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osirf 134794 .ignatures. "Weekly Vigil for Peace in the ; Jliddle East," saia a large Danner j :eld by mo Deooie on tne soutn I -uae of the old Post Office at 815 i Jlive St. in downtown St. Louis. j "Don't go to war." saia one man j us nebanaea out leaflets asxing for 1 :aace. ; I suDport our troops, "said one j passer-oy. declining to taite one of j the leaflets. Others in the crowds j of downtown worsen out for lunch j took the leaflets. Some stopped to i argue. I The watch is neid every Monaay ; .'rora 11:30 ama. unui 1 p.m. ana is :Donsorea by the St. Louis Forum 1 for Peace in the Persian Oulf ana :3 different organizations. The groups aren t against the United States taxing a stand in tne ! fiddle East They ao oppose me ja of either Americans or Arabs ayingmawar. j But isn't it best to negotiate I from a position of strengtn? That's : what some people stopped to argue j Monday. ' "We're saving we want to see a j negotiated settlement." Anna Ginsnurg said. "A lot of folks trunk the United States has reacnea a J conctusionaoout war in the Middle j East ana is just waiting to attack.1 Some peooie accented the fliers ! without comment ana stuitea j them carelessly in oocxets. but I others studied them. 1 "Peooie are pretty positive." j Ginsburg said. "Most people taxe the circulars, ana a good percentage sign our cards. We've had a number of people with family memoers serving in the guifsign." The protests started in late August, ana Monaay was tne sixtn event. "We have sent off more than 2.500 earns ana letters signed by people asxing for a negotiated settlement." GinsDurgsaid. Ginsnurg said some of the protesters use their luncn hours to help; others worx different snifts to be there: ana some of the protesters are retired and can hein at any time. Their signs urged the United States to "Turn Back from the 3rink of War" ana asked ``President Bush, please negotiate." i Ginsnurg said the group picked the oid Post Office Decause it is in the middle of the business district ana there is gooa tratfic flow ! during me luncn nour. The building nas Dienty ot room, so siaewaix traffic isnt restricted. The building isn't used for much else. It has a few offices, a post office branch and some - federal offices, it was intended as a retail center in downtown out hasn't had muen development activity yet. It was cooi. ana the wind i vniDDea between nigh buildings,. , -tving tne nrotesten wintammoa.. j ji what the wmtercouid bring. ; ''itt Ginsberg saidutbe. group j vicanui#> - s. near OK By KEITH BRUMLEY News-Democrat SAUGET -- Monsanto Chemical Co. ana Illinois are near an agreement for cieanuo ot a former .Monsanto landfill mat has leaxed. :onc pollutants into me Mississippi P.iver. Illinois Environmental Protection Agency attorney Bruce Carison said' Tuesday that the tentative agreement, between Monsanto ana the Illinois attorney general's office concerns me former Krummnch landfill, near Monsanto's W.G. Krummrich Plant in Sauget. Carison spoke at an environmental comerence at me St. Louis Marriott Hotel, sponsored by me Regional Commerce ana Growtn Association. He said Monsanto nas commeted a study of the extent of pollution at me site and that the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency has tentatively approvea Monsanto s cleanup proposal. Under an out-of-court settlement, Monsanto wouid contract to remove manufacturing wastes mat were deposited from the Krummncn plant onto the 36-acre site from 1957 to 1977. The wastes wouid be put in another landfill. In exenange for the cleanup, which would cost millions of dollare, Monsanto would be freed from further liability as a resuit of dumping at the krummncn landfill. As a temporary measure. Monsanto put a clay cap over tnat landfill several years ago to retard the movement of pollution from the First-grade sti 3ing a song landfill to me water tabie ana to me HarrMississippi River. The agreement with Monsanto would be the secona out-of-court settlement with a Sauget industry this year for cleanup of sues nighiighted By in a 1988 study of pollution in Sauget. Cerro Copper officials are spending BELLEVILLI an estimated $12 million to clean up a District 175 boa section of Dead Creex. which was Monday despiu used over aeoaaes to dump residents who at wastewater from Cerros Sauget Jim Welzbac plant. district's tax po Carison said the Cerro cleanup is The levy is $266 expected to Pe commetea this weex. estimates it wiii The Dead Creex sites contain "We snouid residues of past industrial and Welzbacner. w mumcmai dumping ana have been Bank ana sells t. described as some of the most Welzbacner polluted spots in Illinois. increased educ Carlson said negotiations are funds instead continuing with other compames and expects a baia individuals deemed responsible for current senoe past pollution in Sauget,. wnen Burchamsaid. Burcnam sa: SeeSAUGETMB used if state fur Residents ot ore STLCOPCB4034752  ir; mao anawBu ibgiP* .5. 1956: a aalighten ivL Moore KeeievildMiaff^rei___ - - ienrv Eueene Keeleraer^^ - two children, Beth, 15 --& p.awnti.. Rev, an.dr?feu sed xi>r"w* Davis In- November 1987Lflledla mulflcountlawsuit a gainst thie city of Alton for malicious nrosecuuom'faise mrv ana Aenes. nee Hallo- TMtnnw&nmi tfeonof St Lon- imDnsooment-'defamaoon ofcha .= .a. oromer. - He.n,,r,y-,Pr.?`-; nrotfc|iMarygin(p.'antt,-three suterai. T racter** ind- violation" of- her civil rfghtsjAinfie allegations were either rvivea bv three aaaehtera* dismissed-or denied bv a federal "jfidgei*)j'l'r'"' T- reen ana David KoUx,aHof ? Sellevulearfneeesriiepnewrwnd God .; two sot-ana's Man * ; o"eirBrenaclelwanina .BMetJty2-n2is-a^^Vlsitttioa*betwe*i$jaad>fr p"and.'. Thejame allegations were dismis.tcd.ondeoied.after Davt* w. October mjirmmeuuaius. ~~ The two policemen alleged in their lawsuitTuesdaythatDavis sued them -nth "ill mtrat^jnanyfnrttnenmar. Tassanrt.ha^watnfflni fvimi i '.. Raid anaVentiBa4gttt. each-1 are seeking damagerrfromeach from the three defenaants for allegedly eaus>- a nd_jng hi sJa aged reputations.-" ' ` ... ZILri* j , uc'&ntK&fr{'li* at> m 06 1^DgIy a.m. Friday atSCMaHr Luthe- granachildren ana their' naa ana Darnel Shine of Mo.. Michael ana Karen St Louis. Mo^.Richara . ran Chnrcn in-Belleville: with Rev. Ronald Neustadt officiating: Burial will be in Green MountCemetery. - /Lave Roustio, Geno and: .-y, Susan Keeiey; Christo- Memonais/to.NewLlfe Lutheran Church in Bolingbrook:. HI. (Trust ey, Jennifer ana Katny Fund for the childrenr* *- Continued from 3B Wilkins was Deing held in the St. Clair County Jail for violating nis pro bation. Details were not available Tuesday night on wnether Hams was /a and Kelly Kolb all of in police custody. Michelle Moore and ore of Ballwin. Mo.. Chrisind Thomas John Moore a: eight great grandchilci neonews ana nieces: a Accident . 1 . i . _ . .. reports Venice Police arrested Hicks and Wilkins early Friday morning auring a routine traffic stoo and discovered the Mustang they were driving was stolen. Eda Mae. nee Klapp, ?ileviile ana beiovea-. life is. Vivian ana Robert lobile. Ala. recession to ieave at 10 from the John Barnes :me. o5Ql West Main, o Our Laav Queen of in. Belleville for a 10:30 ith Rev. John Mvler ana cEvillv oificiaung. Bun t Mount Carmel Ceme- Belleville Polic&DeDartment .... TUESDAY 7:47 a.m.: North Beit East. Dana Jackson. 31. Lovejov; Richard Harm. 59. Faimew Heights: front-rear: no injuries reported. 3:24 a.m.: South 95th Street and Carbon Street: Van Roehng, .28. Mascoutah: Patricia Schaefer. 33. 3elleville: iront-rean no injuries rasn Continued from3B trash collection cost the city $499,639 for about 9.000 homes. The anticipat ed cost of trasn collection this vear is 5615.000. The city levied the maximum of 20 .av call between 3 and 9 : v at the funeral home, be a recitation of the roti. Thursaay at the John ral Home. ; mav be made to Hcsarn Illinois. retwrted. 11:57-a.m.: South Illinois Street Terry- Soothers. 19. Belleville: Richard Allison. 65. Fairview Heights: front-rearr no injuries reDortedr-;<.,.-*^.... ~H}\, . 1:15 pm; North mmoia Streetind F StreetriFrederickiDiener'Jr^' 20. cents per $100 assessed valuation to collect $276,900 in taxes tor garoage collection during the 1990 fiscal year. The other $222,739 for the service came frorrtthe city's general fund. Citv officials said the traso-hatiling /Fail vMiHiBitlgfatp-art^Berry/'77, inerais 11 t Saleni^frtipt-rean'nd^Injurles reported^'C:.:! * v > . .. S'.Sa pjnj'North Illinois Street and ' LStreeCv:George LingelbachJL76, W Continued from 1B . lf arrCeoncauif EastCa-i 3e11eville;ticketed for disobeying red environmental laws were non nerai services- wilKhery^llghtrMitilyn finith. 51, Cblllnsville: existent,." ;v .. m. iVednesdavraC-the fronpside noinjuries reoorted. He ^said . Illinois is neanng an crai Home in Dudo with 5:28' pm-1 Freeburg Avenue and agreement with the village of Sauget DeRossen officiating... East McKinley;'Marne Hoffmann, 31, for cleanup of a .former. mumciDal a m Jefferson Samoa-. Freeborgr? Melissa Dent,. 237' Stl. landfill.... - `"! ,, neterv.St-Louis County,/ Charles. Mo.; front-sider -go/injnnes 1 - Meanwhile! Carlson said a cleanup re now calling at the fu- reported.., also.wilTbegin'soon at the'Waster ,.1 `t rjd. > ............................ -. -e'^*ails f"rs Oacamnont- ESDAY rm at -- BirtKs#3 /vs: _ icy ST. ELIZABETH'S HOSPITAL 1ELLEVHL2 MODer and. Oliver-Jones Jr. of Delleville, a dangnter. Oct 29. T 1*9 awi .Brn r;fi|l#s S* iat m Hou..s.ton Texas, anau. anter. Oct Rosannaana. Stenhen Carson, of Scott AhLEorceBasetasan.Qct2ZJ i i j:V A SL Louis womanidentified one of mem as. one of two men. who rearenaed her Mustang and'then stole it SL Louis. Police said.Friday. The su spects were- driving: a mustardcoiored Buick.. wnent they hit the woman's Mustang in SL Louis about 6 a.m-Thuraday.-: u.-"u ; r. - Anyone with-i infonsauon about similar;XObbenew)eatt.-eaik the Divi sion of CriminaL-tlnvestigauon at .346-3700. . . . -2 vn^ivsi.'",.-:.-'..:::-; ` -r0- increase will continue to come from taxes and the general fund. Public Works Director Ken Keene proposed to the City Council earlier this year tha tit institute a.user fee for trash collection. 'But. Mayor Gene Brombolich said he opposes user fees oecatse Collinsville is one of a few ci ties mat provides trasn collection wi thout charging residents, a monthly fee. The user fee would abolish the trash tax ana reduce-me city's tax rate. .. . DSW 13A795 Research site in East SL Louis. Illinois is holding, hundreds : of shippers . and."manufacturers responsible for a muitimilllon dollar disDosai. of thousands .of drums of waste chemicals that were shioped to the former glass plant. for fuel blending and suoseauenUy abandoned wnentheeomDany wentbanknrot. - . i jfF.i/ v>" '.'jJrflTBTO w -i.v Tne. family,suggests thatmemomis zontributioris be riTade v io.the 'Amencan r. Heart'Assoaatfhn M'. STLCOPCB4034753 Lii.hJ ^9^ 3^ f, o Cleanup won't help Cahokia By Steve Horrell Staff writer CAHOKIA -- The 40 or so Cahokians who own homes near Dead Creek will get little relief from last week's promise by Cerro Copper Products Co. to clean up a section of the creek. The three-month, $12 million cleanup plan affects only a 1.600-foot section of the creek in Sauget purchased by the company during the 1950s and 60s. Since that time, the south end of that section, near Queeny Avenue, has been dammed up, according to Cerro Vice President Paul Tandler. The creek has been used as a dumping ground for various companies for nearly a century. In addition to Cerro, Monsanto and other manufactur ers, a study by Illinois Environmental Protection Agency's Division of Land/Noise Pollution shovys that Midwest Rubber Co. discharged.' wastesinto the creek from the 1940s to the early 1960s.'And-in August of 1971, Harold Waggoner and Co., which specialized in hauling industrial wastes, was ordered to stop washing its trucks and discharging the waste into Dead Creek, which it had apparent ly been doing since the mid-1960s. The Attorney General's office and the IEPA have been negotiating with Monsanto and other companies to clean up the creek, and Hartigan said other consent decrees may be forthcoming soon. "This isn't doing a darn thing to help to help Cahokia." Village Planner Paul McNamara said of the latest agreement.."It doesn't clean up the part . ythatfuta iithrmjiglMMaf famari^ Thompson gave Mayor Mike King a verbal com mittment to have the creek cleaned up when the two met at Fairmont City. King is on vacation this week. "We applaud this endeavor, and anything done is a plus, but it really does nothing for Cahokia and it does nothing toward what the governor promised." McNamara said. DSW 134796 STLCOPCB4034754 1 6 * T MSO Sunday, July 8,1990 Dead Creek cleanup revived By Steve Horrell Staff writer SAUGET -- Illinois Attorney General Neil Hartigan has announced that Cerro Copper Products Cd. will spend $12 million to clean up a 1,600-foot section of Dead Creek in Sauget. The company and state formalized the agree ment with a consent decree filed Thursday in the U S. District Court in East St. Louis. Workers are to begin the cleanup within 30 days and should complete it by the end of October. Dead Creek has accumulated high levels of PCBs, acids and cyanide from nearly a century of industrial waste dumping, making it the most tox ic waste site in the state, Hartigan said. The three-mile-long creek starts on Cerro prop erty in Sauget and ends between Queeny Avenue and Judith Lane in Cahokia. However, Hartigan said, ownership of some of the property has been difficult to determine as has responsibility for contamination. The current cleanup plan involves only the sec tion of the creek that runs through Cerro property. Hartigan said he is negotiating with Monsanto and other industries in the area and may reach another agreement soon. Hartigan said three other darts of the creek may be cleaned up in the near tuture. . "We hope that Cerro's action today wili gener- i te the same kind of action on the part of other ompanies in the area," Hartigan said. The agreement calls for the company to remove ibout 20,000 cubic yards of polluted dirt anil replace it with clean soil. ; Cerro Vice President Paul Tandler said the com pany constructed a stormwater tunnel at the north did of the plant after officials noticed that storms caused waste Water to back up into Dead Creek. Tandler sajff'the south end