Anderson RTC (MBTA station)

Anderson RTC
Anderson RTC in January 2011
Location	100 Atlantic Avenue Woburn, Massachusetts
Coordinates	42°31′03″N 71°08′38″W / 42.5174°N 71.144°W / 42.5174; -71.144Coordinates: 42°31′03″N 71°08′38″W / 42.5174°N 71.144°W / 42.5174; -71.144
Owned by	Massport
Line(s)	New Hampshire Main Line
Platforms	1 island platform
Tracks	3
Connections	Logan Express
Construction
Parking	Yes
Bicycle facilities	No
Disabled access	Yes
Other information
Station code	WOB (Amtrak)
Fare zone	2 (MBTA)
History
Opened	April 8, 2001 (bus) April 28, 2001 (rail)
Traffic
Passengers (2010)	1,239 weekday avg. (MBTA)
Passengers (2014)	22,754  16% (Amtrak)
Services
Preceding station   Amtrak   Following station Boston North Station Terminus Downeaster Haverhill toward Brunswick, ME MBTA Mishawum toward North Station Lowell Line Wilmington toward Lowell Winchester Center toward North Station Haverhill Line rush hours only Wilmington toward Haverhill

Anderson Regional Transportation Center (RTC) (noted on MBTA schedules and maps as Anderson/Woburn, and on Amtrak schedules and maps as Woburn–Anderson) is a train and bus station located at 100 Atlantic Avenue, off Commerce Way, in Woburn, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston. It can be accessed from Exit 37C off Interstate 93 or the Washington Street exit off Interstate 95/Route 128.

It opened on April 28, 2001, replacing nearby Mishawum as Woburn's main Amtrak and MBTA station. It was named in memory of James R. "Jimmy" Anderson (1968–1981), whose death led to the Woburn Wells court case (Anderson v. Cryovac) chronicled in the film A Civil Action.

As of 2012, there are 30 commuter-rail departures to Boston each weekday, the most of any MBTA station outside Boston after Beverly Depot, which has 31 departures, and just ahead of Salem, which has 29. Of the eleven Amtrak stations in Massachusetts, Woburn was the seventh busiest in FY2010, boarding or detraining an average of approximately 40 passengers daily.

The station and the surrounding commercial-industrial area was redeveloped from the Industri-Plex Superfund site. The site is a former chemical and glue manufacturing facility. Industri-Plex was used for manufacturing chemicals such as lead-arsenic insecticides, acetic acid, and sulfuric acid for local textile, leather, and paper manufacturing industries from 1853 to 1931. Chemicals manufactured by other industries at the site include phenol, benzene, and toluene. Industri-Plex was also used to manufacture glue from raw animal hide and chrome-tanned hide wastes from 1934 to 1969. The by-products and residues from these industries caused the soils within the site to become contaminated with elevated levels of metals, such as arsenic, lead, and chrome. During the 1970s, the site was redeveloped for industrial use. Excavations uncovered and mixed industrial by-products and wastes accumulated over 130 years. During this period, residues from animal hide wastes used in the manufacture of glue were relocated on-site from buried pits to piles near swampy areas on the property. Many of the animal hide piles and lagoons on-site were leaching toxic metals into the environment. In the 1980s, the site contained streams and ponds, a warehouse and office buildings, remnant manufacturing buildings, and hide waste deposits buried on the site. The site was cleaned up using the capping technique, in which an impermeable layer seals the top of the hazardous waste site, preventing further pollution.