Illinois Superfund (NPL) Sites
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Acme Solvent Reclaiming (Morristown Plant)
Location: Morristown, Winnebago County
Narrative: 20-acre site used for drum storage and waste disposal. Once held as many as 15,000 drums and seven waste lagoons. Remedies to date include fencing the area, thermal stripping of soil, soil vapor extraction, groundwater treatment, and provision of water to homes whose wells were affected by the site.
Contaminants: Chromium · Lead · PCBs · Phthalates · VOCs
Adams County Quincy Landfills 2 & 3
Location: Quincy, Adams County
Narrative: 56-Acre landfill that accepted liquid industrial wastes. After monitoring showed groundwater contamination, response actions included fencing the landfill, providing public water to affected residents, repairs to the landfill cap, putting in a system to collect liquid wastes, restricting use of the property, and continued groundwater monitoring.
Contaminants: VOCs
Amoco Chemicals (Joliet Landfill)
Location: Joliet, Will County
Contaminants: Benzene · Cadmium · Chromium · Copper · Lead · Toluene · Xylenes
Location: Taylor Springs, Montgomery County
Contaminants: Arsenic · Beryllium · Cadmium · Copper · Lead · Nickel · Zinc
Location: Galena, Jo Daviess County
Contaminants: Arsenic · Heavy Metals · Lead · Zinc
Location: Rockton, Winnebago County
Contaminants: Trichloroethene
Location: Byron, Ogle County
Contaminants: Benzene · Chromium · Copper · Lead · Tetrachloroethene · Toluene · Trichloroethene · Xylenes · Zinc
Central Illinois Public Service Co.
Location: Taylorville, Christian County
Contaminants: Benzene · Ethylbenzene · PAHs · Toluene · Xylenes
Location: Hartford, Madison County
Contaminants: Cadmium · Copper · Lead · Zinc oxide
Cross Brothers Pail Recycling (Pembroke)
Location: Pembroke Township, Kankakee County
Contaminants: Benzene · Lead · PCBs · Toluene · Xylenes
DePue/New Jersey Zinc/Mobil Chem Corp
Location: DePue, Bureau County
Contaminants: Arsenic · Cadmium · Chromium · Copper · Lead · Zinc
Eagle Zinc Co. Div T L Diamond
Location: Hillsboro, Montgomery County
Contaminants: Lead
Estech General Chemical Company
Location: Calumet City, Cook County
Contaminants: Chromium · Lead · PCBs
Location: Galesburg, Knox County
Contaminants: Coal tar · Creosote · Fuel Oil · Pentachlorophenol
Location: Danville, Vermillion County
Contaminants: Arsenic · Cadmium · Lead · Zinc
Location: Antioch, Lake County
Contaminants: Vinyl Chloride
Indian Refinery-Texaco Lawrenceville
Location: Lawrenceville, Lawrence County
Contaminants: Benzene · Ethylbenzene · Lead · Naphthalene · SVOCs · Toluene
Interstate Pollution Control, Inc
Location: Rockford, Winnebago County
Contaminants: Cyanide · Heavy Metals · PCBs · Pesticides · SVOCs · VOCs
Location: Granite City, Madison County
Contaminants: Benzene · Creosote · Dibenzofurans · Dioxins · Naphthalene · PAHs · Pentachorophenol
Location: Waukegan, Lake County
Contaminants: Asbestos
Joliet Army Ammunition Plant (LAP Area)
Location: Joliet, Will County
Contaminants: Arsenic · HMX · Lead · RDX · TNT
Joliet Army Ammunition Plant (Mfg Area)
Location: Joliet, Will County
Contaminants: Dinitrotoluene · Lead · Tetryl · TNT
Kerr-McGee (Kress Creek/W Branch DuPage)
Location: DuPage County
Contaminants: Thorium
Kerr-McGee (Residential Areas)
Location: West Chicago, DuPage County
Contaminants: Radium · Thorium · Uranium
Location: Chicago, Cook County
Contaminants: Arsenic · Barium · Benzo(a)anthracene · Benzo(a)pyrene · Cadmium · Chromium · Chrysene · Dibenz(a,h)athracene · Lead · Manganese · Mercury · Naphthalene · Nickel · PCBs · Pesticides
Location: LaSalle, LaSalle County
Contaminants: PCBs · Tetrachloroethene · Trichloroethene
Location: Lemont (Cook, DuPage, and Will Counties)
Contaminants: Benzene · Heavy Metals · PAHs · PCBs · Tetrachloroethene · Trichloroethene · Vinyl Chloride · Xylenes
Matthiessen and Hegeler Zinc Co.