of the 1,600-fool seg ment of the greek has been dammed off and ttie north end o(*phe creek feeds into the village of Sauget's sewfe system. { `We recogifized that there was a problem with Dead` C"reek that over the years we may have been one of jje companies that contributed to the problem ... "Althou_gh( a were under no obligation or pres sure, we ha'vlFstepped forward and taken the lead in (resolvinghe problem," Tandler said. The lllinojjli Environmental Protection Agency has been wraling with Hartigan's office for years to have 16 sites along the creek added to the feder al Superfundlist for hazardous waste remedies. The IEPA.Jjas done extensive testing in the area since 1!I80 afjjipr a dog died of chemical burns while rolling in Dead Creek. l! i Page 2, Section B Belleville (III.) News-Democrat Friday, July 27,1990 Local/State State EPA to push for cleanup funding SPRINGFIELD (AP) - Toxic substances remain a danger to the state even though business interest groups killed funding for the Clean Illinois program, say environmental officials gearing up to lobby for more aid this fall. The state Environmental Protection Agency has been hampered in the cleanup of PCBs and other toxic substances because it desperately needs an $18 million package that was killed in the General Assembly this spring after intense lobbying from three groups, said Bernard Killian. IEPA director. "We just weren't able to overcome the opposition from the business groups," Killian said. The Illinois Manufacturer's Association, the state Chamber of Commerce and the Chemical Industries' Council, all lobbied intensely to kill it. he said. Scheduled for cleanup were more than a dozen metro-east sites -- in a backlog of about 100 hazardous-waste sites statewide -- that have been illegally or irresponsibly abandoned by industries, IEPA officialssaid. . ; / The state EPA received more than $33 million for its cleanup program over the past five years through bonds issued under the Build Illinois program, but money ran out June 30. The agency, along with Gov. James R. Thompson, pushed for legislation that would have set up a chemical storage fee for businesses to generate $24 million, including the $18 million to fund the Clean Illinois program. But the bill was never called for a vote in the House. The groups opposed the bill because they believed that businesses alone should not bear the burden of paying for cleanup, said Mark Biel, associate director of governmental affairs for the Illinois Manufacturer's Association. "It is a societal problem and not something to be placed solely on the backs of businesses," Biel said. Sid Marder, a spokesman for the state Chamber, said his group was proud of quashing the bill. "We'll take the credit," Marder said. "It was not an equitable bill, and there was no real demonstrated need for it. If there was a need, it was overstated" by the state EPA, SrtMWMflM(peed: "Iieelbiaas: a serious problem, which the public will also see as a serious problem." he said. OSH 130798 STLCOPCB4034756 Belleville (IIU News-Democrat Monday. July 30.1990 Saugetcompanieson list to pay for waste cleanup Cleanup k Continued from 1A The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency has identified a variety of ground and groundwater contaminants, including dioxin, and has targeted the two areas where the pollution is greatest for cleanup. EEPA Dead Creex project manager Paul Takacs said he doesn't know how long a cieanuD will take or what the final cost will be. He said IEPA does not have a cleanup timetable. Takacs said a satisfactory cleanup can be none with existing technology. Mach of the Dead Creek bed is outside of the designated cleanup areas, which Takacs said include only tha areas ofheaviest pollution. ....... The easternmost area includes parts of the Dead Creek bed and two cflemical landfills. The other area borders the Mississippi and Includes the Monsanto and Paul Sauget landfills and the former treatment lagoon for the old Sauget sewage treatment plant. General superintendent of environmental affairs Max McCombs acknowledged Monsanto's responsibility and willingness to clean up the landfill. "It-was a Monsanto landfill. The materials there are- Monsanto's. We're going to take responsibility for making that, area safe," McCombs said!--. ........ Village AttorneyHarold Baker said Sauget" Is asking; industries - that contributed to the pollution to pay to cleanup the lagoon: By KEITH BRUMLEY News-Democrat SAUGET -- More than 30 companies and individuals have been targeted by the state to help pay for the. cleanup of the Dead Creek industrial waste site. Among those listed are several Sauget companies, including Monsanto Chemical Co.. Cerro Copper Products Co., Big River Zinc Corp., Sterling Steel Casting Co. and Ethyl Petroleum Additives Inc. ' Also listed is the Village of Sauget and individual landowners and trustees for deceased landowners, some trom as faraway as New York. Monsanto and Sauget Mayor Paul Sauget were named because both formerly operated dumps near the Mississippi River. In a highly publicized agreement this month. Cerro became the first party to reach an out-of-court settlement to dean up pan of Dead Creek on Cerro property. The *12 million cost of Cerro's snare of the cleanup includes pan of the cost of a state investigation into the extent of (be pollution. The settlement frees Cerro trom further liability. The Illinois Attorney General's Office is negotiating with Monsanto and with two other groups of companies and individuals for turner cleanup of the site. Letters sent to those cited ask for cooperation in cieanun efforts and aik. lor copies of shipping and other records that would help investigators to identify omen responsible for me pollution. Assistant Attorney General Christine Zeman said work of identifying other responsible parties is made narder Decause some of the companies that formerly contributed to me pollution are no longer in business. She said in many cases records also are hapnazard or nonexistent, partly because companies commonly buried industrial waste. Dead Creek runs through Sauget and Cahokia. Industries ana residents regularly diunne- chemicals and trasn into me creex trom aoout 191C through the 1960s. See CLEANUP/3A Under federal law. current and former ianaowners and those who manufacture, treat or dispose of hazardous materials should pay for cleanup. Attorney General Neil Hartigan earlier this month called Dead Creek the most polluted site in Illinois and said a cleanup of me creek is a top priority. State officials nave said mat even a partial cleanup could tase years. Illinois has tried unsuccessfully to get Dead Creek piaced on me federal Suoerfund site list ' The following is a list of companies and Individuals me attorney general's office has identified as those me state irtrying to get included in the costs of the Dead Creek cleanup: Fred and Louise Leyhe. St. Louis Cerro Copper Products Co.. Sauget Stanley Krietman. New York Richard M. Cohen. Los Angeles Morris Weissman. New Yorr. Midwestern Rubber Reclaiming Inc., Sauget - Monsanto Chemical Co.. Sauget -Wiese Planning and Engineering Inc.. Sauget Motolnc..St Louis ' `-Browning-Ferns Industries Inc. of St Louis - Sterling Steel Casting Co.. Sauget -'- William Shive. Effingham Big River Zinc Corp., Sauget : u JMbbU OQ Corn.! Chicago Rogers Cartaj^OEiChicago `'>*tgthyl Petroleum`Additives Inc.. Sauget.' .............. - - Db&aBftQsaesser. St. Louis RnssellRichardson. Belleville. Village of Sauget Byron. Cave, McPheeters & Roberts. St Louis Ruan Transport Corp., Des Moines, Iowa James D. Tolbird. Cahokia Illinois State Trust Co.. Belleville Tony L Lechner. St Louis Sauget MayorPaul Sauget Albert Lauman EU. Cahokia Andrew Hankins. Sauget Mineweid Inc., Cahokia Robert A. Clarkson. Cahokia Rose Stillman. Cahokia Thomas Owen. Cahokia. lit H ' * dsm STLCOPCB4034757 bI LUUIS HUIil UlSI'AltH ST. LOUIS - SUNDAY. SEPTEMBER 2. 1990 ocmei mso D>r:iiun Dead Creek: 10 Years, Lillie Progress By Christine Bcrtelson ()r irut Poll Oni alf.h Stuff I tus il Ural Lend * reek i;<t ils n.iinr (mm prehMnrlc Indians who dug a channel along lie* Mississippi River m at r y their dead downstream l>\ canoe (in burial Today (Ire ominous name is still apt. No longer free-flowing. I >end Creek is a contaminated ditch (hat runs three miles past heavy Industries, back \ards ond empty fields between Calmkia and Sauget just south of Illi nois Houle 3 l-or most of this century the creek tins been used by Industries and businesses as an open sewer. tread ( n ek and n half dozen areas nenrhv - known collectively as the heart (reek sties are ranked by state environmental officials (tie most toxic turf In Illinois I he ground writer K heavily con taminated with POK heavy metals, arsenic, chlormnted solvents and n long let of cither rompounds toxn to human l-sng'* and aquntie Ilf'1 I-von day. large umonnls of toxins are moving underground into the Mis sissippi River and Hie drinking water of millions of people dow nstrenm. ncmrding In stale environmental officials. In ttic most heavily polluted areas ot the creek near large Industrial complexes that line Route 3. nothing lives in Lend < reek No plants, no fish, no frogs. One shell It of Hie creek Is coaled with a rubbery goo. under which thou sands of gallons of toxic chemical wastes slush and seep. From lime to time, phosphorus resi dues In the creek bed have burst into flame, glowing eerily at night "if you consider Sauget sites ns a whole, (Ms is by far the worst In the stale, n< question about II." said Paul Cifc.ov the date environmental Pro * "i, 4r;u#sT>;:" ./-few : I:-;.' if io-t. -`V **, f M .i.v S.iM 1 . . ,, 1. , uric<.S>L;f.cv-fc.. -. v,ifihhii--Httm' . Bobert tefloucbe/Post O'spatch Dead Creek In Its channel near Illinois Route 3. Officials say the cleanup of the toxic ditch wili co9t tens of millions of dollars. tection Agency's project mnnnger for Ihe Sauget sites. It hits been 11 years since Pele l.au- man's wfre-hftfred ferrfer went ex ploring In Dead Creek and died of chemical burns "He *as lough, but he wasn't tough enough fo herd all the chernb rifs in that creek." snhi I numan. 3f*. Ills trim white house on Judith l^ne in Sauget Is perched <>u nu* cast bank of Dead See ( IMT K. Page .1 COMPANY AGREES voluntarily to cleanup..............................Page 30 i cUNDAY. SEPTEMBER 2. 1990 * Creek :'om cage on :.r.ce mat incident. tne creex na ""n tencea oil at several locations - ->re it llow? near resioenuai areas - mi> nave oeen uag ;o monitor ..ounawater ana surface pollution, -no some sues nave oeen surveveo :ir ouriea waste arums. But in iu ears tne Cleanup of Dead Creex nas _.ne oreciseiv nownere. sav tnose -to nve nearov .jjman no longer can rememoer 'e name oi ms naotess (erner. bat ne uio narotv toreet tne orooiems mat rerstst m Dead Creex. : jjp t reanv warn to nve nere 'ause m me oonuiion. <aiQ Lou*.un. wno iosi a xianev to cancer four .ors ago. i can t claim line cancen *-is due to Dead creex. out u s Kina oi ."usuui ai mv a^e. Jt l cun t sen mv prooertv. Lau"ion suiiu 1! I couia move ii some * nere eise it wouia oe great. Rick McDonnell. 3#. grew up on ,'ucum Lane, swimming ana ftsmng in Lead Creex ana oplivtous to its naz- ;.-as. but today. wttn cnuaren of ms .*n. ne is more warv. *<oooav Knew anvtnine men. soid 'cLfonneii. wno wonts at Monsanto , w 0. Krummncn cnemicai piant nearov. I r.aven t oeen sics .. a.i 1 tninx tnev snouid clean it up. T .-.at. sav siate olfictais. is easier aiatnan aone. I ao vears ago tne state ageno oent more man SI million documentr.i me ooitution in Dead creex ana f? . miammatea sues in tne sauget ana moKia area witmn a raaius of aooui miies of me creex. Mute officials saio me cieanuo wm -e a monumental too. costing tens of millions oi dollars ana lasting at least j occaae. That is monev tne state does ".01 nave, officials saia. noting tnat tne :.unois Legislature mis vear retuseo fund me uean Illinois program tor leanuo oi toxic waste sues , ~e reoun -- u<. .vnu * . . rnem -- was used to ooister tne state s argument tnat tne Dead Creex sues . oeiont on me national priontv ust of oouutea sues engioie for federal mone\ Tne line for U.S. dollars is long, ano me Dead creex sues missed me us; mis ^ear oner nitnng a oureaucraur ;na wnen me feaerai governmen; :.uied to out into effect new ruies lor ::;mung polluted sites. * ate in umoo. said Christine Zeman. an assistant attorney general. Tr.e drag at me too nas aiso made u mraer lor tne state to wietd us suck ?ver oonuiers. Zeman saio. Without tne imminent inreat of feoerai inter vention. polluters are more hkeiv to baix at cleaning up tneir messes. :r. tne meantime. Illinois nas ! iieooeo up us efforts to Dusn compa res into voluntary cleanups. Last win- vr tne stare EPA ana attorney gener? office oegan notifying current and j \ \ urrner property owners, ousmesses .mo individuals wno mav nave creat- -u tne Hazardous wastes in ano arouna Dead creex or neipeo transnon. treat or aumo tnem mere tnat mev were ootentiaitv resoonsioie' tor cieanuo. Tne state could torce orooertv ana ousiness owners to reimourse it lor cleanup costs, or pay damages up io tnree times tne amount spent on cleanup. Among tnose on me list are Big River Zinc corp.. Browning-Ferns In dustries of st. Louis Inc., cerro Copper Products Co.. Clavion cnemicai Co. ma Monsanto. Ir.e net nas also oeen cast ov me jie over more man a dozen smaii rrooertv owners along Dead creex. -acn as Robert Forsvtn. Forsvtn owns a Mom oas service siation ana con gruence store on me corner of a 2u'.ere mt on me east siae of Route a. 1 "e orooertv une runs io me center ot L--.10 t reex, in me ju vears ms famm r.iv owned me iana, most ot it nas oeen used tor growing sovoeans. ne sutd. I rorsvm maintains tnat ne ana otner small orooenv owners are victims, r.ot oonuiers. rorsvtn saio ne would eg sanxrupt if ne is forced to snare tne c-ist of Cleaning up a mess ne dtan; create Tne law savs if vou own u vou are resoonsioie to xeep mat orooertv safe." Forsvtn said, i agree wun tnat but in mis case u was not omv imoos$iOie to control tne oonution. mere was no wav to prevent it. If we naa tried to cam me creex me pig inousines would nave oeen :own our tnroat m no time '*eare (ocattv innocent. Last montn cerro Copper oecame r.e first industry in oaueet to come Cifwaro wun a cleanup plan of its State official* say the cleanup of Dead Creek wifi be a monumental job, costing tens of millions of dollar*. is money the state does not have, officials said. Paying For Cleanup Called Cheaper Than Resisting By Christme Bertelson Of (he Post Ottpelch Staff for Ilcuty Schwetk. president of Perm Cop per Cu , (lie decision to spend SI2 million volun tarily to clean up t.6m) feet of I mad Creek was a fotm of insurance "VL e dtdn I i onl.iitiliiale I lead Creek We may have nuiliilmtni to li at one time." Schwetk said "ffuf if costs ;t fortune to defend yourself attains! tins kind ofchat git " Rattier tlian buck the charges ami line law yers' pockets m the process. Srhweik chose to dive in and clean up the mess -- a step no other Imln-di v in ito- area has taken fhe agreene-nt between Ulimuv Attorney General Neil F H.ntfgan s office and i erm was made formal In a consent decree in U S District Court In East St louts last month "Wv didn't relish the prospect of our property being a Superfund sift*." a stigma that omfd affect property values, use, and the (ompnny's reputation. Schwetk said * Ceno hired Its own environmental ouMittaol. which found f'CBs. heavy met.iK, hloimaled solvents and other chemicals m the creek sludge. Until J9K5. some of (he sludge <ame fi-iri Cerro. as well as other industries next d.