Ward Transformer Superfund Cleanup Site, October 2009
Current cost at $50 million
Source: Golder Associates

Ward Transformer Site (1 ppm PCB)

The Ward Transformer Superfund site is located in Raleigh, NC. The site cleanup cost is up to $50 million, and could go up to $500 million if the USEPA requires more downstream PCB removal in the future to protect the public.

Ward Transformer reportedly received only oil filled transformers with less than 50 ppm PCBs after 1979.The starting PCB contamination range (prior to cleanup for the outlying area, not including the site itself) is between 2 to 5 parts per million PCBs and the risk-based fish goal is 0.050 parts per million PCB.

Potentially responsible parties (PRPs) are liable to finance and implement the removal of contaminated soil and sediment at the Ward Transformer Superfund site.

Ward Fact Sheet

Available videos on Ward Transformer:

1. Short UNCSBR Film, Protecting Our Water: PCB Contamination at Ward
2. Catch and Release Public Service Announcement
3. Lake Crabtree / Ward Transformer News UPDATE 8/24/05

For more information visit these websites:

1. USEPA, Ward Transformer Superfund Site Summary Profile
2. UNC - CH Superfund Research Program on Ward Transformer

Bickford Transformer Site (1 ppm PCB)

Approximately 400 entities that sent PCB-contaminated equipment to the Bickford Transformer Processing Facility in New Lisbon, Wisconsin footed the cleanup bill when the site was condemned a PCB contaminated site by Wisconsin's Department of Natural Resources. This site reportedly received only oil filled transformers with less than 50 ppm PCBs.

The starting PCB contamination range (prior to cleanup for the site) is between 1.01 to less than 50 parts per million PCBs.

The web site for this information is: http://weblink.cityofdubuque.org/WebLink8/1/doc/49569/Page8.aspx

The PCB cleanup standard is 1 ppm (one part per million) PCB for all soil and concrete.