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                  LEMON LAND LANDFILL - STATUS

Fall 1996

Westinghouse has prepared a sampling plan for Lemon Lane Landfill, 
the following organizations have prepared written comments
critical of this plan: EPA, Earth Tech, City of Bloomington, IDEM, 
and COPA. The sampling plan and all of the comments listed ablove
can be viewed on the COPA BBS or COPA Web site (copa.org), or these
files can be downloaded using this BBS or the Internet (FTP, Telnet, WWW)

   >>> It is important that you read these files and
       voice your opinions at the Public Meeting to be
       held in Bloomington October 29, 1996



Winter 1995-1996

EPA is currently advocating "hot spot" removal at Lemon Lane Landfill.  
It appears that this activity would be limited to areas of known or
suspected PCB capacitor disposal, and only waste with more than
400 ppm PCBs would be removed.  The 400 ppm level is arbitrary (not
based on risk assessment, regulatory requirements or formal guidance).

Another round of residential well sampling is planned. 

No remedial activities for the Illinois Central/Quarry Spring are
planned.


Spring/Summer 1995

Significant PCB contamination was detected in sediment and water at
Illinois Central/Quarry Spring. This is believed to be a 
major underground conduit  transporting leachate from Lemon Lane
Landfill.  A fence was erected around the springs to prevent 
children from playing at the springs, but no soil/sediment removal
activities are planned, and no water collection/treatment 
activities are planned.

Residential wells within 5000 feet of Lemon Lane Landfill will be 
were identified and sampled by Westinghouse and EPA in September 1995.
See the article in the Herald Times August 30 for more information.
The water was tested for PCBs, and some samples were also tested for
dioxins and other contaminants. The results are available at the 
library for now, but we will have them on the BBS as soon as possible.

The consent decree parties are negotiating site investigation and
remedy development activities for Lemon Lane Landfill.  To this
end, Westinghouse produced a multi-volume work plan in March 1995
addressing quality assurance, field sampling, and health &
safety. This document is referred to as the "QAPP".

EPA will collect and split (share) "the majority of"
sediment, surface water and groundwater samples collected by
Westinghouse.  Westinghouse will analyze for PCBs and EPA will
analyze for inorganics and other organics, including dioxins and
furans.

The DRAFT report describing EPA's oversight role was produced
3/31/95 and can be viewed on-line in the Lemon Lane-EPA sub menu.
This document is called the "mini-QAPP".
It can also be downloaded from the BBS_FILE file library (filename
QA1_29.txt). The version of this draft document available on the
BBS does not include figures, tables or appendices, but the
original document is available at the EPA information office.

EPA also produced a draft conceptual sampling plan for testing the
fill material in Lemon Lane - it is unclear when or if this plan will
be finalized.  It involves limited sampling to identify "hot spots", 
generally defined as fill with more than 400 ppm PCBs (an arbitrary
number - not based on risk assessment, regulations or formal guidance.)

COPA's Technical Advisors have reviewed the EPA mini-QAPP and the EPA 
conceptual sampling plan.  Their comments can be viewed on-line by
selecting "COPA information" in the Lemon Lane section. COPA is
currently reviewing the Westinghouse QAPP and comments will be 
available soon.  Unfortunately, the QAPP itself is not available on disk 
and cannot be viewed on-line at this time.