Messages to a Legal Advocate Regarding Acceptable Forms of Evidence in My Molestation Case Against My Father

      I wrote the following messages as e-mails to Evelyn Bello - a legal advocate at the Zacharias Sexual Abuse Center, based in Gurnee, Illinois - on April 14th and 15th, 2021.
     The message concerns what may or may not constitute sufficiently consistent and compelling corroborating evidence in my potential case against my father for molesting me as a child.

First Message, Sent April 14th, 2021

     Hi Evelyn. I spoke with Officer Lisa Malkov at the Lake Bluff Police Station yesterday.

     She informed me that, again, the prosecutors' office looks unlikely to file charges, due to lack of evidence and inconsistencies in my testimony.

 

     I tried to explain to Officer Malkov that those inconsistencies are due to 1) me not fully remembering all of the abuse due to suffocation and trauma; and 2) me including partial memories.

     I regret including partial memories, because prosecutors want me to be sure about whatever charges I'm talking about. But I felt it necessary to mention partial memories of abuse, in the interest of full disclosure.

 

     Also, I tried to explain that I am not currently confused about what happened to me as a child; I only experienced confusion in 2015. The fact that I am still trying to retrieve memories does not mean that I am confused. My mind compartmentalized the traumatic memories, causing me to forget them between 2000 and 2014, before partial memories began to resurface, which I had to piece together slowly.

      My new therapist, Dr. Vernice Wright, may have exaggerated the extent to which I am doubtful about my memories, in her communications to police. She is still getting to know me and my family situation.

 

     None of what I said to Officer Malkov seems likely to affect prosecutors' decision, although in my opinion it should.

     The fact that I have been in therapy, and have recovered new memories since entering therapy, should be considered evidence, because it is new testimony. It is also evidence that my thinking about the abuse has become more clear and detailed, not less. And that is evidence that the therapy is working.

 

     Officer Malkov said there isn't enough evidence to file charges, because nobody else's testimony corroborates what I'm saying. But that's because my father made sure to abuse me when there were no witnesses around.

     I tried to explain to Officer Malkov that the fact that my brother says he sat behind my father's legs, in the same position I was in right before I was molested, shows that my father had ample access to both of us. My father admitted to letting me and my brother sit behind his legs, as recently as yesterday in our last therapy session.

     Officer Malkov did not consider this to be corroborating testimony or worthwhile evidence.

 

     I'm stunned by how high a standard of evidence prosecutors need to go forward with charges. It's almost as if they expect a child to remember which exact calendar days he was molested on, as if the average child would not be so disheveled and jarred and disturbed by molestation that it would distract him from remembering the date.

     It's as if courts expect children to save evidence that they've been molested, at a time when children aren't even old enough to understand what molestation is. I understand the need for there to exist strong evidence, but placing a burden on children to remember dates and collect evidence of their abuse, is not a rational response.

     I mentioned to you that there are five main things I would consider to be potential physical evidence in my case: 1) the gray couch, which was thrown away; 2) my injured left rib; 3) my breathing problems; 4) my small size; and 5) my broken life and past addiction. I also mentioned my hair pulling and nail-biting problems, which are signs of stress attributable to my father's abuse.

     Officer Malkov and I discussed the first three of these during our meeting earlier today. Prosecutors still don't feel that I've produced enough evidence.

     I asked Officer Malkov what might constitute the kind of evidence that prosecutors are looking for, and she said that she didn't know, but that a State's Attorney might know.

     Do you know what kind of evidence could potentially be considered sufficient grounds to file charges? Would it be worthwhile to schedule a full psychological evaluation with a neurologist, and get a CT scan on my left ribcage?

     Thank you.

 

 

 

Second Message, Sent April 15th, 2021

     I do not feel that I have provided insufficient details, to police, regarding the dates on which the most memorable incidents of abuse occurred (i.e., the incidents on the gray couch in the basement, to which I'm now referring as Incidents #2 through #13).
     That's because I wrote the following in my second statement to police:

     "The dates on which the as many as six incidents of abuse could have occurred during the first year wherein I endured abuse on the couch (i.e., 1995), are April 2^nd, 9^th, 16^th, 23^rd, and 30^th; May 7^th, 14^th, 21^st, and 28^th; June 4^th, 11^th, 18^th, and 25^th; July 2^nd, 9^th, 16^th, 23^rd, and 30^th; and August 6^th, 13^th, 20^th, and 27^th.

