610 QUARRY ROAD
The Salford Quarry site is an early 1900’s-era shale quarry located on approximately three acres in Lower Salford Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. Approximately 54,000 people draw drinking water from public and private wells within three miles of the site. In the 1950s, the Ludwig and Son waste disposal business used the quarry as a dumping point for industrial, commercial, and residential waste. Fly ash cinders from a coal-fired power plant were also disposed at the site. The site was acquired by the American Encaustic Tiling Company [later known as American Olean Tile Company, Incorporated (AOT) in April 1963. As early as 1963 to 1980, AOT used the unlined quarry for the disposal of glaze wash-up sludge, settling pond sediment, and fired and unfired scrap tiles from its Lansdale, Pennsylvania plant In 1982, the site was closed with the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources approval after AOT discovered two 10,000-gallon tanks containing boron and fuel oil buried on the site. In 1990, the EPA added the site to the National Priorities List of most hazardous waste sites in the country, making the site eligible for federal cleanup. A June 1992 decision by the United States Court of Appeals removed the Salford Quarry site from the NPL. It was added again in 2009.
2,423 |
People living within a 1 mile radius |
$105,980 |
Average Income |
826 |
Occupied homes |
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