Louisiana Superfund Site: Madisonville Creosote Works
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Are you in need of a Toxic Tort Lawyer in The Bayou State? The US EPA has designated Madisonville Creosote Works in Louisiana as a Superfund site due to its levels 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 Louisiana may place you and your family at higher risk of getting sick from proximity 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.Even so, most of the Superfund sites are still very dangerous to the well-being of those who live close to a Superfund site.
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Below you can read the EPA report for the Madisonville Creosote Works Superfund site. If you, a loved one, or someone in your community has gotten sick due to exposure to a Superfund site Madisonville Creosote Works, 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 Louisiana . Get started 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, follow this link to let them know about the environmental toxic tort lawyers at Weitz & Luxenberg.
Madisonville Creosote Works
This site is not a Federal Facility.
Madisonville
Creosote Works
St. Tammany Parish
Louisiana
Epa Id# Lad981522998
Site ID: 0600653
Epa Region 6
Congressional District 01
Contact:
Laura Stankosky 214-665-7525
Updated: September 2005
Current Status
The Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality operates the DNAPL recovery
trench system and performs routine monitoring. The EPA, LDEQ, and St. Tammany
Parish are working together to explore recreational reuse scenarios for the property in
the future.
The cleanup was completed in May 2000. A total of 371 tons of creosote sludge and
9,512 gallons of creosote sludge and liquid were removed. A total of 131,000 tons of
contaminated soil and sediment from the site and adjacent stream were excavated,
thermally treated, and placed back on-site. The dense non-aqueous phase liquids
(DNAPL) recovery trench system continues to operate. An estimated 18,000 gallons of
creosote has been recovered as of April 2005.
Benefits
Remediation of the contaminated media greatly reduced the human health and
ecological risks and protected drinking water supplies.
National Priorities Listing (NPL) History
Proposed Date: June 17, 1996
Final Date: December 23, 1996
Site Decription
Location: The Site consists of a defunct creosote wood treating facility and covers
about 29 acres in Section 42, Township 7S, Range 10E, St. Tammany
Parish, in southeastern Louisiana. It is adjacent to the southern side of
Louisiana State Highway 22, about 3 miles west of downtown Madisonville
and 1.25 miles from the Madisonville city limits. The approximate
geographical center of the Site is at 30 25’38” north latitude and 90 11’55”
west longitude as measured from the United States Geological Survey
(USGS) 7.5-minute series topographic quadrangle for Madisonville,
Louisiana. The address of the property is 1421 West Highway 22,
Madisonville, Louisiana 70447.
Population: 500 residents within 1 mile radius
Madisonville Creosote Works 2 EPA Publication Date: October 4, 2005
Setting: The area surrounding the Site is predominantly rural and wooded with four
residences immediately adjacent to the defunct wood treating facility.
There are two unnamed streams leading away from the facility, one to the
north and the other to the south.
Wastes and Volumes
The principal pollutants are polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons (creosote compounds).
Site Map
Health Considerations
The creosote compounds are carcinogens.To ensure a protective level of
residential/recreational usage for the Site, EPA selected a numerical cleanup goal of
3 mg/kg benzo (a) pyrene (BAP) equivalents (a major creosote PAH constituent).
Madisonville Creosote Works 3 EPA Publication Date: October 4, 2005
Record of Decision (ROD)
Soil, Sediment and DNAPL Recovery, Operable Unit 1: ROD signed
August 25, 1998
The remedy included the following:
Low Temperature Thermal Desorption (LTTD) to address the principal threat wastes
within the soil and steam sediment and to eliminate the source of contamination for
surface water.
•Dense Non-Aqueous Phase Liquids (DNAPL) recovery trench system to contain
and recover low level threat wastes within the ground water;
•Institutional controls to ensure that future individuals will not be exposed to
remaining low level Site contaminants during its containment and recovery; and,
•Ground Water monitoring to ensure the effectiveness of the cleanup remedy.
The ROD required excavation and LTTD treatment to 3 mg/kg BAP equivalents for
contaminated soil up to 2 feet below ground surface and 100 mg/kg BAP equivalents for
contaminated soil between 2 to 4 feet below ground surface. The ROD also called for
installation of a DNAPL recovery trench system to the creosote that leaked into the
subsurface soils.
Site
EPA Remedial Project Manager: Laura Stankosky 214-665-7525
EPA Site Attorney: Joseph Compton III 214-665-8506
EPA Regional Public Liaison: Arnold Ondarza 1-800-533-3508
EPA Toll Free Number: 1-800-533-3508
LDEQ State Contact: William Perry 225-219-3198
Alan Karr 225-219-3201
source: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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