Galey & Lord Plant Updates

EPA Articles and Info

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Announcements and Key Topics

On September 9, 2021, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed the Galey and Lord Plant site in Society Hill, South Carolina to the National Priorities List (NPL) through a Federal Register Notice. The Superfund program, a federal program established by Congress in 1980, investigates and cleans up the most complex, uncontrolled or abandoned hazardous waste sites in the country ...
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Background

The Galey and Lord Plant is a former textile dyeing and finishing plant, located in northeastern South Carolina, at 670 North Main Street in Society Hill. The site occupies about ...
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News and Update Links

October 14, 2021 - EPA Presentation about the Galey & Lord Plant Site and their plans.. View the Video

April 7, 2016 - Plant closure affects 126 people - Read More...

Sept 9, 2021 - EPA proposes adding another South Carolina site to Superfund National Priorities List - Read More...

Documents and other Resources

April 19, 2013 - Voluntary Clean-up Letter to Burlington Industries from SC-DHEC - Read More...

Sludge Fields Info - 2016

The site consists of approximately 304 separate agricultural fields (~9875 acres) that received treated sludge from the former Galey & Lord Plant Site (Society Hill, SC/ EPA Site ID C433) industrial waste treatment plant (WTP) from 1993 until 2013. Though the Site constitutes a large footprint within Darlington County, South Carolina, the administrative address is 610 Quiet Brook Road. The current focus of Site Assessment and Removal Operations is on six residential properties with ground water wells contaminated with several per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), notably perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) significantly above both current EPA Advisory concentration of 70 ng/L (parts per trillion) and Site Specific Removal Management Level of 400 ng/L. The source of the contamination is suspected of being connected to the land farming of the WTP sludges from the former Galey & Lord textile mills. Read More...