List of Superfund sites in Illinois
Encyclopedia
This is a list of Superfund
sites in Illinois
designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) environmental law. These sites are listed on the National Priorities List
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||IL0210090049||Joliet Army Ammunition Plant Load-Assembly-Packing Area
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||Site of federal ammunitions plant polluted with base neutral acids, metals, nitroaromatics, PCBs, and petroleum hydrocarbon. Physical clean up has been completed, but site remains on the NPL list.||04/10/1985 ||03/13/1989 ||09/29/2008 ||N/A ||N/A
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||IL7213820460||Joliet Army Ammunition Plant Manufacturing Area
||Will
||Soil contaminated with explosives and metals, primarily TNT, tetryl
, DNT
, and lead
. Groundwater plumes contaminated with explosives, VOCs
, and metals.||10/15/1984 ||07/22/1987 ||09/10/2008 ||N/A ||N/A
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||ILD053219259||Acme Solvent Reclaiming, Inc. (Morristown Plant)||Winnebago
||http://cfpub.epa.gov/supercpad/cursites/csitinfo.cfm?id=0500357 ||12/30/1982 ||09/08/1983 ||07/13/1998 ||N/A ||N/A
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Superfund
Superfund is the common name for the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 , a United States federal law designed to clean up sites contaminated with hazardous substances...
sites in Illinois
Illinois
Illinois is the fifth-most populous state of the United States of America, and is often noted for being a microcosm of the entire country. With Chicago in the northeast, small industrial cities and great agricultural productivity in central and northern Illinois, and natural resources like coal,...
designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) environmental law. These sites are listed on the National Priorities List
National Priorities List
The National Priorities List is the list of hazardous waste sites in the United States eligible for long-term remedial action financed under the federal Superfund program. Environmental Protection Agency regulations outline a formal process for assessing hazardous waste sites and placing them on...
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| CERCLIS ID | Name | County | Reason | Proposed | Listed | Constructioncompleted | Partiallydeleted | Deleted |
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| ILD980607055 | Adams County Quincy Landfills 2&3 | Adams Adams County, Illinois Adams County is the westernmost county of the U.S. state of Illinois. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 67,103, which is a decrease of 1.7% from 68,277 in 2000... |
http://cfpub.epa.gov/supercpad/cursites/csitinfo.cfm?id=0500656 | 06/24/1988 | 08/30/1990 | 03/31/1999 | N/A | N/A |
| ILD980996789 | Ilada Energy Co. | Alexander Alexander County, Illinois Alexander County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 8,238, which is a decrease of 14.1% from 9,590 in 2000. Its county seat is Cairo. Alexander County is part of the Cape Girardeau–Jackson, MO-IL Metropolitan Statistical... |
Liquid oily wastes found on site were contaminated with VOCs Volatile organic compound Volatile organic compounds are organic chemicals that have a high vapor pressure at ordinary, room-temperature conditions. Their high vapor pressure results from a low boiling point, which causes large numbers of molecules to evaporate or sublimate from the liquid or solid form of the compound and... , PCBs Polychlorinated biphenyl Polychlorinated biphenyls are a class of organic compounds with 2 to 10 chlorine atoms attached to biphenyl, which is a molecule composed of two benzene rings. The chemical formula for PCBs is C12H10-xClx... , and heavy metals including lead Lead Lead is a main-group element in the carbon group with the symbol Pb and atomic number 82. Lead is a soft, malleable poor metal. It is also counted as one of the heavy metals. Metallic lead has a bluish-white color after being freshly cut, but it soon tarnishes to a dull grayish color when exposed... , arsenic Arsenic Arsenic is a chemical element with the symbol As, atomic number 33 and relative atomic mass 74.92. Arsenic occurs in many minerals, usually in conjunction with sulfur and metals, and also as a pure elemental crystal. It was first documented by Albertus Magnus in 1250.Arsenic is a metalloid... , and zinc Zinc Zinc , or spelter , is a metallic chemical element; it has the symbol Zn and atomic number 30. It is the first element in group 12 of the periodic table. Zinc is, in some respects, chemically similar to magnesium, because its ion is of similar size and its only common oxidation state is +2... . On-site surface soils were contaminated with PCBs and heavy metals. |
06/24/1988 | 10/04/1989 | 09/28/1999 | N/A | 01/08/2001 |
| ILD980397079 | A & F Material Reclaiming, Inc. | Cumberland | http://cfpub.epa.gov/supercpad/cursites/csitinfo.cfm?id=0500534 | 12/30/1982 | 09/08/1983 | 09/24/1992 | N/A | N/A |
| IL3210020803 | Savanna Army Depot Activity Savanna Army Depot Savanna Army Depot was a installation, located on the eastern bank of the Mississippi River, in Carroll and Jo Daviess counties, around seven miles north of Savanna, Illinois. It was opened in 1917 as a proving and testing facility for weapons developed at Rock Island Arsenal. In 1921 it became a... |
