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With $3.6 million in federal Superfund money, Illinois EPA is beginning remedial
cleanup activities at Granite City’s abandoned Jennison-Wright site.
Jennison-Wright is an abandoned 20-acre railroad tie treating facility located
on West 22nd Street in Granite City, Illinois, and has been on the Superfund
National Priorities List since June 1996. The site contains 5,600 cubic yards
of dioxin-contaminated soil, as well as highly contaminated groundwater, below
the site.
The Illinois EPA will:
The Illinois EPA has already cleared the site, demolished and removed two silos and several buildings, completed asbestos removal and removed numerous piles of scrap metal, concrete, wood and trash and approximately 5,000 feet of steel tram rail. Once this phase is completed, the estimated cost to complete the entire site remediation will total approximately $13 million.
Operations at the facility began prior to 1921 and continued until 1989, with three separate companies operating at the site. Jennison-Wright Corporation filed for bankruptcy in November 1989 and the site has remained vacant since 1990.
Without federal funding from the Superfund program, the site would not be cleaned up. Since there are no viable potentially responsible parties, 90 percent of funding for cleanup efforts must be obtained through the U.S. EPA, with the state providing a 10 percent match. BFN
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