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                    EPA Fact Sheet Dated February 1994

                               BENNETT'S DUMP

Bennett's Dump, located 2.5 miles northwest of Bloomington, Indiana on 
Packinghouse Road, is adjacent to Star Quarry (formerly Bennett's Stone 
Quarry), an active limestone quarry. Westinghouse PCB-contaminated capacitors 
and other materials were dumped at the approximately four acre site in the 
early 1960's.

EPA conducted a preliminary assessment/site investigation in May, 1983 after
receiving a complaint from the Monroe County Health Department. The site was 
placed on the National Priorities List in September, 1984. Soil samples 
indicated PCB soil concentration levels as high as 380,000 parts per million. 
EPA performed a removal action at the site in June, 1983.

This included:

  Determining the extent of contamination.

  Removing visible capacitors and surface contamination.
       
  Fencing the site.

  Posting warning signs along Stout's Creek bordering the dump.

  Installing a clay cap.

In addition to the removal action conducted by EPA, Westinghouse hydro-
vacuumed the stream sediments at Stout's Creek on the site's western edge. 
These sediments were transported to and stored at the WinstonThomas Interim 
Storage Facility. The 55,000 cubic yards of material containing PCBs remain 
at the dump awaiting final disposition.


Source: Original EPA Fact Sheet scanned by COPA for the BBS.

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