2006 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: 25 Jun 2006 06:00:07 -0000
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Streator, Illinois
 
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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