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DePue/New Jersey Zinc/Mobil Chemical Corp.

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Community Involvement Coordinator
Patricia Krause (krause.patricia@epa.gov)
312-886-9506 or 800-621-8431, ext. 69506, 9 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. CST

Remedial Project Manager
Colleen Moynihan (moynihan.colleen@epa.gov)
312-353-8196 or 800-621-8431, ext. 38196

Community Relations Coordinator Illinois EPA
Jay Timm
(jay.timm@illinois.gov)
217-557-4972

Program Manager Illinois EPA
Charlene Falco
(charlene.falco@illinois.gov)
217-785-2891

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Selby Township LIbrary District
101 Depot St.

DePue, IL 61322

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Background

The DePue/NewJersey Zinc/Mobile Chemical Site is about 950 acres that had at one time contained a primary zinc smelting facility and a phosphate fertilizer plant. The area is contaminated with elevated levels of metals that includes zinc, lead, arsenic, cadmium, chromium and copper. The site has been secured, a dust control program was put in place, and a water treatment plant was constructed to treat water discharging to Lake DePue.  

Illinois Environmental Protection Agency which is the lead enforcement agency for this site, gathered soil, sediment, wastewater and surface water samples. Based on sampling results IEPA signed a formal legal agreement with a group of potentially responsible parties known as the DePue Group to perform various investigations and cleanup actions. The potentially responsible parties are former owners and/or operators of the site.

Separate cleanup activities have been separated into five areas known as operable units as follows:

  1. Operable Unit 1, south ditch
  2. Operable Unit 2, phosphate/gypsum landfill
  3. Operable Unit 3, former plant site area
  4. Operable Unit 4, off-site soils
  5. Operable Unit 5, DePue Lake sediment and floodplain

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Site Updates

July 2011

A risk assessment for Operable Unit 5 and site cleanup options are being developed because of a concentration of metals found in the DePue Lake sediment and floodplain.

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