Superfund Record of Decision (EPA Region 6): Sol Lynn/Industrial Transformers, Texas (First Remedial Action), September 1988

摘要

The Sol Lynn site, also known as Industrial Transformers site, is located in Houston, Texas. The area around the three-quarter-acre site is a mix of residential, commercial, and light industrial facilities. Approximately 2,000 residents and 100,000 other people move within a one-mile radius of the site on a daily basis due to recreational activities associated with the area. The site operated as an electrical transformer salvage and recycling company between 1971 and 1978, and as a chemical recycling and supply company from 1979 through 1980. The first documented investigation of this site took place during the fall of 1971 when the City of Houston Water Pollution Control Division noted that workers at Industrial Transformers poured oil out of electrical transformers onto the ground during transformer dismantling. In 1981, strong odors originating from the site were brought to the attention of the Texas Department of Water Resources, the predecessor agency of the Texas Water Commission (TWC).