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Vulcan-Louisville / Fansteel
Site Information
- North Chicago, IL (Cook County)
- EPA ID# ILD097271563
- CERCLIS listing
- Alias(es): Fansteel Incorporated, Lavin & Sons, North Chicago Refiners & Smelters
- Vulcan Louisville / Fansteel Removal areas map - May 8, 2008 - North Chicago, IL (PDF) (1pg, 90K)
Contact Information
Community Involvement Coordinator
Janet Pope (pope.janet@epa.gov)
312-353-0628 or 800-621-8431, ext.30628
Remedial Project Manager
Syed Quadri (quadri.syed@epa.gov)
312-886-5736 or 800-621-8431, ext. 65736
Repositories
(where to view written records)
North Chicago Public Library
2100 Argonne Drive
North Chicago, IL
Links
EPA Superfund Home Page
Region 5 Superfund
Superfund glossary
Superfund Frequent Questions:
Superfund Information Systems Frequent Questions
Background
The Vulcan Louisville facility, a former smelting operations, is at is at 1 Tantalum Place, two miles east of the intersection of Martin Luther King Jr. Street (22nd Street) and U.S. Highway 41. The facility is bounded by the R. Lavin & Sons facility to the east, 22nd Street to the south, Commonwealth Avenue to the west, and the Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railroad to the north.
The Fansteel site was used for industrial waste disposal. Several environmental investigations have been performed. In 1998, EPA conducted a $3.1 million cleanup, removing 49,475 cubic yards of contaminated soil and sediment from the vacant lot. In 2002, Fansteel filed for bankruptcy. As part of a bankruptcy settlement agreement, Fansteel completed a site investigation. The company’s property was sold to the city of North Chicago for $1.4 million, and Fansteel paid that amount to EPA to fund future cleanup at the site. Fansteel also paid EPA an additional $700,000 and the Department of Defense paid $425,000 to resolve its potential liability. Those funds were placed in a special account that EPA will use to help pay for the cleanup.
Site Updates | Fact Sheets || Public Meetings
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Site Updates
- EPA completes $2 million North Chicago, Ill., Cleanup, February 3, 2009
Fact Sheets
- EPA Selects Cleanup Plan for Fansteel Site (PDF) (4pp, 1.9MB) May 2008
Public Meetings
- EPA held a public meeting to discuss its proposed cleanup plan for the Vulcan Louisville Smelting/Fansteel Superfund site on Thursday, May 29, 2008 in North Chicago, IL. The public comment period ran May 22 - June 20, 2008. Powerpoint presentation from the public meeting May 29, 2008 (PDF) (30pp., 468K)