cape fear wood preserving

REILLY RD

The 9-acre site is part of a larger 41-acre area near Highway 401 on the west side of Fayetteville, North Carolina. Residential land uses border the site to the east and south. Industrial, commercial and agricultural land uses and a rail line border the site to the north and west. Several homes and a subdivision are located within a quarter-mile of the site. From 1953 to 1978, a wood preserving facility operated at the site. Operations included pumping wastes from the treatment process into a concrete tank north of the treatment facility. After the liquid waste separated from the sludge, operations pumped the liquid into a drainage ditch that discharged into a pond. Operations also pumped wastes from the treatment process into an unlined pond. In 1987, EPA listed the site on the NPL. SECo Investments, Inc. purchased the site property in 1988. The site is vacant and there have been no plans for redevelopment. The site’s cleanup can support residential uses.