fisher-calo

PO BOX 684 KINGSBURY IND PK

The Fisher-Calo site is located in the Kingsbury Industrial Park (KIDP) in La Porte County, Indiana. The KIDP is located in the southeast section of La Porte County, approximately 12 miles southeast of La Porte, Indiana. The Fisher-Calo site is located on three areas at KIDP: the One-line Road property, the Two-line Road property, and the Space Leasing property. The site is a former industrial chemical processing and distribution facility. The facility is located in an area that previously housed the Kingsbury Ordnance Plant, a U.S. government installation used to manufacture military ordnance. In the early 1960s, the ordnance plant was closed, and the land was purchased by a private developer who subdivided the property to form an industrial park. Fisher-Calo and various subsidiaries began operations at KIDP in the early 1970s. The site facilities were used for processing and distributing solvents, metal finishing supplies, and other industrial chemicals. Fisher-Calo also operated a solvent reclamation facility on the site for several years to recover and resell paint and metal cleaning solvents. Chemical wastes were either stored in metal drums and buried, or stockpiled on the site, or the wastes were disposed of directly on the ground. In 1978, a fire broke out at the site's solvent reclamation facility, destroying several bulk storage tanks, trucks, and drums of chemical wastes and solvents. Later that year, buried drums were discovered on the property. In 1979 and 1980, drums containing chemicals and sludges were removed from the site. Waste materials, mostly still bottoms were stored in drums, tanks, and containers at the site. Some of the drums were reportedly leaking. The site is fenced and isolated. Approximately 3,700 people live within four miles of the site. The nearest public water supply well is located within one mile of the site, and the closest residence, using groundwater as a water source, is located approximately one mile from the site.

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