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NAS BLDG 826

The site includes three separate areas in Jacksonville, Duval County, Florida: the Forest Street Incinerator, the 5th & Cleveland Incinerator and Lonnie C. Miller, Sr. Park. The Forest Street Incinerator portion of the site covers approximately 370 acres adjacent to U.S. Interstate 95 in a primarily residential area. Surrounding land uses include McCoy’s Creek to the north, single-family homes to the south and west, a mix of commercial and industrial businesses to the southeast, and U.S. Interstate 95 to the east. A 10.5-acre portion of the area includes the former location of an incinerator facility and portions of Forest Street Park and Forest Park Headstart School. The 5th & Cleveland Incinerator portion of the site covers approximately 400 acres adjacent to U.S. Interstate 95 in a primarily residential area. Land uses on site include Mt. Herman Elementary School, single-family homes and multi-family apartments. A 9-acre portion of the area also includes the Emmet Reed Community Center, Emmet Reed Park and a new tennis facility. The Lonnie C. Miller, Sr. Park portion of the site covers approximately 250 acres in a primarily residential area. The park is located less than one quarter-mile northeast of U.S. Highway 1. Land uses include single-family homes to the north, south and east and commercial businesses to the west. The Ribault River is located just east of the park. The Forest Street Incinerator and 5th & Cleveland Incinerator portions of the site also include additional areas to the east. The Forest Street Incinerator and the 5th & Cleveland Incinerator operated as the City of Jacksonville’s municipal solid waste incinerators from 1910 until the 1960s. The City of Jacksonville disposed of combustion ash, clinker and ash residues on each of the incinerator properties as well as on the land later redeveloped into the Lonnie C. Miller, Sr. Park. After incinerator operations ended, operations at the site briefly included a construction debris depository, a quail farm and a junkyard. Current land uses at the site include residential, commercial, recreational and public service uses. Residential areas include low-income residents. In addition to the Jacksonville Ash site, EPA’s Superfund program oversees three additional sites located in the City of Jacksonville: Brown’s Dump, Kerr-McGee Chemical, LLC and Picketville Road Landfill. View site location map. This map does not show the additional areas to the east of the Forest Street Incinerator and 5th & Cleveland Incinerator portions of the site.

Hazardous Ranking Score

32 / 100

A score of 28.5 or higher qualifies a site for the Superfund National Priority List.

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Region 4
Phone: (404) 562-9900
Fax: (404) 562-8174

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Timeline

Discovery
Site Inspection
Preliminary Assessment
Final Listing On NPL
Removal

Contaminants & Health Effects

      Carcinogen
      Endocrine Disrupter
      Neurotoxic
      Sensitiser
      Reproductive Toxin
      Persistent, bioaccumulative and toxic
      VOC
      Mutagen

        Census

        White
        African American
        Asian
        American Indian and Alaska Native
        Native Hawaiian
        Other

        1,442

        People living
        within a 1 mile radius

        $48,001

        Average Income

        46

        Occupied homes

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