The NEC facility is adjacent to residential and business areas and abuts the La Crosse River which forms the southern boundary of the site.
Domestic water is supplied to most residences in the city through a public distribution system.
The site is presently the location of NEC manufacturing activities. NEC produces metal name plates, dials, and decorative trim for the automotive industry utilizing anodizing, chemical etching, and chromate conversion coating processes. This site was addressed through Federal, State, and potentially responsible parties' actions. Soil samples collected below the sludge lagoon, sludge dump site, and seepage pit showed elevated levels of one or more of the above mentioned inorganic indicator parameters. In addition, both the sludge lagoon and the sludge dump site contained quantities of metal hydroxide sludge.