Please contact the Site Lead for the most up-to-date status of this site.
Nicole Sanabria, SanabriaN@Michigan.gov or 517-281-7726.
US Ecology Romulus: 734-727-5500
US Ecology Romulus (USE ROM), located at 36345 Van Born Road is a hazardous waste facility licensed under Part 111, Hazardous Waste Management, of the Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Act, 1994 PA 451, as amended. This site has had several different owners since its operations began in 1964, mainly including solvent recovery operations. Corrective action has been ongoing since 1980 to address historic contamination. Corrective measures have included an asphalt barrier wall and a clay barrier wall that reduce groundwater contamination from moving offsite and a groundwater collection system that treats groundwater before discharging to Great Lakes Water Authority (GLWA) for further treatment. As part of USE ROM's license, the facility is required to use the groundwater collection system to keep groundwater and contamination from flowing off-site on the eastern part of the property. EGLE requested sampling for PFAS in 2018 because a fire occurred at the facility in 2005, and aqueous film forming foam (AFFF) was believed to have been used. The highest PFOS + PFOA groundwater sample collected from the site was 119 ppt.
Groundwater flows east toward the Trouton Drain located immediately east of the site. The area is mainly industrial, with some residential areas to the south and east of the facility. There are no known downgradient drinking water wells in the area.
Content posted July 2020.
None at this time. There are no known downgradient drinking water wells in the area.
Monitoring will continue to occur monthly to ensure groundwater is not moving offsite. This is required by the facility's license. Monitoring data to date indicates that the groundwater collection system is functioning as designed and is successfully keeping groundwater contained on-site.
