pristine, inc.

410 CAVETT AVENUE

The approximately 3-acre Pristine, Inc. (Pristine) Superfund site is located in an industrial area of Reading, Ohio. Pristine is a former liquid waste disposal facility that operated from 1974 to 1981. Prior to this, the facility was used to manufacture sulfuric acid. The owners obtained a permit in 1977 to convert the facility to a hazardous waste incinerator, but due to numerous permit violations, the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (Ohio EPA) closed the site in 1981. At the time of closure, over 10,000 drums and several hundred thousand gallons of bulk liquids and sludges containing acids, pesticides, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), volatile organic compounds (VOCs), semi-VOCs, and cyanide were staged on-site. The city's municipal well field that was about 400 feet northwest of the site and provided drinking water for over 15,000 people, may have been affected by contamination from the Pristine site. Reading closed its well field in March 1994 due to high levels of VOC contamination. The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) placed the Pristine site on the Superfund National Priorities List in September 1983. Site Responsibility The Pristine site is being addressed through federal and state oversight of potentially responsible parties' (PRP) actions.

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