Reuse Examples - Green Space
The former Peterson Sand and Gravel site now serves as the site of a recently created lake and beaches at the Independence Grove Forest Preserve in Northern Illinois.
Superfund sites that are being reused as "green space" encompass a wide range of reuse activities including: agricultural reuse (growing crops, pasture land for livestock); recreational reuse (golf courses, ballfields, open space); and ecological reuse (wildlife sanctuaries, nature preserves, wetlands). Success story examples for each of these reuse types can be browsed by clicking on the site name below.
Agricultural Reuse
- Boyle Galvanizing (Pennsylvania)
- Butz Landfill (Pennsylvania)
- Crossley Farm (Pennsylvania)
- Del Monte (Hawaii)
- Jacksonville Municipal Landfill (Arkansas)
- Joseph Forest Products (Oregon)
- Leetown Pesticides (West Virginia)
- Lindsay Manufacturing Company (Nebraska)
- Milltown Reservoir Sediments (Montana)
- Pijak Farm (New Jersey)
- Poer Farm (Indiana)
- Rose Township (Michigan)
- Silver Mountain Mine (Washington)
- Tar Creek (Ottawa County) (Oklahoma)
- Voortman Farm (Pennsylvania)
- Watson Johnson Landfill (Pennsylvania)
Recreational Reuse
- Agriculture Street Landfill (Louisiana)
- American Cyanamid (New Jersey)
- Anaconda Smelter (Montana)
- Arlington Blending & Packaging (Tennessee)
- Army Creek Landfill (Delaware)
- Auburn Road Landfill (New Hampshire)
- Avtex Fibers (Virginia)
- Bayou Bonfouca (Louisiana)
- Beulah Landfill (Florida)
- Bowers Landfill (Ohio)
- Butterworth Landfill (Michigan)
- Calhoun (South Carolina)
- California Gulch (Colorado)
- Camilla Wood Treating (Georgia)
- Cascade Park (Florida)
- Capitol City Ground Water Plume (Alabama)
- Chisman Creek (Virginia)
- Davie Landfill (Florida)
- Douglassville Disposal (Pennsylvania)
- Dupage County Landfill (Illinois)
- FMC Corp (Minnesota)
- Former Spellman Engineering (Florida)
- Fulbright Landfill (Missouri)
- GE/Housatonic River Site (Massachusetts)
- Golden Strip Septic Tank (South Carolina)
- Harbor Island (Washington)
- Harvey & Knott Drum, Inc. (Delaware)
- Hastings Groundwater Contamination (Nebraska)
- Jibboom Junkyard (California)
- Kane & Lombard Street Drums (Maryland)
- Kerr-McGee (Illinois)
- Lexington County Landfill Area (South Carolina)
- Lindane Dump (Pennsylvania)
- Lipari Landfill (New Jersey)
- McColl (California)
- Milltown Reservoir Sediments (Montana)
- Niagara Mohawk Power Corp. (New York)
- Ogden Rail Yard (Utah)
- Olmsted County Sanitary Landfill (Minnesota)
- Pemaco Maywood (California)
- Pepe Field (New Jersey)
- Peterson-Puritan, Inc. (Rhode Island)
- Peterson Sand & Gravel (Illinois)
- PMC Groundwater (Michigan)
- Pownal Tannery (Vermont)
- Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area (Montana)
- Spokane Junkyard (Washington)
- Times Beach (Missouri)
- Troy Mills (New Hampshire)
- U.S. Titanium (Virginia)
- Wade (ABM) (Pennsylvania)
- Wells G & H (Massachusetts)
- Welsbach & General Gas Mantle (Camden Radiation) (New Jersey)
- Woodstock Municipal Landfill (Illinois)
- Whitmoyer Laboratories (Pennsylvania)
Ecological Reuse
- American Cyanamid (New Jersey)
- Bailey Waste Disposal (Texas)
- C & D Recycling (Pennsylvania)
- Cherokee County (Kansas)
- Craig Farm Drum (Pennsylvania)
- Davisville Naval Construction Battalion Center (Rhode Island)
- DeRewal Chemical (New Jersey)
- Dorney Road Landfill (Pennsylvania)
- Mill Creek Dump (Pennsylvania)
- Kerr-McGee (Sewage Treatment Plant) (Illinois)
- Longhorn Army Ammunition Plant (Texas)
- Lower Darby Creek Area (Pennsylvania)
- Northwest 58th Street Landfill (Florida)
- Oak Ridge Reservation (Tennessee)
- Peterson-Puritan, Inc. (Rhode Island)
- Revere Chemical Co. (Pennsylvania)
- Rocky Mountain Arsenal (Colorado)
- Saco Landfill (Maine)
- Saltville Waste Disposal Ponds (Virginia)
- Savanna Army Depot (Illinois)
- Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area (Montana)
- Southern Maryland Wood Treating (Maryland)
- Tex Tin (Texas)
- Torch Lake (Michigan)
- Tybouts Corner Landfill (Delaware)
- Walsh Landfill (Pennsylvania)
- Wheeling Disposal Service (Missouri)
- Wildcat Landfill (Delaware)
- Woodlawn County Landfill (Maryland)
- Wyckoff-Eagle Harbor (Washington)