centredale manor restoration project

2072 AND 2074 SMITH STREET (ROUTE 44)

The main area of the Centredale Manor Restoration Project Superfund site, consisting of approximately 9 acres, is known as the Source Area located at 2072 and 2074 Smith Street in North Providence, Rhode Island. The entire site extends down the Woonasquatucket River from the main area of the site, south to the Lyman Mill Dam, and includes the restored Allendale Dam. The site consists of all contaminated areas within this area as well as any other location to which contamination from that area has come to be located, or from which that contamination came. Prior to 1936, the main area of the site was occupied by Centredale Worsted Mills, a woolens mill. Atlantic Chemical Company began operating on the main area of the site in approximately 1943. Atlantic Chemical Company changed its name in 1953 to Metro-Atlantic, Inc. and continued to operate until the early 1970s. New England Container Company, Inc. operated an incinerator-based drum reconditioning facility on a portion of the site from 1952 until about 1971. A major fire in 1972 destroyed most of the structures at the site. The Brook Village apartments were opened in 1977 and the Centredale Manor apartments were opened in 1982 on the grounds of these former facilities, with the two new buildings, parking lots and driveways occupying a large portion of the properties.