Muskego Sanitary Landfill

Site Information

Muskego, WI (Waukesha County)
EPA ID# WID000713180
NPL Narrative
NPL Factsheet
CERCLIS listing
Alias(es): Wauer Landfill, Allied Waste System
Enviromapper map

Contact Information

Community Involvement Coordinator
Susan Pastor (pastor.susan@epa.gov)
312-353-1325 or 800-621-8431, ext. 31325

Remedial Project Manager
Jeff Gore
(gore.jeffrey@epa.gov)
312-886-6552 or 800-621-8431, ext. 6652

Assistant Regional Counsel
Tom Krueger
(krueger.thomas@epa.gov)
312-886-0562 or 800-621-8431, ext. 60562

Repositories

(where to view written records)

Muskego Public Library
S73W16663 Janesville Rd
Muskego, WI

Links

1994 Public Health Assessment

DHFS fact sheet for vinyl chloride

EPA Superfund Home Page
Region 5 Superfund
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Agency for Toxic Substances & Disease Registry

Background

The Muskego Sanitary Landfill is a 56-acre site that was the location of a former landfill, animal-rendering plant and gravel quarry in Muskego, Wisconsin. EPA has been overseeing a cleanup done by site owner Waste Management of Wisconsin, Inc. and several other companies that sent industrial waste to the landfill or used hazardous substances on site. They are all considered to be responsible for environmental problems at the site. (more...)

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Site Updates

March 2012

The United States District Court in Milwaukee approved a legal document called a consent decree on July 21, 2011. Under this consent decree, four companies (Waste Management of Wisconsin, Inc., ArcelorMittal Mortgage Acceptance, Inc., General Electric Co., and PPG Industries, Inc.) will clean up the site as outlined in a document called an Explanation of Significant Differences (19pp, 2.22MB) issued in September 2010.

Last December, EPA approved the companies’ work plan dated November 2011. According to the schedule outlined in the work plan, the companies will begin work this year (under EPA supervision) to:

Complete construction of eight additional ground water monitoring wells south, southeast and east of the landfill to be incorporated into the ongoing monitoring program at the site.
Submit an updated operation and maintenance plan.
Begin a two-year program to sample and evaluate areas beyond the landfill to verify whether ground water contamination is naturally breaking down.
Submit a plan for documenting and implementing institutional controls such as ordinances and deed restrictions to limit the use of landfill property and ground water.
Submit a wellhead protection plan to ensure that City Well #7 is not affected by contaminated ground water.
Submit a plan to maintain and, if necessary, improve source control technologies currently being used including landfill liquid and gas collections systems, landfill cap and ground water treatment and monitoring systems.
Prepare a final report after the two-year sampling program to document whether ground water contamination is naturally breaking down.