     The dates on which the as many as six incidents of abuse could have occurred during the second [year] wherein I endured abuse on the couch (i.e., 1996), are April 7^th, 14^th, 21^st, and 28^th; May 5^th, 12^th, 19^th, and 26^th; June 2^nd, 9^th, 16^th, 23^rd, and 30^th; July 7^th, 14^th, 21^st, and 28^th; and August 4^th, 11^th, 18^th, and 25^th."

     I told police that I was molested no less than three or four times, and perhaps as many as twelve times. As I have stated, the variation in the number of times, is attributable to the fact that I was molested in such a similar fashion and pattern, multiple times; meaning that each incident was difficult to distinguish from the others, so it's difficult to guess exactly how many times I was molested on the couch.

     I told police that I was almost always molested on a Sunday late morning or Sunday early afternoon. I have identified the 44 dates above, as the only possible dates on which those incidents of abuse could have occurred.

     I cannot be any more specific without guessing or making things up. I would be willing to swear in open court that this is the best of my recollection as to the dates on which I was abused.

Written on April 14th, 2021

Note at end added on April 15th, 2021

Originally published on April 15th, 2021

List of Twenty-Six Environmental Disasters Affecting Lake County, Illinois Over the Last Twenty Years

Part I: Introduction

      The list below details the names, functions, and locations of twenty-six companies which are polluting Lake County, Illinois; or which have polluted it over the last twenty years.

 

     [Author's Notes, added on February 16th, 2024:

     1. Three of these locations are outside of Lake County, but may be affecting Lake County; for example, Location #11 emitted pollutants into water in Wisconsin, which traveled to Lake County, Illinois, because these areas lie within the same watershed.

     2. The numbers, and ordering, of the locations on this list, have changed since the list's initial publication.]

     I hope to expand this list, and turn it into a map, in order to achieve the goals I outlined in the first of my eleven proposals to counteract the harmful effects of the toxic chemical EtO (ethylene oxide). 

     Those proposals are listed in the link below:

     http://aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2020/09/response-to-stop-eto-lake-county-about.html

Part II: Contents, and Basic List

1-14. Miscellaneous Sites

1. NRG Waukegan Generating Station (Waukegan) (coal ash)
2. Medline (Waukegan, Mundelein, Libertyville, Grayslake) (EtO)
3. Abbott (Waukegan, Gurnee, North Chicago, Lake Bluff, Green Oaks) (sewage, toxic emissions from laboratories, volatile organic material from combined-fluid bed dryers and tunnel dryers)
4. AbbVie (North Chicago) (sewage, toxic emissions from laboratories, volatile organic material from combined-fluid bed dryers and tunnel dryers)
5. Baxter (Round Lake, Deerfield, Lake Zurich) (treated wastewater, suspended solids, oxygen-depleting contaminants)
6. Anhydrous ammonia gas explosion (Beach Park) (anhydrous ammonia gas)
7. AB Specialty Silicones plant explosion (Waukegan) (silicone)
8. Sterigenics (Willowbrook, Gurnee) (EtO)
9. Vantage Specialty Chemicals (Gurnee) (EtO)
10. Grayslake Countryside Landfill (Grayslake) (waste leaked from landfill into groundwater)
11. FoxConn (Mt. Pleasant and Sturtevant, Wisconsin) (pollutants from making liquid crystal display panels)
12. North Shore Gas – North Plant (Waukegan) (Dense non-aqueous phase liquid [D.N.A.P.L.], metals, volatile compounds, and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons)
13. North Shore Gas – South Plant (town unclear; Waukegan, Libertyville, Mundelein, &/or Buffalo Grove?) (Dense non-aqueous phase liquid [D.N.A.P.L.], metals, volatile compounds, and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons)
14. AzkoNobel Aerospace Coatings (Waukegan) (manganese)
15. Procter & Gamble (North Chicago) (oil, oily substances, and/or detergents containing phosphates)

16-19. Four Companies Which Possess Facilities Engaged in Rock Crushing

16. Reliable Concrete Pumping (Libertyville) (rock crushing)
17. Ozinga concrete company (Waukegan) (rock crushing)
18. EMCO (North Chicago) (rock crushing)


