janesville old landfill
BLACKBRIDGE ROAD
The Janesville Old Landfill is on a 65-acre parcel of land, located in Rock County, Wisconsin. The parcel contains four different areas [two Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) sites and two Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) units]: the Janesville Ash Beds, the Old Dump, the Old Landfill and the New Landfill. All four sites have been combined as the Janesville Disposal Facility (JDF) and are being addressed jointly under CERCLA and RCRA. The Janesville Old Landfill operated from 1963 to 1978 and occupies approximately 18 acres. A residential neighborhood is located approximately one-quarter mile to the east of the site. The Janesvillle Old Landfill site is an abandoned sand and gravel pit that was used as a municipal sanitary landfill which also accepted drummed wastes, including solvents, used oils, paints, paint thinners, and other industrial wastes. The landfill also accepted dried sludges from the Janesville Ash Beds Superfund site. There are no private residential wells or municipal supply wells in the line of the groundwater plume between the landfill and the primary groundwater discharge point, the Rock River, 1,500 feet west of the site. Site Responsibility This potentially responsible parties (PRPs) who signed a Consent Decree with the United States Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) performed the cleanup of the combined Janesville Disposal Facility Sites. The work performed by the PRPs in response to the requirements of the CD was overseen, reviewed and approved by the U.S. EPA, with the assistance of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (WDNR).
Hazardous Ranking Score
58 / 100
A score of 28.5 or higher qualifies a site for the Superfund National Priority List.Subscribe
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Census
5,992 |
People living within a 1 mile radius |
$60,617 |
Average Income |
2,597 |
Occupied homes |
