lemon lane landfill

LEMON LANE

The Lemon Lane Landfill site is located on the western edge of the City of Bloomington, Indiana (City). The landfill is approximately ten acres in size. The City owns approximately seven acres of the landfill, and a private citizen owns the remaining three acres of the landfill. From about 1933 until 1964, the landfill, which had no bottom liner or runoff controls, accepted both municipal and industrial wastes. From about 1958 until 1964, a large number of electrical capacitors containing polychorinated biphenyls (PCBs) were dumped at the site. Throughout the late 1950s until 1964, PCBs were released from many of the electrical capacitors when metal scavengers broke open the capacitors to reclaim internal metal capacitor parts. Labels found on the capacitors linked the PCB contamination to the Westinghouse Electric Corporation, formerly Viacom Inc. and now doing business as CBS Corporation, which manufactured capacitors in Bloomington from about 1958 until the mid 1970s. A residential community of approximately 25 homes is located within one quarter mile from the eastern and northern boundaries of the site. A large cemetery exists south of the site, separated from the site by railroad tracks and right-of-way easements. The property east of the site is vacant land owned by Viacom. Within one mile of the landfill there are approximately 90 homes that obtain drinking water from private wells. Several drinking water wells have been found to be contaminated with PCBs. The contaminated well owners have been provided with city water service. In 1985, Westinghouse, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the City of Bloomington, Monroe County, and the Indiana State Board of Health signed a Consent Decree (CD) that required Westinghouse to perform interim control measures and to construct an incinerator and to incinerate PCB-contaminated materials from six sites in and near Bloomington, including the Lemon Lane Landfill. During the early 1990s, the State of Indiana passed a number of laws that initially delayed and ultimately blocked the construction of the incinerator remedy, required by the 1985 CD. Beginning in 1994, the parties to the CD began to explore alternative remedies for the PCB sites subject to the CD. Site Responsibility This site is being addressed through federal and potentially responsible party (PRP) actions.

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