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Celotex Superfund Site
Site Information
- Chicago, IL (Cook County)
- EPA ID# ILD051053692
- Non-NPL
- CERCLIS listing
- Alias(es): Celotex Corp.
- Summer 2006 photos
Contact Information
Community Involvement Coordinator
Heriberto León (leon.heriberto@epa.gov)
312-886-6163 or 800-621-8431, ext. 66163
Remedial Project Manager
Nefertiti DiCosmo (dicosmo.nefertiti@epa.gov)
312-886-6148
Repositories
(where to view written records)
Chicago Public Library
Rudy Lozano Branch
1805 S. Loomis Street
Chicago, IL 60608
(312) 746-4329
Background
The Celotex site was used for making, storing and selling asphalt roofing products. In 1989, Illinois EPA received citizen complaints about coal tar present on their property due to Celotex. Illinois EPA found pollution at the site. (more...) (en español)
Site Updates | Letters to Residents | Fact Sheets || Technical Documents || Legal Agreements || Public Meetings
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Site Updates
April 2011
The response activities at the Celotex Site are complete. The residential portion of the cleanup was finished in September 2009. The main site portion of the cleanup was completed in February 2010. Honeywell International Inc. submitted removal action completion reports for both portions. These reports are available to the public at the information repositories for the Site. The EPA has written three pollution reports for the work conducted at this Site. Those reports are available on this website, as well as in the information repositories.
Because the Main Site response action did not remove waste, but covered it, the cover must be monitored to ensure that it remains intact and still protects human health and the environment. Honeywell follows a post-removal site control plan approved by EPA, in order to monitor the cover at the Site. Currently, the cover is inspected once a month; in the future it is likely that the frequency of monitoring will decrease to once a quarter. Monitoring is not necessary for the residential portion of the site because the contaminated soil was removed and replaced with clean soil.
Currently the City of Chicago is involved in legal steps to acquire the property and facilitate its development under the jurisdiction of the Chicago Park District.
Letters to Residents
- Proposed Agreement Between EPA
and the City of Chicago and Chicago Park District Regarding the Celotex Site (October 10, 2008)
Acuerdo propuesto entre la EPA y la ciudad de Chicago y el Distrito de Parques de Chicago con Respecto al Sitio de Celotex (10 de octubre del 2008) -
Honeywell prepared these informational flyers
- Proposed Soil Excavation Schedule Little Village Neighborhood (PDF) (1 pg, 30K) Map
- Residential Soil Cleanup - Phase I Area Near the former Celotex Site - Chicago, Illinois July 2007 (PDF) (1pg, 283K)
- Limpieza Residencial de Terreno - Área Fase I Cerca del sitio anteriormente conocido como Celotex - Chicago, Illinois Julio del 2007 (PDF) (1pg, 51K)
- La Agencia de Protección Ambiental (EPA) y Honeywell estarán tomando muestras de tierra en muchas de las yardas en hogares de La Villita durante el verano del
2006
- Carta a los Residentes (PDF) (1pg, 200K)
- Mapa del área donde se toman las muestras de tierra (PDF) (1pg, 284K)
- US EPA and Honeywell are sampling residential soil in many homes in the Little Village neighborhood during summer and fall of 2006
- Letter to Residents (PDF) (1pg, 200K)
- Map of area sampling (PDF) (1pg, 284K)
Fact Sheets
- EPA Proposes Cleanup Plan; Requests Public Comment (PDF) (6pp, 345K) October 2004
- Plan de limpieza propuesto por la EPA; Solicitud de comentarios del público (PDF) (6pp, 360K) Octubre 2004
Technical Documents
- Pollution Report (PDF) (3pp, 161K) February 4, 2010
- Pollution Report (PDF) (3pp, 118K) September 18, 2009
- Pollution Report (PDF) (5pp, 268K) October 2, 2008
- Revised Community Involvement Plan (PDF) (40pp, 576K) 2007
Legal Agreements
- Draft Prospective Purchaser Agreement (PPA) (PDF) (27pp, 71K)
September 2008
- PPA Exhibit 3: Institutional Controls (PDF) (18pp, 907K) September 2008
- PPA Exhibit 4: Administrative Settlement (PDF) (48pp, 2.5MB) September 2008
Public Meetings
- EPA accepted comments on the proposed Prospective Purchaser Agreement (PPA) for the Celotex Superfund Site through November 12, 2008.
- EPA held a public meeting November 9, 2004, to explain its recommended cleanup plan, answer questions, and accept comments. The comments period ran from October 26 to November 26, 2004.