Kansas Superfund Site: Strother Field Industrial Park
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Do you need a Toxic Tort Lawyer in The Jayhawk State? The US EPA has designated Strother Field Industrial Park in Kansas as a Superfund site because of its amounts of toxic pollution 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 your family at higher risk of getting sick 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 continue to pose a threat the health of those near-by.
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Below you can read the EPA report for the Strother Field Industrial Park Superfund site. If you, a loved one, or someone in your community has gotten sick due to exposure to a Superfund site Strother Field Industrial Park, or if your property has lost value because of contamination, you are better off with a toxic tort lawyer who knows the people of the State of Kansas . Learn more about your legal options by 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 lawyers at Weitz & Luxenberg.
Strother Field Industrial Park
This site is not a Federal Facility.
Strother Field
Industrial Park
Kansas
Epa Id# Ksd980862726
EPA Region 7
City: Near Winfield and Arkansas
City
County: Cowley County
Other Names:
Site Description
Strother Field Industrial Park is located near Winfield and Arkansas City and covers
approximately 2 square miles. Until 1946, the site was a military facility. The site now consists of
about 20 industrial and commercial businesses, as well as two inactive solid waste landfills. The
landfills were used for the disposal of various industrial wastes. Groundwater is contaminated
with volatile organic compounds (VOCs). Until 1983, the Strother Field Commission operated a
water supply system, consisting of eight wells on the site. The contaminated groundwater no
longer is used for drinking, but still is used for industrial processes. Drinking water was provided
by trucks until the Commission installed two wells upgradient of the contaminant plume.
Approximately 2,300 people live within a 3-mile radius of the site. The size of the worker
population on the site is approximately 2,000. There are private and public wells located in the
vicinity of the site; some private wells are in the industrial park.
Site Responsibility:
This site is being addressed through Federal, State,
and potentially responsible parties' actions.
Npl Listinghistory
Proposed Date:10/15/84
Final Date:
Deleted Date:
06/10/86
Threats And Contaminants
Samples collected and analyzed by the State indicated the presence of VOCs
including trichloroethylene (TCE) in several wells used for industrial processes only.
People who ingest or come into contact with contaminated groundwater may be at
risk.
Cleanup Approach
Response Action Status
Immediate Actions: After the use of the industrial park wells as a source of drinking water was
discontinued, water was brought in by tank trucks. The Strother Field Commission installed two
wells upgradient of the contaminated plume to supply water. Two of the eight wells remained in
use to supply process water for the industries located on the field. For the last several years, the
Strother Field Commission has pumped these wells to contain groundwater contamination
beneath the site. In 1985, General Electric, a potentially responsible party, installed groundwater
extraction wells and air stripping towers to remove VOCs from the groundwater under an
Administrative Order with the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE).
Entire Site: The State oversaw an investigation by the potentially responsible parties that
identified the types of contaminants remaining in the groundwater and other areas and has
recommended a remedy for final site cleanup. The remedy includes pumping and treating the
groundwater and soil vapor extraction to clean up the soil. Design of the remedy began in late
1994 and is expected to be completed in 1999.
Site Facts:
In 1985, the State issued an Administrative Order to General Electric Co., one of
the parties potentially
responsible to address wastes in the northern zone of the site. The Order called for
the company to sample soil; monitor groundwater; construct a groundwater flow
model and use it to help locate, construct, and operate withdrawal wells under the
guidance of the State; and submit a plan for a treatment and disposal system. The
State issued another Administrative Order in January 1986 to each of the four
potentially responsible parties associated with the southern zone of the site. The
Order requires one potentially responsible party to treat the water from the public
supply well, each of the companies to drill monitoring wells on the southern end of
the field, and three of the parties to submit data on chemical use during the past 20
years. In March 1990, General Electric signed a Consent Agreement with the
KDHE in which the company agreed to complete an investigation of the site.
Environmental Progress
The Strother Field Commission and General Electric Co., in conjunction with the State
and the EPA, have reduced the possibility of drinking contaminated groundwater by supplying a
safe drinking water source and installing a treatment system while final cleanup remedies for the
Strother Field Industrial Park site are being planned.
Site Repository
Strother Field Commission, Terminal Superfund Records Center
Building, Fourth and "A" Street,
Cowley County,
Ks
67156901 N. 5th St.
Kansas City,
Ks
66101Mail Stop SUPR
(913)551-4038
Regional
Site Manager:
Paul Roemerman
E-Mail Address:
(913) 551-7694
Community Involvement
Coordinator:
Phone Number:
Public Information Center:
E-Mail Address:
State Contact:
Randy Farr
Phone Number:
(785) 296-6378
Miscellaneous Information
State:
Ks
076Z
Congressional District:
04
Epa Organization:
Sfd-Moks/Supr
Modifications
source: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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