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Sampson Horrice

No further Superfund environmental response actions are required at this former gravel pit/landfill in which hazardous & solid waste was disposed in Dallas, Dallas County.

Site Background

The Sampson Horrice site is located on two adjoining 10-acre tracts at 2000 and 2006 Plainfield Drive in Dallas. The site was formerly listed as located at 8460 Sparrow Street in Dallas. It is an inactive gravel pit that is reported to have illegally accepted solid and hazardous waste in 1983 and 1984. The gravel pit is abandoned; no buildings, equipment, or workers are present on the site. A security fence around the site was constructed in 1997. No specific information was found on waste management activities at the site; therefore, it is not known whether all or only part of the property was used for waste disposal. Trash, debris, and crushed 55-gallon drums were observed in several areas scattered throughout the site. Debris consisted primarily of construction-type materials. Allegedly, an estimated 200 to 400 drums were buried on site. In order to determine the location of trenches, pits, or individual buried drums, a magnetic survey was conducted by the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission (TNRCC) in February 1994. Based on the interpretation of data collected from the magnetic survey, several potential locations of trenches, pits, or possible ferrous-containing objects were identified.

Superfund Actions Taken to Date

  • November 15, 1996, a legal notice was published in the Texas Register (21 TexReg 11207) and the Dallas Morning News describing the site and proposing the site for listing on the state Superfund registry.
  • December 17, 1996, a public meeting to receive community comments on the proposal of the Sampson Horrice site to the state Superfund registry was held at the Nancy Mosley Elementary School.
  • March 10, 1997, TNRCC began planning the remedial investigation to determine the nature and extent of contamination.
  • February 15, 1999, remedial investigation contractor submitted a bid to TNRCC for
    review.
  • April 8, 1999, TNRCC terminated negotiations with the potential remedial investigation contractor and decided to use an existing site activities contractor to perform the remedial investigation.
  • June 24, 1999, TNRCC initiated a work order to prepare the work plan for the remedial investigation.
  • July 20, 1999, TNRCC amended the work order with the state's site activities contractor to implement the remedial investigation.
  • July 28, 1999, TNRCC conducted a remedial investigation to characterize the extent of contaminants, computed contaminated soil and waste volumes and obtained additional data to prepare a risk evaluation.
  • August 13, 1999, remedial investigation completed.
  • August 20, 1999, TNRCC amended the site activities contractor's work plan to begin the removal of buried drums and associated soil contamination.
  • August 23, 1999, TNRCC conducted an initial removal action that addressed the drums and associated contaminated soils. More than 345 drums were removed and repacked.
  • January 14, 2000, removal and off-site disposal of all contaminated soils and drums was completed.
  • December 15, 2000, the risk assessment evaluation concluded that no further remedial action was needed.
  • January 15, 2001, TNRCC issued a work order for a State of Texas lien to be filed on the real property of the site. A second work order called for removal of the monitor wells.
  • April 9, 2001, TNRCC concluded that no further action was needed and that cleanup at the site was completed.
  • November 2, 2001, a legal notice was published in the Texas Register (26 TexReg 8909) proposing to delete the site from the state Superfund registry in accordance with 30 TAC §335.344(c) and inviting public comment on the determination that the site no longer presented an imminent and substantial endangerment to public health and safety or the environment. No further remedial action planned. A public meeting was scheduled December 4, 2001, at the Nancy Moseley Elementary School auditorium in Dallas.
  • December 4, 2001, a public meeting was held at the Nancy Moseley Elementary School auditorium in Dallas to receive comments on the proposal to delete the Sampson Horrice site from the Superfund registry in accordance with 30 TAC §335.344(c) and the determination that the site no longer presented an imminent and substantial endangerment to public health and safety or the environment.
  • May 3, 2002, a legal notice was published in the Texas Register (27 TexReg 3842) officially deleting Sampson Horrice from the state Superfund registry in accordance with 30 TAC 335.344(c). No challenges or comments were received on the determination that the site no longer posed an imminent and substantial endangerment to public health and safety or the environment. Future land use is considered suitable for residential purposes in accordance with risk reduction standards applicable at the time of the filing.
  • September 1, 2002, effective date of the name change from Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission (TNRCC) to Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ).

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