Work Plan for Targeted Investigation at Bendena, Kansas
- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
During the 1950s and 1960s, the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC), U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), operated a grain storage facility in Bendena, Kansas. During this time, commercial grain fumigants containing carbon tetrachloride were commonly used by the CCC/USDA and the private grain storage industry to preserve grain in their facilities. In February 1985, carbon tetrachloride was detected in Bendena’s public water supply system during routine screening by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) at a level (10.9 μg/L) exceeding the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) maximum contaminant level (MCL) and the KDHE risk-based standard of 5.0 μg/L for this contaminant in drinking water. Subsequent KDHE investigations confirmed the presence of carbon tetrachloride in Bendena’s public water supply well and also detected carbon tetrachloride in soils and groundwater at the former CCC/USDA facility and in groundwater beneath several commercial properties to the south and southeast of the former facility. To determine whether the former CCC/USDA facility represents a source of carbon tetrachloride contamination and its possible relationship to the carbon tetrachloride identified in groundwater, the CCC/USDA has agreed to conduct an investigation at Bendena, in accordance with the Intergovernmental Agreement between the KDHE and the Farm Service Agency of the USDA. The investigation will be performed on behalf of the CCC/USDA by the Environmental Science Division of Argonne National Laboratory, a nonprofit, multidisciplinary research center operated by UChicago Argonne, LLC, for the U.S. Department of Energy.
- Research Organization:
- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- U.S. Department of Agriculture; USDOE
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-06CH11357
- OSTI ID:
- 1177497
- Report Number(s):
- ANL/EVS/AGEM/TR-13-08; 101802
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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