Public Health Assessment for Gulf Mobile and Ohio Rail Yard (Aliases: Mobile and Ohio Railroad Site and Former Greenberg Salvage Site) Murphysboro, Jackson County, Illinois January 18, 2002

摘要

The Gulf Mobile and Ohio Rail Yard site is a former rail yard in a residential and light industrial area in the north-central portion of Murphysboro, Illinois. Greenberg Salvage operated on part of the former rail yard property. Greenberg's activities included salvaging and recycling automobiles, various machinery, and vehicle batteries. The battery recycling operation resulted in lead contamination in the surface soil. The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (Illinois EPA) has closed the site and has fenced three parcels of land because of high lead levels in the surface soil. The Meadows of Murphy was a 27-lot manufactured housing subdivision located on a portion of former rail yard property. Surface soil samples from residential yards in the subdivision contained elevated levels of lead, dioxin, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, and pentachlorophenol. Residents of the Meadows of Murphy subdivision and the surrounding area were exposed to site-related contaminants through inhalation and ingestion of contaminated soils and dust.