Missouri Superfund Site: Ellisville Site
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Do you need a Toxic Tort Lawyer in The Show Me State? The US EPA has designated Ellisville Site in Missouri as a Superfund site due to its levels of enviromental contamination and danger to the environment. You can read the report for the site below.
Some Superfund sites are on the National Priority Site Lists. The National Priorities List ("NPL") is the list of hazardous waste sites in the United States eligible for long-term remedial action financed under the federal Superfund program. Environmental Protection Agency regulations outline a formal process for assessing hazardous waste sites and placing them on the NPL. The NPL is intended primarily to guide the EPA in determining which sites warrant further investigation.
Sites are listed on the NPL upon completion of Hazard Ranking System (HRS) screening, public solicitation of comments about the proposed site, and after all comments have been addressed. EPA may delete a final NPL site if it determines that no further response is required to protect human health or the environment. Sites where a remediation was completed through the Superfund program are typically deleted from the NPL.
Living near Superfund Sites in Missouri may place you and your family at risk of developing a disease from proximity to the site and experiencing a loss of value for your property, but there are steps you can take to fight back: The EPA says,
[We have] set up a "Post Construction Completion" (or PCC) strategy to ensure that Superfund response actions provide for the long-term protection of human health and the environment. EPA's Post Construction Completion activities also involve optimizing remedies to increase effectiveness and/or reduce cost without sacrificing long-term protection of human health and the environment.Even so, most of the Superfund sites still pose a health hazard to the health of those near-by.
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Ellisville Site
This site is not a Federal Facility.
Ellisville Site
Missouri
Epa Id# Mod980633010
EPA Region 7
City: Near Ellisville, 20 miles west
of downtown St. Louis
County: St. Louis County
Other Names: Rosalie Investment
Co.,
Mid-America Arena,
Callahan Property,
Bliss, Russell Site Bliss Ranch
Site Description
The Ellisville Site consists of three nearby non-contiguous subsites: the Bliss property, the
Callahan property, and the Rosalie property. Initial investigations at the site focused on these
three properties. During the investigations, an additional four contaminated properties were
discovered adjacent to the Bliss Property and were added to that subsite. During the 1960s and
1970s, Russell Bliss owned and operated the Bliss Waste Oil Company, a business engaged in the
transportation and disposal of waste oil products, industrial wastes, and chemical wastes. These
wastes were disposed of in pits, drums, and on the surface of properties around the company's
headquarters in Ellisville. The Bliss property subsite is located in western St. Louis County and
covers approximately 11 acres of land. Developed portions of the subsite include the Mid-
America Arena and associated buildings and stables. The property is drained by Caulks Creek,
which empties into a tributary to the Missouri River. Pits were dug on the property and were used
for industrial waste disposal. Drums of wastes had been buried, and liquid wastes had been
dumped on the ground. The Callahan property is an 8-acre tract of land located approximately 1
mile from Ellisville. Drummed liquid and solid wastes were disposed of on the property during the
1970s. The Callahan subsite is situated on a steep-walled gully that drains into a tributary to the
Missouri River. The Rosalie property is a portion of an 85-acre tract of land. Drummed liquid and
solid wastes were disposed of on approximately 4 acres of the subsite. A housing development
now is located near the Rosalie subsite. Approximately 1,000 people live within a 1- mile radius
of the subsites; 5,000 live within 3 miles. Residents rely on drinking water drawn from private
wells and the public distribution system. Roughly 265 wells exist within 1 mile, and 789 wells are
located within 3 miles of the sites.
Site Responsibility:
This site is being addressed through Federal and
State actions.
Npl Listinghistory
Proposed Date:12/30/82
Final Date:
Deleted Date:
09/08/83
Threats And Contaminants
Soil was contaminated with dioxin and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) at the
Bliss properties. Soils at the Callahan and Rosalie properties contained VOCs.
Potential health risks existed through the airborne migration of contaminated
fugitive dusts and the potential for leachate migrating into the groundwater.
