Excerpt from Missouri Department of Natural Resources press release. Read the full press release here.
JEFFERSON CITY, MO, FEB. 3, 2020 – The Missouri Department of Natural Resources issued a final Missouri Hazardous Waste Management Facility Part I Permit to Greenfield Environmental Multistate Trust, LLC. The permit requires the company to continue investigative, cleanup and long-term monitoring activities at its Springfield facility.
The site is a closed commercial wood-treating facility, previously operated by Kerr-McGee Chemical Corp, located at 2800 W. High St. in Springfield. When operating, the facility pressure treated wood with creosote wood preservatives. The wood-treating process produced wastewater, which contained residual amounts of wood preservative. Kerr-McGee processed the wastewater through a treatment system, discharging the effluent to a lagoon system to let the remaining creosote settle out of the wastewater.
Kerr-McGee has performed long-term monitoring and maintenance activities and has conducted corrective-action investigations and remediation activities at the site under a department-issued Missouri Hazardous Waste Management Facility Part I Permit and a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)-issued Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments Part II Permit. Greenfield took ownership and operational control of the facility in 2011. On Aug. 6, 2012, the company submitted a permit application to the department and EPA. An updated version was submitted on July 2, 2019, to renew and update its existing hazardous waste permits. The permit application was for post-closure and corrective action only, since Kerr-McGee closed all of its permitted hazardous waste units and the facility no longer operates as a hazardous waste storage facility.