west highway 6 & highway 281

INDUSTRIAL PARK WEST-HIGHWAY 6 &

The West Highway 6 and Highway 281 Site is located on the southwestern edge of the city of Hastings, in Adams County, Nebraska. Tetrachloroethylene (PCE) contamination has been found in two City of Hastings municipal water supply wells and in three private water supply wells. Ground water represents the sole source of drinking water for the city of Hastings and nearby communities. One known source of the ground water contamination is the former Dana Corporation facility, 1900 Summit Avenue, Hastings, Nebraska. The Dana Corporation (Dana) operated on the Site from 1978 to October 2002, manufacturing a variety of cast piston rings for internal combustion engines. The facility housed four vapor degreasing units inside concrete pits that utilized the volatile organic compounds (VOCs) tetrachloroethylene (PCE), trichloroethene (TCE), and 1,1,1-trichloroethane (TCA) as degreasing solvents to clean the piston rings between processes or prior to plating. Chromium, nickel, zinc and barium compounds were used to plate the piston rings in a series of four chrome-plating bath tanks. The Dana Corporation reported two accidental releases of PCE to the environment, in approximately 1984 and 1987. Investigations by Dana Corporation, at its former Hastings facility, show that VOC contamination, including PCE, is found in the ground water and soils. PCE contamination, as high as 57,000,000 ug/kg, has been identified in the soil at former Dana Corporation Hastings facility. The soil contamination appears to be limited to areas beneath the facility. PCE contamination, as high as 182,000 ug/l, has been identified in the ground water at former Dana Corporation Hastings facility. Further investigations conducted by the Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality (NDEQ) and EPA have identified an approximately 2-mile long plume of PCE-contaminated ground water that extends in an easterly direction from the former Dana Corporation facility.

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