town garage/radio beacon

HOLTON CIRCLE

The Town Garage/Radio Beacon site includes a development of about 25 homes called Holton Circle, the Town Garage property on High Range Road, a recent development of 20 homes called Saddlebrook, and a wetland area. The site includes a series of residential wells and one commercial well, known as the Town Garage Well. The State conducted tests in 1984 and found several of the wells to be contaminated. The EPA and the State began investigating the area in 1985, but were unable to verify a source of the contamination. As stated in the 1992 Record of Decision (ROD), the Town Garage property is believed to be the source area for this contamination. An open floor drain was removed from the Town Garage in 1996. The Department of Defense previously owned the Town Garage property, located 1,000 feet west of the Holton Circle development, from the early 1940s to 1968 and operated a radio beacon there during World War II. The area around the site consists of mixed rural and residential properties and is being actively developed.

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A score of 28.5 or higher qualifies a site for the Superfund National Priority List.

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Region 1
Phone: (888) 372-7341
Fax: (617) 918-0101

Outside New England:
(617) 918-1111

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Discovery
Site Inspection
Preliminary Assessment
Final Listing On NPL
Removal

Contaminants & Health Effects

      Carcinogen
      Endocrine Disrupter
      Neurotoxic
      Sensitiser
      Reproductive Toxin
      Persistent, bioaccumulative and toxic
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        Census

        White
        African American
        Asian
        American Indian and Alaska Native
        Native Hawaiian
        Other

        2,364

        People living
        within a 1 mile radius

        $110,773

        Average Income

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