Former Facility Name
Heritage Environmental Services LLC
Last Updated
Facility Physical Address

8525 N.E. 38th St.
Kansas City, MO 64161-9427
United States

County
Clay
EPA ID
MOD981505555
MoDNR Contact Name
Abby Sawyer
MoDNR Contact Phone
(573) 526-5397
MoDNR Contact toll free number:

(800) 361-4827

MoDNR Contact Email
abby.sawyer@dnr.mo.gov
Facility Contact(s)
Company
Arcwood Environmental LLC
Facility Contact Name
Michael Wertz
Facility Contact Phone Number
(816) 453-4321

Permanent Hard Copy Location(s)

Location of hard copies of regulatory mechanism(s) and any modifications, reports and other supporting documents.

Missouri Department of Natural Resources, Elm Street Conference Center, Jefferson City, MO 65102 (Submit a Sunshine Law Request to review or obtain copies of the department's files.)

No EPA Hardcopy Location.

Overview

Background/ History

The Arcwood Environmental LLC site, formerly Heritage Environmental Services Inc., is located on about 4.5 acres at 8525 NE 38th St. in Kansas City, Missouri. The facility was first built in 1986 by a company named ILWD Inc. In late 1986, ILWD changed its name to Heritage Environmental Services. The facility changed its name to Arcwood Environmental in 2025. 

Since early 1988, the site has operated as a commercial hazardous waste treatment and storage facility, acting as an “in-between” facility for hazardous waste generators. Arcwood accepts a variety of F-, K-, P-, and U-listed hazardous waste, as well as ignitable, reactive, corrosive, and toxic “characteristic” hazardous waste produced by other hazardous waste generators. These wastes include, organics (included halogenated solvents), oils, phenols, paints, pigments, cyanides, corrosives, heavy metal bearing wastes, metal sludges and lab packs. Arcwood transports these waste to their facility and then blends the waste to produce supplemental fuels for energy recovery. The blended fuels are stored in containers or tanks until shipped off-site to cement kilns and other permitted facilities to be used as fuel. Wastes that cannot be fuel blended are collected and stored until Arcwood ships it to other facilities designed and permitted to handle that waste. Arcwood currently is operating under a department-issued the Missouri Hazardous Waste Management Facility Part I Permit.

Cleanup Summary

According to applicable federal and state hazardous waste laws and regulations, all hazardous waste treatment, storage and disposal facilities are required to investigate and clean up releases of hazardous waste to the environment at their facility resulting from present and past hazardous waste handling practices. In 1990, a preliminary assessment was conducted at the site to identify and gather information on actual and potential releases of hazardous waste and hazardous constituents to the environment. Investigations did not identified any releases or potential releases at the site at that time. 

In 2005, Heritage investigated a potential area of concern due to a trailer fire inside the facility processing building, which caused firewater to escape the building. Potentially impacted soil at the facility was tested in 2006. It was determined that no further corrective action was necessary. 

Operations

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Closure & Cleanup

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Oversight

Arcwood, as the current property owner, is operating at the facility property under a department-issued Missouri Hazardous Waste Management Facility Part 1 Permit, effective Aug. 27, 2019. The Part 1 Permit was originally issued to Heritage Environmental in 1992, and reissued in 2006 and 2019. The permit allows the facility to store, consolidate, broker, blend and treat hazardous waste. The permit also requires corrective action in the event there is a release of hazardous waste to the environment. 

The facility also previously operated under an EPA-issued Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments Part 2 Permit. This permit contained federal requirements administered by EPA that Missouri had either not adopted or had adopted but EPA had not yet given Missouri temporary or final authorization to administer. The Part 2 Permit was originally issued to Heritage Environmental in 1992, and reissued in 2006. EPA decided not to reissue the Part 2 Permit in 2019, since EPA had no site-specific conditions for the facility, beyond those contained in the Part 1 Permit, and Missouri is fully authorized for all permitting and corrective action activities at the facility.

Documents

Listed below are the currently effective regulatory mechanism(s) and any modifications, institutional controls and any supporting documents regarding this property that the department currently has available in electronic form. The department realizes some of the electronic files can be quite large, which may result in long download times for individuals with slow internet connections. If you have any problems accessing these documents, please contact the department’s Waste Management Program by telephone at 573-751-5401 or 800-361-4827, or by email at wmp@dnr.mo.gov.

You can review printed copies of all regulatory agreements, reports and other supporting documents at the department’s Elm Street Conference Center in Jefferson City, Missouri. To review or obtain copies of the department’s files, please submit a Sunshine Law Request.

Regulatory Agreement

Regulatory Agreements Regulatory Agreement Note

Part I

Effective Date:

Expiration Date:

No Part II

Modifications Class 1
File Modification Date
Missouri Hazardous Waste Management Facility Part 1 Class 1 Permit Modification Request MOD981505555, April 8, 2025