Jo Daviess Jo Daviess County, Illinois Jo Daviess County is a county located in the northwest corner of U.S. state of Illinois. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 22,678, which is an increase of 1.7% from 22,289 in 2000. Its county seat is Galena.... |
Soils are contaminated with metals, pesticides, explosives, lead-based paint chips, and PAHs Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons , also known as poly-aromatic hydrocarbons or polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons, are potent atmospheric pollutants that consist of fused aromatic rings and do not contain heteroatoms or carry substituents. Naphthalene is the simplest example of a PAH... . Groundwater is contaminated with various pesticides, explosives, solvents, and petroleum-related contaminants. Sediments and surface water are contaminated with various explosives, PAHs, and metals. Multiple areas throughout the facility contain munitions and explosives of concern/unexploded ordnance (MEC/UXO). |
10/15/1984 | 03/13/1989 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| ILD003817137 | Petersen Sand & Gravel | Lake Lake County, Illinois Lake County is a county in the northeastern corner of the state of Illinois, on the shore of Lake Michigan. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 703,462, which is an increase of 9.2% from 644,356 in 2000. Its county seat is Waukegan. The county is part of the Chicago metropolitan area... |
(42.312227°N 87.949505°W) The site of illegal dumping of paint waste and solvents. Cleanup was completed, and it was removed from the National Priorities List in 1991, and redeveloped as the Independence Grove Forest Preserve. | 10/15/1984 | 06/10/1986 | 09/12/1989 | N/A | 02/11/1991 |
| ILD980500102 | Yeoman Creek Landfill | Lake Lake County, Illinois Lake County is a county in the northeastern corner of the state of Illinois, on the shore of Lake Michigan. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 703,462, which is an increase of 9.2% from 644,356 in 2000. Its county seat is Waukegan. The county is part of the Chicago metropolitan area... |
(42.389305°N 87.850102°W) The lack of a bottom liner allowed leachate Leachate Leachate is any liquid that, in passing through matter, extracts solutes, suspended solids or any other component of the material through which it has passed.... to enter the local groundwater. |
06/24/1988 | 03/31/1989 | 09/23/2005 | N/A | N/A |
| ILD005443544 | Johns-Manville Corporation | Lake Lake County, Illinois Lake County is a county in the northeastern corner of the state of Illinois, on the shore of Lake Michigan. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 703,462, which is an increase of 9.2% from 644,356 in 2000. Its county seat is Waukegan. The county is part of the Chicago metropolitan area... |
(42.388093°N 87.820201°W) An asbestos-disposal site. The area has been covered in >24 inches of soil, but areas outside the Johns-Manville property have problems with asbestos contamination, including other beachfront areas near the Waukegan and Zion. The site will be redeveloped as a soccer and baseball complex. | 12/30/1982 | 09/08/1983 | 12/31/1991 | N/A | N/A |
| ILD000802827 | Outboard Marine Corporation | Lake Lake County, Illinois Lake County is a county in the northeastern corner of the state of Illinois, on the shore of Lake Michigan. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 703,462, which is an increase of 9.2% from 644,356 in 2000. Its county seat is Waukegan. The county is part of the Chicago metropolitan area... |
(42.363941°N 87.819327°W) An engine construction plant released hydraulic fluids into the ground and harbor, which contained PCB. Dredging of the harbor and soil removal have been completed, and decontamination of the isolated soil continues. During cleanup, it was discovered that the site contained additional contamination on the former Waukegan Coke Plant property. Soil removal there is also complete. | 12/30/1982 | 09/08/1983 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| ILD980605836 | H.O.D. Landfill | Lake Lake County, Illinois Lake County is a county in the northeastern corner of the state of Illinois, on the shore of Lake Michigan. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 703,462, which is an increase of 9.2% from 644,356 in 2000. Its county seat is Waukegan. The county is part of the Chicago metropolitan area... |
(42.475927°N 88.085214°W) Groundwater was contaminated with vinyl chloride Vinyl chloride Vinyl chloride is the organochloride with the formula H2C:CHCl. It is also called vinyl chloride monomer, VCM or chloroethene. This colorless compound is an important industrial chemical chiefly used to produce the polymer polyvinyl chloride . At ambient pressure and temperature, vinyl chloride... . |
09/18/1985 | 02/21/1990 | 06/29/2001 | N/A | N/A |
| ILD048843809 | Chemetco Chemetco Chemetco was formerly one of the largest United States refiners of copper from recycled or residual sources.Its maximum output of 120,000 tons per year was approximately half of the entire U.S... |
