Kansas Superfund Site: Chemical Commodities, Inc.
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Do you need a Toxic Tort Lawyer in The Jayhawk State? The U.S. E.P.A. has designated Chemical Commodities, Inc. in Kansas as a Superfund site because of its amounts of environmental toxins and threat to the natural world. 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 Kansas may place you and your family at risk of developing a disease from exposure to the site and experiencing a loss of value for your property, but action is being taken 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.However, most of the Superfund sites are still very dangerous to the well-being of local residents.
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Chemical Commodities, Inc.
This site is not a Federal Facility.
Chemical
Commodities, Inc.
Kansas
Epa Id# Ksd031349624
EPA Region 7
City: Olathe
County: Johnson County
Other Names:
Site Description
The Chemical Commodities Inc. (CCI) site is located in a commercial and residential area of
central Olathe, a suburb of Kansas City. The CCI site occupies approximately 1-3 acres and
borders the Burlington Northern railroad right-of-way, a vacant lot, and single family residences.
CCI is an inactive chemical recycling facility that handled, stored, repackaged, and distributed a
variety of chemicals. Before 1951, the site was occupied by an ice manufacturer. CCI operated
the facility from 1951 to 1989. In 1980, CCI acquired a Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
(RCRA) permit allowing the facility to generate and transport hazardous waste. During the
facility' s operation, poor housekeeping, inappropriate material handling and storage practices,
and facility conditions that allowed materials to migrate off site were documented. Concerns for
public health and the environment were raised during the facility's operation due to emanating
odors, contaminated rain water runoff from the site, and fires. Investigations by CCI, the Kansas
Department of Health and Environment, and the EPA have indicated that soil and groundwater
are contaminated with a wide range of metals, volatile and semi-volatile organic compounds
(VOCs), and pesticides. Some of these substances have migrated off-site via air and surface water
runoff. A covered mound of excavated, contaminated soil is also present at the site.
Approximately 78,000 people live in the city of Olathe; about 7,100 live within 1 mile of the site.
Groundwater is not used as a source of municipal drinking water; however, private wells are
found within 3 miles of the site.
Site Responsibility:
This site is being addressed through Federal and
potentially responsible party's actions.
Npl Listinghistory
Proposed Date:01/18/94
Final Date:
05/31/94
Deleted Date:
Threats And Contaminants
The soil and groundwater are contaminated with various metals including
chromium; VOCs and semi-VOCs, primarily, trichloroethylene (TCE), carbon
tetrachloride, and tetrachloroethylene (PCE), and pesticides. Groundwater also is
contaminated with high concentrations of TCE and PCE. High concentrations of
TCE and PCE found in the soil were detected in an air sample collected downwind
of the site. The site is secured to limit public access. Ingesting or touching
contaminated soil or groundwater could pose a public health threat. Disturbing the
soils on-site could release contaminants to the air and pose an inhalation threat.
Cleanup Approach
Response Action Status
Immediate Actions: In 1991, the EPA completed the disposal of chemicals and grossly
contaminated soil; building decontamination; and the installation of a groundwater capture and
treatment system. An interceptor trench was constructed to capture contaminated water from the
groundwater table. The groundwater is treated on-site prior to discharge.
Entire Site: The EPA has overseen additional site characterization work conducted by a
potentially responsible party (PRP). This work included extensive sampling of soil and
groundwater to determine a more detailed account of the nature and extent of contamination at
the site. Final cleanup actions will address subsurface soil and groundwater contamination.
Site Facts:
Environmental Progress
After investigating the site, EPA determined that the groundwater poses no immediate
threat to the community due to its limited use and distance from any known receptors. In addition,
the removal of chemicals and heavily contaminated soil, and decontaminating buildings have
significantly reduced immediate threats to the community posed by site contaminants. On May
15, 2000, EPA entered into an Administrative Order with several PRPs to complete an RI/FS at
the site.
Site Repository
Olathe City Library, 201 E. Park Street, Superfund Records Center
Olathe,
Ks
66061901 N. 5th St.
Kansas City,
Ks
66101Mail Stop SUPR
(913)551-4038
Regional
Site Manager:
Mary Peterson
E-Mail Address:
peterson.mary@epa.gov.
(913) 551-7882
Community Involvement
Coordinator:
Hattie Thomas
Phone Number:
(913) 551-7762
Public Information Center:
Olathe Public Library
201 E. Park
Olathe, Kansas 66061
E-Mail Address:
State Contact:
Rob Weber
Phone Number:
(785) 296-8801
Miscellaneous Information
State:
Ks
07L3
Congressional District:
03
Epa Organization:
Sfd-Eelr/Supr
Modifications
source: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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