EPA orders defunct Cedar Falls business, property owner to clean up waste

A defunct Cedar Falls company and the owner of the property where it was located have been ordered by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to clean up leaking tanks and other containers of hazardous waste.

The EPA Region 7 office in Kansas City, Kan., said it visited the former Cedar Valley Electroplating at 5611 Westminster Dr. in Cedar Falls last week. The agency had previously inspected the business, which ceased operating last year, in 2005 and 2010.

The most recent inspection found numerous totes, tanks, drums and other containers and materials stored in an unsafe manner throughout the facility, including numerous containers that were open and several that were leaking. Some of the hazardous wastes identified during last week's limited visit included chromium, ferric sulfate, ferric chloride, sulfuric acid, hydrochloric acid, sodium hypochlorite and sodium hydroxide.

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