[CPEO-BIF] Streator, Illinois

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

STREATOR: City seeks IEPA's help with Knoedler brownfield

CRAIG WIECZORKIEWICZ
Ottawa Times (IL)
June 24, 2006


STREATOR -- The city is requesting financial aid from the state to fully 
evaluate the environmental conditions at one of its brownfield sites.

The former Knoedler Manufacturing facility site on Iowa Avenue just 
south of the Broadway Street viaduct, is contaminated primarily by 
solvents used in the metal cleaning , said former public works director 
Ralph Hermann, who now serves as a consultant to the city.

A 300-gallon underground storage tank that previously stored kerosene 
was removed in 2004, but no contamination was found immediately 
surrounding the storage tank. Ten to 15 percent of the site appears to 
be tainted from one or two other tanks believed to have been removed 
before Streator took control of the property, Hermann said.

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For the entire article, see
http://mywebtimes.com/ottnews/archives/ottawa/sections.cgi?prcss=display&id=262459
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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org


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