As of October 2018, workers restored over 2,900 residential properties and high-access-area properties such as daycare facilities and schoolyards. EPA funded the Lead Impacted Communities Relocation Assistance Trust, through the Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality (ODEQ), to oversee buyouts, demolitions and relocations for the heavily-impacted mining towns of Picher, Cardin and Hockerville, Oklahoma. In addition, EPA worked with the Kansas Department of Health and Environment to establish the Treece Relocation Assistance trust to buy out residences in Treece, Kansas. Buyout and demolition activities took place between 2009 and 2011 in Oklahoma and in 2012 in Kansas. In 2012, the Quapaw Nation became the first tribe in the nation awarded funds to perform cleanup at a Superfund site when it initiated cleanup of the Catholic 40 portion of the site. Since then, EPA awarded the Quapaw Nation multiple cooperative agreements to perform cleanup on additional restricted tribal lands. For remediation of mine waste on unrestricted and non-tribal residential and rural areas, EPA awarded cooperative agreements to ODEQ. To date, the Quapaw Nation and ODEQ remediated approximately 0.8 and 0.2 million tons of mining wastes, respectively. EPA is performing a remedial investigation of the contaminated surface water and sediment in impacted watersheds. Ongoing cleanup activities enable agricultural, public service, commercial and residential uses to continue across the site. Currently, a large part of the site is being used for row crop production and as pastureland for cattle. Commercial activities, in the form of chat processing, made 0.5 million tons of chat available for sale and are ongoing. Recently, the city of Miami partnered with ODEQ and EPA on the cleanup of the Eagle Picher office complex, located in the heart of Miami. It originally served as the local headquarters for the Eagle Picher Mining Company. For many years, the office complex sat abandoned with several environmental challenges, including the presence of mining waste on the property. The city acquired the property, coordinated cleanup efforts with ODEQ and EPA, and is converting the site into a splash pad and city park. The grand opening is anticipated in July 2019. EPA’s Superfund Redevelopment Initiative (SRI) is supporting Region 6 with the development of a solar reuse assessment covering part of the site located on Quapaw Nation tribal lands. In addition, SRI is supporting Region 6 with development of a strategic plan summarizing the status of the Tar Creek site cleanup, work done to date, key cleanup milestones, EPA’s near-term cleanup plan, and EPA’s long-term plans for accelerating site cleanup and reducing costs.
Last updated September 2019

As of December 2019, EPA had data on 81 on-site businesses. These businesses employed 1,275 people and generated an estimated $152,311,655 in annual sales revenue. For additional information click here.

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Tulsa Fuel and Manufacturing

The 61-acre Tulsa Fuel and Manufacturing Superfund site is located in Collinsville in Tulsa County, Oklahoma. A zinc smelter operated at the site from 1914 to 1925. Historical smelting operations contaminated soil, sediment and surface water with hazardous chemicals. EPA added the site to the National Priorities List (NPL) in 1999. The site’s long-term remedy included on-site consolidation and capping of soil, sediment and waste material, and implementation of institutional controls. Operation and maintenance activities are ongoing. As of 2019, Shadow Mountain Honey Company operates a honey bee farm on site.
Last updated September 2019

As of December 2019, EPA had data on one on-site business. EPA did not have further economic details related to this business. For additional information click here.

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Wilcox Oil Company

The estimated 140- to 150-acre Wilcox Oil Company Superfund site is located near Bristow, Oklahoma. From 1915 to 1963, a crude oil refinery operated on site. Refinery operations contaminated soil and left behind waste material. EPA placed the site on the National Priorities List (NPL) in 2013. Site investigations and cleanup are ongoing. In 2018, EPA issued an early action Record of Decision (ROD) to control the source of contamination. The ROD selected cleanup for nine specific source areas, including refinery tank waste and an area contaminated with lead. Planning for this limited scope cleanup is underway. The site-wide investigation continues. The site area is mostly rural and primarily residential. The site includes a church, seven residential properties and agricultural properties. EPA’s Superfund Redevelopment Initiative (SRI) began a regional seed project at the site in 2017 to inform EPA’s site activities and the community’s redevelopment planning efforts. In 2018, SRI finalized a reuse assessment for the site.
Last updated September 2019

As of December 2019, EPA had data on one on-site business. This business employed 3 people and generated an estimated $228,000 in annual sales revenue. For additional information click here.

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