BOLIVAR RD
The 98-acre Fulbright Landfill was owned and operated by the city of Springfield, Missouri. The landfill was operated from 1962 until 1968 and accepted industrial and domestic wastes from the Springfield area for disposal, including plating wastes, paint sludge, pesticide residues, waste oil, and wastes containing solvents, metals, acids, and cyanide. The remedial investigation and feasibility study and the remedial action for the Fulbright Landfill also addressed the nearby Sac River Landfill. However, the Sac River Landfill is not on the National Priorities List (NPL). In 1967, a waste hauler died from inhaling toxic fumes at the site, when he allegedly dumped an acid waste into a pit containing cyanide. A sinkhole on the bluff above the Fulbright Landfill contained a few dozen drums and waste residue. An estimated 10,000 people live within a 3-mile radius of the site. The landfill lies in a semi-rural area in the flood plain of the Little Sac River. Surrounding land use includes a police shooting range, an active wastewater treatment plant, and an inactive wastewater treatment plant. Lake McDaniel and a series of wells northeast of the site are used as sources of some of the municipal drinking water. However, this source of drinking water appears to be located upgradient of the Fulbright Landfill and at a minimal risk of contamination by the site. Ground water also is used for crop irrigation and industrial processes. The nearest population and well are 1,000 feet upgradient of the landfills.
1,426 |
People living within a 1 mile radius |
$43,899 |
Average Income |
539 |
Occupied homes |
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