Superfund at work: Hazardous waste cleanup efforts nationwide, Fall 1993 (Johns-Manville site profile, Illinois)
Technical Report
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OSTI ID:7207224
The Superfund at Work Bulletin senes profiles hazardous waste cleanup efforts nationwide. This issue profiles the Johns-Manville Superfund site. Manufacturing wastes laden with asbestos and toxic substances were dumped for more than 70 years into pits forming an enormous landfill. Industrial wastewater pooled into acres of settling ponds. Airborne asbestos endangered workers and threatened ecological habitat in an adjacent state park and along Lake Michigan.
- Research Organization:
- Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC (United States). Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response
- OSTI ID:
- 7207224
- Report Number(s):
- PB-94-963602/XAB; EPA--520/F-94/002
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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Health
& Safety
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
540250* -- Environment
Terrestrial-- Site Resource & Use Studies-- (1990-)
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INFORMATION
LAWS
MANAGEMENT
NUMERICAL DATA
POLLUTION LAWS
PROGRAM MANAGEMENT
REMEDIAL ACTION
US SUPERFUND