EPA, TCEQ Adds Terrell Warehouse to Superfund Clean-Up Sites
The Environmental Protection Agency and the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality announced the Van der Horst USA Corp. site in Terrell has been proposed to the National Priorities List of Superfund sites.
The Van der Horst USA site, located in a commercial warehouse district, is an inactive chromium and iron plating facility that began operations in the 1950s and operated until December 2006. Finished products associated with these plating operations included natural gas pipeline cylinders for the transportation of natural gas and cylinder bores for large diesel engines such as railroad locomotive engines. As part of the plating operations, the facility generated spent kerosene, wastewater treatment sludge, and chromium contaminated wastewater and soil.