2020 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2020 12:24:04 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] "City of West Bend [Wisconsin] Villa Park/Schuster Drive landfill public information meeting"
 
VIDEO: City of West Bend Villa Park/Schuster Drive landfill public information meeting

By Judy Steffes  
Washington County Insider (WI)
June 24, 2020 

West Bend, WI – An update was provided this week as the City of West Bend hosted its second public information meeting on the Villa Park / Schuster Drive landfill. The 30-acre parcel on the west end of town includes a 23-acre landfill.

On a history note, that site used to be considered “out of town” years ago when it served as a municipal / private dump from 1964 – 1984. There was no liner so any waste or liquid/chemical disposed of at that site would eventually seep into the water table. In 1982 the Wisconsin DNR closed the landfill. The City of West Bend has been monitoring the groundwater since 1999. Click HERE for more information from a public information meeting in October 2019.

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The plume is Trichloroethylene (TCE) which has been found in the air and in the groundwater in Villa Park. TCE was used by factories to clean metal and it was in paint.  TCE, according to Linnemanstons, migrates via ground water and can “gas off.”  It can enter a house, very similar to radon.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.washingtoncountyinsider.com/video-city-of-west-bend-villa-park-schuster-drive-landfill-public-information-meeting/

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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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