# VULCAN LOUISVILLE SMELTING COMPANY - VACANT LOT
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2000 · — · —
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `32496`
- **Case Number:** 05-2000-0491
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** —
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- BREMS REALTY, L.L.C. (settlement)
- CHICAGO TITLE AND TRUST COMPANY
- DOROTHY STACK SPAULDING
- EMCO CHEMICAL DISTRIBUTORS, INC. (settlement)
- JOHN F. STACK RESIDUARY TRUST
- JOHN STACK, JR.;
- LAND TRUST NO 40966
- MARY STACK
- THE NORTHERN TRUST COMPANY
- VACANT LOT SITE, NORTH CHICAGO, ILLINOIS (settlement)
## Summary

VULCAN LOUISVILLE SMELTING COMANY (AKA THE VACANT LOT)       NORTH CHICAGO, LAKE COUNTY, ILLINOIS                         CERCLIS ID #ILD-097-271-563; SITE SPILL ID# A527               DESCRIPTION:                                               THE SITE IS A 6.4-ACRE PARCEL OF LAND LOCATED AT THE NORTH-  EAST CORNER OF COMMONWEALTH AVENUE AND 22ND STREET IN NORTH  CHICAGO, LAKE COUNTY, ILLINOIS.  THE SITE IS TRANSECTED BY   PETTIBONE CREEK, AN INTERMITTENT WATER BODY THAT LIES IN A   RELATIVELY STEEP-SIDED RAVINE, AND ORIGINATES AT THE NORTH-  WEST BOUNDARY OF SITE.  THE CREEK FLOWS TO SOUTH ON SITE,    AND EAST TO FINALLY MERGE INTO LAKE MICHIGAN (1.5 MILES FROM SITE).                                                         BACKGROUND:                                                THE SITE WAS UTILIZED BY NEARBY INDUSTRIES FOR WASTE DISPO-  SAL.  THE SOURCE, QUANTITY, AND NATURE OF MATERIALS BROUGHT  TO SITE WAS NOT WELL DOCUMENTED. REPORTS OF FOUNDRY SAND AND TAILINGS DEPOSITION AT SITE IS CONSISTENT WITH DESCRIPTIONS  OF MATERIALS OBSERVED ON SITE.  NUMEROUS SAMPLING EVENTS     WERE CONDUCTED AT SITE SINCE 1984 BY STATE AND LOCAL OFFI-   CIALS.  ELEVATED LEVELS OF HEAVY METALS, CHLORINATED SOLVENT S, PAHS, PESTICIDES, AND PCBS WERE DETECTED IN ON-SITE SOIL  SAMPLES.  IN SEPTEMBER 1994, U.S. EPA CONDUCTED A SITE       ASSESSMENT AT REQUEST OF ILLINOIS EPA.  SEVERAL SOIL AND SED IMENT SAMPLES WERE COLLECTED, INCLUDING SAMPLES FROM LOCA-   TION OF PREVIOUS UNDERGROUND FIRE IN

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