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Walnut St Railyard & Former Standard Lafarge Slag
256089
Main Street & Freedom Way WEIRTON, WV 26062
117
40.391310011218906 / -80.59431998086829
2
Nowak, Joseph
Nowak.Joseph@epa.gov
215-814-3303


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Property Progress


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CAs Associated with this Property

CA NameCA #StateTypeAnnouncement Year
Brooke Hancock Jefferson Metropolitan Planning CommissionBF96378801WVAssessment2020


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Assessment Activities at this Property

ActivityEPA FundingStart DateCompletion DateCAAccomplishment Counted?Counted When?
Phase II Environmental Assessment$123,132.0008/08/2022Brooke Hancock Jefferson Metropolitan Planning Commission


Is Cleanup Necessary? Unknown
EPA Assessment Funding: $123,132.00
Leveraged Funding:
Total Funding: $123,132.00


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Climate Adaption and Mitigation - Planning or Assessment

There is no data for Climate Adaption and Mitigation - Planning or Assessment.


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Contaminants and Media


Ground Water
Sediments
Soil
NOT Cleaned up
NOT Cleaned up
NOT Cleaned up


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Cleanup Activities

There are no current cleanup activities.


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Total ACRES Cleaned Up: 117
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Climate Adaption and Mitigation - Demolition or Cleanup

There is no data for Climate Adaption and Mitigation - Demolition or Cleanup.


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Institutional and Engineering Controls

Yes
Weirton City Ordinance Prohibiting the Use of Groundwater for Potable Purposes.
City of Weirton 200 Municipal Plaza Weirton, WV 26062
Yes


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Redevelopment and Other Leveraged Accomplishments

There are no current redevelopment activities.


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Climate Adaption and Mitigation - Redevelopment

Selected Strategy(ies)Explanatory Text
Incorporate and encourage multi-modal transit opportunities in redevelopment activitiesPlanning, designing and building streets that enable access for all users, including pedestrians, bicyclists, motorists and transit riders. Brownfield redevelopment projects can incorporate sidewalks in their plans to allow for pedestrian traffic, outdoor public spaces to encourage community gatherings, and bicycle parking, bike share rentals, and bike trails to encourage biking throughout the community.


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Additional Property Attributes

Weirton Steel Corporation (WSC) began operations at the site in 1909 and the facility expanded continuously thereafter until operations ceased in 2003 when the International Steel Group purchased WSC assets in 2004. The Walnut Street Junction Railyard (Corrective Action Area - CAA VIII) began operation shortly after the initial development of the Facility in 1909. A public rail line (owned and operated by Norfolk Southern Corporation) traverses the eastern boundary of CAA VIII. Historically, an open area adjacent to Harmon Creek in the northwestern portion of CAA VIII was set aside for storage of railroad ties. A maintenance building was once located to the southeast of the railroad tie storage area used by Weirton Steel to store track repair items and as a repair shop for mobile/heavy equipment. Cleveland Cliffs operates a tinplate facility purchased from ArcelorMittal Weirton in 2020 and uses the railyard to stage rail cars containing incoming raw materials and outgoing finished product. The current owner, Frontier Group of Companies dba Mingo Junction Steel Works (MJSW), uses a portion of the railyard for metal scrap storage/processing. Existing structures located within CAA VIII include a 20,000-gallon diesel aboveground storage tank (AST), a locomotive fueling station, and a railroad office with locker room.

Historic records show Standard Lafarge used the northern portion of the Former Slag Processing Area (CAA IXM) to process slag generated at the Weirton Steel blast furnaces. Standard LaFarge, Inc. performed the processing operations from approximately 1953 through 2007 (when ArcelorMittal Weirton shut down the blast furnaces). Weirton Steel would deliver hot slag to the site by rail, deposit the material into an open pit located along the southeastern side of Harmon Creek where workers performed cooling/quenching operations. Through the mid-1990s, trucks transported the cooled slag to Standard Lafarge's processing plant that crushed and sized the raw slag. The plant was located on property on the northwest side of Harmon Creek, a parcel now owned by Shelley & Sands, Inc. Standard Lafarge constructed a new slag processing plant east of Harmon Creek in the mid-1990s and subsequently demolished the plant when Shelly & Sands, Inc. purchased the property.

Historic operations on the southern portion of CAA IXM primarily included storage of raw materials (ore, scrap, etc.) and product (steel slabs, coils, etc.). In 2005, Strauss Industries leased much of CAA IX (north of riverfront) for scrap metal recycling operations. Strauss used most of the leased area for scrap storage and processing (cutting, sizing, bailing etc.). A building near the southern limit of Strauss' operations houses equipment that mechanically transforms strips of scrap metal into small "nuggets" for charging steel-making furnaces. In December 2021, Pittsburgh-based AMG Resources acquired Strauss Industries Inc. The purchase agreement included the operations at this site.
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