Kansas Superfund Site: Obee Road
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Do you need a Toxic Tort Attorney in The Jayhawk State? The EPA has designated Obee Road in Kansas as a Superfund site because of its amounts of environmental toxins and danger 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 the people you love more vulnerable to developing a disease from proximity to the site and experiencing a loss of value for your property, but you can do something to 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.Regardless, most of the Superfund sites are still very dangerous to the well-being of those near-by.
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Below you can read the EPA report for the Obee Road Superfund site. If you, a loved one, or someone in your community has suffered due to toxic pollution in Obee Road, or if your property has lost value because of pollution, you will need a toxic tort lawyer who knows the people of the State of Kansas . Take your first step filling out this simple form. There is no obligation, and your case will be evaluated within one day. To refer a friend, neighbor, or loved one, click here to let them know about the environmental toxic tort attorneys at Weitz & Luxenberg.
Obee Road
This site is not a Federal Facility.
Obee Road
Kansas
Epa Id# Ksd980631766
EPA Region 7
City: Obeeville
County: Reno County
Other Names: Hutchison City Dump
06/10/2003
Site Description
The Obee Road site in Hutchinson, Kansas is comprised of approximately 1,100 acres in the eastern
part of the City and Reno County. The site consists of commercial, agricultural, and residential
properties. An investigation in 1983 by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE)
was prompted by a citizen's concern over the taste and odor of his well water. Sampling by the KDHE
showed Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) in the shallow aquifer. As a result of this information
gathered during the remedial investigation for the Obee Road and the adjacent East Fourth Street
Facility, the site was divided into two subsites. These two subsites are the Landfill Subsite and the
Airport Road Subsite. The Landfill Subsite is located within the area of the former city of Hutchinson
Landfill on the eastern portion of the site. The source of the contamination was originally suspected to
be the old city of Hutchinson Landfill on the eastern edge of the Hutchinson Municipal Airport. Before
closing in 1973, the landfill accepted unknown quantities of liquid wastes and sludges from local
industries, as well as solvents from small metal-finishing operations at local aircraft plants. The Airport
Road Subsites comprises the remainder of the Obee Road site and has ground water contamination
emanating from the East Fourth Street Facility (Cessna/Eaton) which consists of a hydraulic component
manufacturing operation and a facility formerly operated by Farmland Industries, Inc.
Site Responsibility:
This site is being addressed through Federal, State,
and potentially responsible parties' (PRPs) actions.
Npl Listinghistory
Proposed Date:01/22/1987
Final Date:
Deleted Date:
07/22/1987
Threats And Contaminants
Ground water is contaminated with VOCs such as trichloroethylene (TCE), vinyl
chloride, and chloroform. Although the residences in the area now are connected to the
public water supply, the private wells have not been plugged. Therefore, there is the
possibility that the contaminated ground water may be used for domestic purposes, such
as watering gardens.
Cleanup Approach
Response Action Status
Initial Actions:Initial Action: In 1985, the city of Hutchison constructed a water line
extension to the residents affected by the contaminated well water. An alternate water
supply also was provided to the Obee school system adjacent to the landfill, which was
drawing water from a contaminated well. An interim ground water pump and treat system
is operating to ensure that contaminants are contained and do not spread further.
Initial Actions:
Site Facts:
In March 1990, a group of the parties potentially responsible for site contamination
signed a Consent Agreement with the KDHE in which the parties agreed to complete an
investigation of the site. After reviewing data from the Obee Road Site investigation and
data from the East Fourth Street Facility, a site bordering the Obee Road Site on the
west, it became apparent that the site needed to be divided into two subsites. In March
of 1993 an amendment to the State Administrative Order was signed and the Obee
Road Landfill Subsite and the Airport Road Subsite were defined.
Landfill Subsite: The responsible parties submitted the final Remedial Design/Remedial
Action (RD/RA) Work Plan for the Landfill Subsite in December 1996. This Work
Plan includes provisions for ground water monitoring and institutional controls. In June
1997, the Remedial Action and Annual Ground Water Monitoring Report was
completed. This report contains the institutional controls consisting of a deed restriction
executed on March 27, 1997. The first five-year review of the Landfill Subsite was
completed June 19, 2000.
Airport Road Subsite: The responsible parties have completed the Remedial
Investigation for the Airport Road Subsite and have prepared a draft Feasibility Study.
Remedy selection for the Airport Road Subsite has been delayed due to the pending
development of a TMDL for chloride. This TMDL may effect the groundwater
treatment technology. Two phases of interim remedial measures effecting the Airport
Road Subsite have been implemented to contain contaminated ground water emanating
from the East Fourth Street Facility. Phase 1 consists of the installation of two remedial
pumping wells, two air stripping towers, and a discharge line on the East Fourth Street
Facility property. Phase I became operational in July 1993. Phase 2 consists on an
additional remedial pumping wells in the southeastern portion of the Obee Road site and
system startup was initiated in the second half of 1997. Cessna has voluntarily extended
rural water to provide private homes with access to a supply of portable water for those
properties with contaminated wells.
Environmental Progress
Providing an alternative water supply reduced the potential for exposure to contaminated well
water. An interim pump and treat groundwater containment system is in operation at the East Fourth
Street Facility. This system will contain and treat the ground water contamination while final cleanup
actions at the Obee Road site are being planned.
Site Repository
Hutchison Public Library, 901 North Superfund Records Center
Main, Hutchison,
Ks
67504901 N. 5th St.
Kansas City,
Ks
66101Mail Stop SUPR
(913)551-4038
Regional
Site Manager:
William Bunn
E-Mail Address:
bunn.bill@epa.gov.
Phone Number:
(913) 551-7792
Community Involvement Coordinator:
Hattie Thomas
Phone Number:
(913) 551-7762
E-Mail Address:
thomas.hattie@epa.gov
State Contact:
Mary Daily
Phone Number:
(785) 296-8896
Miscellaneous Information
State:
Ks
07Q3
Congressional District:
01
Epa Organization:
Sfd-Moks/Supr
Modifications
Created by:
Karla
Asberry/SUPRFUND/R7/US
Epa/Us
Created Date:
10/20/1997 03:20 Pm
Last Modified by:
Bill
Bunn/SUPR/R7/USEPA/US
Last Modified Date:
06/10/2003
08:31 AMsource: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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