chemical insecticide corp.

30 WHITMAN AV

Site History: The Chemical Insecticide Corporation (CIC) Site is located in Edison Township. CIC owned the property located at 30 Whitman Avenue from 1954 to 1970 and used it for processing various pesticides. In the mid-1960s, the Edison Department of Health became concerned about odors, wastewater discharges and on-site fires. The Department ordered the facility to stop discharging wastewater, oversaw disposal of leaking drums to eliminate an odor problem, and ordered the closing of on-site lagoons. CIC declared bankruptcy in 1970. Subsequently, Piscataway Associates bought the 6-acre CIC property and demolished the production facilities. As part of a State-wide dioxin screening program, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection sampled soil from the site and found contamination, triggering more detailed investigations by EPA. Approximately 77,000 people live within 3 miles of the site. There are no permanent surface water bodies on the CIC site. Surface water run-off drains toward the northeast corner of the site where it discharges into an underground conduit, which flows into an unnamed tributary of Mill Brook. The unnamed tributary and Mill Brook runs near the site and may have been used for recreation. The residents near these tributaries and the residents directly surrounding the site obtain potable water from a public water supply system located eight miles from the site. Groundwater underlying the site is considered by New Jersey to be a Class II-A, a source of potable water. No current exposures to contaminated groundwater are known. The nearest domestic potable water well used for drinking water is up-gradient to the southwest and approximately two miles from the site.

Hazardous Ranking Score

38 / 100

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

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      Carcinogen
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        Census

        White
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        Other

        12,574

        People living
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        $91,619

        Average Income

        4,748

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