19-23. Five E.P.A. (Environmental Protection Agency) SuperFund Sites

19. Johns-Manville Corporation (Waukegan) (asbestos)
20. Yeoman Creek Landfill (Waukegan) (leachate)
21. H.O.D. Landfill (Antioch) (vinyl chloride)
22. Outboard Marine Corporation (Waukegan) (hydraulic fluids with P.C.B.)
23. Petersen Sand & Gravel / Petersen Excavating, Inc. (Gurnee) (paint waste and solvents)


24-26. Three Sites Containing Nuclear Materials (One Inside Lake County, Two Outside)

24. Zion Nuclear Generating Station (Zion) (nuclear materials)
25. Argonne National Laboratory (Lemont) (nuclear materials)
26. Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Batavia) (nuclear materials)

Part III: The List (in Detail)



1-14. Miscellaneous Sites

1. NRG Waukegan Generating Station (coal burning power plant; may be emitting C.C.R.s [Coal Combustion Residuals] including boron, chromium, thallium, lead, and/or arsenic, polluting a grassy area located on plant grounds), 401 E. Greenwood Ave., Waukegan (Sunset / Greenwood & Sheridan).

Midwest Generation, L.L.C. Waukegan generating station was purchased by NRG Energy. Was sued by the Sierra Club.

http://www.google.com/maps/place/Waukegan+Generating+Station/@42.3832962,-87.8152132,15z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x4d7822957ab946b7?sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiSreuO1e_rAhVSS6wKHV32BrMQ_BIwCnoECBoQCA

http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/lake-county-news-sun/ct-lns-waukegan-nrg-plant-ruling-st-0622-20190621-23efbvni3fgcdid4d5sxpbwct4-story.html

http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/lake-county-news-sun/ct-lns-coal-ash-bill-waukegan-st-0731-20190730-lvbab5m5lvcblg6v2cnb5oee5u-story.html

http://energynews.us/2019/06/26/midwest/illinois-pollution-control-board-finds-nrg-liable-for-coal-ash-at-power-plants/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2. Medline. Emits cancerous and explosive ethylene oxide ("EtO") from its smokestacks.

Medline Locations in Lake County:
- Medline, Inc.: 1710 S. Lake Side Drive, Waukegan
- Medline Industries, Inc.: 1160 S. Northpoint Blvd., Waukegan
- Medline / Dynacorp: 1 Medline Place, Mundelein
- Medline Industries, L.L.P.: 1910 Innovation Way, Libertyville
- Medline, 2200 Cornerstone Parkway, Grayslake

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-met-lake-county-cancer-risks-pollution-20181028-story.html

http://theintercept.com/2019/05/07/medline-wendy-abrams-air-pollution/

Congressman Brad Schneider (D, IL-10) accepted $7,736 from Medline during the 2017-18 campaign season.

[Source: http://www.opensecrets.org]




3. Abbott (sixteen locations, including one large cluster where Lake Bluff and North Chicago meet Green Oaks; aside from subsidiaries). Abbott has gotten in trouble for violating environmental laws several times in the past, including 1996, 2001, and 2005. Abbott has dumped sewage into Lake Michigan, and polluted the air with toxic emissions from its laboratories. Its Libertyville facility emitted "emissions of volatile organic material ... from its combined fluid bed dryers and tunnel dryers", and filed a proposal for site-specific rulemaking pursuant to Section 28 of the Environmental Protection Act regarding those emissions, in 2007.

[Note: Abbott separated into Abbott and AbbVie between 2011 and 2013. These companies have hundreds of subsidiaries.]
 
Abbott Locations in Lake County:
- Abbott: 100 Abbott Park Rd., Abbott Park
- Abbott: 3629 Bur Wood Drive, Waukegan
- Abbott: 605 Tri-State Parkway, Gurnee
- Abbott Gate 2: 3158 Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive, North Chicago
- Abbott Building AP06C: 100 Abbott Park Rd., Lake Bluff
- Abbott Building AP06D: Abbott Park Rd., Green Oaks
- Abbott Building AP14: 100 Abbott Park Rd., Lake Bluff
- Abbott Laboratories Building J46: 1850 Norman Drive, Waukegan
- Abbott Laboratories: 175 Tri-State Parkway, Gurnee
- Abbott Laboratories – Sun Eugene, M.D.: 100 Abbott Park Rd., Lake Bluff
- Abbott Park East: 1 North Waukegan Rd., North Chicago
- Abbott Park East Gate 7: 3601 Buckley Rd., Waukegan
- Abbott Park Gate 2: 1284 N. Waukegan Rd., Lake Bluff
- Abbott Park 3: Buckley Rd., Abbott Park
- Abbott Park – Green Oaks, IL (no address given)
- Abbott / AbbVie Visitors’ Center – AB12: Green Oaks

