The Omaha Lead site is located in the Omaha metropolitan area including Council Bluffs, and Carter Lake, Iowa. Specific boundaries of the site have not yet been defined because the sampling activities for the entire area of investigation are not complete.
Several businesses and manufacturing companies used or processed lead at their facilities in the Omaha metropolitan area. ASARCO Incorporated (ASARCO) operated a lead refinery at 500 Douglas St. in Omaha for over 100 years beginning in the 1870s. The operation of the refinery ceased in 1997. As a routine part of the refinery operation, lead particles were emitted into the atmosphere at the refinery. In addition, the Gould Inc. lead battery recycling plant, located at 555 Farnam Street in Omaha, was a secondary smelter of lead from discarded lead batteries, closing in 1982. The blast furnace used to smelt the lead at the Gould plant emitted lead particles into the air from that smelter.
The work that has been performed under this action memorandum has been combined with the second action memorandum and this action memorandum has been closed out. All future day care and elevated blood levels (EBLs) will be completed under the second action memorandum.
None on this action memorandum - same activities will continue under the second action memorandum - see second action memorandum polreps starting on polrep #13.
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