-o Molt--.into (o. Cthyl P'li.Ie.no Additive, and Big River /wi Corp ( giro plans to fill and lemov-e < ootamin in-d sediment froni the 1,60(1 feet of the <eek that runs through the company's pmperts "We thought ft would tie not only rasiri. hid < lieaper." Srhweik sold "Superfund won't work because of the lltlgiilion and interminable squabbles" over llte lines ..f f " p. tu-.r 11 it if \. lie said But .Srhweik is well aware that Derm's SI2 million ounce of prevention wilt not net essarily spaie it from contributing to ,t fai mute c .-ttv i me ` t li.it won't lie. e-. ,ii it\ i eloose the . om, .m . Imiu fatcr lo.oj-.eim-nt ' said Rml fafcac . d the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency 'Since there is so much interplay among the sites, an area could Become tecontamlnntcd tt'e sign off on one segment (of Dead Cierkf today, and not know for 10 years what the future mip.i-1 ..f Hi- potlulion is " But whalcvei the future bids for Dead ( reek.cleaning u up w.js "mmally under oinuo n ally the right thing to do.' Srhweik said ` Whatevei then motives were, they deserve a lot of credit." said r'hristine Zernan. an assistant atl'iinev gem tat U e are hoping other compa onwill fallow ttn ir trad uc ^ince it |Dead Creek| I* so close to the river, most of the contamination has probably gone directly to the Mississippi, ff PAUL TAKACS, Illinois environmental official own .minium mg if would spend JI2 million to dredge, filter, and reroute a stretch of Dead Creek on Its property on Route d in Sauget Negotiations also are at a critical point with Monsanto, whose potential liability promises to be enormous, Zeman said Monsanto wants to avoid the delays amt detours of working with the fedetal bureaucracy "If we can wotk toward an accept- ubie solution with the Illinois l.PA and the attorney general's office outside the federal Superfund program .. it would be desirable from a financial standpoint.'' said Max McCombs, m charge of government and environ mental affairs at Monsanto's Kruuunrich plant. "The more parties you have m any discussion, the longer things can lake " According to the report prepared for fhe Illinois f- f'A in 1988. Monsanto poured tons of liquid chemicals into several unlined pits and buried an unknown number of barrels of chemi cal wastes near Us Krummrich plant. Although such housekeeping habits would he unthinkable -- and Illegal -- today, they were common industrial practice .10. <0 and 50 years ago. The focus of those negotiations now Is a toxic chemical "Inndfill." capped In 1986 with clay But the cap has not prevented the movement of liquids underneath, which are slowly making their way to Ihe river, said Taknrs of the state ERA The western edge of the landfill is 100 feel from (he Mississippi. "Sinre It is so close lo the river. Pete Lauman standing alongside a fence Hint encloses Dead Creek. Lauman's wire-haired Robert l.aRoucbe/Po*t-Oisf>5`Ch terrier died of chemical burns 11 years ago after playing in the creek. ms( { Hu- riiniaimiialion has proba bly gone directly to the Mississippi." Taknrs s.tid "An area with (hfs vol ume ami toxicity creates ull sorts of problems atl the way down the river. There are towns just south of Sauget ttiat use the Mississippi as their drink ing water supply " Most of those cnmniuittli'-s test and treat Ihe water lor a fi action of the choniKJi contaminants washed into (he river from Sanger. Taknrs said "We have not reallv gotten to that point In discu-'Sioiis of accepting legal responsibility per se," Mc( mobs said. "Rut we are not walking away front that issue We just know it is going to lie expensive and a long [not ess " Too lung to suit ludtth lane icm d'-nis Pete laiuii.ifi and Rick Me 1 'Kilned It s all political " said McDonnell "I don t blame Hie lug indtislnes like Monsanto 1 Hunk (hey are slnceie In wanting to do something ahouf ff ` Rut I don't know if we'll ever -t-e it < leaned up Not in our lifetime "  FRIDAY. JANUARY 8,1988 Plant In Sauget Polluted Ground Water, Suit Says By Robert Goodrich Of the Post-Oiipatch Staff Illinois Attorney General Neil F. Hartigan filed suit Thursday in cir cuit court in Belleville against the owners of a former wood-treatment ' 51am1 111 'b&uel. "alleging pollution oi ait) s giuuuu waLUl By IBS Slant'. " 1 'WaiHfia'STTreimiUaillS were'Mellon Iron & Metal of East St. Louis and two' corporauons registered in Delaware -- moss Amencan and Kerr McGee Chemical. ' The suit says Moss Amencan and Kerr McGee operated a wood-treat ment plant from 1927 until at least 1968 on 40 acres at South 20th Street 'onUpper Cahokia Road in Sauget. It savSTflS sue was sold'to Lefton in 1973. According to the suit, creosote and creosote waste have been "allowed to spin. leas. [MJUr 9118 I16W ffielyupon Tgfe' lami' aiiiniHu me sui mc6~5n`d ground Water at the site." * ' It says the site has four corroded and partly dismantled tanks with res idue of creosote: more than 100 drums containing various wastes (some leaking and without covers); two large impoundments containing creosote-contaminated water; con- taminated ponds; and waste piles and debris. The site is poorly fenced and "di rectly adjacent to several residences and agricultural lands," the suit says, . adding that "the area's ground water / is used for drinking, garoentng an3 y for irrigation." It asks for "a court order requiring the owners to clean the area and to secure the site against public access to prevent further dumping or spillage. The suit also calls for a court decla ration that the site violates environfllhtTChl laws lfl Illinois. It seeks penal ties of up to Si0.000 plus Sl.Mo a day lor'ahvcoflBBirM 'WfliaTIME------------- AflBlia 'Bridges, manager of media relations for Kerr McGee, said the company was unaware the suit had been hle'd. "W are aware of some o~f the environmental matters involved," she said. "We're working on a reme dial investigation? Officials for Lefton and Moss American could not be reached for comment. OSW 134803 STLCOPCB4034761 1.34805 ST. Louis POST-DISPATCH WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 1988 36 tA a X C I C\ U) i'll l^CkA txtuLc ILLINOIS 1C rc&t Two Companies Agree -p: Wg To Clean Up Sauget Site By Phil Luciano SPRINGFIELD, III. -- Two former owners of an abandoned plant In Sauget. III., where railroad ties were treated have agreed to clean tip the site. The agreement ends three years Of negotiations with the Illinois attor ney general's office. As a result of a consenl decree filed Tuesday in St. Clair County Cir cuit Court by the attorney general's Office, Kerr-McGee Chemical Corp. and Moss American Corp.. Delawarebased firms that merged In 1973. are scheduled to pay to clean up (he site, which they once owned. Cleanup costs could exceed Jl million, said James R. Morgan, assistant attorney general. ; Morgan said the companies might have to remove soli contaminated by creosote, a chemical used lo treat railroad lies. Also, the firm Is respon sible for testing ground water near (be site. Morgan said that although there were no wells near the sile, any contaminated ground water could leak to the nearby Mississippi River. ; As part of the agreement, Kerr-McGee will pay $25,000 (o (he stale in stead of facing a civil penalty, Mor gan said Moss American owned the site from 1927 until 1908, when the opera tions c eased. Ken-McGee and Moss American coowned Ihe site until 1973, when II was purchased by Lefton iron and Metal Inc., of Missouri. The land later was bought by Lefton L^ind and Development Inc., also of Missouri. Morgan said Ihe slate had sued Lef ton Iron and Metal and Lefton land and Development, claiming that the companies allowed ground water to be polluted. Morgan said those two companies had filed a complaint in December with (lie Illinois Pollution Control Board asking that Kerr-Mc Gee pay (or cleanup. Kerr-McGee subsequently filed suit to have the Lefton companies reim burse them for the cleanup ordered by the attorney general's office. Ihe board and (lie courts have yet to rule on those complaints. Phil Luciano is a graduate student at Sangamon State University end an intern In the Post-Dispatch Spring field bureau - POST-DISPATCH WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 1988 3<C/) 6A ILLINOIS X c: / tiiifl ^OA yyjuLo 54poz 1C Two Companies Agree To Clean Up Sauget Site By Phil Luciano SPRINGFIELD, 111. -- Two former owners of an abandoned plant in Sau get, III., where railroad ties were trented have agreed to clean up the site. The agreement ends three years Of negotiations with (lie Illinois attor ney general's office. . As a result of a consent decree filed Tuesday In St. Clair County Cir cuit Court by the attorney general's office, Kerr-McGee Chemical Corp. and Moss American Corp., Delawarebased firms that merged in 1973. are scheduled to pay to clean up the site, which they once owned. Cleanup costs could exceed $1 million, said James R. Morgan, assistant attorney general. ; Morgan said the companies might have to remove soil contaminated by creosote, a chemical used lo treat railroad ties. Also, the firm Is respon sible for testing ground water near jbe site. Morgan said (hat although there were no welLs near the site, any contaminated ground water could leak to the nearby Mississippi River. ; As part of the agreement, Kerr-Mc Gee will pay $25,000 to the state in stead of (acing a civil penalty, Mor gan said Moss American owned the site from 1927 milil 19tlH, when the opera tions ceased. Ken-McGee and Moss American cu owned the site until 1973, when it was purchased by Lefton Iron and Metal Inc., of Missouri. The land later was bought by Lellon Land and Development Inc., also of Missouri. Morgan said I lie slate laid sued Lefton Iron and Metal and l.efton l.and and Development, c laiming that the companies allowed ground water to be polluted. Morgan said (bose two companies had liled a complaint in December with the Illinois Pollution Control Board asking that Kerr-Mc Gee pay for cleanup. Kerr-McGee subsequently filed suit to have (he Leiton companies reim burse them for flic cleanup ordered by the attorney general's office. The board and the courts have yet to rule on those complaints. Phil Luciano is a graduate student at Sangamon State University and an intern In the Post Dispatch Spring field bureau -p: r m Scientists will eye the skies of Illinois next month to see how summer storms move acid rain from Midwest smokestacks to . lakes and forests In the East. '? PAGE Columnist Harry Levins bids farewell to a local elementary school principal on his farewell. r PAGE t The boys track team from Madison High School came home from the Class A state meet with the third-place trophy. _ c PAGE OSM 1 3 4 8 0 6 SPORTS . . PAGES 5-6 MONDAY. MAY 30, 1988 SECTIO Hazardous Waste: Monsanto, Officials To Meet In Sauget By Bill Vogfar Of Dm Pott-CHtpalch Stiff Representatives of the Illlnob' Environmental Protection Agency and Monsanto C o. are scheduled to meet June 8 In the Sauget Village Hall to discuss findings of heavy hazardous waste contamination In the Sauget area. An IEPA spokesman said (he meeting would be closed because "we could be talking about some enforcement sensitive matters." However. Robert Casteel, an IEPA public informattou officer, emphasized that "In no way are we assessing blame" In meeting with Monsanto to review tbe findings of a study commissioned by the II PA In November ISH5 of 18 sites In the Sauget nren. A Monsanto spokesman said (he firm hoped thnt the study would "provide useful data on the Sauget area." The meeting, to which Monsanto may lovttc other area firms. Is the latest step In (he formulntlon of re medial action plans, which proba bly will be very costly. "It's our understanding that the Sauget sites go way beyond the stole's ability to finance n cleanup," said Casteel. "It's too big. (Involves) too many sites sod too much con tamination." He said (he state would consider the possibility of obtaining federal Superfunds to deal with the site. Tbe study that will be discussed at (he June 8 meeting was done by Ecology nnd Environment Inc., of Buffalo. N.Y.. one of the nation's leading environmental study Ilf ms. Casteel said it showed soli and water contamination by heavy met als. Industrial wastes and materials associated with Industrial solvents. Asked it tbe study results showed a serious problem, Casteel replied: "Environmentally specking, yes (and) from a public I snllh and safety standpoint it has that potential." Following the June '.' meeting, the study will he made available to (he public In meetings, Casteel said. He said It also would be placed somewhere, such as to a public li brary. for public examination. Casteel said the IEPA would seek Information from Monsanto and other firms concerning the prod u\ It's our understanding that the Sauget sites go way beyond the state's ability to finance a cleanup. It's too big, (involves) too many sites and too much contamination, f J ROBERT CASTEEL, IEPA spokesman ucts they produce and the chemlcaLs they employ. He said some of the materials found In the study were "substnnees thnt are not char acteristic of current manufacturing operations. We do not know where they enme from." The agency then would begin to map out remedial plans