Location in Question:
- Libertyville Township (location unclear)

http://pcb.illinois.gov/documents/dsweb/GetRendition/Document-62238/html

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1990-01-07-9001020483-story.html

Congressman Brad Schneider (D, IL-10) accepted $19,105 from Abbott between 2011 and 2020, and $46,860 from Abbott and AbbVie combined between 2011 and 2020. This includes $10,741 in 2017-18, and $8,364 in 2019-20.

[Source: http://www.opensecrets.org]




4. Abbvie (at least four locations; aside from subsidiaries).

[Note: Abbott separated into Abbott and AbbVie between 2011 and 2013. These companies have hundreds of subsidiaries.]

AbbVie Locations in Lake County:
- AbbVie M4 Receiving Building (possibly closed): 1400 Sheridan Rd., North Chicago
- AbbVie, Inc.: 1400 Sheridan Rd., North Chicago
- AbbVie Pharmaceutical Contract Manufacturing: 1401 Sheridan Rd., North Chicago
- AbbVie North Chicago Visitor Parking: North Chicago (no specific address)

Congressman Brad Schneider (D, IL-10) accepted $27,755 from AbbVie between 2011 and 2020, and $46,860 from Abbott and AbbVie combined between 2011 and 2020. This includes $10,250 in 2013-14, $12,575 in 2017-18, and $4,530 in 2019-20.

 [Source: http://www.opensecrets.org]

5. Baxter (4 or 5 locations). Dumped treated wastewater into a tributary flowing into Long Lake, near Round Lake, Illinois. Baxter exceeded limits on suspended solids, and oxygen-depleting contaminants. It has violated anti-pollution laws several times since 2016.

Baxter Locations:
- Baxter Corporate Office: 1 Baxter Parkway, Deerfield
- Baxter Healthcare: 1300 Berkley Rd., Lake Zurich
- Baxter Human Resources: 25212 IL-120, Round Lake
- Baxter – Round Lake WG: Round Lake

incl. Long Lake / Round Lake:
http://patch.com/illinois/grayslake/settlement-reached-long-lake-pollution-lawsuit
http://patch.com/illinois/deerfield/baxter-will-stop-dumping-water-long-lake-ceo-says
http://www.mddionline.com/business/illinois-sues-baxter-lake-pollution
http://www.dailyherald.com/business/20181126/baxter-to-pay-95000-for-polluting-long-lake

Congressman Brad Schneider (D, IL-10) accepted $7,500 during the 2013-14 campaign season, and $7,070 from Baxter Healthcare in the 2017-18.

[Source: http://www.opensecrets.org]





6. Anhydrous ammonia gas (fertilizer) explosion at Green Bay Road and Clarendon Street in Beach Park (April 25^th, 2019)

http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6904a4.htm
http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/lake-county-news-sun/ct-met-beach-park-hazmat-spill-20190425-story.html





7. AB Specialty Silicones, 3790 Sunset Avenue, Waukegan (May 3rd, 2019). Silicone plant explosion.

http://www.andisil.com/

http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/lake-county-news-sun/ct-lns-waukegan-explosion-update-st-0810-20190809-vttkwlm7gvfnha6hbm3j5grp5i-story.html

8. Sterigenics (2 locations [Deerfield and Gurnee], 1 former location [Willowbrook], and another in Oak Brook that's far from Lake County but is still within the Des Plaines River watershed) (emitting ethylene oxide [“EtO”]).

