A rea Sur de Chicago : proyecto Piloto de Notificaci on al P ublico : incluye las a reas de Chicago Heights, South Chicago Heights y Steger.

House Resolution (HR) 1010 adopted June 2004, encourages the Illinois EPA to establish a Right-to-Know Committee and to obtain citizens' input on the most effective and efficient means of providing notice to residents exposed to or potentially exposed to contamination from air, land or water. In keeping with the spirit of the resolution, Illinois EPA is conducting this pilot notification project with the assistance of the Illinois Department of Public Health and the Cook County Department of Public Health. This notice is precautionary, because of the potential for one or more sites to affect the groundwater quality in the area. There are many sites in the area that may have a potential for contaminating groundwater. The current notification has to do with information Illinois EPA has gathered in the course of investigating, monitoring and performing work on the landfill sites discussed below. These are located in the Chicago Heights/South Chicago Heights area, south of 26th Street and west of State Street (see attached map): Chicago Heights Refuse Depot, Triem Landfill and Fitzmar Landfill. A fourth landfill, Lobue, is adjacent to these, although Illinois EPA currently has very little information about that landfill. In 1987, vinyl chloride was detected in South Chicago Heights Well #3 at a level that was more than the Class I Groundwater Standard, which is 2 parts per billion. Investigation and sampling of monitoring wells at the landfill site near Well #3 showed higher concentrations of vinyl chloride (140-240 parts per million) in 1988. South Chicago Heights discontinued the use of Well #3 after this event and later stopped using all its wells and began purchasing water from Chicago Heights in 2000.

A plan for the comprehensive evaluation of the occurrence, transport, and fate of ground-water contaminants in the Lake Calumet area of southeast Chicago /

"HWRIC TN88-010."

Alkaline noncyanide zinc plating with reuse of recovered chemicals /

"Cooperative agreement number CR-815829."

Air concentrations of PCBs and metals at Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge /

"May 1995"--Cover.

Amendment : assessment of ecotoxicological hazard of Waukegan Harbor sediment /

"HWRIC Project no. 87-040."

An assessment of regional ground-water contamination in Illinois /

"HWRIC RR 023."

Annual report /

Description based on: 1986.

Asbestos control in automotive shops /

"Printed February 1989."

Bath Landfill : Decatur, Illinois.

"32571"--Colophon.

Bath, Inc. Landfill : Macon County, Illinois.

The 17-acre landfill southwest of Decatur on the south bank of the Sangamon River was permitted in 1974 as a demolition debris landfill. It originated as an open dump in 1918. The site had a history of not complying with the state landfill rules in the 1980s. The landfill also exceeded its permitted waste disposal limits, by the time that the operations stopped in 1991. The owner failed to comply with an August 1994 court order requiring proper cover to be installed and maintained. Visible leachate seeps (leachate is water that has traveled through the landfill and contacts waste material) and exposed refuse were observed along the bank of the Sangamon River. ... This landfill was one of the 33 landfills in Illinois identified by the Illinois EPA in 1998 as most in need of immediate repairs. The state legislature responded by passing legislation that allocated $50 million over five years to address these 33 sites. These 33 landfills are being managed through the Abandoned Landfill Program.

Brownfields properties with underground storage tanks : frequently asked questions.

Information for potential buyers of abandoned commercial properties in Illinois that have underground storage tanks.

Brownfields Redevelopment Grant Program : project descriptions.

"January 2000."

Centralia Environmental Services, Inc. Landfill : Centralia, Illinois.

"31581"--Colophon.

Centralia Landfill : Centralia Environmental Services, Inc., Prior-Blackwell and Prior 1,2,3 and 4, Centralia, Illinois.

"32339"--Colophon.

Chemical and toxicological analyses of Lake Calumet (Cook County, Illinois) sediments /

"HWRIC Project 88-048."