based on cleanup options and objectives, Casteel said. Unless an emergency developed prior to this stage, the cleanup then would get under way. The effort could be financed by a combination of state, federal and Industry funds, Casteel said. Casteel strewed that action could be taken at any time by the IEPA and the public Beajth Department "if there Is a spill or acddenL' The study findings alto are being reviewed by the Illinois Depart ment of Public Health, according to Tom Long, a department toxicol ogist The department la "looking at It from a public health point of view," Ixrag said. Long said a public health evnluaUon of the study findings would take six to eight moatha. If the pub lic health study "Identifies what nre -oosJdcred significant potential or actual exposure to hazardous chemicals or other substances or actual health problems" then a comprehensive survey. Including door-(door surveys and medical See MEETING, Page I Only One Of 60 Towns Has OK On Sewer Plan By Phil Luciano SPRINGFIELD, lit. -- Only one of the more than 60 Southern Illinois communities facing a July t deadline to repair or build sewage treatment systems bos received flnnl approval for Its plans, according to the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency. Sperta, a town of 5.000 people about 50 miles southwest o( St. Louis, began construction of Its 11.5 million sewage plant last month. Communities not In compliance and only about a dozen have had (heir plans approved In court According to stale officials, most of those communities will not make the deadline. But many non-compllnnce communities in olher stales are far ing no better. "Most ol them will not make II. nationwide. " said David Ryan, spokesman for the U S. Environmen tal Protection Agency. The total num ber of non-compliance municipalities was not Bvnllnble. by the federal government nnd 110,000 by the slate of lUliwti for each day a system Is nnt In compliance. But (hose amounts are negotiable. After a community drafts lls plans. It presents them to the slate EPA and the courts for approval In court, the fines, usually levied up front, can be lowered depending on a variety of (acton. Including the size of the dty. Its ability to pay and the amount of water pollution II produces. I** Cf h**** *' 1'* STLCOPCB4034765 a < wt i iicl c. Although she hasn't switched to Chinese recipes, she's Just as busy In the Kitchen ns ever. Suzanne Yawlt2 soys her mother-in-law Is "such a good cook that It's hard to ' ................ "I make time to/ cooking because I enjoy It," Jean Yawltz said. She haa Just made a pizza-style apple pie for her two grandsons who were visiting from New Put raLsins and water In saucepan; boll 5 to 10 minutes, or until about 1 cup of liquid remains. Drain ratsins, reserving I cup liquid. Let cool. In a large bowl, with electric mixer on medium speed, n n w (fc Meeting From page one examination of area res idents could be made, I eng said. The Snuget site was placed on the JEPA's "Superfund" ILst in 1(185. Cas teel said. Currently, the Illinois Su perfund consists of 190 million, which is to provide for cleanup efforts through 1990, Casteel said. Although II Is too early to put a price tag on any remedial plan for ihe Sauget sites, Casteel said the 1EPA was coasldertng seeking feder al Superfunds, which are much great er than those of Illinois. However, the U.S. EPA Is revising its system for scoring hazardous waste sites to determine which ones wolild qualify for federal Superfund aid, Casteel said. The IEPA will up hold any application for federal aid yntll the federal scoring revisions are completed, he said. ' ' In another environmental matter. St Clair County and state authorities eight more were found In January and Browning Perris Industries are 1987. Involved In the recovery and assess At that point, Hutchison said, St. ment of drums found In BFI's Modern Clair County State's Attorney John Landfill south of Belleville. The 110- Baricevlc called for the IEPA to work gallon drums are believed to contain with BFI for a "comprehensive parachloronnallne. search" of the landfill. This resulted Kevin Hutchison, director of the St. In 26 more barrels being found last Clair County Health Department, said week. a laboratory report on samples from Hutchison said the barrels were of the barrels was expected In about a a type that had been manufactured In week. HutchLson said parachloroana- the 1940s and 1950s. They were bur llne "may be fatal If Inhaled, swal led deep In the ground In areas where lowed or absorbed through the skin." there are no records of any landfill HutchLson said state and local au activity when BFI acquired the site, thorities were Interested In the ef Hutchison said. fects the matter In the drums could Casteel said BFI had notified the have on landfill workers ns well as IEPA In May 1986 when the firm first Ihe general public If the material gets found the drums. "They have been Into ground water. Some of the bar very good." Casteel said. "We have rels leaked, he said. been working with the company and However, he noted that no material they have been extremely coopera from the drums hnd been detected In tive with us about finding the drums." monitoring wells near (he landfill, The search for the drums Involves which was required by the IEPA.' use of a magrietlc device that detects Four drums Initially were found by metals In soils, Hutchison said. The workers at the site In May 1986 and search at the landfill Is continuing. Sewers From page one aooui me rare mice, ne saia. Other city officials statewide might not be so lucky, especially If state Senate legislative proposals providing $300 million In sewer-repair grants are not approved by the House and signed Into law. Without the promise of those grants, some municipalities might be forced to increase sewer rates dramatically. WaiTen Rlbley, Senate Democratic staff researcher, said, "Once July 1 rolls around and they're paying those (increased) fees, you're going to see an uproar. . "We're talking In s ties paying sewer bills month." . Ryan said cotnmun complain to the fedei about the prospect of the act has been on t 1972. In fact, the dt ready been changer from 1977 to 1981 to nr "The proposal hat back to let them off t give them more tlm Ryan said. "We wish had been made.'* He said that after Ites no longer will r funding for their st Since 1972, the feder has granted $44 blllloo jects, representing the Contest From page one Charlotte the spider. ^ "The girls wrote the script and ndd! ed quite a few humorous lines to the jqdotes from the book," said Carol 'Beaton, coordinator of the Triad , School District's gifted program and -the adviser to Marine School's Odys' icy of the Mind team. . Odyssey of the Mind Is an annual problem-solving competition spon sored by IBM and the non-profit OM Association of New Jersey. Each state and several foreign countries send tpains from elementary and second ary schools to the World Finals after regional and state competitions. 1 The girts fiom Marine comprise the only team fiom south of Sprtng- rifl.l III Illinois to oicillfv for this two minutes to respond in turn with creative answers to a given question. In the state contest, the girls were asked to use the bomonynrs "two," "too" and "to" In as many quotable phrases as they could. They quickly came up with "To be or not to be" and about 25 other phrases, Heaton said. She said the team actually needed little coaching, because the girls are all self-starters. Under contest rules, they had to make all their own props, scenery and costumes. Including in tricate animal outfits for the charac ters in "Charlotte's Web." Adrienne and Diane did most of the sewing. They said they hnd learned to sew through a local 4-M club. "But It took forever" to make the costumes, Diane said with a laugh. Actually, the girls estimated they worked at least 50 hours perfecting Itmlr act and raising enough money :.! Iiiev con Irn-.O-I I,, n,,. ri. good they tasted." Heaton said the girls' performance really seemed to Jell when they toured the Triad district and present ed the play at different grade schools and for a teachers' workshop at McKendree College at Lebanon early this year. "I think the best time we bad was at McKendree, because they all knew `Ctariotte's Web' and got all of our Jokes," Patricia said. Jennifer Hllz and Debra direcl the performance, and the other team members star In It. Under contest rules, setting up the stage and giving the performance must be done In eight minutes or less, so the glrLs have become proficient nt putting up their set quickly. Most of the team memliers have participated tn Odyssey of the Mind competitions for the last three years, but this Is the first year they've made II In II,,- fin'll': NIGHTLY SPECIALS Such A... Steak Diane Flamed Tableside for that special touch (\LmSA- ~s & `RstawSt 4 Banquet Rooms Available Seating 20-600 at Hanley Hd. 839*1000 fWJS CkywOcAcd' C^U-/y\j& ^ | 1 ^ Pt2 p&-^ IEPA, Monsanto to discuss study By ANTHONY SMITH ... News-Democrat SAUGET -- Officials from the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency and Monsanto Co. will meet June 8 to discuss the results of a 1'/: -year-long study of hazardous waste contamination in Sauget. . . The 1.000-page report details the condition of 18 sites aroundJjaueet. that are contaminated bv heavy metals, industrial waste and materials associated with industrial waste, said Ken i.ulv, community relations coordinator for the IEPA in Springfield. -- 7^ "There is a large variety of contaminents in the soil, groundwater, .and surface water around Sauget," Luly said. Tinge is no health risk, however.'' Fences keep residents and any others from the most contaminated areas and no one drinks the ground water, Luly said. Andi Smith, communications supervisor for Monsanto Co., said-the company was contacted by IEPA to go over the preliminary findings of the study. Ken Mensing, IEPA regional manager for land pollution Control. SflUTTllH Sites BUtitt H Wn.eiu.lal danger. "Anvume vou have a contaminated area, you have a potential health hazard,'' he said. Luly said the report will help the EEPA convince the U.S. KPA that federal lunds me needed to immediately clean the sites! . The report will determine the extent of contamination to the area. Mensing said. "This is one of the biggest projects in the state. We hope we can get. this rated high enough to be eligible for the federal superfund,''Luly said. The contaminated areas are within the industrial area and cleaning the areas would drain the state's finances, Luly said. ' '*; " ' -. Mensimngssaid no cost estima_t_e_s_h_a__v_e_b_e_e_n__m_a__d_e_b_e_c_a_u_se IEPA Still in thp process nf "rpmwiial investigation'' -- developing enough data and assessing the damage of the contamination so the sites will be added to the snpefTPnd list.. ' " f't " . . ." . ; " "ITuly said the IEPA will present these findings to MoBsahtO CO. arid' ntner chemical companies located around the small community in the hope_ tfiev will eventually take over the maintenance of the sites after they are cieanethip:-------------- ---- -- QSW 134808 STLCOPCB4034766 Sauget, Uakohia Pollution Report May Aid Cleanup V By Phil Luciano >PRIMirTELL'. ill. -- Mate envi r.menia:;.-;.- are hoping that a reently rei-asea report detailing widesr-reac hazardous waste pollution in '.v.iuet ana t anoxia wiii convince tout-.-;., .fficini' to pay for cleaning The rencrt, of more than I.imio product of a twu-\e;-.r. $2 nm.ior, -!uo\ of toxic contamination workers, from left, are Rich OglesDy. Mike Crea11 Glanton. o Save Union "dt 25 others had found -e. Mayer estimated, o the 25 ex-union memaminum also hired 75 -iters during the strike, 'or our ex-union mem'oueh the picket lines ren't supposed to. 1 be : have got something.' 'er Ruby Clover. ..v cion nicmher' v..;s passed to g-> ... : .".: '.vani to go ir. .. .-cabs." Clover ..rd Allen Cavitt. who aoKen in support of the J of tnose wno crossed last week. that eventually union memoers would be abie to put aside their difference? with those wno rrosseo tne picket lines. "They nave to have time for wounds to heal," Mayer said. "Even tually people will set over it. They never force:, but tne\ can set over in the vsv.e Monuav. union mem bers agreed to return to worn a; p-<<>- - 'if,' i .a u,:ti;'n>. Plant r....'-r ! v.'rtold umcn offi- .1? : r -. union member- wojjd uoer. r.uv. i:. Maversaid The vote to return to work uncondi tionally on tne terms set out b\ Penn Aluminum management was "kind of hard to take." Mover saic. 'We did stoop." he said. "We have See UNION. Page 2 It- finding; will greatly aid the llitn..-> i-.iivironmental Protection Asen wtier it applies for money from sr.e M.riprfu:..:. a federal program mat provide.- money to dean up haz ardous w,.-[r sites across the nation. ?;uo Ken Luis. agency spokeswoman. Despite the findings. Luiy stressed that it was unlikely that residents of the Suueet-i ahokia area could come a. contact witn tne pollutants. No one live? or. tne contaminatec sou. and drnorne partictes ao not travel very far. sne said. The stuoy focuses on two pieces of lane in sauce-, anc Cahokia totaling 22'd acre.- une tract is m the shape of an in verted t" ..iocc the Mississippi Riv er. tne mt.er clot, snapeo like a rec tangle anc split bv Deac Creek, is less than a auarter mue east o? tne firs; site. The report states tnat tne agency founc "substantial and widespread contamination of sou. surface water, srouno water ana sediment at the test sues. Also, traces of air pollution were founa m some places. Test result? .snow mat the area, which local industries usea for aecaaes as a toxic dumping ground, is contaminated with numerous hazard ous suDstanres. including phenols, poiychionr.aieo' bi-phenvl? iPCB'si. lean ar.a cnromium. "I.t:ly sruc long-term exposure to the?-.' ;,.vih? code result in various r.e.ilih problems. including cancer arid death. The a;...rdes: hi: by tne pollu ter.. ti.