EPA Begins Lead Cleanup at Former Battery Plant Site in Muncie, Indiana
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced on November 12 that it has begun cleaning up lead-contaminated soil at the former Stout Storage Battery site at 3005 W. 8th St. and at two residential properties in Muncie, Indiana, with the cleanup expected to be complete by spring.
During the cleanup, EPA will secure the site with a fence, excavate the lead-contaminated soil for disposal at an EPA-approved facility, backfill excavated areas with clean soil, and restore landscaping and grass. Air monitoring will run throughout to ensure dust does not leave the site.
From 1968 through 1984, the Stout Storage Battery Corp. manufactured automotive lead-acid batteries at the site, charging batteries in a sulfuric acid bath and rinsing them with water that was discharged into unlicensed, unlined impoundments onsite, contaminating the soil with lead. The Indiana Brownfields Program discovered the contamination in sampling from 2023 through early 2025 and referred the site to EPA, whose sampling of the site and nine surrounding residential properties confirmed lead contamination at the site and two homes.
(Source: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency)
Source: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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