doepke disposal (holliday)

HOLLIDAY DR

Between 1963 and 1970, the 80-acre Doepke Disposal (Holliday) site operated as a private industrial and commercial landfill and accepted unknown quantities of wastes such as paint sludges, solvents, pesticides, metal sludges, and fiberglass resins. Liquids seeping from the site flow through a culvert under Holliday Drive into the Kansas River. In the early 1960s, many wastes were burned and buried. Liquids were later stored in ponds on the site. In 1966, with Johnson County approval, 374 drums of various pesticides and solvents were placed with fire debris in a trench. When the state of Kansas closed the site in 1970, it was covered. The population estimate at the time the site was listed on the National Priorities List (NPL) was approximately 150 people within 1 mile of the site and 2,500 within 3 miles. The population may have increased since that time. Residents of Johnson County get drinking water from 21 wells in the Kansas River alluvial aquifer and from a river intake about 3/4 mile downstream of the site; 200,000 people are served by these systems. About 30 wells lie within 3 miles; the nearest is 1/2 mile away. Contaminants are not migrating off site in large enough concentrations to affect water quality in the Kansas River.

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