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The respective environmental protection oversight agencies of the United States and the State of Illinois filed a lawsuit against two subsidiaries of XTRA Inc., XTRA Intermodal Inc. and X-L-Co. Inc., for violations of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA) on Tuesday. The Southern District of Illinois complaint seeks several forms of relief relating to releases and threatened releases of hazardous substances from facilities at the Old American Zinc Plant Superfund Site in Fairmont City and Washington Park, Illinois.
According to the filing, the Site is a 132-acre facility where zinc smelting operations were conducted. Surrounding areas reportedly contain elevated concentrations of metals like lead, cadmium, zinc, arsenic, and manganese due to the site’s operation of a zinc smelter until the 1950s. In addition, a by-product of the smelting is residual slag or “clinker” that was consolid