Bennington Municipal Sanitary Landfill
Location: Bennington, Bennington County
Narrative: A former sand and gravel pit converted to a landfill in 1969; comprises about 15 acres. Affected media included soil and water bodies. Remedies included capping and a leachate collection system.
Contaminants: Arsenic · Benzene · Heavy Metals · Lead · PCBs · VOCs · Xylenes
Location: Rockingham, Windham County
Narrative: Originally a borrow pit for nearby Interstate 91, converted to a landfill in 1968. Affected media included soil, groundwater, and potentially surface water. Remedies included capping, leachate collection, and provision of drinking water to nearby groundwater users.
Contaminants: Chromium · Copper · Heavy Metals · Lead · VOCs
Location: Woodford and Bennington, Bennington County
Narrative: The site operated as a sand pit, salvage yard, and landfill from the 1940s until the mid-1970s. Among other things it accepted wastes from a nearby battery manufacturing facility. Affected media included soils, groundwater, and surface water and sediments both on- and off-site. Remedies included capping, installation of an air sparging/soil vapor extraction system, and land use controls.
Contaminants: Iron · Lead · Tetrachloroethene · Trichloroethene · Vinyl Chloride · VOCs
Location: Williston, Chittenden County
Narrative: An electroplating facility discharged wastes into an unlined lagoon and a leach field. Affected media included groundwater and possibly indoor air.
Contaminants: Cadmium · Chromium · Dichloroethene · Nickel · Tetrachloroethene · Trichloroethene
Location: Strafford, Orange County
Narrative: A former copper mine. Leachate from mining wastes contains many metals (see below).
Contaminants: Arsenic · Barium · Cadmium · Lead · Manganese · Mercury · Nickel · Thallium · Vanadium · Zinc
Location: Vershire, Orange County
Narrative: A former copper mine. Leachate from mining wastes contains many metals (see below).
Contaminants: Aluminum · Cadmium · Cobalt · Copper · Iron · Manganese · Zinc
Location: Bennington, Bennington County
Narrative: Site of former manufacturing facility that made capacitors, non-fluid transformers, and motors.
Contaminants: Aldrin · Benzene · Butylbenzylphthalate · Cadmium · Chlorobenzene · Chromium · Copper · DEHP · Dichlorobenzenes · cis-1,2-Dichloroethene · trans-1,2-Dichloroethene · Dimethylphthalate · Di-n-octyl phthalate · Ethylbenzene · Lead · Mercury · Nickel · PCBs · Toluene · 1,1,1-Trichloroethane · Trichloroethene · Zinc
Location: Springfield, Windsor County
Narrative: Landfill that accepted hazardous industrial waste, which subsequently leached into groundwater.
Contaminants: Benzene · PAHs · PCBs · Vinyl Chloride · VOCs
Location: Lyndonville, Caledonia County
Narrative: Landfill that accepted liquid hazardous wastes and sludges that were poured directly onto the ground. Chemicals from those wastes then leached to groundwater and affected private wells in the area.
Contaminants: Trichloroethene · VOCs
Location: Corinth, Orange County
Contaminants: Cobalt · Copper · Zinc
Location: Burlington, Chittenden County
Contaminants: Benzene · Cyanide · Heavy Metals · Lead · PAHs · Toluene · VOCs · Xylenes
Location: North Pownal, Bennington County
Contaminants: Dioxins · Metals · SVOCs