Ross
Incineration Environmental Assessment
Program Underway
Ross Incineration Services,
Inc. (RIS) is committed to ensuring that past and present waste management
practices do not have an adverse impact on the community or environment.
The company has invested millions of dollars in the facility to be certain
that its operations meet or exceed EPA requirements for safe waste management
operations.
RIS has a comprehensive environmental
assessment and monitoring program in place. Additionally, as a condition
of its RCRA Operating Permit granted by the Ohio Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA), Ross Incineration is participating in the Corrective Action
program. Through this program, the company is enhancing its comprehensive
monitoring efforts to provide further assurances that it has operated
in a manner that is protective of human health and the environment.
The Corrective Action program
is intended to make certain that past waste management practices do not
have an adverse impact on human health and the environment. Ross Incineration
has participated in the program since 1989 and has completed an investigation
of t its site to determine if there has been any release to the environment.
Onc omponent of RIS' envir4onmental
assessment program includes the evaluation of groundwater at more than
60 wells strategically placed throughout the facility. In addition, routine
groundwater monitoring at the facility has provided thousands of individual
pieces of groundwater data collected over more than 20 years. The company
has tested groundwater, surface water, soil and sediment for more than
200 hazardous substances to characterize the Ross Incineration facility.
In addition, Ross Incineration
is currently completing human health and ecological risk assessment studies.
It's preliminary conclusion is that, to date, no risk to human health
or the environment has occurred above health based target levels.
At present, Ross Incineration
is preparing a final RCRA Facility Investigation Report which will be
submitted to the Ohio EPA.
For more information on the
Corrective Action program and Ross Incineration's participation, read
the Corrective Action factsheets by clicking the links below:
Corrective Action
Factsheet
Corrective Action
Glossary of Terms
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