# JOLIET ARMY AMMO PLT - LOAD ASSEMBLY PACKING AREA
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1985 · — · —
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `25814`
- **Case Number:** 05-1985-0562
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** —
- **Penalty assessed:** $0
- **Cost recovery:** $0
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- JOLIET ARMY AMMO PLT
## Summary

SITE DESCRIPTION:                                                 THE JOLIET ARMY AMMUNITION PLANT (JAAP) IS AN ARMY      MUNITIONS INSTALLATION LOCATED IN NORTHEASTERN ILLINOIS NEAR CHICAGO.  THE LOAD-ASSEMBLY-PACKING AREA (LAP AREA) OCCIPIES ABOUT 14,000 ACRES OF JAAP EAST OF ILLINOIS STATE HIGHWAY    53.  PRODUCTION ACTIVITIES THAT WERE CARRIED OUT IN THE LAP  AREA DURING ITS OPERATING LIFE FROM THE EARLY 1940'S TO      1977 INCLUDE LOADING, ASSEMBLING AND PACKAGING OF HIGH       EXPLOSIVE ARTILLERY PROJECTILES, AERIAL BOMBS AND A VARIETY  OF AMMUNITION COMPONENT ITEMS.  AMMUNITION TESTING, PRO-     JECTILE WASHOUT AND RENOVATION, EXPLOSIVES BURNING AND       DEMOLITION WAS ALSO DONE IN THE LAP AREA.  SINCE 1977 JAAP   HAS BEEN MAINTAINED IN NON-OPERATING STANDBY CONDITION BY    THE CONTRACTOR/OPERATOR (UNIROYAL, INC.).                         ARMY  INSTALLATION RESOTRATION  STUDIES HAVE DOCUMENTED GROUNDWATER AND SURFACE WATER RELEASES OF MUNITIONS-RELATED  CONTAMINANTS, INCLUDING TNT, DNT AND HEAVY METALS, ATTI-     BUTABLE TO LAP AREA PRODUCTION ACTIVITIES.  THE MAIN WASTE   WATER SOURCE FOR THE LAP AREA WAS  PINK WATER  RESULTING     FROM WASHOUT OF REJECTED BOMBS AND FROM WASHING OF EQUIP-    MENT AND FLOORS.  EVIDENCE OF MUNITIONS-RELATED CONTAIMINA-  TION HAS BEEN FOUND IN GROUNDWATER MONITORING WELLS LOCATED  NEAR A FORMER WASHOUT FACILITY LEACHING POND.  MUNITIONS-    RELATED CONTAMINATION HAS ALSO BEEN FOUND IN PRAIRIE CREEK   AND DOYLE LAKE SEDIMENTS.

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