- north end of bead Creek, nas Deen lencco oft so no one- has access to u She said the creek had been dammea. possibly by industry, many years ago and has been virtually Stag nant since the 1960s. Thus, pollutants cannot oe carTiea downstream, she said'. Contamination by ground water is unlikely. Luiv said, because the 2t houses close to the toxic sites are tapped into municipal water systems r.ut draw- w\Her :rom the Mississippi See REPORT. Page 2 Superfund List Adds 12 Sites 3y The Associated Press Twelve sues in Illinois would be added to the federal Superfund prior::v list for toxic waste cleanups, and one would be cropped under recom mendations issued by tne federal En vironmental Protection Agency. From a landfill ir, Waukegan to a former oil storage tank site in East Cape Girardeau, tne new Illinois sites could receive federal evaluation ana Cleanup funding if they are approved for the Us; after a period of public comment, official? said. Man Black. community liaison with the Illinois Environmental Pro tection Agency, said Tuesday that the potential addition of the sites to the federal list w-as welcome news be cause it couic mean that money will be provided for extensive testing and ' cleanup wnere problems have been identified. "We certainly don't have enough resources as a state agency to do the kinds of investigations and the kinds ci remedial actions that are needed at all of those sues.1 he said. Black said he heard that as much as S12 million might eventually be available for the average site on the federal Suoertunc list. He said that 17 Illinois sites already were on the Its; and lu more were proposed in January 1987 but had yet to be approved for the final list. Ac cording to Black, a 60-dav period has been provided for comment concern ing new sites recommended Monday. iduoint German's .... ;x ..... : ,, _ .... E: St> Louis To Cail Alert ________________ -------------------- i\t~-------------- i STLCOPCB4034767 DSW 1 3 4 8 0 9 we don't know." Report Pollution "is contaminating the ground water and possibly the Missis sippi River," she said. "People have From page one said in the past that you can dump it River. because it will become diluted. But And ground water, which travels that isn't wise." slowly, moves west toward the Missis The U.S. Food and Drug Adminis sippi River and away from any of the tration is planning a study to deter wells in the outlying area. Luly said. mine whether polluted, leaching But she was quick to add that just ground water is contaminating the AP because the pollution seemed to be river and its fish, she said. confined did not eliminate the chance Cleaning up the area could help 3k at a recent legis- of some adverse effects. decrease ground-water contamina leld, III. "Most of the stuff is buned. so it's tion. Luly said. Also, the pollutants not an immediate threat." she said. need to be removed if the local gov But "what's in the (Mississippi) River, ernments hope to develop housing or businesses on the land, she said. The report states that the problem md 80.000 spectators were setting at the fairgrounds and beefed- could be worse than results indicate :his year, up from 3.000 ve- up security measures to prevent because "the complete extent of con 67.950 spectators last year. problems. tamination resulting from past waste- booked full throughout the reet Machine Nationals verheated cars and over>wds to the St. Louis area in promoter Chuck Ross of Inexpects the event to have consecutive trouble-free weekend at Du Quoin. s said he expects the idyllic Events in the three-dav Street Ma chine Nationals include "Show and Shine" judgings in different catego ries: a manufacturers midway: tour naments such as volleyball and tugof-war: Pro-Street judging of the "wide-wheeled wonders." the dragrace-look cars, at 10 a.m. Saturday; and a tire game at 1 p.m. on Saturday and 2 p.m. on Sunday. disposal activities ... has not yet been determined." Luly noted. "The site has had so many types of chemicals ... it's hard to say. 'This is what the problem is.'" It's also hard to say how big a price tne the cleanup project would carrv. Luly would only estimate that it would cost "millions and millions. There's just no way to know at this point." . Agency officials have long known of the need to clean up the area, Luly said. However, officials have said ..WINDOWS,. ; that the state cannot afford the i project. I The state applied for Superfund UP TO OURS! . money several years ago, but was turned down because the contamii tion problem was insufficiently do. mented. she said. The U.S. Environmental Protect: Agency, which administers Sup fund, is developing new criteria determine which cleanup proie will get funding. The comDination a new scoring system and the th ougn report on the Saucet-Cano> sites improves Illinois chances of ceiving federal funding. Luly said. The report mentions several lo industries, both in operation anc . fund, that could navy contnouted the contamination. They inciu Monsanto Co.. Cerro Copper Co.. M west Rubber Co. ana Waggon Trucking Co. But. Luly added, companies outs: the region also are Itkeiy to na brougnt toxic waste to tne area : disposal. And she said much of ; dumping occurred before many er. ronmental laws were enactec. So far. no companies nave cor forward lo offer to pay for the de: up. Luly said, if the U.S. EPA decic to provide funding, it can ceiled la' from parties responsible for tne p lution up to three times tne clean costs. The agency will learn d;> ne spring whether it will receive feder money. Luly said. Phil Luciano is a graduate srudt at Sangamon State University ana intern at tne Post-Dispatch's Sprit field bureau. factors , '"IK-uffi E MANUFACTURE EACH WINDOW TO SUR MEASUREMENTS IN OUR OWN ANT ANY SIZE. i ilGTORY Omi TO FBBUS! I THERMAL WINDOWS UNLIMITED Rta. 162 and State Rte. 35. Granite Citv, JL 62040 FROM ST. LOUIS 845-7200. ILL TOLL FREE H800) 8454550 Heat i From page one ; citizens. : East St. Louis Municipal Build` ing. 301 East Broadway. ; Foster conducted a heat-relief ; workshop Wednesday in the Townj ship Senior Citizens' Building. East St. Louis Housing Authority Director Stephanie Stafford said the lobbies and community centers in senior citizens highrise apartment buildings throughout the city were open to the residents. The Housing Authority does not issue air condi ! tioners to the residents, but it does have air conditioned public areas, j Stafford said. I Youngsters who normally would . visit swimming pods or open" fire h.v- ' drams ic-Tv ::nd iiule relief thic vcor. i ihe c::;. s c poo is hu\e re mained closed. But the Lincoln Park Pod on t city's south side will open Friday. 1: the first opening for me poo: in ti years. The city recently sr>e $750,000 in federal funds to renovr. the pool. Officials have sealed trie cay 's fi hydrants in order to prevent tne from being vandalized. Sprinklers, which were om placed on the hydrants, were vand; ized so often that they also were r moved, officials said. , Elsewhere, swimming pools in tl Metro East area were packed th week. Ben Warren, manager of the Bell ville Municipal Swimming Pool, sa Wednesday that the public pooi h; 900 bathers, most of whom we: adults. 'A'.x-'ut h>>0 people. K-fn-r ,,*V'' V'XiTf''' c-.-,* rp, f - DSW FREE 2 LIW SODA WITH ANY PURCHASE 134810 OAKMONT TRADE CENTER a. "DISPLAYING SPECIALTY SHOPS" 1/, Mila UlaaA aZ Hi I ------ ... STLCOPCB4034768 Jeff Larson, left. Keri Luly and Max McCombs, right, examine a map of an aerial view of the sites News-uemocrat/brao Ke Companies get report card on 18 waste sites BvANTHONYSMITH News-Democrat SAUGET -- Officials from 15 industries and the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency met Wednesday to discuss the results of a l1.!-year study of hazardous waste sites in the Sauget area. Keri Luly, community relations coordinator for IEPA. said the purpose of the meeung was to present the 1.000-page report of the 18 waste sites to the companies. The meeting was closed to the public. "It was pretty uneventful. We gave a presentation of the report and answered a few questions.'' Luly said. Thirty-six representatives from companies including Monsanto Co.. Ethyl Petroleum Additives Inc.. Union Electric and Cerro Copper Products attended the 1 \<t -hour meeting held at the village hall. A copy of the report was given out so the industries could review the findings and decide what type of action they eventually wish to take in cleaning the sites. Luiy said. "There will be further conversations. We will give the companies a month or two to discuss the report among themselves and decide what they wanttodo.''Lulysaid. Andi Smith, communications supervisor for Monsanto Co., said the company will take a month to discuss the report with its consultants before any f urther discussions with IEPA. "The report didn't indicate any immediate health risk, so we will take about 30 days to review the study. No action will be taken at this time." Smith said. The sites, the industrial area around Dead Creek, had been dumping grounds for chemical wastes several decades before laws against dumping were enacted, according to a fact sheet compiled bv IEPA. ' The problems at Dead Creek became prominent in 1980 wnen a section of the creek bed was reported to be smoldering. An investigation by the IEPA revealed that extensive dumping of phosphorous, heavy metals, and other chemicals in the creek bed and 3.7 adjacent acres -- west of the creek and south of Queenv Avenue -- had sev contaminated the soil. The project was expanded to include anoth potential hazardous waste sites that shared hi! industry, population, economy and grounai with the creek ana its adjacent acres. , Ecology and Environment Inc. was hired t IEPA to determine what kinds of chemicals dumped at the sites, whether the wastes contaminated groundwater, and what dange: wastes might present. Using that informatio company devised a number of possible remeo correct the environmental damage. The study had an estimated cost of more ti million. ' An immediate cleanup of Dead Creex prove futile because of the contamination < groundwater, the fact sheet said. If the wat< sediments were cleaned up. the creex woi recontaminated by the groundwater, accord the fact sheet. . - DSW 134811 r,\ . C y y 7.yyy>-r~'^-y' STLCOPCB4034769 Dead Creek project reclassified 44 /icli* 1' r 7 /1 IEPA seeks superfund hell Luly optimistic about funding By Bill Milligan . Editor CAHOKIA -- An Illinois Environmental Pro . tection Agency official last week expressed optimisim about receiving federal superfund dollars to aid in the clean-up of 16 hazardous waste sites in Cahokia and Sauget. The agency will apply for assistance through a federal superfund for hazardous waste clean up which was established in the fall of 1986.. ; A similar application was rejected in 1980 because the Dead Creek site did not exceed federal guidelines for health threatening ex posure to hazardous wastes. Since the first ap plication, the agency has found 15 more sites in the area, all of them, connected by ground water. ' Unlike the first $1.5 billion federal hazardous waste superfund, the new program will spend $9 billion, said Keri LulyJKPA-public relations coordinator for theproject. The same qualification criteria will apply. "I know it seems'like this project taking forever, but after we discovered how widespread the problems here were, we had to re-think our strategy," Luly said Thursday. A remedial investigation began in 1980 after a dog died of chemical burns when rolling in Dead Creek. Preliminary studies found quantites of white phosphorous on the surface of the creek which caused the dry bed to smoulder in the summer months, but IEPA could not afford to do more than fence the area. The study also revealed high concentrations of deadly PCB's and more than 20 other hazar dous chemicals as deep as 30 feet underground. In December of 1980, the agency applied for federal funding through a "superfund" specifically for hazardous waste clean-up. The superfund - established a method for qualifying for federal- assistance. All sites which scored 28 or more based on superfund criteria were prioritized for federal clean-up. ' Dead Creek scored an 18.4 on the hazard ranking system. Contractors began submitting bids for the clean-up in the fall of 1984. As work was about to begin, the agency was warned the problem could be much more extensive than previously expected. - "People that my bosses believed came for ward and said work there (thought Dead Creek) would be dangerous because the area was a dump several years ago," Luly said. v </' . ....- . ' &'' \\'j:;i:.. .. fa' : .v. /* .-/ " .v --/ :/. /" / * v*/ \ *y...\ . * - V /v ,} / 7 jV mm /V /`h/ ' //v * v hi"' . ' ' .* \ y/.. 7A // // (A' // -. -v/w. % 'vo.> r-------- t .7 k. V/;' / // \y.. \ //\o (iLLINOISl -y,'; A,,5Cft sr.At,r " ,0y. %, QUA0RANGLE LC 'Sv 1 MILE 1 KILOMETER (See CLEAN-UP, page 7A) Figure 1-1 DEAD CREEK PROJECT AREA SITE LOCATION MAP Clean-up --------- EPA seeks federal issistance for clean-up ;ontinued from page 1A) Using aerial photographs from as far back as. 39, the agency became suspicious of 16 difrent locations in the area.' Wells and bore samplings confirmed IEPA ispicions. Because the sites were connected v ground water, cleaning one would not Deviate the problem, Luly said. 1 "If we cleaned up Dead Creek, it would just ct contaminated again from the other sites," le said. IEPA began referring to its effort here as the Sauget Sites project in early 1985. It hired Ecology and Environment Inc. to establish the kinds of chemicals that were dumped, where they were dumped and if the wastes had migrated from the site along with ground water. The 16 sites have been been combined into two groups. Samples taken from each are being analyzed now to establish new superfund hazard rankings. "It will be late spring before we get informa tion back on the contents of some of these samples," Luly said. She said the agency could here from USEPA as early as fall about federal assistance for the ' Sauget Sites clean-up. Luly said the agency intends to pursue alter native funding sources as well. An IEPA preliminary hydrology re tained by the Journal last week thro Freedom of Information Act reveal tests had found concentrations of P beans, corn and okra taken from vegetable garden. The Food and Drug Administration action level for PCBs in plant matte technicians said the health hazard was According to the report, ground wa tamination is probable and surface w< tamination is likely. Reports indicate ti material has traveled from unde dumps, along Dead Creek and into the Du Pont floodway. "It will be expensive, but it can be up," Luly said. OSM 134812 STLCOPCB4034770 imjqetDpmpamesDniistri ^topayforwasteclearrap WW<K --1 !. . - i i W: -- --- - vjrjJjJ* ' __ ^I^rrBrVK.E*NITeHwiB.DRemUoHc,,LtE,Y.. . v< ^- >- Cerro from iurtberiiability.