Madison Madison County, Illinois Madison County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois. Madison County is part of the Metro-East region of the St. Louis Metro Area. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 269,282, which is an increase of 4.0% from 258,941 in 2000. The county seat is Edwardsville, home to... |
Site contains over 450,000 cubic yards of waste slag and over 60,000 cu yd of zinc oxide Zinc oxide Zinc oxide is an inorganic compound with the formula ZnO. It is a white powder that is insoluble in water. The powder is widely used as an additive into numerous materials and products including plastics, ceramics, glass, cement, rubber , lubricants, paints, ointments, adhesives, sealants,... . The materials contain elevated levels of cadmium Cadmium Cadmium is a chemical element with the symbol Cd and atomic number 48. This soft, bluish-white metal is chemically similar to the two other stable metals in group 12, zinc and mercury. Similar to zinc, it prefers oxidation state +2 in most of its compounds and similar to mercury it shows a low... , copper Copper Copper is a chemical element with the symbol Cu and atomic number 29. It is a ductile metal with very high thermal and electrical conductivity. Pure copper is soft and malleable; an exposed surface has a reddish-orange tarnish... and lead Lead Lead is a main-group element in the carbon group with the symbol Pb and atomic number 82. Lead is a soft, malleable poor metal. It is also counted as one of the heavy metals. Metallic lead has a bluish-white color after being freshly cut, but it soon tarnishes to a dull grayish color when exposed... . Sediments in nearby wetlands and Long Lake also have elevated levels of the same metals. |
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Joliet Army Ammunition Plant
Joliet Army Ammunition Plant formerly known as the Joliet Arsenal was a United States Army arsenal located in Will County, Illinois, near Elwood, Illinois, south of Joliet, Illinois. Opened in 1940 during World War II, the facility consisted of the Elwood Ordnance Plant and the Kankakee Ordnance...
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Will County, Illinois
As of the census of 2000, there were 502,266 people, 167,542 households, and 131,017 families residing in the county. The population density was 600 people per square mile . There were 175,524 housing units at an average density of 210 per square mile...
||Site of federal ammunitions plant polluted with base neutral acids, metals, nitroaromatics, PCBs, and petroleum hydrocarbon. Physical clean up has been completed, but site remains on the NPL list.||04/10/1985 ||03/13/1989 ||09/29/2008 ||N/A ||N/A
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||IL7213820460||Joliet Army Ammunition Plant Manufacturing Area
Joliet Army Ammunition Plant
Joliet Army Ammunition Plant formerly known as the Joliet Arsenal was a United States Army arsenal located in Will County, Illinois, near Elwood, Illinois, south of Joliet, Illinois. Opened in 1940 during World War II, the facility consisted of the Elwood Ordnance Plant and the Kankakee Ordnance...
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Will County, Illinois
As of the census of 2000, there were 502,266 people, 167,542 households, and 131,017 families residing in the county. The population density was 600 people per square mile . There were 175,524 housing units at an average density of 210 per square mile...
||Soil contaminated with explosives and metals, primarily TNT, tetryl
Tetryl
2,4,6-Trinitrophenylmethylnitramine commonly referred to as tetryl is a sensitive explosive compound used to make detonators and explosive booster charges....
, DNT
Dinitrotoluene
2,4-Dinitrotoluene or Dinitro is an organic compound with the formula C6H32. This pale yellow crystalline solid is well known as a precursor to trinitrotoluene but is mainly used in the polymer industry....
, and lead
Lead
Lead is a main-group element in the carbon group with the symbol Pb and atomic number 82. Lead is a soft, malleable poor metal. It is also counted as one of the heavy metals. Metallic lead has a bluish-white color after being freshly cut, but it soon tarnishes to a dull grayish color when exposed...
. Groundwater plumes contaminated with explosives, VOCs
Volatile organic compound
Volatile organic compounds are organic chemicals that have a high vapor pressure at ordinary, room-temperature conditions. Their high vapor pressure results from a low boiling point, which causes large numbers of molecules to evaporate or sublimate from the liquid or solid form of the compound and...
, and metals.||10/15/1984 ||07/22/1987 ||09/10/2008 ||N/A ||N/A
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||ILD053219259||Acme Solvent Reclaiming, Inc. (Morristown Plant)||Winnebago
Winnebago County, Illinois
Winnebago County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 295,266, which is an increase of 6.1% from 278,418 in 2000...
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See also
- List of Superfund sites in the United States
- List of environmental issues
- List of waste types
- TOXMAPTOXMAPTOXMAP is a geographic information system from the United States National Library of Medicine that uses maps of the United States to help users visually explore data from the United States Environmental Protection Agency's Toxics Release Inventory and Superfund programs...