Intel Magnetics
EPA #: CAD092212497
State: California(CA)
County: Santa Clara
City: Santa Clara
Congressional District: 15
Other Names: Other Names: Micro Storage/Intel Magnetics
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The next Five Year Review is planned for September 2012.
Description and History
NPL Listing History
NPL Status: Final
Proposed Date: 10/15/84
Final Date: 06/10/86
Deleted Date:
The Intel Magnetics site is a 1-acre facility that produced and tested magnetic products and computer memories. Micro Storage occupied the site from 1985 to 1986 and used the facility for research and development and pilot manufacturing. Micro Storage also occupied a property adjacent to and upgradient from the site that contributes to the contamination. Monitoring wells on the site are contaminated with volatile organic compounds (VOCs), believed to have resulted from surface spills and a leak from an underground storage tank. This is one of 28 NPL sites in the South Bay Area of San Francisco. Facilities at these sites have used a variety of toxic chemicals, primarily chlorinated organic solvents, which have contaminated a common groundwater basin. Approximately 300,000 people depend on groundwater within 3 miles of the site as a source of drinking water. Twenty Santa Clara wells and four Sunnyvale wells are located within a 3-mile radius of the site.
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Contaminants and Risks
Contaminated Media:
Groundwater
Groundwater is contaminated with various VOCs. Accidental ingestion of or direct contact with contaminated groundwater may pose a health risk.
Who is Involved
This site is being addressed through Federal, State, and potentially responsible parties' actions.
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Investigation and Cleanup Activities
Initial Actions
Immediate Actions: The company installed a groundwater extraction and treatment system to pump and treat contaminated groundwater in 1990. In early 1991, additional wells for the extraction and treatment system were installed at the site.
Cleanup Ongoing
Entire Site: The potentially responsible parties, under State supervision, completed an investigation into the nature and extent of contamination at the site in early 1991. A groundwater extraction and carbon adsorption treatment remedy was chosen in late 1991. Construction of the treatment system began in late 1991 and was completed in 1992. California's Regional Water Quality Control Board and the EPA are currently investigating the potential need for upgradient remediation. Groundwater monitoring will continue until cleanup goals are met.
Cleanup Results to Date
The construction of cleanup remedies is complete. The pumping and treating of contaminated groundwater has reduced contaminant concentrations, minimizing the potential of exposure to contaminated groundwater at the Intel Magnetics site. Monitoring will continue until established cleanup goals are met.
The third five year review report completed in September 28, 2007, concluded that -
The remedy at the Intel Magnetics Site is currently protective of human health and the environment because exposure pathways that could result in unacceptable risks are being controlled. However, in order to be protective in the long-term, institutional controls need to be placed on the Intel Magnetics property.
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Potentially Responsible Parties
Potentially responsible parties (PRPs) refers to companies that are potentially responsible for generating, transporting, or disposing of the hazardous waste found at the site.
The identified PRPs for this site include:
Intel Corporation
3000 Oakmead Village Drive Limited
Mark Gates
Charles Edwin Gates
GKC Limited
Eugenia L. Cashen
Kim Camp III
Kimball Small Investments III
Westall Corporation
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Public Information Repositories
The most complete collection of documents
is the official EPA site file, maintained at
the following location:
Superfund Records Center
Mail Stop SFD-7C
95 Hawthorne Street, Room 403
San Francisco, CA 94105
(415) 820-4700
Enter main lobby of 75 Hawthorne street,
go to 4th floor of South Wing Annex.
The public information repositories for
the site are at the following locations:
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Contacts
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Name |
Phone Number |
Email |
Address |
| EPA Site Manager |
Daewon Rojas-Mickelson |
415-947-4191 |
Rojas-Mickelson.Daewon@epamail.epa.gov |
Mail Code SFD71
75 Hawthorne Street
San Francisco, CA 94105 |
EPA Community
Involvement Coordinator |
Vicki Rosen |
415-972-3244
1-800-231-3075 |
Rosen.Vicki@epamail.epa.gov |
Mail Code SFD63
75 Hawthorne Street
San Francisco, CA 94105 |
EPA Public Information
Center |
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415-947-8701 |
r9.info@epa.gov |
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| State Contact |
David Barr
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510-622-2313
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dbarr@waterboards.ca.gov
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San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board,
1515 Clay Street, Suite 1400, Oakland, California 94612
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| PRP Contact |
David Small |
408-938-5793
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dks@ksp-inc.com |
Kimball Small Properties |
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After Hours
(Emergency Response) |
US EPA |
(800) 424-8802 |
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