Almost 10 years after closing its doors outside the City of Louisville, there is activity at Thermo King. This time, the building at the site is being demolished.
Sandy Walden, permit clerk and office manager at the Jefferson County Building and Code Enforcement Department, said Thermo King in care of Trane Technologies had applied for a permit from the department for the demolition June 27.
“Arcadis US, Inc., is the company tearing it down,” she said.
Ingersoll Rand, the parent company to Thermo King in Louisville, said in 2011 it would close the plant by the second quarter 2012. It employed 235 people.
Louisville City Administrator Ricky Sapp said city services, water, sewer and gas, to the site were disconnected sometime around April or May.
Sara Lips, Director of Communications and Community Engagement with Georgia EPD, said the site had been placed on the EPD’s Hazardous Site Inventory on July 19, 2001, and delisted Sept. 17, 2019.
“It was listed for volatile organic compounds in both soil and groundwater,” she said. “The property was cleaned up to Type 5 standards.”
The site currently has both institutional and engineering controls implemented to prevent unacceptable risk to sensitive receptors both human and environmental.
“A Uniform Environmental Covenant (UIC) has been recorded with the deed to 1) restrict land and groundwater usage and to 2) require routine Operation and Maintenance of engineering controls used to prevent human and environmental receptors from unacceptable exposure to regulated substances, primarily chlorinated solvents that remain in limited areas of soil and groundwater,” she explained.
“Soil and groundwater are currently in compliance with Type 5 risk reduction standards (RRS) where certain areas of soil and groundwater do not meet residential (Type 1 or 2) or non-residential (Type 3 or 4) RRS. Both the institutional (UEC) and engineering controls are to remain in place until such time as soil and groundwater are demonstrated to be in compliance with residential RRS.”
The property may be sold, however, the purchaser must comply with the restrictions stated in the recorded UEC and operate and maintain engineering controls until both soil and groundwater are deemed to be suitable for residential use.
Lips said the site is inspected on a routine basis and engineering controls are repaired as needed.
“EPD is to be notified of any major repairs needed (such as breaches of the controls) upon discovery; otherwise the current owner of the site property submits land and groundwater use certifications and an O&M report annually to EPD,” she said.
Calls to Arcadis, Trane and Thermo King were not returned the call as of press time Thursday. Further plans for the site were unknown at press time.
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