whitehouse oil pits

ONE HALF MILE N OF HWY 90

The 7-acre site occupies an upland area next to a cypress swamp in Jacksonville, Duval County, Florida. Currently, the site includes a grassy field with ground water monitoring wells and passive soil gas vents. Several residential neighborhoods are located north, east and south of the site. Between 1958 and 1968, Allied Petroleum disposed of contaminated acidic waste oil sludges from their oil reclaiming operations in seven unlined pits on the site. The operations ceased in 1968 when Allied Petroleum declared bankruptcy and the City of Jacksonville assumed ownership of the site property by tax default. In 1976, ruptures in the dike systems around two of the pits occurred, releasing more than 200,000 gallons of waste into the wetlands along McGirts Creek. In 1983, EPA listed the site on the NPL. The site property has not been in use since Allied Petroleum’s bankruptcy in 1968 and remains vacant. The site property has potential to support recreational or ecological land uses in the future.

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