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NOTE: The Warner Electric Site is in the same area as the Evergreen Manor Site. The Warner Electric site is being addressed through the RCRA program and Evergreen Manor is being addressed through Superfund. Both sites have contaminated groundwater plumes that are about 1/4 to 1/2 mile apart and run parallel to each other. The main groundwater contaminant at Warner is TCE. The main contaminants at Evergreen Manor are TCE and PCE.

January 2003 - Warner Electric submits a report to U.S. EPA summarizing
the ground water data and delineating the homes to be chosen for indoor
air sampling.

November 2002 - Warner conducts ground water investigation in Hononegah
Country Estates, doing 9 temporary wells to 90 feet, sampling ground water at intervals up to the top of the ground water table. Initial results show a well defined plume.

September 2002 - Warner completes ground water monitoring well sampling at the plant and southwest to Hononegah Road. The report is submitted to U.S.
EPA.

June 2002 - U.S. EPA approves the workplan with some modifications.

June 2002 - Warner Electric submits a workplan to identify the current
position and concentration of the ground water plume and using a phased
approach identify the highest concentration of the ground water plume
under Hononegah Estates and use that information to identify the homes
for indoor air sampling.

March 2002 - Warner Electric agrees to conduct indoor air testing at
U.S. EPA's request.

1989 - Warner enters into a Consent Agreement with U.S. EPA. This agreement addresses the existing ground water contamination by installing a ground water pumping well and treatment system to remove and treat the trichloroethylene (TCE) in the ground water.

1984 - Warner Electric enters into an agreement with Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (IEPA) to:

  1. Construct a public water supply for Hononegah Country Estates
  2. Remove 16, 000 tons of sludges from the on-site lagoons
  3. Fill the lagoons with clean fill
  4. Place a one foot clay layer over the lagoons and
  5. Install a monitoring well network.

1983 - Illinois EPA finds TCE in private wells at the Hononegah Country Estates Subdivision.

1980 - Warner operates a surface impoundment (on-site lagoons) at the
facility as a hazardous waste storage area.

1980 - Warner Electric Brake and Clutch Company notifies U.S. EPA that
they are a generator of hazardous waste including spent halogenated solvents (which include trichloroethylene (TCE)).

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