3490 PYRITE ST
The Stringfellow Superfund Site is located in the city of Jurupa Valley, California, about six miles northwest of Riverside, California. The city includes the community of Glen Avon. The Site includes a hazardous waste disposal facility operated by the Stringfellow Quarry Company from 1956 until 1972 and a several-mile long plume of groundwater contamination originating from the former disposal facility. More than 34 million gallons of liquid industrial waste were disposed in unlined ponds in the 16 years that the facility operated. The wastes included spent acids and caustics, metals, solvents, and pesticide byproducts from metal finishing, electroplating, and pesticide production. In the 1960s and 70s, liquid wastes in the disposal pits overflowed or were discharged into an adjacent surface water channel known as Pyrite Creek. In 1972, Site contaminants were detected in groundwater thousands of feet downgradient of the waste disposal ponds. Following the discharge of wastes from the ponds in 1978, Site-related contaminants were detected in surface water flowing in the Creek as far as four miles downstream of the disposal ponds. .
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