Fences and barbed wire keep people out of the former Tippecanoe Sanitary Landfill, a Superfund cleanup site on North Ninth Street. Now officials say it could be a good place for a county park. File photo/Journal and Courier
The state and federal agencies that forced the closure and containment of contaminated materials at the Tippecanoe Sanitary Landfill are now assessing the feasibility of allowing public use of the property just north of Lafayette.
Staff from the Indiana Department of Environmental Management and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency visited the 86-acre site at 2801 N. Ninth Street on July 1, environmental engineering consultant Vicky Keramida said.
“They were extremely impressed with the site,” she said.
“We gave them a tour of the site, explained what’s been going on, and we received a very positive response.”
Keramida on Tuesday briefed members of the Tippecanoe Environmental Response Finance Board on her efforts to win state and federal approval to reuse the land, and to remove the site from the EPA Superfund National Priorities List.
The landfill was added in 1990 to the national list of locations where known or threatened releases of hazardous substances, pollutants, or contaminants occurred.
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