^ Thff"Illinois Attorney1 'General's.; JX SAUGET"- --atMan v than 30.i Office is negotiating with:Monsanto-V *&flnpanies and individuals have been'* andi2..with... two"* others? groups of f; ^-targeted bythe mto^to^hclppay ton- coinpanifandindiTidnalsfprfui-thttk { cleanup of the stte.^-'T* ir.w, 1 industrial waste site i jLettenr sentto. thoerdted-isk fofc4 .&/ Anaong;:thoe?r.liited-are: several+ cooperation in cleanup: efforts, and I Sauget companies^ including-. ask. for copies of shipping and other j Monsanto Chemical...Co.;/ Cerro- records that wonitiheip lnvestigatacs ( ...Copper Products Co.,~ Big River Zinc to identify others responsible for the | " Corp., Sterling Steel Casting Co. and pollution '* . ~Ethyi Petroleum-Additives Inc.-' - - ~ :Assistant Attorney General, j , X "Alia listed is the Village of Sauget.! Christine Zeman: - said *.work*, of j jjutd.. individual landowners -and* identifying other responsible parties:' f * ..^trustees- forr deceased- landowners^. Is:madeharder because*soma of fhfcii. ,jwn*fromasfarawayasNew-York. a; S^e^lIutioo^S^iLjooger.rJiti Wt-MoossntoiandiSauget MiywdPauLi Sanget- were^namotUbecameaJbotha- business, She-saicL in many case-i formerty.operated dimine' neir. tbe records . also - arerrhaphazard foki- MisslssippiRiver.- nonexistent, . ^partiy^ ^-because ir - la a highly pubUdzed-agreementur companies commonli? burled 4- jthis-month, Cerro became the first? industrial waste. -----jmaoo^*j*- t a party: to xceacb -anjtout-of-courc3 Dead Creek runrliatmgbuSaaget { 2settlement to-clean up-partof Dead* and Cahokia. Industries and residema 1 Creek-on Cerro property. ;Thesf regularly damped -ghwmWIs anif >tp3iUk<cost-of Cerrolt share'of the* trash into the creek fronrabotdPH -'cleanup includes part of the eoet of ad through the l^^SEKSSS* ifstate investigation into the extent of4 . i Ofe~.Tj^<Mer5.-.^rl, ,, --rrenqu.muf- ,tbe_pollution. The-.settlement tSeftCCANUP/3A 4 Continued from 1A r,'.... ........ "`.Thei:f' Illinois Environmental Protection Agency has identified a variety qf ground and groundwater contaminants, including dioxin,**and hasiargeted the two arearwberethe PADead Creek projectmanager Takacs said he doesn't know how .... _.j-cleanup will take or wbatthe flnaJHcoat will be. He said lEPAdoes UoLhave a cleanup timetable: Takacs saidTs nutisfactory - deanupman" be donewithexisting technology. -"" r Mach" of the Dead Creek bed is anttftarof the designated cleanup smaxrwhich Takacs said Include only the areas of heaviestpollntton.^- ^Thl4T.eaitemmosf area- includes- pntrtitthe Dead Creek bed and two chemical landfills. The other-area borders the Mississippi and includes the~*Monsanto .and Paul Sauget landfills and the former treatment lagoon''for the old Sauget sewage treatment plant ........... " General superintendent-- of wrwrtwimental affairs Max McCombs acknowledged Monsanto's responsibility and willingness- to Moan np th landfill1 ` ............ ' "Tt-was a Monsanto landfill. The materials there are Monsanto's. "We're going to take responsibility for making that area safe," McCombs satdL'T" "VillageAttorney Harold Baker said Sauget ia asking industries " that contributed to the pollution to pay to rUHmmithhlpofwtn ~ Under federal-law,;current and former landowners-and those- who manufacture,--treat or dispose*, of hazardous materials should pay. for cleanup.*,^* to#*.. X Attorney General Neil Hartigan earlier this-month called Dead Creek the most poiiuted site in TUlnotsand said a cleanup ofcthe-creek is-a^jtop priority. State officials have said that even a partial cleanup could, take Ulinofs -hastried unsuccessfully:to get Dead Creek placed on the federal Superfund site listJ- . The following is a list of companies and Individuals the attorney general's office has identified as those the state. istrying to get included in the costSrbf the Dead Creekcleanup: aosascMVi. Fred and Louise Leybe, St^Louis . Cerro Copper Products^ Co., Sauget -- StanleyKrietman. New York5' Richard M. Cohen. Los Angeles Morris Weinman. New York Midwestern Rubber Reclaiming Inc.-,Sauget - --.......-- Monsanto ChemicalCo., Sauget - Wiese Planning and Engineering Inc., Sauget Moto Incl, St Louis> ''Trii'' ! Browning-Ferris Industries'Inc. of St Louis - - ' Sterling SteelCasting Co., Sauget - WilliamShtve,Effinghamu*uJ~- Big RiverZincCorp., Sauget - Mobil Oil Corp.; Chicago Rogers Cartage Co^ Chicago- Ethyl Petroleum Addltivea lncL, Samlet - - - -- '< Donald Elsaesaer. St Louis-- Russell Richardson. Belleville. Village of Sauget............... Byron, Cave, - McPheeters A Roberts. St Louis^7------ -------- Rnair Transport Corp.,; Des Moines,-l0w--**'*--'*'-- - James D. TolbiriCahokia"'" - Illinois State Trust Co.. Belleville - TonyL. Lechner, St Louis -. SaugetMayorPaul Sanget ' '* Albert Lanman ITT PahnHs ^ AndrewHankins, Sauget * t*-J - - MineweldInc..Cahokia^ ---- -"RobertAi ClartaoitCabokii* *`- Rose Stillman. Cahokia "`ThomasOwen.Cahokia. - CSW 134813 STLCOPCB4034771 TilT;*. Page 4, Section A Belleville New Clem .Ani> Marcel exiThe mvjr<*jpacmt. ... Know Marcel--\W. ^ vlbn's That If Tb&y Clean Vrh THE(j<EMICALS inThis Creek Tkey'llS^ Wsss us \JR ViHY.... Wc'lu HwE To Start Vsisia lic* UTS ` At U^ht VtoWe GrO T\SH)K&.. T Th/NK YovVe CyoT SobAETUlNGClem' Our viewpoint Dead Creek: Talk is cheap Residents of Cahokia and Sauget have learned firsthand the meaning of "empty promises. " In 1983, Illinois Attorney General Neil Hartigan pledged to ensure personally the cleanup of heavily polluted Dead Creek. Now, it's almost 1989, and nothing has been done, except installing a fence around part of the gMMMWPin^ildrcn draimplayiqg imifaftghic SWgpPWPlii^llIJ iiiiil.Tcaig^ who live nearby still feadfor their health and safety, and they will continue to do so for the forseeable future. , We don't mean to imply that Hartigan is responsible for Dead Creek's continued pollution; there is only so much the attorney general can do. But his long-ago promise typifies what Cahokia and Sauget residents have gotten from the powers that be: all talk and no action* Even at this late date, a Hartigan spokesman still insists -- without offering any specifics -- that "Our feeling here is that it needs to be cleaned up and we're going to see it cleaned up." Perhaps -- if Hartigan and his staff live to a ripe old age. According to Jeff Larson of the Illinois Environmental .Protection Agency, cleanup of Dead Creek.and a dozen or more other hazardous . jWagte^dninpadnHauget:and Cahokia tqpaj^-takp decades and cost hundreds of millions of dollars. First, though, it must be decided who will foot the bill. Larson says the state won't pay for the cleanup; that is the responsibility of manufacturers and transporters of hazardous waste, he says. A number of Sauget companies, past companies and the village have been linked in an. 'miiivwfcifl Offerer according to Larson. They, too, are playing the waiting game. Several years ago, the IEPA asked the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to put Dead Creek on its Superfund cleanup list, which would have put federal funds to use. But the feds turned down the request. Now, the IEPA hopes its 18-month, $1 million study will qualify the site for the Superfund list. We urge Illinois' congressional delegation to use some judicious muscle to influence the U.S. EPA's decision on the matter. In the meantime, Dead Creek remains a cesspool of hazardous wastes, fouling the soil, groundwater and air of Cahokia and Sauget. Its toxic silence contrasts sharply with the sound and fury of politicians' promises that the waste will be de&nedup. . OSW 134814 STLCOPCB4034772 -^j= Mondav. December 26.1988 Belleville (III.) News-Democrat Page 3. Section A .UB------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1------------------------------------------- ----------------------------- William Settle walks through debris at Dead Creek News-Oemocrat/Brao Ketierman Waste ------------------------ Continued from 1A the federal Superfund. He said a cleanup of six segments of Dead Creek and at least 12 other hazardous waste dumps in Sauget and Cahokia could take decades and cost hundreds of millions of dollars. I Illinois tried unsuccessfully several years ago to get the sites on I the Superfund list, which would qualify them for cleanup using federal dollars. IEPA spent $1 million and 18 months on a report released this year that hopefully has the information needed to qualify the sites. The IEPA study says there is significant. widespread i contamination -- including surface i contamination -- and that it is i spreading. IEPA maintains that the i contamination is not an immediate j public health risK. . East Side Health District i director JoseDh Kurre said linking i any specific health problems to the I contamination would be difficult. | Sauget's drinking water comes from the Mississippi River and is ciean. said Wayne Schlosser. spokesman for Illinois-American Water Co. He said Illinois- American has not had problems in Saueet with contaminated groundwater reaching the village water supply. Nevertheless, those living near Dead Creek said they are frightened. Cahokia firefighter Gary Miller. 107 Jerome, said he remembers fighting fires in the dried-up creek bed and fears for his health. His son. Michael. 7. is not allowed to piav near the creek. Bob Wright Jr.. 20. 100 Jerome said he played in the creek bed as a child. Pollutants like dioxin, polychlorinated biphenyls and mercury have been detected during past tests. The report says chemicals like vinyl chloride and chloroform have been found in test-well samples. It said the rising and falling of the Mississippi River and a generally higher groundwater level in recent years have allowed contaminants to spread., including a general migration toward the river. "The groundwater is very contaminated. The soil is contaminated. The air is contaminated." said Larson. Several Sauget companies, past compames and the village are linked to pollution in the report. Suspectea sites of extensive j contamination include ground l below PT's Show Club in Sauget and | the village nail. . ] Monsanto spent $1.5 million in I 1986 to cap a landfill across Illinois ! 3 from Monsanto that contains | 5.000 deteriorating drums of non- i hazaraous mtrocnlorobenzene and | nitrobiphenvis. j There has oeen no evidence of j grounawatei contamination tnere. j said Max McComns. Monsanto general supervisor environmental affairs. of e. t' Larsor. said Monsanto told IEPA ot tne site ana was to remove the barrels ior incineration, but capped it instead to save money. j Larson said the village and i Saugers industries are invoivea in i no extensive cleanups ana are waiting to see what type of cleanup ; will be aone ana who will pay for it. Larson said the state will not be i paying for the cleanup. Manufacturers ana others involved with the transportation and storage of hazaraous wastes will foot tne bill nesaia. ' Larson saia more than 150 different landowners had to give permission for consulting engineers to gather information for the report. DSW 1 3 4 8 1 5 STLCOPCB4034773 DeadQreek cleanup: When will it happen? By KEITH BRUMLEY News-Democrat CAHOKIA -- William Settle said he remembers the Sunday in 1983 when Illinois Attorney General Neil Hartigan told residents and reporters he would personally ensure a cleanup of Dead Creek. Settle, 59, and his neighbors are still waiting. He said nothing much has been done, except the state put a $100, 000 fence around a stagnant pool northwest of his house at 102 Judith Lane. He said the fence is overgrown and falling down and Settle said he doesn't expect a cleanup in his lifetime. "I'd be surprised." . Hartigan spokesman Ernie Slottag said Illinois is progressing slowly toward a cleanup. "Our feeling here is that it needs to be cleaned up and we're going to see it cleaned up," Slottag said. Neighborhood children often ignore the fence to play in or near the water or they play in unfenced portions of the creek bed, which also are contaminated. "I've run them out. But you can't be on your guard all the time," he said. Don't expect a large-scale cleanup anytime soon, said Jeff Larson, the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency's manager of See WASTE/3A OSW 134816 STLCOPCB4034774 StLnUISLPQStQL FfflDAY"3Uetf051 ***m At Site In Saueet By Robert Goodrich 4 *.!.* is N3u*4rfefi8i Of the Pott'Di*patch Staff - . Hartigaa said, it calls for work to start in 30 days and be complete by Cerro Copper Products Co. will the-endtof October. The decree-in spend up to $12 million to clean up one, cludes a penalty of $500 a day for any section of Dead.Creek In Sauget under delay. " . .. . ... . an agreement reacted Thursday with Illinois Attorney General Neil F. Har Tandlersaid Cerro Copper had dls-- tigan. :rcovered that storms caused Industrial Nearly a century of industrial waste waste water to.-.back up Into Dead. has turned Dead Creek into a "chemi-. Creek. He said-hlscompany had built- cal soup" that includes acids, cyanide a tunnel along the creek that empties and PCBs. making it one of the most into a storage basin on the north end. toxic waste sites in Illinois;.. - -j-- ^The tunnel^antt basin < can hold 1.5- Although three miles the creek is less than iong^ it comprisesvalLor .;;. . inlUlon gall>o*.n>-s: . .."V&j-recsgnlzeds'thatrthere-was a parts of 200 parcels of land scattered ' problenrwldP.Dead-.Creek; and that-. through Sauget and Cahokia.Hartigan ' over.the.yeaw we mayhave, been one : said ownership of someriracts has.- otmany companies- thaficontributed been difficult to determine-'let alone to that prohterm" Tandler&ld. n responsibilltyfor contamination.. . Paul Tandler. vice president of Cer He^sald. fttshcoinpanywasi under no ro. said Ms-company would fill and. obligation or pressure but "As a re- then remove the contaminated sedi sponsible corporate citizen, we aecld-. ment from 1.600 fetet of the creek that ed to step forwantand take the lead runs throned the company's property.-.' onthlsproJeet'MT. Up to 20.000 cubic, yards of polluted dirt will be removed and replaced with clean soil, he said. Hartigan said he is negotiating with industries, including Monsanto Co., to get three other stretches of the creek cleaned up. - Hartigan said he hoped Cerro Cop per's lead would be.foilowed by other industries. He said Cerro Copper could sue other owners who were partly responsible, for polluting the creek to help pay Its costs. The agreement with Cerro Copper He said no one yet knows how much was formalized in a consent decree it will cost to clean up all of Dead filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Creek. His office and the Illinois Envi 1.. Neil F. Hartigan Illinois attorney generate* . t^f working to obtain federal SuperfundByCfiarie money for the work, he said. - Of ttw Poav Cceerrrro Ccooppper was esstiaabmlisishneeda- Iinn- ..