Public Health Assessment for Lane Street Ground Water Contamination Site, Elkhart, Elkhart County, Indiana. EPA Facility ID: INN000510229, July 17, 2013.

摘要

The Elkhart County Health Department (ECHD) and the Indiana Department of Environmental Management (IDEM) alerted the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) after discovering elevated levels of volatile organic compounds (VOCs), primarily trichloroethylene (TCE), in the groundwater under Lane Street in 2007. This was a concern because many homes in the area had private wells and used this groundwater as a drinking water source. Homes with levels of TCE higher than drinking water standards were provided with alternate water or filtration systems to remove contaminants, and almost all the homes in the area were added to the Elkhart municipal water system in Fall 2008.