Natural Resources Damage Assessment and Restoration Project

Sauget, Illinois Industrial Corridor Sites

St. Clair County, Illinois

 

The Sauget, Illinois Industrial Corridor Sites (Sites) include a series of facilities, landfills, waste disposal areas, sludge lagoons, and contaminated waterways located around the Villages of Sauget, Cahokia, and East St. Louis, St. Clair County, Illinois.  The Sites have been proposed for listing under the National Priorities List for clean up.  The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (ILEPA) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) are overseeing various remedial actions by some of the potentially responsible parties at the Sites.  The Natural Resource Trustees (the Trustees), which are the ILEPA, the Illinois Department of Natural Resources (ILDNR), the Missouri Department of Natural Resources (MODNR), and the U.S. Department of Interior (USDOI) acting through the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), are conducting a Natural Resource Damage Assessment (NRDA) at the Sites.  Contaminants released into the environment from the Sites may have caused harm or injuries to natural resources, which include surface water, groundwater, soils, air, and biota.  The purpose of the NRDA is to determine the amount and type of natural resource restoration that is required to restore any injured natural resources and to compensate the public for lost use of natural resources.

 

 

Reports:

Sauget Industrial Corridor Sites Preassessment Screen (May, 2009; 1.5mb PDF)

For Additional information:

If you have any questions concerning information found in this report or other comments related to this NRDA, please contact:         

       

Paul Lake, Illinois Environmental Protection Agency, 217-785-7728

Tom Heavisides, Illinois Department of Natural Resources, 217-557-6832

Frances Klahr, Missouri Department of Natural Resources, 573-522-1347

Annette Trowbridge, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (612-713-5104)   

 
Fact sheets on the Sites from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency:

Sauget Area I

Sauget Area II

For more information on NRDA: Restoration Program, U.S. Department of Interior 

 

For the Federal CERCLA NRDA regulations, go to: 43 CFR 11

 

Trustee Agencies:

Illinois Environmental Protection Agency

Illinois Department of Natural Resources

Missouri Department of Natural Resources

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Region 3

 

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