ENVIRONMENTAL STATUS
VT Department of Environmental Conservation
UST Facility ID #: 6 (G.S. Blodgett Co., Inc.; 50 Lakeside Avenue)
UST Facility ID #: 8649831 (Blodgett Supply Company; 44 Lakeside Avenue)
Hazardous Waste Generator #: VTD002067254 (Blodgett Oven Company, formerly G.S. Blodgett Co.; 50 Lakeside Avenue)

USTs were formerly located at this property and/or the immediately adjacent property to the north, also associated with Blodgett companies. VTDEC databases [1] indicate that a 10,000-gallon heating oil tank was removed (no date provided) from the 50 Lakeside Avenue property which had been installed in 1969. Similarly, on the 44 Lakeside property, a 10,000-gallon heating oil tank was removed which had been installed in 1946. Both were listed in good condition upon removal [1].

The 50 lakeside property is also listed on VTDEC databases as a generator of hazardous wastes, likely related to maintenance or byproducts associated with ongoing manufacturing operations. Information concerning the nature of wastes generated is not available in the database. [2].

This property is not listed on available databases (May 2002) of active or closed hazardous waste sites or landfills. Several active or closed hazardous waste sites and registered UST sites are located within a one mile radius of this property. However, potential environmental risk to the subject property posed by these neighboring sites should be minimal, given this property is serviced by municipal water and not an on-site groundwater or surface water supply. There is the potential for residual petroleum and /or solvent impacts at the property and for the existence of floor drains, given the long manufacturing history (see below). Potential environmental or business risks would be identified and characterized during the process of a Phase 1 Environmental Site Assessment.

Proximity to Superfund Site
Property #25 is west and south of the nearby Pine Street Canal Superfund site (CERCLIS #VTD980523062). This Superfund site is related to the former operations of a coal gasification plant and historic fill of waste products associated with a variety of former commercial activities in the location of the former Pine Street Canal, turning basin, and slips. Documents related to this Superfund site [ARI] identify two different investigations performed on a Blodgett property (not clear if this is Property #25 or neighboring Blodgett property to the north). Eight (8) borings were completed in 1959 and 1961 by Koerner, and four wells and soil borings in 1989 by Aquatec. The Superfund Record of Decision indicates that, in general, highest concentrations of contaminants, and those posing greatest risk of impact to human health and the environment, associated with the neighboring Superfund site, are located farther to the north and northeast of Property #25 in the vicinity of the former coal gasification plant and the wetlands to its west [ROD].