Sterigenics Locations:
- Sterigenics International, Inc.: 1003 Lakeside Drive, Gurnee
- Sterigenics Building I: 7775 Quincy Street, Willowbrook (former location; no longer exists)
- Sterigenics Building II: 830 Midway, Willowbrook (former location; no longer exists)

 

9. Vantage Specialty Chemicals, 3938 Porett Drive, northern Gurnee (released 6,412 pounds of ethylene oxide ["EtO"] in 2014).

http://www.wexlerwallace.com/lake-county-facilities-emit-same-cancer-causing-chemicals-sterigenics/#:~:text=Within%20the%20past%20two%20months,Willowbrook%20is%20not%20the%20only






10. Grayslake Countryside Landfill (31725 IL-83, Grayslake) in 2011. In 1998, the company (owned by Waste Management, Inc. as of 1999) alerted the E.P.A. that "about 795,000 cubic yards of waste had been dumped in the landfill without using a waterproof liner to prevent liquid wastes from leaching into ground water."

http://www.chicagotribune.com/1999/10/01/troubled-landfill-backs-16-million-settlement/

http://patch.com/illinois/grayslake/public-hearing-tonight-on-air-quality-at-grayslake-landfill

http://www.wmsolutions.com/locations/details/id/24

 

 

11. Foxconn (3 locations in Wisconsin; 2 of which are in the Des Plaines River watershed, most of which is located within the State of Illinois). In 2018, Taiwanese-owned phone manufacturer Foxconn (which works with Motorola) was allowed to "suck up to 7 million gallons of water a day from Lake Michigan and then dump that water, which may be laced with pollutants from making liquid crystal display panels, back into the lake."

http://www.dcreport.org/2018/08/14/foxconn-gets-a-pollution-pass-for-its-wisconsin-factory/

 

 Map showing the Des Plaines River watershed,

and the Des Plaines River Watershed Planning Area,

with Foxconn's three locations in the top left corner

 

Source for map:

 

http://www.lakecountyil.gov/2376/Des-Plaines-River-Watershed

 

 

Map showing details of Foxconn's locations

(the two southernmost of which are within

the Des Plaines River watershed)

 

Northern location (13315 Globe Drive, Mt. Pleasant, WI; outside of the Des Plaines River watershed)

http://www.google.com/maps/place/Foxconn+ETC/@42.727865,-87.9254122,11z/data=!4m8!1m2!2m1!1sfoxconn+wisconsin!3m4!1s0x0:0x43a62bdb5eda9a71!8m2!3d42.720313!4d-87.9501057

Central location (8418 Durand Avenue, Sturtevant, WI; inside the Des Plaines River watershed)

http://www.google.com/maps/place/FoxConn/@42.727865,-87.9254122,11z/data=!4m8!1m2!2m1!1sfoxconn+wisconsin!3m4!1s0x0:0x9f4211b63f924442!8m2!3d42.6900065!4d-87.9334116



Southern location (in Mt. Pleasant; inside the Des Plaines River watershed)

http://www.google.com/maps/place/FOXCONN+WISCONSIN/@42.727865,-87.9254122,11z/data=!4m8!1m2!2m1!1sfoxconn+wisconsin!3m4!1s0x0:0xfc6fb83bdc1d8f12!8m2!3d42.6765041!4d-87.9397631

dcreport.org/2018/08/14/foxconn-gets-a-pollution-pass-for-its-wisconsin-factory/?fbclid=IwAR0IOX0MPHJh1R-pOmP19w5X3HDSAElU7PKRywCu0mdg_i_LHEiO8L2l3yQ

http://madison.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/illinois-plans-to-challenge-epa-ruling-on-foxconn/article_1fbed7dc-1cc5-57cc-a40f-2c1b5c18b13f.html

http://journaltimes.com/news/local/illinois-to-challenge-foxconn-ruling-schimel-calls-potential-suit-meritless/article_7b22adf2-e853-59f9-be1e-e460629986b6.html

http://apnews.com/8ac3c33e68274190a84b6154097c53e7/Illinois-officials-concerned-over-Foxconn-plant-impact

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-met-foxconn-indiana-smog-trump-epa-20190516-story.html

http://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2018/05/07/illinois-attorney-general-files-suit-against-epa-ozone-rules-cites-impact-foxconn/586479002/

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-epa-lawsuit/illinois-to-sue-epa-for-exempting-foxconn-plant-from-pollution-controls-idUSKBN1I52NB?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews

12. North Shore Gas (N.S.G.) - North Plant in Waukegan. Emitted Dense non-aqueous phase liquid (D.N.A.P.L.) into the groundwater. Metals, volatile compounds, and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons are likely also present.

