ECEC is focused on identifying how residents are impacted by our local superfund sites. As we learn more, we will post information on this page.
In 1983, EPA identified groundwater contamination likely from nearby industrial operations. The same year, EPA placed the site on the Superfund program’s National Priorities List (NPL). Under EPA oversight, the site’s potentially responsible parties (PRPs) installed a groundwater extraction system and an air stripper system, and constructed a soil vapor extraction (SVE) system. The SVE system achieved cleanup goals in 2000. The Main Street Well Field site consists of 15 wells on 10 acres of land in Elkhart, Indiana. It is the largest of the three well fields owned by the City of Elkhart. It supplies about 70 percent of Elkhart’s public drinking water supplies. Groundwater contamination – volatile organic compounds (VOCs), including trichloroethylene (TCE) – was found in 1981. Following cleanup, groundwater monitoring is ongoing