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Aircraft Components Superfund Site
Site Information
- 671 North Shore Drive
Benton Harbor, MI (Berrien County) - EPA ID# MI0001119106
- Site Narrative
- NPL Factsheet
- Alias: D & L Sales
Contact Information
Community Involvement Coordinator
Don de Blasio
(deblasio.don@epa.gov)
312-886-4360 or 800-621-8431, ext. 64360
Remedial Project Manager
Nefertiti DiCosmo (dicosmo.nefertiti@epa.gov)
312-886-6148 or 800-621-8431, ext. 66148
Interim Remedial Project Manager
Jennifer Cheever (cheever.jennifer@epa.gov)
312-353-4627 or 800-621-8431, ext. 34627
MDEQ Project Manager
Judith Alfano
(alfanoj@michigan.gov)
517-373-7402
Repositories
(where to view written records)
Benton Harbor Public Library
213 E Wall St.
Benton Harbor, MI 49022
Background
The Aircraft Components site consists of 17 acres of land in Benton Harbor, Mich., bounded by the Paw Paw River, North Shore Drive, and residential property. The main building on the site consists of a combination warehouse/office building connected to a warehouse. Outbuildings include a large metal-walled Quonset hut and a small Quonset hut. The buildings have been used for the past 40-50 years for the storage of radioluminous aircraft gauges containing radium as part of a mail-order distribution service known as Aircraft Components Inc.
Site Updates | Fact Sheets |Five-Year Reviews || Technical Documents | Legal Agreements | Environmental Education Links | Public Meetings
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Site Updates
One action contemplated as an enhancement to the current remedy is injection of a chemical oxidant into boreholes throughout the source area. This enhancement would be to degrade the VOC plume into nonhazardous intermediate and final products, such as carbon dioxide, carboxylic acids, and chloride from organic compounds, as well as other by-products including iron, sulfate, and other ions from the catalyst amendments or oxidants. This enhancement may also continue to chemically reduce the plume well after the injection as the catalyst amendments or oxidants (1) remain dissolved in ground water or (2) precipitate or react further with naturally occurring constituents of the soil or ground water. This technology is commonly referred to as in situ chemical oxidation (ISCO). Ground water modeling activities to further evaluate ISCO as a remedy enhancement are discussed in the following sections.
Fact Sheet
- Open House postcard (PDF) (2pp, 35K) February 2013
- Frequently Asked Questions (PDF) (2pp, 35K) October 2012 draft rule released.
- EPA Gathers Public Input on Cleanup Site (PDF) (2 pp, 95K) October 2012
- Presentation from the October 2012 Public Meeting (PDF) (17pp, 317K)
Five-Year Reviews
- Second five-year review (PDF) (208 pp, 23.4 MB) April 2013
- First five-year review (PDF) (200 pp, 8.7 MB) July 2008
Technical Documents
- September 2012 Data Summary Report (PDF) (295pp, 7.1MB) Jan 2012
- Groundwater Modeling and Cost Estimate for In-Situ Chemical Reduction by Injection (PDF) (28pp, 4.13 MB) April 2012
- March 2012 Data Summary Report (PDF) (253 pp, 8MB) July 2012
- 2011 Data Summary Report (PDF) (248 pp, 7.2MB) May 2004 - September 2011
- Explanation of Significant Differences (PDF) (22 pp, 2.8MB) September 2010
Legal Agreements
- Consent Decree (PDF) (89pp, 4.3MB) September 2011
Environmental Education Links
- A Citizen’s Guide to Bioremediation (PDF) (2pp, 1MB)
- A Citizen’s Guide to In Situ Chemical Oxidation (PDF) (2pp, 866K)
- Trichloroethylene (TCE)
- A Citizen's Guide to Using Federal Environmental Laws to Secure Environmental Justice (PDF) (105pp,1.87MB)
- A Citizen’s Guide to Understanding Institutional Controls (PDF) (7pp, 57K)
Public Meetings
- Groundwater discussion presentation Feb. 5, 2012 (PDF) (23pp, 538KB)