Complete report - Partners for Clean Streams

Lead Organization:
Libbey Glass, Inc.
Old Peanut Hill Dump (Oak Street, near Akron St., Oaklawn Dr., and Richford St., Toledo)
Site History:
The Old Peanut Hill Dump was used as a dump from the 1920s into the 1940s. In the
1950s houses were built on the site. According to residents, the site was used for
disposal of household and commercial waste until the late 1940s when it was closed
and backfilled.
Site Investigation (1996)
The site was investigated as part of the Ohio EPA Maumee Area of Concern Project
Phase II Site Assessments in 1996. The site was designated as no further remedial
action planned.
Lead Organization:
Ohio EPA (funded in part by a grant from USEPA)
Phillips Petroleum (275 Millard Ave., Toledo) - See Duck Creek Watershed
(a.k.a. Toledo Philblack Plant, River East Industrial Park)
Plaskon (2829 Glendale Ave., Toledo)
Site History:
The former Plaskon facility manufactured plasticizers, resins, and various molding
compounds between 1947 and 1990. Libbey-Owens Ford owned the property from
1947 to 1953. Allied Chemical owned it from 1953 to 1979. Hillside Capital owned it
from 1979 until 1984 and Rohm and Haas acquired the property in 1984. It was
subsequently sold in 1996 to Allied-Signal (currently Honeywell). The numerous
buildings on the site were demolished in 1991. Potential contaminants of concern
include methylene chloride, acids, alcohols, xylenes, toluene, and oils. The primary
contaminants of concern are methylene chloride and phthalates.
Honeywell submitted documents to Ohio EPA detailing corrective actions that have
occurred. This site is scheduled for retail development.
Site Investigation (1986)
In April 1986 Geraghty & Miller, Inc. did a Hydrogeologic Assessment of Plaskon
Electronic Materials, Inc. for Plaskon. Fourteen monitoring wells were installed.
Ground water flow in the shallow glacial till aquifer was found to be both downward
and lateral toward surface streams. Three areas within the plant site were found to
have ground water quality changes from past plant activities. The Focused Feasibility
Study which was a part of this report recommended remediation involving
containment of the NAPL that was on the property and collection of the NAPL floating
on the ground water.
(1998)
In August 1998 a Phase II Field Investigation was conducted on the property for Allied
Signal, Inc. by Parsons Engineering Science, Inc. to obtain additional information on
the presence and magnitude of chemicals of concern and to determine the extent of
impacted groundwater and soils at this site.
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Activities and Accomplishments
Issue 2: Landfills, Dumps and
in the Maumee Area of Concern Brownfield Sites