NJDEP# 012971/0129710- Soil Contamination and Ground Water

Case Manager: Arthur Trenahan 609 633-1275

Summary: Riggins formerly K & G Axcel

 

 

February 18, 1998 NJDEP letter to Riggins Inc.

Re. Progress Report Dated Feb. 5, 1998

 

The DEP completed its review of the Riggins Progress Report and advised that the document met the conditions of the October 29, 1996 RAW approval, and that Riggins was in compliance.

 

See attachment dated Feb. 18, 1998.

 

 

April 2007 Summary from KCS Subcommittee member Barbara Halpren.

 

The Riggins gas station is the site of an underground storage tank gas leak from the then K & G Axcel station owned by Connenna. The contamination was found after the site was sold to Riggins but before the new station was built. Riggins sued the former owners, unknown what the terms of the settlement were.

 

The agreement with the DEP under the Remedial Action Work plan was to remove contaminated soil, which was completed and monitor the ground water yearly. And if the contamination was reaching two years of Pegasus well the consultant/owner would have to come up with a new plan. Riggins has not supplied a consultants report with monitoring well results since February 2004. A correspondence dated 1998 from the DEP read that the product was not degrading as had been the assertion of the consultant who has written the original RAW accepted by the DEP. In fact, the product was becoming more concentrated in the monitoring wells. The DEP had asked for a plan to be proposed to address this problem.

 

March 22, 2007- NJDEP sent a letter to Riggins advising that the owner had until September 18, 2007 to submit a Biennial Certification (which is required to be done every two years as of the date the CEA was originally established, until such time as the ground water quality standards are met) for the Classification Exception Area (CEA).

K & G Axcel (currently Riggins)
Contact Information:
Riggins Oil Co. (responsible party) 3938 S. Main Rd. Vineland, NJ. 08360