North Shore Gas - North Plant Location(s):
- Given as "Pershing Road & Dahringer Road, Waukegan" by the E.P.A.
- Another location exists at 3001 Grand Ave., Waukegan
- More locations may have formerly existed in Libertyville, Mundelein, and/or Buffalo Grove)

http://cumulis.epa.gov/supercpad/SiteProfiles/index.cfm?fuseaction=second.cleanup&id=0506409

http://cumulis.epa.gov/supercpad/cursites/csitinfo.cfm?id=0506409

http://www.northshoregasdelivery.com/environment/restore-plants

http://cumulis.epa.gov/supercpad/cursites/csitinfo.cfm?id=0506410

http://cumulis.epa.gov/supercpad/SiteProfiles/index.cfm?fuseaction=second.Cleanup&id=0506410#bkground






13. North Shore Gas (N.S.G.) - South Plant, town unclear (emitted Dense non-aqueous phase liquid (D.N.A.P.L.) into the groundwater). Metals, volatile compounds, and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons are likely also present.

North Shore Gas - South Plant Location(s):
- Given as "Pershing Road & Dahringer Road, Waukegan" by the E.P.A.
- Another location exists at 3001 Grand Ave., Waukegan
- More locations may have formerly existed in Libertyville, Mundelein, and/or Buffalo Grove)

http://cumulis.epa.gov/supercpad/SiteProfiles/index.cfm?fuseaction=second.cleanup&id=0506409

http://www.northshoregasdelivery.com/environment/restore-plants

http://cumulis.epa.gov/supercpad/SiteProfiles/index.cfm?fuseaction=second.cleanup&id=0506410

http://cumulis.epa.gov/supercpad/SiteProfiles/index.cfm?fuseaction=second.Cleanup&id=0506410#bkground







14. AzkoNobel Aerospace Coatings, at 1 East Water St. in Waukegan. Emitting manganese.

http://enviro.epa.gov/enviro/p2_ef_query.p2_report?facilityId=60085MDLND17EWA&chemicalId=0007439965&reportingYear=2018&docCtrlNum=&Opt=0&pPrintView=1

 

 

15. Procter & Gamble Chemicals, at 3500 16th Street in North Chicago.

        Charged, by the federal government, with polluting waterways in the Chicago area, in 1970. Chemical(s) involved were either oil or oily substances, and/or other chemicals. Procter & Gamble was also defeated by the City of Chicago, in the Supreme Court, in 1975, over the company's sale of detergents containing phosphates.

http://www.nytimes.com/1970/02/10/archives/pollution-laid-to-11-companies-criminal-complaints-filed-by-us-over.html

http://casetext.com/case/procter-and-gamble-company-v-city-of-chicago

 

 

 

16-19. Four Companies Which Possess Facilities Engaged in Rock Crushing

16. Reliable Concrete Pumping, L.L.C. at 700 E. Park Avenue, Libertyville (near Libertyville's borders with Rondout, Green Oaks, and Lake Bluff). Rock crushing occurs on this site.

http://www.dnb.com/business-directory/company-profiles.reliable_concrete_pumping_llc.5bfcc257e26532375859ad61764ed3ae.html

http://www.facebook.com/pages/category/Business-Service/Reliable-Concrete-Pumping-INC-724495167703480/
http://www.concretepumpers.com/content/reliable-concrete-pumping-inc-0
http://www.bbb.org/us/wa/snohomish/profile/concrete-pumping/reliable-concrete-pumping-inc-1296-22660041




