Glidden Paint, Madison County, Collinsville
LPC # 1198020001
Project Manager: Tom Miller
This site consists of a barium waste pile that was created from the manufacturing of lithopone by the Glidden Corporation. The original plant site was operated as a Zinc Smelter from 1869 until the early 1940’s. The Glidden Corporation converted the facility over to a combination zinc smelter and lithopone paint manufacturing operation (component of paint) in the mid 1950’s and operated the facility until 1965. During it’s operations the Glidden Corporation generated 60,000 cubic yards of barium waste from the lithopone manufacturing process. This waste was sluiced across Canteen Creek to the South of the Plant location and deposited on the ground. The primary contaminants associated with the lithopone waste are barium, lead, cadmium and iron.
The Illinois EPA and the Illinois Attorney General’s Office entered into a Consent Order with Millenium Holdings (Holding Company for the Glidden Corporation) and the City of Collinsville (current site owner) in the summer of 2000.
The barium waste pile was cleared of trees, graded, capped with clean clay (10-5 feet or better) and seeded between September 22, 2000 and December 29, 2000. A perimeter fence was installed in April of 2001.
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