Moving toward COMPLETION

The former Brunswick facility, operated by Hercules (1920-2009) and Pinova (2010-2023), was a resins manufacturing facility. From pine tree stumps harvested in the southeastern United States, it produced products used world-wide. The former plant properties are now vacant but still owned by Hercules and Pinova.

Hercules has spent more than $86 million over the last 30 years on remediation at the Brunswick facility, the 009 Landfill, and the Terry Creek site stemming from historical industrial activities. This work is conducted under the oversight of two different government agencies: the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Environmental Protection Division (EPD) of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources. Hercules also provided more than $250,000 in technical assistance grants to the Glynn Environmental Coalition as part of an EPA program to promote community participation in the environmental decision-making process at the Terry Creek and 009 Landfill sites.

Three sites, two agencies

  1. Hercules has completed a successful remediation of the 009 Landfill working with the EPA. Part of that property is now a leased by a neighboring car dealership and another part is a certified wildlife habitat. Recently, Hercules voluntarily took steps to enhance the future protectiveness of the established monitored natural attenuation remedy by adding additional monitoring wells. Hercules has been working with the neighboring property owner, as the property is being developed to safeguard both new buildings and the integrity of the landfill remedy.

  2. In 2022, Hercules finalized its Corrective Action Plan for comprehensive remediation of the Brunswick facility that incorporated feedback received from EPD and the public during public review processes in 2021 and 2022. During the past two years, Hercules worked to implement the plan through remediation of soil and groundwater. Following plant closure in 2023, and demolition and decommissioning in 2024-2025, Hercules and Pinova intend to adapt and update the plan to help pave the way for redevelopment of the site.

  3. Construction of the final interim remedy for the Terry Creek outfall channel was completed in July 2025. The remedy, developed in Collaboration with EPA and approved by both EPD and a federal district court, involved capping the former channel and building a new channel for the conveyance of stormwater from the Brunswick community to Dupree Creek.

Hercules in Brunswick

remediation work at the Brunswick sites

Hercules’ environmental remediation team has spent years working at the Brunswick sites. Below, Geosyntec Consultants install groundwater monitoring wells and collect soil samples at the Brunswick facility.