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Former Chamberlain Manufacturing Facility Site in Waterloo, Iowa

Public Availability Meeting on May 29

EPA will hold a public availability meeting to give residents affected by the environmental work at the former Chamberlain Manufacturing facility site the opportunity to receive information and have questions answered. The meeting will be held Wednesday, May 29, 2013, from 7 to 9 p.m. at St. Paul’s Church, 207 W. Louise Street, Waterloo, Iowa.

For more information, please contact Beckie Himes, Community Involvement Coordinator, Office of Public Affairs, EPA Region 7, 11201 Renner Boulevard, Lenexa, KS 66219; phone: 913-551-7253 or toll-free at 800-223-0425.

EPA Region 7 is committed to providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the meeting, please notify the EPA Reasonable Accommodations Coordinator, Jonathan Cooper, at 800-223-0425 or cooper.jonathan@epa.gov. Speech or hearing impaired individuals should email or call using the local relay service.

The former Chamberlain Manufacturing facility is located at 550 Esther Street in Waterloo, Iowa. The facility manufactured metal washer wringers, aluminum awnings, refrigerator shelves, and metal projectile parts at the 23-acre site. The former owner ceased operations at the facility in the 1990s. In 2005, the city of Waterloo purchased the site. Since that time, the city has been working cooperatively with EPA, Iowa Department of Natural Resources (IDNR), and Chamberlain Manufacturing to complete the investigation of the site. The city of Waterloo has received Brownfields Cleanup Grant funding to perform site investigation and remediation activities at the site. The city has completed extensive sampling of soil and groundwater, asbestos abatement, and removal of all building structures at the site. At the same time, Chamberlain Manufacturing has contributed to site investigations by performing additional groundwater and soil sampling.

EPA Region 7 issued Chamberlain Manufacturing a Unilateral Administrative Order in 2010. As required by the Order, Chamberlain Manufacturing has developed work plans for determining the extent of vapor intrusion of volatile organic compounds into homes and methods to reduce it, and has started vapor intrusion sampling and specific activities to correct it. Chamberlain Manufacturing also completed a test needed to better understand the movement of groundwater at the site.

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