fmc corp. (fridley plant)

4800 E RIVER RD

The 18-acre FMC Corp. Fridley Plant (FMC) site is located in Anoka County, Minnesota, approximately six hundred feet east of the Mississippi River. Solvents, paint sludge, and plating wastes were generated and disposed of in several locations at the FMC site from the 1940s until 1969. The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) sampled site soil and groundwater in the early 1980s and confirmed that soil and groundwater were contaminated by industrial solvents. In the 1980s, volatile organic compounds (VOCs) were detected in the City of Minneapolis drinking water system intake that is located downstream of where the FMC site groundwater contaminant plume enters the river. Soil impacted by VOCs greater than 1 part per million (ppm) was excavated and placed into an on-site Containment Treatment Facility (CTF). VOCs, most commonly trichloroethylene (TCE) and metals, were detected in soil samples collected at the site. Soil contamination was addressed through the construction and completion of the CTF to contain and treat contaminated soil. Impacted soil was excavated to the water table and placed into the engineered, double-lined CTF cell located on the east central portion of the site. The removal action was undertaken to comply with the 1983 Administrative Order by Consent. The soil removal and containment successfully controlled risk to human health and the environment associated with soil contamination at the site. Regular sampling of the water from the intake has shown no exceedences of contaminants since the 1980s. Because of the threat posed to Minneapolis drinking water, this site received one of the highest Hazard Ranking System (HRS) scores of all sites on the National Priorities List (NPL). The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed the site for the NPL in December 1982 and finalized the site on the NPL in September 1983. Cleanup work at the FMC site was initiated in the 1980s, and four of the five groundwater extraction wells that were installed as part of the remedy have been in operation since that time. The inactive extraction well (RW-1) could not sustain a continuous pumping rate and ultimately went dry resulting in the deactivation of this well in 1987.

• Ionia City Landfill (Ionia, MI)
• Hedblum Industries (Oscoda, MI)
• Evor Phillips Leasing (Old Bridge Township, NJ)
• Kentucky Avenue Well Field (Horseheads, NY)
• Sturgis Municipal Wells (Sturgis, MI)

• Missouri Electric Works (Cape Girardeau, MO)
• Kysor Industrial Corp. (Cadillac, MI)
• Kellogg-deering Well Field (Norwalk, CT)
• Southern Solvents, Inc. (Tampa, FL)