Yeoman Creek Landfill

Site Information

Waukegan, IL (Lake County)
EPA ID# ILD980500102
NPL Site Narrative
NPL Factsheet
Superfund Site Progress Profile
Alias(es): Yeoman Creek LDFL, Edward's Field landfill, Rubloff landfill\
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Contact Information

Community Involvement Coordinator
Mike Joyce
(joyce.mike@epa.gov)
312-353-5546 or 800-621-8431, ext. 35546

Remedial Project Manager

Syed Quadri
(quadri.syed@epa.gov)
312-886-5736 or 800-621-8431, ext. 65736

US EPA attorney

Stuart Hersh
(hersh.stuart@epa.gov)
312-886-6235 or 800-621-8431, ext. 66235

Repositories

(where to view written records)

Waukegan Public Library
128 N. County St.,
Waukegan, Illinois

Links

EPA Superfund Home Page
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Background

The location of the approximately 70-acre Yeoman Creek Landfill is bounded by Lewis Avenue on the west, Glen Flora Avenue on the south, Sunset Avenue/Golf Road on the north, and Western Avenue/Buttrick Avenue on the east. The site operated as a landfill from 1959 to 1969. The landfill has no bottom liner and the underlying soils are permeable. Apartments, businesses and wetlands surround the site. Polluted liquid was observed seeping into Yeoman Creek, which runs through the site near its western boundary, since 1969, although the quantity decreased substantially after the site cover was upgraded in 1980. Polluted liquid from the landfill contains chemicals, elevated concentrations of metals and ammonia. Landfill gas was detected migrating off the site at levels above the lower explosive limit. The contaminated landfill gas presented a health risk to residents of the building where it was detected and the gases could have caused explosions.

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Site Updates

October 2011

EPA completed its first Five-Year Review of the site in 2007 and discovered that the remedy has failed to control the migration of landfill gas in the northern portion of the site. Institutional controls are needed for properties impacted by the site. The review includes the following protectiveness statement: "The remedy at the YCL is not protective because the landfill gas collection system is not operating as designed; i.e., landffill gas above 50% of the lower explosive limit continues to migrate beyond the landfill boundary..."

Most of the issues from the 2007 FYR have been addressed. On the northern portion of the site, contractors for the potentially responsible parties are constructing a new perimeter trench gas collection system. Construction of this system, drainage system improvements, grading, and seeding was completed in late 2009; however, migration of landfill gas on the northern portion continues to be a problem and is being studied.

EPA's second five-year review of the Yeoman Creek Landfill site was completed in February, 2012.

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