hart creosoting company

STATE HIGHWAY 96

The Hart Creosoting site is a former wood treatment facility located one mile south of the City of Jasper, in Jasper County, Texas. The site is on the western side of State Highway 96, approximately 1 mile south of U. S. Highway 190. The site location coordinates are latitude 30º 53’ 38" N, longitude 93º 59' 41" W. Hart Creosoting is a former wood treatment facility, which performed wood treatment, pole peeling, and pipe threading operations utilizing coal-tar creosote. The site occupies an approximate 12 acres. The site is located approximately one mile south of downtown Jasper in an industrial/commercial and wooded area. There are forest lands to the south, west and north, and an operating automotive detailing business east of the site. An intermittent, unnamed creek is located along the western border of the site. The unnamed creek discharges into Big Walnut Run Creek approximately 1¼ mile south of the site. Big Walnut Run Creek ultimately discharges into the Neches River, approximately 24 miles downstream from its confluence with the unnamed creek. The site is located on the outcrop of the Jasper Aquifer, a continuous 1,200-foot deep aquifer that serves as the primary source of drinking water for the Upper Jasper County Water Authority. Two public and 39 private wells are located within 4 miles of the site. The private wells are used for drinking water and irrigation purposes. The nearest off-site private water wells are approximately 0.5 and 1 mile south of the site. Each of these wells serves two people. The two public water supply wells, used as sources of drinking water, serve approximately 12,000 users and are located approximately 3 miles north of the site at depths of 764 and 802 feet BGL. The approximate population of the City of Jasper is 8,247 people. Approximately 1,000 people live within a one-mile radius of the site.