-s 1927 and is the world's biggest produo*.-- V erof copper tubing. It employs 850 people in Sauget Tandlersaid his company had beetr" a pioneer in recycling. He said it had . fenced Th"t for sexuall Whobecan and has East St. Louis. ronmental Protection Agency are recycled 6 billion pounds of copper.. . : --'^Ray? 39;* DEATHS DSW 134817 Woman, 46, Gets SuJSSw Recent deaths In me Metro East area Alton J~ Wane Hamoton Bauer. 94, died- Wednesday, funeral Saturday. Elias- Smith. Minnie Sims. 83, died Thursday, funeral oendtna, Williams. EdwordsvmeRuth Gibbs. 42, died Wednesday, funer al Friday, P letters 4 : .mlteCItv-1' Mavme L. aover.84. dled Wednesday, i funeral Saturday, trwtn. Greenytite Probationer! Kiillngr^CSSSSS- v andl Judy M. FIdtcher. 46.'of East StA,:: 'Assistant i Louis was placed on three years .of ^rtsseysaidRi probation- THureday-for fatallyshooMerwheirshe res Inea 4 --* " STLCOPCB4034775 vbit. &ytc ij According to a statement released, by COllinsvilKPolice, Mills may have beenkiUedinCollinsviUe.Colllhs*ilJft^- l^-PotfcededfaedttrsaywfaytheythhriEs^ Ifa she was murderedinthe city~~ - . ixwOmoefii/Tlm vmr - The body was identified wherrMHST- jet, Whitney, prefers the dock name was found inscribed on heir dentures and through fingerprints;, said-Capt.-Wally Jansmann *of-(he- Jefferson-- County shdriffik- department The coroner could, not: , determine how long- her body wasdib-- city to the building. v the water, Jansmann said. fon though the high temperature Thursday was Mills was the daughter of Clareand i. degrees above the normal high of 89, it fell John Sulic of 101 Pine Lake Rbadin |of the 1936 record-high of 102. Collinsville and was the estranged new record high, was set Wednesday as the wife of- Kenneth Millss; of.'-' reached the 102-degree mark. Thei-old. Caruthersviile,Mo. - - -- Iwasl01.setinl936. On June 18, Carole Mills hitchhlfii . -temperature-will-be slightly Iower-today; to Collinsville without her daughtjg- id. The forecast calls fora high of around90r Kim, after- her husband ordSj . iy cloudy skies and a 30-percent chance Carole Mills to leave theirhoinesft rstorms-- ... ?- Catuthersvilld. ClareSulica rtonighfcls expected to be in the.70s;Dyeii^ _ KSBehitchhiked inwit Be normal low is 6ft - " ' satchel she could swing acre i hot weather will begin to return Saturday shoulder,'1 Sulic said "ShetaL Sunday, Dye-said, as - the-.chance^for- .. "TS AtoTbe^-iilv S"B0DYm Cerro-Copperio:use ' *r ,fiyKEITH BRUMLEY.. . . ^ `1News-Democrat - '* . SAUGET-- Dlinoia? Attorney- General.. Neil Hartigaar.v said^: : Thursday* that Cerro Copper PToductsCo. will spend SlTmillioir to clean up part of the Dead Creek**"' toxic waste site. U.S. District Judge * William Stiehl on-Thursday approved a consent decree between Cerro and Illinois that holds Cerro responsible for completing a cleanup of about 1,600 feet of Dead Creek that is on company property. Stormwater that accumulated,in the creek bed:_. Dead Creek "the most toxic, w; after heavy rains already has been : site in Illinois" and said Illinois diverted Cerro will remove 20,000 is trying to get Dead Creek addedrtS^ cubic, yards of contaminated soil the-Superfund cleanup list whtejfe| * and will fill in the creek bed. The would make federal moneg* $12 million price tag includes available for a cleanup, ' ! ? Cerro's share of the cost of a state Hartigan said the state is? investigation into the extent of negotiating with other companies,'? contamination in Dead Creek. which he did not name, and saidJ Dead Creek is a mostly dry creek three more cleanup agreements are-i bed that runs through Sauget and in the offing. Cerro has until year's;* Cahokia. Industries over several end to finish its part of the cleanups decades diverted waste from Hartigan did not give a timetable or manufacturing into Dead Creek a cost estimate for a cleanup of the; i that contained a variety of various Dead Creek sites. .> industrial by-products, including Hartigan said on the eve of his., cancer-causing polychlorinated first term in 1983 that a Dead Creeks biphenyls and heavy metals. Hartigan on Thursday called SeeCLEANUP/3A ri 134818 STLCOPCB4034776 . JQ /ISSociauun icuiauta u there is a fully licensee. sry classroom -- but be more than one way to ' said the NEA poiicy iitionai cenification for si issue among educators arity with predictions oi . The amount was paid to .ugustine was Ellis' bust : Valley Construction Co. >d what Ellis did with the estern Union wire transrn the Bahamas. But FBI ' said he was unable find ; in Western Union's re- o received a total of $19. ature promoting the 1986 if Pete Fields. Carrsaid. as given $5,000 directly, to be used for printing ?. Ellis said. However, the Packard Press printed the ig a portion of proceeds erfront bond issue, not the Enforcement Administration report. The allegation, made in an interview-with the administration, was - denieefc. Thursday by - a CIA spokesman in Washington, D.C. `The whoie story is nonsense," spokesman Mark. Mansfield said. `We have not trained Guatemalan guemilas on that ranch or anywhere eise." Caro is serving a prison term in Mexico for the murder of U.S. administration agent Enrique Camarena at Caro's home in 1985. The administration report surfaced this week in the U.S. District Court trial of four other men allegedly involved in Camarena s torture and murder. Judge Edward Rafeedie ordered prosecutors to give the report to defense attarneys-.The. Associated. ......... as Laurence Victor Hamson. me newspaper said Harrison ran a communications network for traffickers1and~cohorts in Mexican lawrenforcement in the 1980s. The ranch purportedly used to train guerrillas is in Veracruz. Mexico. The bodies of Camarena and his pilot were found on a ranch near Guadalajara. The informant told the administration on Feb. 9 that the CIA used Mexico's Federal Security Directorate as a cover for the guerrilla camp. `Representatives of the DFS. which was the front for the training camp, were in fact acting in consort with major drug overlords to . ensure a flow of narcotics through Mexico into the United States,"' Harrison said... ifth Ward Alderman dar quin*K^ l**BS*fc i ed to call an ambulance, i friend's house, where she tired but I didn't know it leri said. "I was just wor- :o St. Joseph's Hospital in 'hursaay. nother. expressed great said Keri's actions didn't i she is. If something hap- >ond. I just son of bubbled i is in Carlyle visiting her-- T*;. .... . .. ; NMfrewnocnvOM6MMN)gr HartiganandCerroVicePresidentPaut.Tandlertookatcreek id. Clare Sulic said. j difficult to deal with. She .into being a wife." Sulic lfter remarrying Kenneth ouple regained custody of ter and the three moved to Kenneth Mills couid take a istruction. In June, the `ed back to Caruthersville. wmmmmmmmmmmmm Continued from 1A cleanup would be a top priority of his administration. A state study of Dead Creek contamination took two years and cost $1.3 million. He praised Cerro for entering into the agreement without coercion and for acting quickly to study the type and extent of contamination on Cerro property and for starting a cleanup. Cerro Corp. is providing $12 mil lion to initiate a c!esin,,n n# rwart Creek, widely regarded as the most. - toxic waste site-in Illinois. It's our-. hope, that other property owners in this area and those who have contri-: buted to the contamination will fol-- *. lowsuit"Hartigansaid. - "We realize there was a problem. - with Dead Creek and that over the- years, we-may have been one of the corporations that contributed to the.o problem." said Cerro Vice President Paul Tandier. 1 ------------ --------- ~ o* sqa ptrv saujoia ailiaMatonjug wamtemsamn- STLCOPCB4034777 175281078 ?; POST-DISPhTCH 5FFTLI. 3f V Neil F. Hartigan ILLINOIS ATTORNEY GENERAL p, 1 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Further Information: Jim Leach or Ernie Slottag (217) 782-1973 HARTIGAN NEGOTIATES $12 MILLION CLEANUP AS FART OF DEAD CREEK PROJECT SAUGet, il -- July 5# 1990 -- Illinois Attorney General Neil Haitiyan has reached agreement with one of the companies along the heavily-contaminated Dead creek, in 5t. Clair county, under which the company will initiate a $12 million cleanup of the portion of the creek on company property. The consent decree with Cerro Copper Products Company marks the first settlement between the state and one of the liable parties in Hartigan's ongoing efforts to clean up the site. "This is a milestone for all of us who have worked to repair the decades of environmental abuse that have been inflicted upon this creek," Hartigan said. "To the others who own or contributed hazardous substances to the contaminated properties, Cerro Copper stands as an example. The quicker you move to rectify the hazards on your property, the better off you and every person in this area will be." Dead Creek is widely considered to be the most toxic waste site in Illinois. Contamination in the area dates back to the turn of the century, as the area surrounding Dead Creek became heavily industrialized. For decades, toxic substances were routinely discharged into the creek, and huge landfills were built in the area to accommodate the growing waste disposal needs. The waste and by-products turned Dead Creek and the surrounding area into a "chemical soup" of hazardous substances ranging from PCBs to acids to cyanide. The name Dead Creek is now routinely used to describe the entire area contaminated by the decades-old practices. 0Sw 134820 STLCOPCB4034778 "By the time environmental knowledge became sophisticated enough to realise the dangers of those practices, the damage had been done, and it was left to us to pick up the pieces," Hartigan said. "That has been a monumentally challenging task. Today it is beginning to bear fruit." Cerro Copper has liability for cleanup of its section of Dead Creek under federal and state regulations, although it has only ->><* land ain:e the 1950's. The company voluntarily proposed a plan to clean, up existing contamination, take steps to prevent future contamination in its share of the creek, and repay the state for a share of costs incurred in pursuing the Dead Creek Project. Hartigan, on behalf of the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (IEPA), worked with Cerro to reach the consent decree entered today. Cerro has already undertaken a comprehensive review of that segmont of Dead Creek on Cerro property, and has constructed security fencing and drainage controls to prevent runoff of hasardous wastes into the creek bed. Under terms of the consent decree, Cerro will remove more than 20,000 cubic yards of contaminated sediment from the creek bed and refill the bed with clean soil. The company will also pay a prorated share of the state's investigative and administrative costs in the Dead Creek Project, for a total price tag of approximately 12 million dollars. "Every day that cleanup is delayed, the price tag continues to climb," Hartigan warned. "cerro has taken the responsible action, for its own interests as well as for the community at large. The other property owners in this area and those wno contributed to the contamination have only one clear, responsible course of action, and that is to address this situation now." The Dead Creek Project has been a major Hartigan initiative since he took office in 1983. Progress has been gradual, due to a number of factors, not the least of which was the sheer enormity of the contamination. A state-commissioned study of the area took two ysars and $1.3 million. Even the company's clean-up plan took years to develop. OSW 134821 F -- muds HDjLtusia-isod ~~ ^ 06, a0 inr STLCOPCB4034779 tj f ' 'W U'UX TiJL 0? 'DO 17: Z3 DOST-DISP*TCH SPI-ILL i i'w'w i wuuiv m rmi\J uun P.2 Rased on that study, the Iefa has revised its scoring of the various sites, in an attempt to have them'included in subsequent revisions of the federal Superfund list of environmental cleanup sites. The Dead Creek area previously scored low on Superfund priority because of the limited amount of information available regarding the contamination, the low residential population in the immediate area and the lack of a direct threat to drinking water (the contaminated groundwater does not serve as a potable water supply), Hartigan and the IEPA are still awaiting a decision from usepa on Superfund status for the sites, but Hartigan says continued delays by the federal government should not be an excuse for delay by property owners and other potentially responsible parties in the area. "This problem is not going to go away by itself, and our enforcement efforts are not going to go away either," Hartigan said. DSW 134822 STLCOPCB4034780 BELLEVILLE NEWS DEMOCRAT, September 1, 1984 / EPA plans cleanup of creek By JACK COWAN Of the News-Democrat FAIRMONT CITY -- The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency will begin to clean up Dead Creek in Cahokia next spring. Gov, James R. Thompson said Friday, , Thompson said the site was one of three hazardous waste sites selected for cleanup during this fiscal year under "Clean Illinois," -- a $20 million statewide toxic- waste removal program. The governor announced the cleanup of Dead Creek during a press conference at the LaMear landfill site m Fairmont City, where the state completed its first cleanup under the two-month-old program. Standing against a backdrop of trucks filled with the last loads of waste from the site. Thompson said the completion of the cleanup was the first step in a new effort to prevent Illinois from becoming a dumping ground for hazadous wastes. "I believe the people of Illinois want a cleaner environment for their children and their grandchil dren." he said. "There is no reason whv >ve can't have a full and productive economy with all that entails and the safe disposal of toxic wastes." In June, the state Legislature, at Thompson s urging, approved the "Clean Illinois" program, designed to # See CREEK'3A Creek-- Continued from 1A cleanup hazadous waste sites over a three-year period. Many of those sites have been identified as serious sources of envi ronmental contamination, but were not considered serious enough in comparison with other sites to war rant use of federal funds for cleanup, Thompson said. Both Dead Creek and the LaMear site, located north of the Fairmont City Golf Course, were considered for federal emergency cleanup funds, but were ranked near the bottom third of a priority list compiled by state officials in 1982. Thompson said the use of state funds to clean up hazardous waste sites does not mean the state will drop efforts to force companies to pay cleanup costs. "The $20 million 'superfund' should be used as a last resort and the responsibility for the cleanup should rest with those responsible," he said. "We are willing to go through the courts to do that, but we don't believe we can wait while that is done." New legislation that took effect Jan. 1 allows the state to recover up to three times the costs for removing hazardous wastes, if companies ac cused of illegal dumping refuse to cooperate, IEPA Director Richard Carlson said during the press conference. Thompson said the LaMear site was chosen as the first site for the cleanup because it could be quickly cleared of hazardous waste. More than 138 illegally discarded barrels and drums were hauled from the site to a hazardous waste landfill in Peoria by Petrochem of Lemont, 111. IEPA samples taken from the LaMear site in 1981 showed the pre sence of xylene, benzenes and phen ols in and around the drums. The chemicals often are used in pe troleum fuels, paints and solvents. The LaMear cleanup cost about rA.OOO, but Thompson said efforts to remove toxic wastes from Dead i.'reek would probably cost 10 times as much. Approximately 20 hazardous hemicals. including concentrations of polychlorinated biphenols (PCBs), phosphorous and dioxin, have been found along the five-mile stretch of creek in Cahokia, according to IEPA surveys. OSlnt 134823 STLCOPCB4034781 STLCOPCB4034782 : -v : ij. c... ST.LOUIS POST-DISPATCH MSO SPORTS ... PAGES 5-6 , . . y . f '*T: ; r ` ,V ' * * . V1' - f \ <-i MONDAY, MAY 30, ,1988 i : . . Ml y ` t vV: ;;r - VV ' ' V :-' 1 W/S-4V '. .: ~ ,Y.