[CPEO-BIF] Former Fansteel site, Waukegan, Illinois

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Waukegan approves deal with EPA to clean south lakefront brownfield for residential development

By JIM NEWTON
LAKE COUNTY NEWS-SUN (IL)
OCTOGER 10, 2019 

The former Fansteel site on Waukegan’s south lakefront will be cleaned up with U.S. Environmental Protection Agency grant funding following the City Council’s approval Monday of an agreement with the EPA.

Under the agreement, Waukegan will receive $400,000 in EPA funding, announced previously by U.S. Rep Brad Schneider, D-Deerfield, and the city will provide initial engineering services for the cleanup project.

“That’s huge. That’s major for us,” Mayor Sam Cunningham said Tuesday of the funding agreement. “We’re very excited.”

The property was used for industrial operations until 1987, and was contaminated with chloroform, heavy metals, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and PCBs, according to a previous release announcing the grant.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/lake-county-news-sun/ct-lns-fansteel-brownfields-cleanup-st-1010-20191010-xoignz2zsjbtbmvooymwl2twse-story.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
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