1050 HARTFORD TURNPIKE ROAD
Precision Plating Corporation is one of several tenants in a small industrial complex, known as the Hillside Industrial Park. Precision Plating Corp. has been chrome plating various metal parts and fixtures on this 3-acre site since 1970. The chrome plating process includes alkaline cleaning, chemical etching, rinsing, buffing, and polishing. Wastes generated during this process include rinse waters containing heavy metals, batch wastes of alkaline cleaner, and spent plating and etching acids. Before 1983, rinse waters were discharged to a storm drain outside the building. Process plating acids and chrome plating wastes were stored in drums and in a 500-gallon tank. In 1979, Vernon's Health Department found the well serving the Hillside Industrial Park to be contaminated with hexavalent and trivalent chromium. The rupturing of drums and a storage tank by a snow plow was the alleged cause of contamination. The company, and later EPA, confirmed that the groundwater underlying the site had become contaminated. The Site is bounded by a private residence to the north, a trailer park to the south, a large apartment complex to the east, and private residences and commercial establishments to the west. An estimated 10,800 people obtain drinking water from public and private wells located within 3 miles of the site. Surface waters in the area are used for recreational fishing. The site is located within 1 mile of a freshwater wetland.
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