WPSC Campmarina MGP Site

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Sheboygan, WI (Sheboygan County)
EPA ID# WIN000510058
This site is not on the NPL; it is a Superfund Alternative Site (SAS)
SAS Fact Sheet
CERCLIS listing
Alias(es): N/A
Photos

More photos from August 2011 tour

Contact Information

Community Involvement Coordinator
Susan Pastor (pastor.susan@epa.gov)
312-353-1325 or 800-621-8431, ext. 31325

Remedial Project Manager
Pablo Valentin (valentin.pablo@epa.gov)
312-353-2886 or 800-621-8431, ext. 32886

Assistant Regional Counsel
Richard Nagle (nagle.richard@epa.gov)
312-353-8222 or 800-621-8431, ext. 38222

Repositories

(where to view written records)

Mead Public Library
710 N. 8th St.
Sheboygan, WI

Links

Sheboygan River Area of Concern

Sheboygan River and Harbor Superfund site

Links for Wisconsin former MGPs

Background

The 1-1/2-acre Wisconsin Public Service Corp. Campmarina manufactured gas plant site is located at 732 N. Water St., Sheboygan, Wis. on the north bank of the Sheboygan River. Currently, it is used as a park and marina with a river walk located immediately adjacent to the river shoreline.

WPSC owned and operated the gas plant from 1872 to 1929 in an area that was historically industrial. Processes included coal carbonization and carbureted water gas. Today, the city of Sheboygan currently owns the property.

EPA Region 5 is working on former MGPs in Wisconsin and Illinois.

A Community Advisory Group (CAG) is one way the community can get involved. Learn more about CAGs

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Great Lakes Legacy Act

The Sheboygan River and Harbor Site and the Wisconsin Public Service Corporation Campmarina Manufactured Gas Plant Site are being cleaned up under the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Superfund program. The EPA is also using Great Lakes Legacy Act funds to clean up additional areas in the Sheboygan River that are outside the jurisdiction of the Superfund program.

More about the Great Lakes Legacy Act

Site Updates

February 2013

The sediment and shoreline at this MGP site have been cleaned up. A 2012 document called the “record of decision" (PDF) (34pp, 3.5MB), details how the contamination was addressed. It explains that no further action will be taken because an emergency cleanup funded by WPSC/Integrys took care of all of the environmental problems within the river portion of the site in 2011.

Under a 2011 legal agreement called a consent order, EPA required WPSC to build an underwater barrier called a coffer dam and dig up contaminated sediment and soil from the shoreline. This phase of the project was treated as a “time-critical removal” and is detailed in another document called an Action Memorandum (PDF) (53 pp, 4.56MB).

The main pollutant is polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons, or PAHs, which is present in what EPA calls NAPL, or non-aqueous phase liquid. NAPL does not mix with water.

EPA also ordered WPSC to clean up PAH-contaminated sediment near Boat Island to prevent the movement of PAHs from the Campmarina site. If this sediment had not been removed, it could have interfered with the PCB cleanup of the nearby Sheboygan River and Harbor site.

Later this year, another record of decision will be issued concerning the upland portion of the site. Although this area was cleaned up by WPSC in 2002 under Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources supervision, we need to make sure that people and the environment are still protected.

WPSC was originally required to study sediment, ground water, and soil after a consent order was signed between the company and EPA in January 2007.

The river portion of the cleanup under Superfund has been completed and restoration using Great Lakes Legacy Act funding was completed in December 2012. The Great Lakes Legacy Act is administered by EPA’s Great Lakes National Program Office (see box above).

A separate agreement for six other MGP sites was signed in May 2006 in Marinette, Manitowoc, Oshkosh, Two Rivers, Green Bay and Stevens Point, Wisconsin.

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