Who has Polluted Our Beach With Asbestos?

Sources of Visible and Microscopic Asbestos Pollution

The Elephant in the Room
Visible and microscopic asbestos has been released into Lake Michigan near Illinois Beach State Park since the. Releases of deadly microscopic asbestos fibers has regularly occurred each year since. In 2005, it is estimated that approximately 95,000,000,000,000,000 microscopic asbestos fibers entered the Federal and State navigable waters of Lake Michigan from a single discharge point at the Johns-Manville Asbestos Superfund site located just south of Illinois Beach State Park. As absurd as this may seem, we calculated that in July 2004 nearly 2 trillion asbestos fibers per day were spewed into the lake.

The Manville Superfund Site also contains an enormous waste pile of friable asbestos debris. This toxic waste pile covers 150 acres, is 25-30 feet above grade, totaling 3 million cubic yards of toxic waste. Large quantities of asbestos debris has been found to have been used outside of the Superfund Site over several decades to make roadways, to line water discharge channels, as berms for shooting events, and as fill into the Lake front. The Johns-Manville site appears to be a major source of visible and microscopic asbestos contamination at Illinois Beach State Park and along the Illinois Lake Michigan shoreline. Yet State and Federal officials claim the source of continuing asbestos pollution at Illinois Beach State Park is unknown. We found several sources of the asbestos pollution found on the Illinois Lake Michigan shoreline. Review our power point presentation identifying sources of asbestos pollution at Illinois Beach State Park.

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