17. Ozinga concrete company, 30285 Skokie Highway, east Waukegan. Rock crushing occurs on this site.

http://www.google.com/search?safe=off&sxsrf=ALeKk03jqlo6Dv_yZos5JQ0vuMgG8Eqq8g:1600327753934&source=hp&ei=RhBjX8i4McHcswXEm7S4Cg&q=ozinga&oq=ozinga&gs_lcp=CgZwc3ktYWIQAzIQCC4QxwEQowIQFBCHAhCTAjIHCAAQFBCHAjIICC4QxwEQrwEyAggAMgIIADICCAAyAggAMgIIADICCAAyCAguEMcBEK8BOgQIIxAnOgQILhAnOgsILhDHARCvARCRAjoLCC4QxwEQowIQkQI6CwguELEDEMcBEKMCOggILhDHARCjAjoICAAQsQMQgwE6DgguEMcBEKMCEJECEJMCOgQIABBDOgUILhCxAzoFCAAQsQM6BwguELEDEEM6BQgAEJIDULQBWOMSYM4TaAFwAHgAgAHtAogBwQqSAQcwLjUuMC4ymAEAoAEBqgEHZ3dzLXdpeg&sclient=psy-ab&ved=2ahUKEwiWkLC61e_rAhVF-6wKHT2aA20QvS4wB3oECBEQIA&uact=5&npsic=0&rflfq=1&rlha=0&rllag=42219153,-87909538,9488&tbm=lcl&rldimm=13945019546349415580&lqi=CgZvemluZ2EiA4gBAVoQCgZvemluZ2EiBm96aW5nYQ&rldoc=1&tbs=lrf:!1m4!1u3!2m2!3m1!1e1!1m4!1u16!2m2!16m1!1e1!1m4!1u16!2m2!16m1!1e2!2m1!1e16!2m1!1e3!3sIAE,lf:1,lf_ui:4&rlst=f#rlfi=hd:;si:13945019546349415580,l,CgZvemluZ2EiA4gBAVoQCgZvemluZ2EiBm96aW5nYQ;mv:[[42.3179416,-87.67351939999999],[41.993770700000006,-88.3280861]];tbs:lrf:!1m4!1u3!2m2!3m1!1e1!1m4!1u16!2m2!16m1!1e1!1m4!1u16!2m2!16m1!1e2!2m1!1e16!2m1!1e3!3sIAE,lf:1,lf_ui:4


18. EMCO (3 locations in North Chicago). Rock crushing occurs on at least one of these sites.
     - EMCO Chemical Distribution Center, 3601 Skokie Highway, Suite F, North Chicago
     - EMCO Chemical Packaging, 2100 Commonwealth Avenue, North Chicago
     - EMCO Warehouse, 2510 Commonwealth Avenue, North Chicago
          (near Great Lakes Naval Station in Great Lakes, Illinois; between North Chicago and Waukegan).

 

19-23. Five E.P.A. (Environmental Protection Agency) SuperFund Sites


19. Johns-Manville Corporation in Waukegan. Asbestos disposal site. To be redeveloped as a soccer and baseball complex. Lies directly to the north of NRG Waukegan Generating Station (#1 on this list).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Superfund_sites_in_Illinois

http://www.epa.gov/il/epa-sites-city-waukegan





20. Yeoman Creek Landfill in Waukegan. Allowed leachate to enter the local groundwater.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Superfund_sites_in_Illinois

http://www.epa.gov/il/epa-sites-city-waukegan




21. H.O.D. Landfill in Antioch. Fifty-one acre landfill within a 121-acre area. Contaminated the groundwater with vinyl chloride.

http://cumulis.epa.gov/supercpad/cursites/csitinfo.cfm?id=0500581

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Superfund_sites_in_Illinois

22. Outboard Marine Corporation in Waukegan. Released hydraulic fluids with P.C.B. into the groundwater, and into the harbor on Lake Michigan in Waukegan.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Superfund_sites_in_Illinois

http://www.epa.gov/il/epa-sites-city-waukegan




23. Petersen Excavating, Inc. (formerly and/or currently known as Petersen Sand & Gravel) in Gurnee. Illegally dumped paint waste and solvents.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Superfund_sites_in_Illinois

24-26. Three Sites Containing Nuclear Materials (One Inside Lake County, Two Outside)

24. Zion Nuclear Generating Station (nuclear power plant), 100 Shiloh Blvd., Zion [permanently closed, but nuclear material still being stored on site]

http://www.google.com/maps/place/Zion+Nuclear+Generating+Station/@42.4459579,-87.8042286,17z/data=!4m12!1m6!3m5!1s0x880ff38f2ed2218f:0x5ad9f4afa1970c12!2sZion+Nuclear+Generating+Station!8m2!3d42.445954!4d-87.8020399!3m4!1s0x880ff38f2ed2218f:0x5ad9f4afa1970c12!8m2!3d42.445954!4d-87.8020399

25. Argonne National Laboratory, at 9700 S. Cass Ave., Lemont, Illinois

     http://www.anl.gov






26. "FermiLab" (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory), at Kirk and Pine St., Batavia, Illinois

     http://www.fnal.gov

Thanks to Ethan Windmillsky and Anton Kholod for helping to build this list

 

 

 

Created Between September 14th and 18th, 2020

Originally published under the title
"List of Fourteen Environmental Disasters Affecting Lake County, Illinois Over the Last Ten Years"

Published on September 18th, 2020

Edited and expanded on February 16^th and 18th, 2024