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Are you in need of a Toxic Tort Lawyer in The Great Lakes State? The EPA has designated Northernaire Plating in Michigan 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 Michigan may place you and your family at risk of getting sick 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.However, 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 Northernaire Plating Superfund site. If you, a loved one, or someone in your community has gotten sick due to toxic pollution in Northernaire Plating, or if your property has lost value because of pollution, you are better off with a toxic tort lawyer who knows the people of the State of Michigan . Learn more about your legal options by filling out this simple form. There is no obligation, and your case will be evaluated within 24 hours. To refer a friend, neighbor, or loved one, click here to let them know about the environmental toxic tort lawyers at Weitz & Luxenberg.
Northernaire Plating
This site is not a Federal Facility.
Site Responsibility:
This site is being addressed through federal, state, and potentially
responsible parties' actions.
NPL Listing History:
Proposed Date: 07/16/82
Final Date: 09/08/83
Threats and Contaminants
Groundwater is contaminated with heavy metals such as cadmium and chromium. Prior to cleanup, soil that contained heavy metals and sediments was contaminated with cadmium, chromium, and volatile organic compounds. People who trespassed on the site and accidentally ingested or came into direct contact with contaminated soil or sediment may have been exposed to pollutants. Drinking or coming into direct contact with contaminated groundwater may pose a health threat.Cleanup Progress
In 1983, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) removed drums, vats, and other containers from the Northernaire building and approximately 120 feet of leaking sewer line outside the building. The State of Michigan completed cleanup of the source area using federal funds in 1988. The cleanup included removing over 1,000 cubic yards of soils and additional sewer piping as well as a portion of the building floor.Following the groundwater investigation by the State of Michigan and completion of the cleanup design by potentially responsible parties (PRPs) under a U.S. EPA order in 1995, U.S. EPA issued three Administrative Orders for Remedial Action to six industrial and individual PRPs. These orders addressed groundwater cleanup of the Northernaire site in combination with cleanup of the groundwater beneath the Kysor Industrial site.
Cleanup activities included construction of an 18-well groundwater extraction system, a groundwater treatment system, including air stripping and carbon adsorption; associated collection and discharge piping; a soil vapor extraction system with a vapor phase carbon adsorption for contaminated. Soils at the Kysor Industrial site; and removal of approximately 1,000 cubic yards of contaminated soil at another property in the industrial park. All construction was completed by September 1996.
Currently, the groundwater treatment system is treating approximately two million gallons of water per day for discharge to the Clam River. The system continues to operate as designed. The second five-year review report for the Northernaire site was completed in July 2000 and determined that the site remedy remains protective of human health and the environment.
Remedial Project Manager
Mary Tierney
(312) 886-4785
tierney.mary@epa.gov
Community Involvement Coordinator
Eileen Deamer
(312) 886-1728
deamer.eileen@epa.gov
Administrative Records containing documents related to the site can be examined at the following locations:
(All documents)
United States Environmental Protection Agency
Region 5 Records Center, 7th floor
77 West Jackson Boulevard
Chicago, Illinois 60604
(Major documents)
Cadillac & Wexford County Public Library
411 South Lake Street
Cadillac, Michigan 49601
The Northernaire Plating Company (Northernaire) site is located within the Cadillac Industrial Park, which covers approximately a square mile along the northern border of the city of Cadillac, Wexford Country, Michigan. Northernaire was a small electroplating facility that operated on 13 acres of land in the southwest portion of the industrial park. From 1971 to 1981. Northernaire did custom chromium and nickel plating work on metal parts. Improper waste handling and faulty sewer systems led to the release of hexavalent chromium and cadmium into surrounding soils and groundwater.
The groundwater contamination from the Northernaire site is commingled with that from other facilities in the industrial park, including anotehr facility designated as a National Priorities List (NPL) site, teh Kysor Industrial Corporation (Kysor Industrial) site. At one point, approximately 40 industrial facilities in the industrial park has affected groundwater beneath the area. Impacted groundwater has migrated northward to a residential area northof the industrial park in Haring Township. Contamination in the groundwater has also migrated downward, impacting both the shallow and intermediate aquifer in the vicinity of the site and directly endangering the city water supply for the more than 10,000 people in the city of Cadillac.
Following the groundwater investigation by the State of Michigan and completion of the cleanup design by potentially responsible parties (PRPs) under a U.S. EPA order in 1995, U.S. EPA issued three Administrative Orders for Remedial Action to six industrial and individual PRPs. These orders addressed groundwater cleanup of the Northernaire site in combination with cleanup of the groundwater beneath the Kysor Industrial site.
Cleanup activities included construction of an 18-well groundwater extraction system, a groundwater treatment system, including air stripping and carbon adsorption; associated collection and discharge piping; a soil vapor extraction system with a vapor phase carbon adsorption for contaminated. Soils at the Kysor Industrial site; and removal of approximately 1,000 cubic yards of contaminated soil at another property in the industrial park. All construction was completed by September 1996.
Currently, the groundwater treatment system is treating approximately two million gallons of water per day for discharge to the Clam River. The system continues to operate as designed. The second five-year review report for the Northernaire site was completed in July 2000 and determined that the site remedy remains protective of human health and the environment.
Community Involvement Coordinator
Eileen Deamer
(312) 886-1728
deamer.eileen@epa.gov
Administrative Records containing documents related to the site can be examined at the following locations:
(All documents)
United States Environmental Protection Agency
Region 5 Records Center, 7th floor
77 West Jackson Boulevard
Chicago, Illinois 60604
(Major documents)
Cadillac & Wexford County Public Library
411 South Lake Street
Cadillac, Michigan 49601
source: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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