Concord Chemical
1650 Federal St. (Block 1186, Lot 25)
The site is located near the Marlton neighborhood and the Conrail railroad switching station in Camden, NJ on a rectangular parcel approximately 1.38 acres in size. From 1969 until about 2009, Concord Chemical Company operated as a soap manufacturing facility but abandoned the property in 2010. In June 2011, a fire heavily damaged the manufacturing building, and in 2012 the majority of the manufacturing building was demolished, with the exception of two wings that include the kettle room, transformer room, and cresylic acid filling room. The remaining buildings were demolished in 2016, with only the ground floor of the kettle room and the associated basement remaining. The City of Camden became the property owner in 2018.
Known or suspected contaminants include tetrachloroethylene (PCE), trichloroethylene (TCE), 1,1, dichloroethylene, 1,2 dichloroethane methylene chloride, chlorobenzene and benzene in groundwater. The source of the groundwater plumes from hazardous substances is believed to be located beneath the floor of the kettle room. Various records of historic spills of oil and hazardous materials are on file, and many spills were discharged to the municipal storm sewer system. Multiple prior environmental assessments have been conducted, and the US EPA completed removal actions in March 2011 at a cost of almost $2 million. The site is currently being assessed by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) under their Publicly Funded Remediation Program.
Upon completion of the NJDEP effort, a determination will need to be made as to what, if any, additional environmental assessment / remediation is needed.
Documents:
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Data Gap Summary
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Draft Analysis of Brownfields Cleanup Alternatives
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Map