Phillips Electronics North America Corp. has submitted an application with the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection to clean up a former cullet pile site in Fairmount, WV.
Between 1947 and 1972 the site was owned and used by Westinghouse Electric Corp. to dispose of cullet and other waste materials generated at its Lamp Division manufacturing plant in Fairmont. The area held glass cullet, whole and broken light bulbs, lamp lenses, tubes that contained mercury, transite, refractory bricks and drums of solid waste.
In 1994, Philips reported site assessments to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. From October 1995 through March 1996, Philips remediated the cullet pile by excavating and transporting for off-site disposal about 37,000 tons of glass, 5,469 tons of refractory bricks, and 7 tons of drum debris.
Additional remedial activities began in September 2001 and ended in October 2002. Those remedial actions included excavation and removal of an estimated 16,887 cubic yards of impacted soils from the property. The soil was transported off-site and legally disposed. Excavated areas were backfilled using clean soil imported from an off-site borrow area. Excavations were backfilled to the approximate original elevations, then limed, fertilized, seeded and mulched.
The applicant is working with the DEP's Office of Environmental Remediation to address environmental conditions at the site associated with historical manufacturing processes.