Cleanup Approach
Response Action Status
Immediate Actions: In 1981, the State removed, covered, and overpacked drums; took samples;
and staged the drums from the Callahan subsite. Workers posted signs and the State maintained
24-hour security at the site. Excavation activities revealed up to 1,000 drums buried on the site. In
early 1982, EPA emergency workers performed the following activities: posted additional
warning signs; drained and sealed the farm pond; built runoff control and leachate interception
trenches; excavated and overpacked buried drums; sampled and sorted drums; built an on-site
storage area; and removed and disposed of contaminated soil. In late 1984, drums and other
wastes from the Callahan subsite were delivered to an incinerator in Illinois for disposal. In 1990,
the EPA steam-cleaned some drum fragments on the site and constructed a fence surrounding the
Bliss subsite to restrict site access. In 1992, the EPA performed maintenance on the synthetic
cover in the creek bank at the Bliss subsite.
Callahan and Rosalie Subsites: The EPA selected a remedy for the Callahan and Rosalie
properties in 1985. The Callahan property cleanup remedy includes: controlling erosion and
slippage of the fill area where drums had been excavated from 1980 to 1981 and removing what
remained of that cleanup; removing and disposing of the plastic cover and hold-down blocks from
the fill area; regrading the fill to a more stable slope, covering it with a compacted soil layer, and
reseeding; and removing and salvaging fences and gravel from the former drum-storage areas. The
Rosalie subsite cleanup remedy includes: excavating contaminated soil from two locations and
removing it to an EPA-approved hazardous waste facility; placing debris in drums; excavating and
overpacking buried drums and sampling and testing their contents; disposing of drums at an
EPA-approved disposal facility; testing soil to verify the effectiveness of the cleanup; and
backfilling excavated areas with clean soil and reseeding disturbed areas. The potentially
responsible parties, under State supervision, conducted and completed the cleanup activities at the
Rosalie property. The design of the cleanup remedy for the Callahan property subsite was
completed in early 1991, and cleanup activities were certified complete by the site owner in 1997.
Bliss and Adjacent Properties: During the investigation of the Bliss property subsite,
contamination was discovered on four neighboring parcels: the Dubman and Weingart property,
Primm property, Wade and Mercantile Trust Company property, and the Russell, Evelyn, and
Jerry Bliss property. The EPA selected a remedy for these properties in 1986. The first part of the
cleanup focuses on dioxin-contaminated soils; the second includes excavation and off-site disposal
of buried drums and materials contaminated with chemicals other than dioxin. The
Bliss/contiguous properties cleanup remedy for soils, selected in 1986, includes: excavating
dioxin-contaminated soils and placing them in containers; storing the containers of waste
temporarily in a metal building on the site; and maintaining security, controlling surface drainage
at the site, and sampling the groundwater. The drum and other cleanup remedies include:
excavating, sampling, and overpacking buried drums; excavating hazardous wastes and
contaminated soils and materials; taking drums and waste mixtures suitable for land disposal to an
appropriate EPA-approved facility; incinerating drums and waste mixtures unsuitable for land
disposal off site at an EPA-approved facility; and disposing of non-hazardous material and debris
at a permitted sanitary landfill. For both components of this remedy, site restoration activities will
include backfilling, regrading, and seeding, where needed. In late 1991, the EPA issued an
amended cleanup remedy for the dioxin-contaminated materials at the Bliss subsite. Under this
remedy, interim storage of dioxin-contaminated material was eliminated. Instead, these materials
were excavated and transported directly to the nearby Times Beach site, where they were
destroyed by thermal treatment. Excavation and off-site management of contaminants at the Bliss
subsite was performed from January 25, 1996, through August 26, 1996. Groundwater
monitoring continues in accordance with the Record of Decision (ROD).
Site Facts:
Environmental Progress
All contaminated materials have been removed from the Rosalie subsite, Callahan
subsite, and Bliss subsite, thereby eliminating the potential for direct contact with contaminated
soils.
Site Repository
Superfund Records Center
901 N. 5th St.
Kansas City, KS 66101
Mail Stop SUPR
(913)551-4038
Regional
Site Manager:
Bob Feild
E-Mail Address:
feild.robert@www.epamail.gov
(913) 551-7697
Community Involvement
Coordinator:
Phone Number:
Public Information Center:
E-Mail Address:
State Contact:
Phone Number:
Miscellaneous Information
State:
Mo
0708
Congressional District:
02
Epa Organization:
Sfd-Moks/Supr
Mo
DIFICATIONSsource: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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