Environmental Issues
The EPA maintains portions of the property on the Superfund national priorities list. Clean up includes composting by the Army Corps of Engineers. The cemetery and industrial parks were on the buffer portion of the facility, and there was little or no cleanup required. However, portions of the site that became Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie were heavily contaminated, the EPA expects that cleanup will be required until 2010.
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