Location: LaSalle, LaSalle County
Contaminants: Cadmium · Chromium · Copper · Lead · Nickel · Zinc
Location: Belvidere, Boone County
Contaminants: Heavy Metals · PCBs · Pesticides · SVOCs ·VOCs
NL Industries/Taracorp Lead Smelter
Location: Granite City, Madison County
Contaminants: Lead
Location: Fairmont City, St. Clair County
Contaminants: Arsenic · Cadmium · Lead · Zinc
Location: Ottawa, LaSalle County
Contaminants: Radium
Location: Waukegan, Lake County
Contaminants: Arsenic · Benzene · Coal tar · Creosote · PCBs · Phenol
Location: Rockford, Winnebago County
Contaminants: Arsenic · Boron ·VOCs
Location: Belvidere, Boone County
Contaminants: Arsenic · Copper · Cyanide · Nickel ·VOCs
Location: Sandoval, Marion County
Contaminants: Lead · Zinc
Sangamo Electric/Crab Orchard NWR (USDOI)
Location: Carterville, Williamson County
Contaminants: Cadmium · Chromium · Explosives · Lead · PCBs
Location: Savanna, Jo Daviess County
Contaminants: Explosives · Lead · Metals · PAHs · Pesticides · Petroleum hydrocarbons
Location: Chicago, Cook County
Contaminants: Chromium · Lead
Southeast Rockford Groundwater Contamination
Location: Rockford, Winnebago County
Contaminants: cis-1,2-Dichloroethene · Tetrachloroethene · 1,1,1-Trichloroethane · Trichloroethene · Vinyl Chloride
Tri-County Landfill/Waste Mgmt Illinois
Location: Elgin, Kane County
Contaminants: Heavy Metals · PCBs · Pesticides · SVOCs · VOCs
Velsicol Chemical Corp.(Illinois)
Location: Marshall, Clark County
Contaminants: Cadmium · Pesticides · VOCs
Location: Wauconda, Lake County
Contaminants: Cyanide · Heavy Metals · Pesticides · VOCs
Location: Woodstock, McHenry County
Contaminants: Arsenic · Benzene · Cadmium · Chlorobenzene · Cobalt · Mercury · Naphthalene · SVOCs · Toluene · Vinyl Chloride · VOCs
Location: Waukegan, Lake County
Contaminants: bis(2-Ethylhexyl)phthalate · Lead · Manganese · PCBs · VOCs
A & F Material Reclaiming, Inc.
Location: Greenup, Cumberland County
Contaminants: Metals · PAHs · PCBs · Petroleum hydrocarbons · VOCs
Deleted: 2012
Location: Belvidere, Boone County
Contaminants: Benzene · Chromium · Heavy Metals · PAHs · PCBs · Toluene · Trichloroethene · Xylenes
Deleted: 2015
DuPage County Landfill/Blackwell Forest
Location: Near Warrenville, DuPage County
Contaminants: Benzene · Chromium · Dichlorobenzene · 1,2-Dichloroethene · Ethylbenzene · Manganese · Mercury · Pesticides · Tetrachloroethene · Toluene · Trichloroethene
Deleted: 2020
Location: East Cape Girardeau, Alexander County
Contaminants: Arsenic · Lead · PCBs · VOCs · Zinc
Deleted: 2001
Kerr-McGee (Reed-Keppler Park)
Location: West Chicago, DuPage County
Contaminants: Thorium · Uranium
Deleted: 2010
Kerr-McGee (Sewage Treatment Plant)
Location: West Chicago, DuPage County
Contaminants: Radium · Thorium · Uranium
Deleted: 2013
Location: Libertyville, Lake County
Contaminants: Arsenic · Cadmium · Chromium · Lead · PAHs · PCBs · VOCs
Deleted: 1991
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