Installation Restoration Program Phase 1 - Records Search, O'Hare Air Reserve Forces Facility, Illinois
Abstract
The Department of Defense (DOD) has developed a program to identify and evaluate past hazardous material disposal sites on DOD property, to control the migration of hazardous contaminants, and to control hazards to health or welfare that may result from these past disposal operations. This program is called the Installation Restoration Program (IRP). The IRP has four phases of consisting of Phase 1, Initial Assessment/Records Search; Phase 2, Confirmation and Quantification; Phase 3, Technology Base Development; and Phase 4, Operations/Remedial Actions. The O'Hare Air Reserve Forces Facility complex at O'Hare International Airport is located in the Chicago metropolitan area in north-eastern Illinois. The airport is located northwest of downtown Chicago at the boundary of Cook County and DuPage County. All of the property around the airport and Air Force installation is urbanized and used for residential, commercial and/or industrial purposes. Nine areas were determined to have a sufficient potential for environmental contamination to warrant further investigation. They are as follows: Landfill No.1; JP-4 Tank, West POL Area; Fuel-Contaminated Soil; Defueling Pit Leak Site; Fire Protection Training Facility; Hazardous Waste Storage Area; Landfill No.2; Storm Drainage System; South Edge of Concrete Apron; Vehicle Maintenance Facility, Rear; and Low Level Radioactive Disposal Site.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Dec 01, 1983
- Accession Number
- ADA137373