Armco Hamilton

Site Information

New Miami, OH (Butler County)
EPA ID# OHDO74705930
NPL Fact Sheet
NPL Site Narrative
Superfund Site Progress Profile
Alias(es): Armco Incorporation-Hamilton Plant
Photos

Contact Information

Community Involvement Coordinator
Susan Pastor (pastor.susan@epa.gov)
312-353-1325 or 800-621-8431, ext. 31325

Remedial Project Manager
Allison Nowotarski(nowotarski.allison@epa.gov)
312-353-0967 or 800-621-8431, ext. 30967

Repositories

(where to view written records)

Lane Public Library
300 N. Third St.
Hamilton, OH

Links

EPA Superfund Home Page
Region 5 Superfund

Agency for Toxic Substances & Disease Registry (ATSDR)

Contaminant information from ATSDR

Background

An investigation is underway at the Armco Hamilton site in New Miami, Ohio. The investigation will identify the types and amounts of contamination in the soil, sediment (mud), surface water and ground water (underground water) on and near the former industrial site. To accomplish this, extensive sampling of the ground water, surface water, sediment (mud) and the site's former coke production area is being done.

Property owner AK Steel Corp. is doing the investigation under a legal agreement with U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Information gathered by AK Steel will be detailed in a document called a remedial investigation report which is expected to be completed by November. In addition to areas on the Armco property, the investigation will include public and private water supplies and the nearby Great Miami River. AK Steel is also responsible for other studies due to EPA later this year called the human health and ecological risk assessments. As these studies are deemed final, they will be available to the public. (more...)

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Site Updates

February 2013

AK Steel is expected to complete additional soil and ground water (underground water supplies) sampling, according to EPA and Ohio EPA specifications, this summer. In addition, several documents should be deemed final this fall. These documents, which will be available for public review, include the health and safety plan, quality assurance project plan, human health risk assessment, ecological risk assessment, and remedial investigation report. All of the studies, funded by AK Steel, are necessary so the company will have the information needed to see how far the PCB, PAH, and metals contamination may have spread. They will also help determine if people and the environment have been affected. EPA and Ohio EPA will continue to oversee AK Steel's work.

The results of this ongoing investigation will identify the types and amounts of contamination in the soil, sediment (mud), surface water, and ground water on and near the former industrial site, coke production facility and the Great Miami River shoreline.

Another important requirement called the feasibility study, which outlines possible cleanup options, is expected to be completed in 2014. Before a decision on how to clean up the site is made, EPA will develop a "proposed plan" to explain its recommendations, hold a public comment period, and host a public meeting in the New Miami/ Hamilton area.