• GENEVA INDUSTRIES/FUHRMANN ENERGY, HARRIS County, TX

Stage of Clean-up: Construction Completed

Conditions at listing (September 1983): The Geneva Industries/Fuhrmann Energy Corp. Site covers 13 acres in Houston, Texas. It is an abandoned petrochemical manufacturing and reprocessing facility. Five companies have owned the site since it began operation in 1970. The present owner (Fuhrmann) is salvaging the remaining equipment on-site. At least one of the previous owners used the facility to manufacture chlorinated biphenyls, PCBS, and phenoxy PHENOL. State and county officials have cited previous and/or present owners for permit violations, spills, and discharges. EPA and State testing has confirmed contamination of the shallow aquifer with PCBS, XYLENE, and other organic compounds, and releases of PCBS in surface run-off to an adjacent flood control channel. In June 1983, using $75,000 in CERCLA emergency funds, EPA fenced an area adjacent to the site where drums had been buried and tested an abandoned CHLORINE tank, which was confirmed to be empty.  More...

Sources of Contamination:

• Lagoon disposal
• Landfarm/land treatment facility

Contaminants Detected
	Ground Water	Surface Water	Air	Soil	Other
BENZENE					X
BIPHENYL	X	X			X
DI-PCB	X
FLUORENE	X
MONOCHLOROBIPHENYL	X
NAPHTHALENE	X
PHENANTHRENE					X
POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS	X	X	X
TOLUENE					X

Groundwater and Drinking Water
Were drinking water wells shut down due to contamination?	No
Are drinking water wells potentially threatened?	No
Aquifer discharges into:	Surface water
Population served by water wells in the aquifer:	0

List ground water uses.

EPA Hazard Ranking System scores for GENEVA INDUSTRIES/FUHRMANN ENERGY:

Less Hazard

National Average

More Hazard

0%					50%					100%

Overall site:

Surface water migration:

Ground water migration:

Air migration:

Rank Superfund sites in the U.S., TEXAS, or in HARRIS County by EPA Hazard Ranking Scores.

*Note: EPA's Hazard Ranking System is designed to screen and prioritize sites for the Superfund program, based on limited data available at time of listing. These scores are not based on a comprehensive risk assessment of the site and do not reflect conditions after initiation of cleanup work.

Number of PRPs currently associated with this site:	10
Hazardous waste received from off-site generators/transporters?	No
Number of past and present PRPs who contributed less than 1% of the waste:	2 - 10
Number of owners/operators which are also municipalities:	0

EPA Site Information

• NPL Fact Sheet
• Record of Decision (ROD) Abstracts
• Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry Public Health Assessment
• Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) Public Health Assessment
• NPL Site 5 Year Reviews
• Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Information System (CERCLIS) Hazardous Waste Site Information
• Superfund Hazardous Waste Site Advanced Query Form

Scorecard reports for HARRIS County on:

• Potential Sources of Land Contamination
• Criteria Air Pollutants
• Hazardous Air Pollutants