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WPSC Campmarina MGP Site

Site Information
Contact Information

Community Involvement Coordinator
Susan Pastor (pastor.susan@epa.gov)
312-353-1325 or 800-621-8431, ext. 31325

Remedial Project Manager
Pablo Valentin (valentin.pablo@epa.gov)
312-353-2886 or 800-621-8431, ext. 32886

Assistant Regional Counsel
Richard Nagle (nagle.richard@epa.gov)
312-353-8222 or 800-621-8431, ext. 38222

Repositories

(where to view written records)

Mead Public Library
710 N. 8th St.
Sheboygan, WI

Sheboygan River Area of Concern

Sheboygan River and Harbor Superfund site

Links for Wisconsin former MGPs

Other useful links about MGPs

EPA Superfund Home Page
Region 5 Superfund
Superfund glossary

Agency for Toxic Substances & Disease Registry

 

Background

The 1-1/2-acre Wisconsin Public Service Corp. Campmarina manufactured gas plant site is located at 732 N. Water St., Sheboygan, Wis. on the north bank of the Sheboygan River. Currently, it is used as a park and marina with a river walk located immediately adjacent to the river shoreline.

WPSC owned and operated the gas plant from 1872 to 1929 in an area that was historically industrial. Processes included coal carbonization and carbureted water gas. Today, the city of Sheboygan currently owns the property.

Manufactured Gas Plants (MGPs)

Learn about MGPs

EPA Region 5 is working on former MGPs in Wisconsin and Illinois.

A Community Advisory Group (CAG) is one way the community can get involved. Learn more about CAGs

Site Updates | Fact Sheets || Technical Documents || Legal Agreements

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Site Updates

October 2008

An investigation of the Sheboygan River began this past summer to find out how much PAH and PCB contamination is at the site. Workers for Integrys (formerly WPSC) donned coveralls and boots to take sediment (mud) samples from the river near Boat Island and the Pennsylvania Avenue Bridge. They put their sampling equipment into the water from boats or small barges. A mobile lab was parked on the shore to quickly analyze the samples. Before the samples were taken, signs were posted asking boaters and pedestrians to stay out of the areas where sampling took place. They were removed after all of the samples were collected.

Results will be detailed in a document called a remedial investigation report. That report will be available to the public in Spring 2009. Another document outlining several possible cleanup options called a feasibility study will follow. EPA will issue a proposed plan that will explain the agency's recommended cleanup option, hold a comment period, and host a public meeting before selecting a final cleanup plan in Fall 2009.

All of the work is being done under a legal agreement called a consent order which was signed by Integrys and EPA in January 2007. Integrys signed a separate agreement in May 2006 to investigate six other sites in Manitowoc, Green Bay, Oshkosh, Two Rivers, Stevens Point and Marinette.

The upland portion of the site was cleaned up according to a state-issued decision in 2002. That cleanup included excavation and off-site thermal treatment of 10,500 tons of soil (which was beneficially reused on site), site grading, material management, disposal of debris, and a containment system. The containment system consists of a vertical sheet pile barrier wall around the edge of the site with an engineered geosynthetic (heavy plastic) cover over the surface. A "biosparge" system injects air through underground pipes to enhance the natural breakdown of contaminants within the containment barrier.

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