Background/ History
The Kiesel Co. site is located on approximately 5.35 acres at One Branch St. in St. Louis. from November 1986 through March 1992, Kiesel marketed and distributed coal, petroleum products, including virgin and recycled waste oils, and hazardous waste fuels. Other operations conducted at the site included barge cleaning and product recovery operations for Kiesel barges and a small wastewater treatment area. Kiesel transported hazardous waste to their facility and blended the waste to produce supplemental fuels for energy recovery, which was stored in containers or tanks until shipped off-site to cement kilns to be used as fuel. Kiesel did burn waste oils in one of an on-site boiler, but mainly processed the hazardous waste fuels for marketing.
Kiesel operated a treatment and storage building, which housed a container storage area and the operations for processing hazardous waste solids or sludges into fuels, and a number of storage tanks on the site. Two 25,000-gallon storage tanks used for the storage and blending of hazardous waste fuels were operated under the “interim status” portions of the federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). As of 2006, Kiesel no longer processes hazardous waste fuels. Currently Kiesel operates a complete service river terminal; offers barge and rail car cleaning and steaming; leases tug boats; collects and blends used oils with fuel oil for sale to asphalt plants; and provides environmental response services such as facility clean-up, marine spills, and tank truck rollovers/derailments.
Cleanup Summary
Kiesel closed the hazardous waste storage/blending tanks. The department accepted Kiesel’s closure report and certification in 1994. Kiesel is not subject to the permitting requirements of the Missouri Hazardous Waste Management Law or federal Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments for post-closure care because they “clean closed” the interim status hazardous waste areas.
Kiesel is subject to corrective action because they completed closure of the interim status hazardous waste areas after the effective date of the federal Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments. Kiesel is currently a candidate for an administrative order or Letter of Agreement to investigate and possibly remediate the site.
