# WAUCONDA SAND & GRAVEL CONSENT DECREE (CERCLA)
> **Judicial** · FY1993 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `28400`
- **Case Number:** 05-1993-0863
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** $0
- **Cost recovery:** $566K
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- BASIC ELECTRONICS MFG. CORP . (complaint) (settlement)
- BROWNING-FERRIS INDUSTRIES OF ILL., INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- CHROMA CORPOARTION (complaint) (settlement)
- DEARBORN DIVISION, W.R. GRACE & CO. (complaint) (settlement)
- EXXON CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- H. B. FULLER  COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- HONEYWELL, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- I.B. DISTRIBUTORS, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- INK SPECIALTIES CO., INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- JENSEN DISPOSAL (complaint) (settlement)
- JOHN OBENAUF (NOW DECEASED) (complaint) (settlement)
- MAIL-WELL ENVELOPE CO. (complaint) (settlement)
- MORTON INTERNATIONAL, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- VILLAGE OF WAUCONDA(AN IL MUNICIPAL CORP (complaint) (settlement)
- WASTE MANAGEMENT OF ILLINOIS, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- WAUCONDA SAND & GRAVEL CO. (complaint) (settlement)
- WELLS MANUFACTURING CO. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

THE SITE IS LOCATED IN LAKE COUNTY, ILLINOIS             (APPROXIMATELY ONE TO ONE-HALF MILES NORTH OF THE VILLAGE OF WAUCONDA AND THREE MILES EAST OF THE VILLAGE OF ISLAND       LAKE), AND REALLY OCCUPIES APPROXIMATELY 74 ACRES. PRIOR AND UP TO APPROXIMATELY 1941, SAND AND GRAVEL PIT OPERATIONS     WERE CONDUCTED AT THE SITE.  SUBSEQUENTLY, FROM THE EARLY    1940S UNTIL 1978, LANDFILL OPERATIONS WERE CONDUCTED AT THE  SITE, DURING WHICH TIME VARIOUS RESIDENTIAL, MUNICIPAL,      COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL WASTES WERE DISPOSED OF AT THE     SITE.  IN 1978, LANDFILL OPERATIONS AT THE SITE PERMANENTLY  CEASED.                                                      IN 1983, AS A RESULT OF INVESTIGATIONS AND STUDIES CONDUCTED BY THE ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY ( IEPA ) AND U.S. EPA WHICH INDICATED THE ACTUAL OR THREATENED RELEASE OF HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES, THE SITE WAS PLACED ON THE NATIONAL    PRIORITIES LIST.  LATER THAT YEAR, U.S. EPA INITIATED A      REMEDIAL INVESTIGATION ( RI ) AND A FEASIBILITY STUDY        ( FS ).  U.S. EPA COMPLETED THE RI IN AUGUST, 1984 AND THE   FS IN AUGUST, 1985.  ON SEPTEMBER 30, 1985, U.S. EPA SIGNED  A RECORD OF DECISION ( ROD ) WHICH, IN ACCORD WITH THE       RI/FS, REQUIRED THAT INTERIM REMEDIAL MEASURES BE            UNDERTAKEN, INCLUDING REPAIR OF AN EXISTING LANDFILL CAP AND INSTALLATION OF BOTH A LEACHATE COLLECTION SYSTEM AND A      PERIMETER FENCE AROUND THE SITE.  IN ADDITION, THE ROD       REQUIRED THAT A SUPPLEMENTAL RI/FS ( SRI

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