\. .vi Monsantoa, Officials To SECTION c'-u <'' i - !" . : By Biil Vogier . . .. ,. . .r> i'I : -.t ' - r* - . ' . . .. A Monsanto spokesman said the " Of the Pott-Dispatch Staff . . : firm hoped that the study would Representatives of the IUinoir -- "provide useful data on the Sauget Environmental Protection Agency i- * area." .; and Monsanto Co. are scheduled to The meeting, to which Monsanto meet June 8 in the Sauget Village : may invite other area firms, Is the Hall to discuss findings of heavy : .latest step in the formulation of re hazardous waste contamination in . medial action plans, which proba- . the Sauget area. An IEPA spokesman said the < . bly will be very costly. ...i. "It's our understanding that the meeting would be closed because ' Sauget sites go -way beyond the "we could be.talking about some - state's ability to finance a cleanup," enforcement sensitive matters." said Casteel. "It's too big, (Involves) However, Robert Casteel, an too many sites and too much con IEPA "public information officer, tamination." He said the state emphasized that "in no way are we would consider the possibility of assessing blame" In meeting with obtaining federal Superfunds to Monsanto to review the findings of a study commissioned by the IEPA " deal with the 'r The study site. that ` will . be ' discussed in November 1985 of 18 sites in the at (he June 8 meeting was done by Sauget area. , Ecology and Environment Inc., of Buffalo, N.Y.; one of the hation's 0 leading environmental study firms. ^ Casteel said it showed soil and , . water contamination by heavy met- " als. Industrial wastes and materials associated with industrial solvents. Asked if the study Results showed a serious problem, 'Casteel replied: "Environmentally speaking, yes (and) from a pubiic; health and safety standpolnt 'it has that potential." ' Following the June 8 meeting, the study will be made available to the public in meetings, Casteel said. He said it also' would be placed somewhere, such as in a public li brary, for public examination. Casteel'Said the IEPA would seek information from Monsanto and other firms concerning the prod 5Casteel stressed that action cou be taken at any time by the IEP ^ It's our understanding that the Sauget sites and the public Health Departme "if there is a spill or accident" go way beyond the state's ability to finance a ,, cleanup. It's too big, (involves) too many sites 1 and too much co, n. taminati.o. n, ff ' '' : 'V The study,findings also are belt ' , reviewed by; the Illinois Depar men! of Public Health, according' Toni Long, a department toxicc oglst The department is "looking: ROBERT CASTEEL, IEPA spokesman ;; / it from a public health point * view," Lbhg said. : yi'i' ' Long said a public health evalu tion of the study findings wou take six to eight months. If the pu ucts they produce and the chemi cals they employ. He said some of the materials found in the study map out remedial plans based on cleanup options and objectives, Casteel said. Unless an emergency lie health study "Identifies what at -.onsidered significant potential t actual exposure to hazardoi were "substances that are not char developed prior to this stage, the . chemicals, or other substances acteristic of current manufacturing cleanup then would get under way. actual health: problems",- then operations. We do not know where The effort could be financed by a comprehensive survey, lncludh they came from." combination of state, federal and door-to-door surveys and medic The agency then would begin to Industry funds, Casteel said. - See MEETING, Page Meelihg From page one ; examination of area res idents could be made, Long said. The Sauget site was placed on (lie IF.PA's "Superfund" list in 1985, Cas teel said. Currently, the Illinois Su per fund consists of $90 million, which Is to provide for cleanup efforts through 1990. Casteel said. Although It Is loo early to put a price tag on any remedial plan for the Sauget sites, Casteel said the IF.PA was considering seeking feder al Superfunds, which are much great er (Iran those of Illinois. However, the U.S. EPA Is revising ils system for scoring hazardous waste sites to determine which ones would qualify for federal Superfund aid, Casteel said. The IEPA will up hold anv application for federal aid until the federal scoring revisions nre completed, he said. In another environmental matter, St. Clair County and slate authorities and Browning Ferris Industries are involved in the recovery and assess ment of drums found in BFl's Modern Landfill soutli of Belleville. The 110gallon drums are believed to contain parachloroanaline. Kevin Hutchison, director of llie St. Clair County Health Department, said a laboratory report on samples from the barrels was expected In about a week. Hutchison said parachloroanaiine "may be fatal if inhaled, swal lowed or absorbed through the skin." Hutchison said state and local au thorities were Interested in the ef fects Hie matter in the drums could have on landfill workers as well as the general public if (he material geLs Into ground water. Some of the bar rels leaked, he said. However, he noted that no material from the drums had been detected tn monitoring wells near the landfill, which was required by the IEPA. Four drums initially were found by workers at Hie site In May 1986 and eight more were found in January 1987. At (hat point, Hutchison said, SI. Clair County Slate's Attorney John Baricevlc called for the IEPA to work with BFI for a "comprehensive search" of the landfill. This resulted in 26 more barrels being found last week. Hutchison said Hie barrels were of a type that had been manufactured in (lie 1940s and 1950s. They were bur ied deep In the ground in areas where there are no records of any landfill activity when BFI acquired the site, Hutchison said. Casteel said BFI had nolifled the IEPA in May 1986 when the firm first found the drums. "They have been very good," Casteel said. "We have been working with (he company and they have been extremely coopera tive with us about finding the drums." The searcli for the drums involves use of a magnetic device that detects metats in soils, Hutchison said. The search at the landfill is continuing. DSW 1 3 4 8 2 5 TSr than exelected an oil storage tank was formerly located, site because trace amounts of dioxin were ion at p in Sauget fThese,findings CpUse, he Said. The tank had been used by Russell : BlisS, an Ellisville, Mb., wastenril dealer ii.Mi.T- ulAU tr. daiionvxlirni crnonn. found. . Construction of the new sewage treaty ment plant building; located several. ccern,s5i41^9bt}djBfelijt'pev;erjiapethat, ' taiiina^oii^-.S^oral sites.fa_Missnuri. thousand feet south of the area where. fiwli inv6lti|bti6hWin be conductjil," said' jjjemfnois Attorney Geneiral's office has dioxin has been found, will continue;, t;E^t^Ctiop ft'y-tbajt some . Mprthe Sauget. ' contain conceit per billion <? i,hav fa part ; dotisfp . Sfr- I&PA Director Ric.haf-d, Jt. Carl ^ suit agqjnst Bliss and his son's firm^. ' Despite the hlgb.OTicen(Tdti( qf.diox- 1 jerry Russell Bliss Inc., in connection wittr*- in,' the situation was calfed/i- the dioxin cont^rn'inaUnm, : ! problem'; byp rfegibbaj IEI'A.ty t'U's in what' I iWould' jjfescr localizedarea,"saifl Kenneth JWei * ipu, - V .>r . *. ,, . . \. as o ~']hs d r^nxlt of1^be.ftodin|s,:ajnstruction , V wor|cwi|fTOnt^U^ioljbdblbye(lbrionj;part JgPA re$ioiiaK&pd Bpitoiflffc* mPUaDnaSgKe6rf. T^uhe aaiiooxxmlri%IS Ifccbt introi'j1 mpW regionalj'twage 1in|1 aaUn: '1 . ^trw^twmww^vj^lwItit1.'^*nsjiw<tbdp?ncre-*"" ' r* approximately 300 bquarfr-fbot area where ' * pjonihagbUn a pumjp statto? at the officials said. Asked whether the dioxin, problem wilt delay construction of the entire project, Sauget village spokesman.J Harold Baker said Friday, "at this junc-,.[ ture, I don't think so.' Village of Sauget officials were.toi$y during a meeting Friddy to come up with a " rp,lManU two udveuall w",iVtMh tMh,ve' rp`roblem. .|'j( ; w talked abojd aj9j of things, and thg . .f * *WiW-`**^* *'* -- 'V V '' ' ' ' ... " ;e will come back with a plan, which [be reviewed, and then we'll come up follow-up tasks. We wljl meet again _ week,'' he said. Sensing said any plan "wil! include kind of cleanup, but as to what form taka, it's too early to talk about that." fhe 20 soil sample results announced ,13 contained dioxin concentrations part per bijiion pr less, while seven jjies showed concentrations ranging ft 1 pj ^.paft^pefWliph, The type of finfoundU kiiovri as, TCCp 2-3-7-S, 1 is described as being the most toxic 1 produced................. 'O <v CO 3C v> Q Friday, March 11,1983 .News-Democrat Page 3, Section A t Friedrich wants ticket rules eased Page 5A. Obituaries, weather, farm markets. Page 9A. Parents hope for miracle to save child. Page 10A Dioxin fears halt some Sauget By J.G. MATY : Of the News-Democrat SAUGET -- Due to possible dioxin con tamination, construction has been halted on one phase of a $100 million regional sewage treatment plant in Sauget. State officials, meanwhile, are calling the latest testing for dioxin contamination at the site inconclusive, and are planning to gather more test samples todetermine the extent of possible contamination. Illinois Environmental Protection Agency officials said Thursday they will gather 10 more soil samples from an area war the present Sailed sewage (reatment plant,on Mobile Avenue west of Illinois 3. Tire third round of samples to be taken are needed to clear up "inconclusive results" from earlier tests, officials said. "They're inconclusive enough that they don't really mean anything. It's nothing you can hang your hat on and say one thing or another," said Kenneth Monsing, the lEPA's regional land pollution control manager. Brcausc of the concern alKiut the pre sence of dioxin, Sauget village officials have told one contractor to halt excavation work related to construction of the plant. Village attorney Harold Uakor said MelmkarripConstruclion Co. of Wrxid River has l>een fold lo discontinue excavation in an 'area just west of the present sewage treatment plant. "I've asked I lelmkamploslop work until we get further information," Baker said. Tile firm was excavating al the site where a pump station is to lie built. The order does not affect excavation at ttresiteof the new treatment plant building itself, to be built south of the present treatment plant. That area is not believed to lie contaminated and is some distance from the pump station site. When completed sometime in I!(I5G, (lie new American Bottoms Regional Sewage Treatment Plant will replan? outdated sewage facilities in East St. l.ouis. Calm- kia, Sauget, Ontrevillc, Alorton and un incorporated areas of Centreville Township. The new samples will tie taken in the next three or four days, and results may he available within two weeks. Mousing said. Tlie IEPA in Springfield would not release details of 10 tf'.st samples taken in February. Small traces of dioxin were found at two locations near the sewage plant, the IEPA announced Eeb. I t. More samples were taken Eeb. lit in an effort to determine the extent of the contamination. IEPA spokesman Boh Casteel said samples tested by a laboratory in Madison, Wis.. are the suuree of doubts about the situation. "We have some questions about the procedures used, and whether the information is even accurate. Rather than release mmilicrs, we've decided to re sample and try to get some accurate statistics." Casteel would mil disclose specific re sults of the tests, except In say "all the samples were clear except our, and that is fll/./.V." Results from samples taken by a testing firm hired by tin* village of Sauget also were not dis< losed. tint olfici i!s said those tests did not match results from the Wisconsin tali. Differences in the results were not the sole reason for the doiib among IEPA officials, Casteel said "As sixm as we got lliem in. we ?aw I), the analysis was inconclusive." he said results from the Wisconsin laic "The da we got didn't ((infirm anything." State offii ials have linked dioxin I mi ml the Sauget site to a sloiage tank fn lnrl used bv Russell Bliss, the Mi.smi, waste ml dealer suspected r( dl -pte i dioxin laced ml at several -.lies in Mi am The si, lie lias filed Mill agamsl Hire, and 1 son's firm, .lorry Russell HIi -: m. connection with dioxin and id B-. ......I the site.