eagle picher carefree battery

EXIT 152 I-25

Location: The former Eagle Picher Carefree Batteries manufacturing building is located approximately two miles north of Socorro, New Mexico at latitude 34 05’ 59” north, longitude 106 54’ 23” west. The Eagle Picher Carefree Batteries Site (Site) boundaries are not defined since the full extent and nature of contamination has not been delineated. Population: The population of Socorro, New Mexico is approximately 9,200 individuals. Setting: The former Eagle Picher property encompasses approximately 55 acres of mostly undeveloped land and includes a 40,000 square foot manufacturing facility built by Eagle Picher in 1964, two sewage lagoons that received the facility’s industrial and sewage waste until the 1980s, an industrial waste pit that received the facility’s industrial waste, abandoned buildings of a State Tuberculosis Sanitarium that were occupied by Eagle Picher in 1963-1964, a closed City landfill used from October 1977 to January 1980, and an active City drinking water supply well (“Eagle Picher Well”). The Site is located in the Socorro Basin, which lies within the Basin and Range Province and within the Rio Grande Rift. The principal aquifer system of the Socorro Basin is located in the Tertiary and Quaternary Santa Fe Group and overlying Quaternary deposits. The aquifer system can be divided into three subunits: the shallow aquifer (Quaternary deposits and Sierra Ladrones Formation of the Santa Fe Group), the Popotosa confining bed, and the Popotosa aquifer.

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