# LENZ OIL SERVICE, INC. CONSENT DECREE (CERCLA)
> **Judicial** · FY2001 · — · —
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `33056`
- **Case Number:** 05-2001-0420
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** —
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- A & W AUTO TIRES & SERVICE (complaint) (settlement)
- AAMCO TRANSMISSION, AURORA (R.R.E.W.) (complaint) (settlement)
- AAMCO TRANSMISSION, CHICAGO HEIGHTS (complaint) (settlement)
- AAMCO TRANSMISSION, DES PLAINES (complaint) (settlement)
- AAMCO TRANSMISSION, LISLE (complaint) (settlement)
- AIR LIQUIDE AMERICA CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- AIR LIQUIDS CORP. (complaint) (settlement)
- ALL BRAKE AND DRIVE UNIT SERVICE, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- ALLIED TUBE AND CONDUIT (complaint) (settlement)
- ALPHA CONSTRUCTION CO., ET AL.
- ALPHA CONSTRUCTION COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- ARTIM TRANSPORTATION (complaint) (settlement)
- BFI WASTE SYSTEMS OF NORTH AMERICA, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- BILL STILLWELL BUICK, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- BIRKEY'S FARM STORE, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- BONCOSKY TRANSPORTATION, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- BORG PONTIAC-GMC TRUCK, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- BOWER MOTORS (complaint) (settlement)
- BUTLER AVIATION INTERNATIONAL, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- CARDOX CORPORATION, MERGED INTO LIQUID
- CHEESEMAN CHEVRLOT, OLDSMOBILE BUICK (complaint) (settlement)
- COCA-COLA BOTTLING CO. OF CHICAGO (complaint) (settlement)
- COMMONWEALTH EDISON COMPANY ( COMED ) (complaint) (settlement)
- CROWN CORK AND SEAL COMPANY INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- DICK JAMES FORD COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- DOMBROWSKI & HOMES, INC.
- EXOLON-ESK COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- FLEXIBLE STEEL LACING COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- HARCROS CHEMICALS INC (complaint) (settlement)
- HENRY TECHNOLOGIES, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- HONDO, INC.
- HOWARD PONTIAC, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- INTERNATIONAL TRUCK AND ENGINE CORP. (complaint) (settlement)
- JACOBS' TWIN BUICK, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- JEFFERSON SMURFIT CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- JOE MADDEN FORD, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- KAYSER FORD, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- KMART CORPORATION
- KRANZ SERVICE INC., JOHN KRANZ, AND TOM (complaint) (settlement)
- LAKAR ENTERPRISES, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- LAKAR ENTERPRISES, INC., D/B/A ROMINES
- LAURA MOTORS INCORPORATED (complaint) (settlement)
- LAUREL MOTORS, INC.
- LEWIS UNIVERSITY AVIATION SERVICES (complaint) (settlement)
- MADISON GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- MCALLISTER EQUIPMENT COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- MCGILL MANUFACTURING COMPANY, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- NORTHERN ILLINOIS PUBLIC SERVICE (complaint) (settlement)
- NORTHERN INDIANA PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- O-E ILLINOIS, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

LENZ OIL SERVICES, INC., WHICH IS NOW DEFUNCT, OPERATED A    WASTE OIL AND SOLVENT RECYCLING, STORAGE AND TRANSFER FACILI TY FROM APPROXIMATELY 1961 TO 1985.  THE LENZ OIL SITE IS    LOCATED IN AN UNINCORPORATED AREA OF SOUTHWEST DU PAGE       COUNTY, APPROXIMATELY TWO MILES NORTHEAST OF THE VILLAGE OF  LEMONT, ILLINOIS, TWO MILES SOUTH OF THE VILLAGE OF BURR     RIDGE, ILLINOIS, AND ONE MILE EAST OF ARGONNE NATIONAL       LABORATORY.  THE FACILITY PROPERTY WEHRE LENZ OPERATED IS    BOUNDED BY JEANS ROAD TO THE SOUTH, ROUTE 83 TO THE WEST,    OPEN LAND TO THE EAST, AND THE ATCHISON, TOPEKA, AND SANTA   FE RAILROAD TO THE NORTH.  THE LENZ OIL SITE CONSISTS OF THE LENZ OIL FACILITY PROPERTY AND CONTIGUOUS PROPERTY CONTAIN-  ING CONTAMINATION ORGINATING FROM THE LENZ OIL PROPERTY.       CURRENTLY, SHALLOW AQUIFER CONTAMINATION EXTENDS FROM THE  LENZ OIL PROPERTY'S SOUTHERN EDGE SOUTH TO APPROXIMATELY 250 FEET SOUTH OF JEAN ROAD, COVERING AN AREA OF APPROXIMATELY   1.5 ACRES.  APPROXIMATELY 400 FEET FURTHER SOUTHEAST IS THE  CLOSEST SIGNIFICANT SURFACE WATER BODY, THE DES PLAINES      RIVER.  RECORDS INDICATE THAT A SIGNIFICANT PORTION OF THE   LENZ OIL SITE IS PART OF THE DES PLAINES RIVER'S 100-YEAR    FLOOD PLAIN.  THERE ARE ALSO THREE ISOLATED SOIL CONTAMINA-  TION AREAS: (1) A DITCH ALONG THE NORTHERN EDGE OF THE FACI- LITY, (2) SOILS SURROUNDING A MONITORING WELL WITHIN THE     EMERGENCY RESPONSE EXCAVATION AREA, AND (3) SOILS ALONG THE  SOUTHERN EDGE OF THE PROPERTY.      

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