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The Standard Chlorine of Delaware, Inc. Superfund Site (also known as Metachem) is three miles northwest of Delaware City. It is approximately 65 acres in size, and is west of River Road (Route 9) near the south bank of Red Lion Creek. The plant was built in 1965 on what was then farmland. The area is now quite industrialized with many other companies located nearby, such as the Delaware City Refinery, Stauffer Chemical, the former Occidental Chemical property, and the former Air Products and Chemicals property, to name a few. Standard Chlorine sold the plant to Metachem Products, L.L.C. in 1998, but in 2002, Metachem abruptly closed and abandoned the plant and declared bankruptcy. Standard Chlorine of Delaware, later Metachem, manufactured chlorinated benzene compounds from 1966 to 2002. The site was listed on EPA's National Priorities List of most hazardous waste sites in 1987, due to a 1981 chlorobenzene chemical spill, which occurred when workers were filling a railroad tanker car. An additional spill occurred in 1986, when 569,000 gallons of various volatile organic compounds spilled, damaging some nearby tanks, causing the latter tanks to partially spill. Chlorobenzenes from the spill have been found in groundwater, soil, creek sediments, surface water, and nearby wetlands. A fish consumption advisory is in effect for the Red Lion Creek for PCBs and dioxin.
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